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Tatjana Hörnle

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Humboldt University of Berlin
Tatjana Hörnle is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, Humboldt University of Berlin.
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Edward Swartz

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Cornell University
Semyon is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Tel Aviv University. His research interests are valuation on convex sets.
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The Botanical Equivalent of Jurassic Park

1 December, 2023

In a scientific journey evoking the popular concept of "Jurassic Park," Bioarchaeologist Prof. Guy Bar-Oz (Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa), a member of the "Desert Sea Connectivity: Arid-Zone Food Security and Climate Change in Late Antiquity" Research Group at The Israel institute for Advanced Studies, alongside fellow researchers, Prof. Gideon Avni (Head of the Archaeological Division at the Israel Antiquities Authority) and Prof. Gil Gambash (School of Archeology & Maritime Cultures, University of Haifa), embarked on an extraordinary archaeological endeavour. 

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Michael Thompson

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University of Pittsburgh
Michael is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Pittsburg, USA. His research interests are ethics, philosophy of action, practical reason, history of ethics, political philosophy, and logic.
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Richard Cohen

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Richard is a professor in the Department of History of the Jewish People at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: western and central European Jewish history; social history of Jewish art and culture.
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Jonathan Brockopp

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Bard College
Jonathan is a professor in the Department of Religion at Bard College. His research interests are: early Islamic legal texts; Islamic law of slavery; Islamic ethics; comparative religious law; Egypt and North Africa in the eighth and ninth centuries CE.
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Rachel Manekin

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University of Maryland

Rachel Manekin is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her current research interests include the legal treatment of the Jews in Galicia between the years 1772-1867 and its effect on their religious, social, and political development.

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Sara Sviri

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UCL
Sara Sviri holds the Catherine Lewis Lectureship in Medieval Studies at University College London. Her fields of study include Islamic mysticism, mystical philosophy, comparative aspects of early Islam, the formative period of Islamic mysticism, and the mystical wisdom of Ibn al-ʿArabī.