Visiting Scholars

The Mandel School encourages the University's faculty members to invite leading scholars from abroad to come as visiting scholars at the Hebrew University. Visiting professors receive an equipped office in the Mandel Building and make it their regular place of work during their stay (either a month or a semester). Visiting professors teach graduate courses, give public lectures, and, apart from engaging in their own research, more generally communicate and share with our students and colleagues, becoming a part of our scholarly community during the duration of their stay.

Visiting scholars are invited to stay for either a month or a semester. Each visiting scholar is required to:
  • Teach a two-credit seminar
  • Give a public lecture
  • Establish research activity in an assigned office in the Mandel Building
The application process for 2020/21 and 2021/22 has been completed and selections have been made.

Courses

Courses in the 2021/22 Academic Year

28851 Reception of Latin Poetry - Prof. Stephen Harrison

1st Semester, 2 Credits

This class aims to explore the reception of some major texts of Latin poetry and fiction in later European literatures and intellectual cultures from the medieval period until now, predominantly in English. Particular attention will be paid to issues of cultural tension and later transformation of classical material in different historical and intellectual environments. It should be of interest to students of English and comparative literature as well as classicists.

05967 Visual History: the past in images - Prof. Vanessa Schwartz

2nd Semester, 2 credits

The course will take place during April and May. There will be a requirement of extensive reading and debates in English. There will be three meetings during the first week, each four hours and afterwards a number of additional meetings. 

Course Syllabus 

Public Lecture: “From News to History: The Visual Economy of Time-Life Books" will take place on May 9th. 

18870 Urban Spaces and Modern Jewsih Culture - Prof. Shachar Pinsker

2nd Semester, 2 Credits


 35833 Texts and Lives: Challenges and Prospects from and for the Study of Theravada Buddhism - Prof. Charles Hallisey 

2nd Semester, 2 Credits

The course will take place on Sundays during the month of June from 16:00-20:00

Public Lecture: "Contours of the Moral Person:  Buddhist Insights and Challenges for Comparative Reflection" will take place on the 15.6 at 14:30 in the Mandel School. 

 

List of Visiting Scholars