Wed, 08/05/2024 to Thu, 09/05/2024 The fifth Rothschild Fellows Alumni Colloquium, organized by Yad Hanadiv, will be held at the IIAS. The colloquium will bring together alumni, as well as current holders of Rothschild postdoctoral fellowships, together with colleagues, peers and mentors, including Rothschild Prize and Bruno Award recipients. The Rothschild fellowship program was established to help young scholars of outstanding academic merit and potential to advance in their respective fields. Beginning in the 1979-1980 academic year, over 500 fellowships have been awarded to date. The majority of the fellows have pursued their academic careers in Israel, with many of them becoming leading figures in their respective fields.

Event Details When Tue 2nd Jul 2024 @ 7:00pm - 8:00pm Where JW3 341-351 Finchley Rd, London NW3 Ticket Price £15.00 Further details to follow An evening at JW3 with Prof Mona Khoury, in conversation with Sarah Sackman. ·      In memory of Hebrew University Honourary Fellow Thea Zucker z"l ·      In partnership with the British Friends of Hebrew University (BFHU). A booking fee of £2 will be added to all orders. Who Will You See There? Prof. Mona Khoury (Ph.D.) is a full professor and the Vice President for Strategy and Diversity. Prof. Khoury is the previous Dean of the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sarah Sackman is a public and environmental barrister and a political activist. She is the Vice Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement and trustee of the Abraham Initiatives UK. Sarah is Labour's Parliamentary candidate for Finchley and Golders Green at the next General Election. -       Further details of registration will be announced

Event Details When Sat 1st Jun 2024 - Tue 4th Jun 2024 Where The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ticket Price Please click on the "find out more" button to find out SAVE THE DATE The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s 87th Board of Governors June 1-4 2024 In light of recent events, we have decided to change the theme of our upcoming Board of Governors to We Are One. We hope you will join our community in solidarity this summer in Israel. In addition to the familiar and favorite ceremonies and events on our campuses, the 2024 BOG program also includes a full day in southern Israel. We will meet with communities in kibbutzim and towns, hold discussions with regional officials, and meet with Hebrew University students who live or serve in the south. You will hear about how the war has impacted the region and its residents, while connecting to Israel in an entirely new way. Please register here: https://bog.huji.ac.il/

Event Details When Tue 7th May 2024 @ 6:00pm - 7:00pm Where Zoom Further Details Registration required, please register here friends@bfhu.org Ticket Price FREE The British Friends of the Hebrew University in partnership with the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London Invites you to a special lecture with: Professor Edwin Seroussi Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emeritus of Musicology and Chair of the Academic Committee of the Jewish Music Research Centre both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Who Will You See There? Professor Edwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emeritus of Musicology and Chair of the Academic Committee of the Jewish Music Research Centre both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College and, in 2023/4, Fellow at the Herbert G. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on Jewish musical cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East and their interactions with Islamic cultures, Judeo-Spanish song and music in Israel. He explores processes of hybridization, diaspora, nationalism and transnationalism in diverse contexts and historical periods such as the Ottoman Empire, colonial Morocco and Algeria, Germany’s Second Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Zionist settlement in Palestine and the Judeo-Spanish-speaking diaspora.

Event Details When Tue 9th Apr 2024 @ 4:30pm - 5:30pm Ticket Price FREE Growing Seafood in the Lab: A Way To Feed Humanity and Protect Our Oceans Join us on Monday, 8th April 2024. to hear from Professor Yaniv Elkouby about how the start-up Forsea Foods will help save our aquatic ecosystems and bring us the food of the future. With Professor Yaniv Elkouby, Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Institute for Biomedical Research – Israel-Canada (IMRIC) PROFESSOR YANIV ELKOUBY is a professor at the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prof Elkouby established the zebrafish ovary as a new model system to study the cellular mechanisms of ovary development and early egg production. His research employs a multidisciplinary approach to the developing ovary, and he pioneered the view of egg production by advanced quantitative and live microscopy of whole ovaries. His research resulted in several breakthroughs that contributed to our understanding of the earliest stages of egg production, generating knowledge that is directly relevant to human reproduction. He has won numerous grants and awards, including the ZCAI Prize for Discovery in Medical Research, HUJI President and Rector Awards for Outstanding Publications, an ERC Consolidator grant, and the EMBO Young Investigator Award. Prof Elkouby is an elected board member of the Israeli Society of Developmental Biology, and a co-founder of Forsea Foods, a start-up company for the production of cultivated fish meat. Register here: