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Yair Assulin, a writer and thinker, who taught Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University in the past, writes a regular column in Haaretz newspaper and hosts the thought program on ‘Kan’. Idan Segev, Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the Center for Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University, whose central focus is the study of neurons and neural networks in mammalian and human brains, with the aim of understanding “what makes humans unique.” The conversation will address the revolutionary times we live in, the opportunities, challenges, and burning questions facing humanity today, and highlight the critical importance of partnerships between researchers in the natural sciences and those in the social sciences and humanities, so that we can thrive in a new world. Under the auspices of The Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities

Entry is free (subject to availability)
 

As part of our series of dialogs between writers and scientists, author Yaniv Iczkovits (winner of the Agnon Prize, Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works, Ramat Gan Prize and Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize) whose works have been translated to 18 languages and adapted for television series, in dialog with Professor Masha Niv, researcher of the chemistry and biology of the sense of taste from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the Hebrew University. A conversation about the five senses and also the sixth, on language and morality, and also about what is beyond good and evil, on the layers of place and body, and also of the soul that lies within them. 

With audience participation. Under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo

As part of our series of dialogs between writers and scientists, Noa Yedlin, winner of the Sapir Prize and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works, and author of bestsellers ‘House Arrest’, ‘Stockholm’, People like us’ and ‘The wrong book’, which were adapted for television and theatre, in dialog with Professor Yifat Merbl from the Department of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. A conversation about truth and fiction, literary characters and real people, on imaginary boundaries and the origins of make-believe.

With audience participation. Under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo