PUBLIC EVENTS
Victoria Hanna at In Plain Sight: Sounds Create Worlds
September 23
Victoria Hanna, Israeli multidisciplinary artist
Countries at a Crossroads: Reporting on Israel and the US in Times of Crisis (Virtual)
September 30 (Session 1)
November 14 (Session 2)
Nadav Eyal, Senior Columnist, Yediot Ahronot; Senior Commentator, Keshet 12; 2024–2025 Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs; Winner, Sokolov Award
Kenneth Bamberger (Moderator), Faculty Co-Director, Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley
Songs for the Brokenhearted: Book Talk with Ayelet Tsabari
October 21
Ayelet Tsabari, Israeli author of The Art of Leaving; Finalist, Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize
Yael Segalovitz (Moderator), 2024–2025 Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the Helen Diller Institute; Assistant Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Meaning-Making after Trauma (Virtual)
October 28
Keren Friedman-Peleg, Spring 2025 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor; Senior Lecturer and Dean of Students at the College of Management-Academic Studies
Rebecca Golbert (Moderator), Executive Director, Helen Diller Institute
Israel/Palestine in World Religions: Whose Promised Land?
November 21
Ilan Troen, Professor Emeritus and Founding Director, Schusterman Center, Brandeis University; Professor Emeritus, Ben Gurion University
Ethan Katz (Moderator), Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies
What’s God Playing at? Law as Performance
16th Annual Robbins Collection Lecture in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity at the Helen Diller Institute
February 25
Christine Hayes, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Yale University
The Fourth Quarter: The Blueprint for a Bottom-Up Constitutional Movement in Israel
March 3
Ronen Avraham, Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law
Adi Ayal (Moderator), Spring 2025 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor; Professor at Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law
Beyond Suspicion: The Moral Clash between Rootedness and Progressive Liberalism
March 4
Nissim Mizrachi, Professor, Former Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
Ann Swidler (Moderator), Professor of the Graduate School, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets: Israel in the American Orbit, 1967–1973
March 10
Oz Frankel, Associate Professor of History, The New School for Social Research
Sheldon Rothblatt (Introduction), Professor Emeritus of History, UC Berkeley
Israel and the United Nations
5th Annual Libitzky Lecture on Israel and the Great Powers at the Helen Diller Institute
March 12
Yuval Shany, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law, Former Dean, Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Former Member, Chair, UN Human Rights Committee
Masua Sagiv (Moderator), Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley (2021–2025); Senior Faculty, Shalom Hartman Institute
Reading The Hebrew America: The Double Reception of The Hebrew Teacher
April 2
Maya Arad, Author of twelve Hebrew books of fiction; Writer in Residence, Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University
Yael Segalovitz (Moderator), 2024–2025 Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the Helen Diller Institute; Assistant Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Analyzing Israel: Insights from Leading Journalist Nadav Eyal
April 22
Nadav Eyal, Senior Columnist, Yediot Ahronot; Senior Commentator, Keshet 12; 2024–2025 Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs; Winner, Sokolov Award
Kenneth Bamberger (Moderator), The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director, Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley
When the Horrors of War Meet the Power of Literature: Reactions and Transformations
April 30
Sarai Shavit, Poet, Writer, Literary Editor; Co-Editor, Moznayim; Lecturer, Research Fellow, Tel Aviv University; Recipient, ADEI WIZO Adelina Della Pergola Literary Prize
Yael Segalovitz (Moderator), 2024–2025 Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the Helen Diller Institute; Assistant Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
CAMPUS EVENTS
Helen Diller Institute Welcome Back Reception
September 9
Trust and Co-Production: Local Leaders' Experiences from an Extreme Military Crisis
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Israel Studies Colloquium
September 16
Lihi Lahat, Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar
Layers of Trauma and Paths to Healing
October 9
Ayelet Gundar Goshen, Award-winning Israeli author; Winner, Sapir Prize for Literature of Israel; Clinical Psychologist
Yael Segalovitz (Moderator), 2024–2025 Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the Helen Diller Institute; Assistant Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Modeling Shared Society in Israel
November 1
Mohammad Darawshe, Director of Strategy, Center for Shared Society, Givat Haviva
Masua Sagiv (Moderator), 2021–2025 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley; Senior Faculty, Shalom Hartman Institute
The Assault on Freedom of Communication in Israel following the October 7 Massacre and the Israel-Hamas War
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Israel Studies Colloquium
December 2
Amit Schejter, 2024–2025 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar
New Horizons in Jerusalem Studies: An Integrative Framework for the Analysis of the Development of Modern Jerusalem
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Israel Studies Colloquium
February 10
Noah Hysler Rubin, 2024–2025 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute; Senior Lecturer, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Sympotic Rabbis, Truth, and the Glorious Uncertainty of Law
Occasional Workshop in Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity
February 26
Christine Hayes, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Yale University
STUDENT EVENTS
Visiting Faculty Forum with Hillel
September 4
Visiting Professors & Scholars Noa Hysler Rubin, Yael Segalovitz, Masua Sagiv, Amit Schejter
In partnership with Berkeley Hillel
Victoria Hanna Interactive Masterclass: Using Your Voice as a Tool for Self-Empowerment
September 24
Victoria Hanna, Israeli multidisciplinary artist
Restoring Democracy? Between Legal Reforms & Judicial Overhaul
September 27
Masua Sagiv, Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley (2021–2025); Senior Faculty, Shalom Hartman Institute
Ariel Zelivanksy (Moderator), HDI Undergraduate Fellow
Yom Iyyun: A Day of Learning
October 7
Collaboration with Berkeley Hillel, The Magnes, and the Center for Jewish Studies
Hummusiya at Hillel: The Resurfacing of Social Tensions in Israel One Year after Oct. 7
October 14
Masua Sagiv, Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley (2021–2025); Senior Faculty, Shalom Hartman Institute
In partnership with Berkeley Hillel
Hummusiya at Hillel: Comparing and Contrasting the Israeli and American Electoral Systems
November 4
Amit Schejter, Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar; Professor of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
In partnership with Berkeley Hillel
Presentation on Upcoming Book about Biblical Prisons
November 14
Hadar Aviram, Fall 2024 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Scholar; Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of Law
In partnership with Jewish Student Association at Berkeley Law
Fireside Chat with Ilan Troen
November 22
Ilan Troen, Professor Emeritus and Founding Director, Schusterman Center, Brandeis University; Professor Emeritus, Ben Gurion University
Holocaust Remembrance Day: Memory and the Law
January 27
Professor Richard Buxbaum, Jackson H. Ralston Professor of International Law (Emeritus)
In partnership with ASUC
For The Sake of Argument Workshop
February 21
Abi Dauber Sterne and Robbie Gringras, Co-Directors of For the Sake of Argument
In partnership with Berkeley Hillel
Exploring International Law: A Conversation with Yuval Shany
March 12
Yuval Shany, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law, Former Dean, Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Former Member, Chair, UN Human Rights Committee
Henna Party: Celebrate Middle Eastern Jewish Wedding Traditions at The Magnes
March 20
In partnership with the Magnes, Berkeley Hillel, JCC East Bay, Malka Productions, and Our Sephardic Family
Hummusiya at Hillel: Intro to Game Theory and What It Tells Us About Our Responses to Difficult Situations
April 7
Adi Ayal, Spring 2025 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor; Professor at Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law
In partnership with Berkeley Hillel
Fireside Chat with Nadav Eyal: Israel at a Crossroads
April 23
Nadav Eyal, Senior Columnist, Yediot Ahronot; Senior Commentator, Keshet 12; 2024–2025 Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs