News & Events

Application for PhD students for the years 2013-2016 has been announced. Deadline for application: 19 May 2013.

View the call for PhD scholarships 2013-2016 (Hebrew)

Scholion academic committee has chosen The Research Group for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Emergence of Modern Hebrew as the scholion research group for the years 2013-2016. The group members are Prof. Edit Doron, Prof. Malka Rappaport-Hovav, Prof. Moshe Taube and Dr. Yael Reshef.

The opening meeting of the seminar "Philosphy and Mysticism in al-Andalus" hosted Prof. Sara Sviri of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University.

The 2013 Research Field Trip focused on the Kibbutzim of the Jezreel Valley as well as some other issues related to the area.

Scholion Lectures Marathon is the center's main annual event. Successful candidates for the Mandel Scholarship from Israel and abroad will lecture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on January 3, 2013. The two deemed most outstanding are invited to further their research over a triennial term. They are welcomed at Scholion where conditions conducive to research at the highest level are maintained. The Mandel Fellows execute a dual charge as lecturers at the Hebrew University and as...

Dr. Shimrit Peled and Prof. Yosef Kaplan will give lectures towards plays at the
Khan Theatre, please see ad attached.

Deadline for New Scholion Research Groups proposals for 2013-2016 has been postponed to 28.2.13.

Dr. Ayala Eliyahu will lecture about the Islamic philosopher and physician of Jewish-Arab descent, Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī, and his philosophical writings. (Open to scholion members only)

The 'Archaeologies of Memory" winter conference – which will take place December 9th to December 15th, 2012 in Jerusalem – will be an exciting interdisciplinary exploration titled ‘Analyzing Collapse: Destruction, Collapse and Memory.’ The Academy will feature sessions and talks by leading scholars in fields such as archaeology, geography, climatology, anthropology, history and classical studies along with field-trips to some of the most important ‘collapse’ sites in...