Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOccupational hazards: Moral numbing among Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
Dr. Erella Grassiani, an anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam, discusses her new book Soldiering the Occupation: Processes of Numbing among …
9 years, 7 months ago
Pax Britannica? The troubled legacy of Sykes-Picot
History Professor Wm. Roger Louis of the University of Texas at Austin, a world-renowned expert in British imperial history, discusses the repercussi…
9 years, 7 months ago
Make yourselves at home: The integration of immigrants in the new Israeli state
Dr. Orit Rozin, professor of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University, is the author of the newly published A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights and…
9 years, 7 months ago
Sorely missed? Martin Buber's sociology under scrutiny
Prof. Uri Ram, a sociologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and author of the recently published The Return of Martin Buber: National and Soci…
9 years, 7 months ago
Carlo Ginzburg on the past, present and future of history
Professor Carlo Ginzburg, one of the greatest historians of our time, is in Israel this week participating in an event at the Van Leer Jerusalem Inst…
9 years, 8 months ago
The greatest of a generation: Rabbi Soloveitchik revisited
Prof. William Kolbrener, professor of English literature at Bar-Ilan University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his recently published book The La…
9 years, 8 months ago
Is conflict management sustainable? Lessons for Israel-Palestine from Cyprus
Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin, policy fellow at Mitvim - The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies, discusses parallels between the ongoing Cyprus …
9 years, 8 months ago
Global democracy: The future of international relations?
Oded Gilad, the director of the newly founded One World - The Movement for Global Democracy, explains to host Gilad Halpern how shortcomings of the p…
9 years, 8 months ago
Violence and politics: The underpinnings of conflict
Prof. Lev Grinberg is a sociologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a visiting lecturer at Dartmouth College in the United States. He discu…
9 years, 8 months ago
The startup lab: Israel's culture of science
Gad Yair is a professor of sociology and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He discusses with host Gilad Halpern his forthcoming book T…
9 years, 8 months ago