Project receives research funding from the Volkswagen Foundation

7 February 2025Press Review

The foundation has brought together researchers from the humanities, cultural and social sciences as well as practitioners from outside academia to jointly develop new ideas and solutions to make democracies more resilient.

A project from the HfJS is also taking part:

Shared Citizenship in Deeply Divided Societies: Comparing Israel, Turkey, and Cyprus (Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg; Prof. Dani Filc, MD, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv, Israel; Adi Bass, The Forum for Regional Thinking, Tel Aviv, Israel; Dr. Marik Shtern, Dr. Aviva Goller, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel; Steven Stavrou, SocialTech Lab, Egkomi, Cyprus; Dr. Uri Rosenberg, University of Heidelberg)

More information can be found here.

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19 February 2025Announcement

The Course Catalog for the Summer Semester 2025 is online

The seminars and lectures for the coming summer semester 2025 can be viewed here

17 February 2025Press Review

“Friends, Enemies, Frenemies": Ambivalences of Jewish-Muslim relations from a historical and current perspective

The BMBF-funded joint project “Beyond Conflict and Coexistence: An Intertwined History of Jewish-Arab Relations” organized the workshop “Friends, Enemies, Frenemies”

10 February 2025Press

Interview with Timo Büchner to the "Reichsbürger" in Germany

Time and again, “Reichsbürger” trials make the headlines - such as the trial against Ingo K. In an interview with SWR, book author Büchner explains the danger posed by “Reichsbürger”.

6 February 2025Announcement

Mensa Closed

From 11th of February till 18th of February 2025