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Peter Silvestrov

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Freie Universität Berlin

Physics Department and Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Research Interests: Mesoscopic physics; graphene; topological insulators.

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New Book Explores Interaction Between Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Empire

1 May, 2024

Simha Gross, a fellow at IIAS and part of the "Judæo-Persian and Persian Textual Landscapes: Towards an Intellectual History of Medieval Iranian Jewry" research group, just published a significant work titled "Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity" through Cambridge University Press.

Lorenzo Zucca

Lorenzo Zucca

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King’s College London

 

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Lorenzo Zucca is Professor in Law & Philosophy. Lorenzo's special interests span from human rights law and philosophy to constitutional theory, with a focus on the relation between Church and State. 

He's now working on a project entitled 'The Uncertainty of Will,' which explores Shakespeare's vision on the connection between power and knowledge and examines its psychological and philosophical insights on human cognition and human institutions. 

He is the author of Constitutional Dilemmas- Conflicts of Fundamental Legal Rights in Europe and the USA (OUP, 2007) and numerous articles on human rights law and theory. His second monograph is entitled A Secular Europe: Law and Religion in the European Constitutional Landscape (OUP 2012). This is a study of one of the most pressing problems in Europe and includes issues such as the protection of religious freedom, the limits of religious toleration, and a wider debate on European identity.

 

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Maren Niehoff

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Maren is the Max Cooper Chair in Jewish Thought at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests are: encounters between Jews, pagans, and Christians in the Greco-Roman world, Philo of Alexandria, rabbinic exegesis in light of the Church Fathers.

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Hanoch Gutfreund

FELLOW
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniel is a professor in the Racah Institute of Physics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are solid state physics, disordered systems, statistical mechanics, theory of neural networks, and complexity science.
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Carl Posy

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Carl Posy is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are the philosophy of mathematics, the history of philosophy, and philosophical logic and its applications.
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"Displacement, Forced Migration and Reparation: Comparisons and Controversies" IIAS Fellows' International Workshop

28 January, 2025

 

Three IIAS former fellows collaborated to organize an international workshop titled "Displacement, Forced Migration and Reparation: Comparisons and Controversies" at the University of Sussex, UK. This event was co-hosted by the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, and the IIAS.

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Deborah Tor

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University of Notre Dame
Deborah Tor is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interest is medieval Islamic history.