Our hybrid seminars took place both physically and via Zoom every Tuesday throughout the 2020-2021 academic year. We enjoyed guest lectures, reading groups, book events and more!
Within our annual seminar schedule: “Rethinking Center and Periphery in the Abrahamic Faiths
11/5/2022 - International conference
The Status of Converts in Jewish Communities and Jewish Thought from Biblical Times to Contemporary Israel (organized by The French Research Center in Jerusalem with the support of Aix-Marseille University and CSoC, BGU)
25/5/2022 - הכנס השנתי החמישי של האגודה הישראלית לחקר דתות
"גבול/ות בדת" בשיתוף המרכז לחקר המרת דת ומפגשים בין דתיים, מרכז חיים הרצוג לחקר המזרח התיכון והדיפלומטיה, ומרכז אלישר לחקר מורשת יהדות ספרד והמזרח, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב
29/5/2022 - 2/6/2022 - Research Workshop with Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Organized by CSoC PhD candidates and joined by PhD Candidates from Gutenberg University and BGU's Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty, including a seminar, a field trip to Masada and an archeological dig in Caesaria.
27-29/6/2022 - Joint Conference with Oxford University
"Examining the Roles of Identity in the Abrahamic Religions" CSoC fellows and steering committee members gave papers, served as respondents and chaired panels at St. Margaret Hall in Oxford, UK, hosted generously by the Abrahamic Seminar of Prof. Anna Sapir Abulafia.
Promotions of CSoC Steering Committee Members and Fellows
He will research early Islamic visualizations of the sacred, focusing on saintly figures, their representations in Islamic literature and their role in shaping the image of the Sufi saints around the 10th century.
Prof. Feldman was recently promoted to the rank of full professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Congratulations to Dr. Givon on being awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue his research project titled “The Jesuit Overland Pursuit: Environmental History of a Pious Enterprise in the Seventeenth Century”.
Congratulations to Dr. HaCohen-Bick on receiving a fellowship for the next acadmic year in UPenn. She will be researching "Jews and Modern Legal Culture".
Congratulations to former CSoC fellow Dr. Liberles-Noiman on receiving the Prof. Ephraim E. Urbach z"l award for outstanding doctorate work in Jewish studies.
Congratulations on joining the Dean of the Kreitman School's List of Certificate of Excellence for outstanding academic achievements during Ph.D. studies in the academic year 2020-2021.
Received the Academic Excellence Award named after Michel Halperin Esq. z"l, given by the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to outstanding researchers in law, policy and human rights.