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David Assaf

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Tel Aviv University
David is a professor in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. His research interests are: modern history and culture of Eastern European Jews; and Hasidism.
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Walter Cahn

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Yale University
Walter is a professor in the Department of History of Art at the Yale University. His research interests are: medieval sculpture and painting; Romanesque and Gothic book illumination; Judaism and art; theories of art.
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Derek Krueger

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University of North Carolina
Derek Krueger is the Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  His research interests include Christianity in Late Antiquity and  Byzantium as well as ritual and gender studies.

Research Groups:Health and the Environment: A Unifying Framework from Individual Stress to Ecosystem Functioning

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[RG # 147]   Health and the Environment: A Unifying Framework from Individual Stress to Ecosystem Functioning

June 1 - August 31, 2016

Organizer:
Dror Hawlena (The Hebrew University)

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Our Research Group aims to develop a general theory that provides novel, mechanistic understandings of the ways in which environmental changes regulate ecosystem processes via alteration of an animal's trophic functions.

We suggest using stress physiology as a common mechanism to scale plasticity in energy and elemental budgets at the individual level to processes occurring at the population, community and ecosystem levels. Trait expressions are shaped by evolution and are constrained by conservative biological processes. Thus, this evolutionary-based framework has much potential to reveal how ecological interactions emerge across levels of biological organization, and may assist in unifying existing, currently separated theories. Such an understanding is also crucial to better predict how human-induced rapid environmental changes will affect life-supporting ecosystem services. 

 

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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.