Daniel Schwartz Awarded the 2024 Landau Prize for Science and Arts by the National Lottery

Daniel R. Schwartz of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Landau Prize for Science and Arts, granted by the National Lottery, in the field of Jewish history. This award recognizes his unparalleled and extensive contributions to the study of Jewish history during the Hellenistic-Roman period. Prof. Schwartz, who participated in […]

Jennifer Nagel Interview on The Gettier Problem in ‘New Statesman’

Photo courtesy: University of Toronto Jennifer Nagel, a past fellow of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and a member of the research group “Practical and Theoretical Rationality: A Comparative Study,” has recently shared insights into one of philosophy of language’s most enduring puzzles, the Gettier Problem, in an interview with The New Statesman. The […]

Achim Lichtenberger to Curate Important Exhibition on Religion and the Body at the University of Münster

Achim Lichtenberger, a past member of the “Contextualizing the Cult of the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman Period: Monotheism and Polytheism between Continuity and Change” research group at IIAS, is co-curating an exciting new exhibition at the University of Münster. Titled “Body. Cult. Religion. Perspectives from Antiquity to the Present”, the exhibition will run from October […]