Announcements of Interest 

Institute for Advanced Israel Studies Fellowship 2024-25: Digital Humanities in Israel Studies

The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University invites applicants for the Institute for Advanced Israel Studies 2024-2025. The fellowship will be hybrid, consisting of virtual workshops and seminars, and an in-person conference in Spring 2025. 

The theme of this year’s Institute will be Digital Humanities in Israel Studies. We will focus on scholarship that makes use of digital tools and artificial intelligence to study Zionist, Israeli, or Palestinian history, society and culture from the late 19th century to the present.

We will convene a group of scholars whose work considers what the digital age means for scholarship, and particularly for the study of Israeli and Palestinian material. Methods are shifting in a rapidly growing field, as the recent exponential growth of AI, digital mapping and other visualizations, distant reading, digital visualizations, large language modeling, data scraping, and a myriad of other new technologies are being applied to scholarship in the humanities. The scope of material available for research, with vast archives of online materials, is also changing in profound ways, raising additional questions. How does the availability of new digital materials and archives affect the tasks of writing history, interpreting literature, mapping, and analyzing culture?

Throughout the year, each fellow will present work in progress. Additionally, the cohort will read theoretical texts in digital studies from various disciplines to understand the advantages and the disadvantages (methodological, conceptual, and ethical) of the application of digital tools to Israel Studies.

We welcome applications from scholars in any career stage and in diverse disciplines, including history, geography, literature, sociology, anthropology, law, sociolinguistics, musicology, and architecture. 

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Workshop: Beyond the Israel-Hamas War: Arab-Israeli Relations in a Wider Context

The London School of Economics Middle East Center is hosting the workshop, "Beyond the Israel-Hamas War: Arab-Israeli Relations in a Wider Context" on June 11, 2024.The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to understand these events in the context of the longer-term trajectory of Arab-Israeli relations, which are exhibiting intractable conflict in tandem with a shift towards normalization and cooperation.

International Courses

The Israel Institute has opportunities to support the teaching of individual classes about modern Israel at colleges and universities outside the United States and Israel. All courses supported by this grant must be for credit. Courses can be offered online or in-person.

Opportunities are for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025. 

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Israel Studies Teaching Supplement

Grants for Israeli doctoral students, postdocs, spousal appointments, independent scholars or other Israeli academics who already live in the United States and who have unfunded/underfunded research appointments.

Opportunities are for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025. 

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