Past Symposia, Conferences, & Series

Please see below for a list of the Institute's past symposia, conferences, and series. To view this year's lecture series, please click here.

Series

Civil Society and Plurality in Israel

Join us for a year-long virtual lunchtime series on Civil Society and Plurality in Israel. We will hear from remarkable scholars about critical social and political issues and movements in Israeli society, including questions of religion, gender, nationality, multiculturalism, pluralism, and...Read more about Civil Society and Plurality in Israel

Covering Israel

In 2014, the Helen Diller Institute hosted a three-part series entitled, "Covering Israel: A Three Conversation Lecture Series". The series lecture was sponsored by the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and the Israel...Read more about Covering Israel

Report on the Ground with Haviv Rettig Gur

Times of Israel Senior Analyst Haviv Rettig Gur joined the Helend Diller Institute four times over the 2023–2024 academic year. Originally with us to address the ongoing judicial reforms and subsequent mass protests in Israel, Rettig Gur switched focus after the events of October 7, 2023 to...Read more about Report on the Ground with Haviv Rettig Gur

The Future of Shared Society in Israel: Shifting Lenses

This series features four conversations with scholars immersed in the project of coexistence and shared society in Israel — as examined from different conceptual lenses, including law, gender, civics, education, religion, and the arts. The scholars explore issues of social trust, public...Read more about The Future of Shared Society in Israel: Shifting Lenses

Conferences

Israel at 70: Challenges and Opportunities

In 2018, the Helen Diller Institute hosted the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies. Please click here to see the full conference brochure, which

Israeli and Palestinian Waterways

This conference took place on March 11, 2014.

Water is a natural, social, political, and technological resource, of crucial importance to the development and co-habitation of the region shared in tension by Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians, and others....Read more about Israeli and Palestinian Waterways

Israeli Artists in Conversation with Israel

This conference on April 5–7, 2017, brought Israeli scholars and artists together to examine critical issues in Israeli society through the arts. Drawing on music, film, theater, dance, and visual culture, the conference focused on the meeting and mixing between social groups,...Read more about Israeli Artists in Conversation with Israel

Reflections on the Legacy of Nuremberg

This conference took place from April 27–28, 2015. It was organized jointly by the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies. It was funded generously by the Joseph and Eda Pell Endowed Fund for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsors included the UC Berkeley...Read more about Reflections on the Legacy of Nuremberg

Symposia

Controversial Issues in Citizenship Education: Insights from Israel

The Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley are hosting a half-day symposium to explore insights from the Israeli context on controversial issues in citizenship education. The extreme challenges of...Read more about Controversial Issues in Citizenship Education: Insights from Israel

Cyber-Hate: Defining and Combating Antisemitism and Hate Online

This symposium will explore the phenomenon of cyber-hate. What are the key issues and manifestations? What are the appropriate responses to online hate? What are the frameworks available — legal, social, technological — and possible constraints to responding? How do we evaluate the success...Read more about Cyber-Hate: Defining and Combating Antisemitism and Hate Online