Symposia, Guest Lectures and Events
Studies and Research of Jewish Art and Art History in Contemporary Israel: Revisiting the Way
Academic Symposia, Guest Lectures and Events, 2013–15
- Symposia and Colloquia
- “From the Researcher’s Desk” Series of Lectures
- “Creating and Curating Jewish Art in Post-Modern Era” Series of Guest Lectures
- Foreign Guest Lectures
- Book Presentations
- Artists and Art Critics Meet Together in Bar-Ilan
November 12, 2013
“Documentation and Preservation of the Synagogues in Israel: Between the Field Work and the Research” (DJA, BIU with ICOMOS-Israel, and the Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Dr Vladimir Levin, Director of The Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Documentation and Research of Synagogues at the Academic Center: Approaches and Methods
Mr Shai Farkash, Head of the Committee for documentation and preservation of wall paintings and color in architecture, ICOMOS-Israel
Documentation and Preservation of the Synagogue Art as Part of the Preservation of the Heritage and Cultural Property
Dr Ilia Rodov, Chair, DJA BIU; member of ICOMOS
The Family Archives and the National Memory: the Sculptor Joseph Dinaburg and his Artistic Creation in the Synagogues
December 10, 2013
Colloquium and opening of the exhibition: "The Walls Can Talk"
Moderator: Prof. Emerita Bracha Yaniv, DJA BIU
Dr Tamar Shadmi, DJA BIU graduate
Inscriptions on the Walls in the 17th- and 18th-Century East-European Synagogues
April 28, 2014
Colloquium and opening of the exhibition: "The Motherhood in Crisis during the Holocaust and in its Aftermath as Reflected in Art"
Moderator: Dr Mor Presiado, DJA BIU
Dr Mor Presiado, DJA BIU
Aftermath of the Holocaust in Einat Friedman's Art
Einat Friedman, artist
My Works about the Holocaust
April 29, 2014
Colloquium: “The Tombstones Talk: Sepulchral Art in Romania” (DJA BIU with the Center for Romanian Culture in Tel-Aviv and the National Village Museum, Bucharest, Romania)
Moderator: Dr. Gina Pana, Director, the Center for Romanian Culture in Tel-Aviv
Dr Paula Popoyo, director of the National Village Museum, Bucharest, Romania
Romanian Tombstones: Customs and Art
Dr Ilia Rodov, Chair, DJA BIU
Jewish Tombstones in Romanian Moldavia
November 4, 2014 (Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of the Jewish People)
Symposium and Round Table, "When the Past Meets the Present: History and Jewish Art at the Contemporary Museum” (DJA BIU with Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of the Jewish People),
Organizers: Dr. Mirjam Rajner and Dr Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU.
Key Lecture:
Prof. Moshe Rosman, History Department, Bar-Ilan University
Jewish History Museums: The Art of the History
Round Table Discussion:
Jewish Art Meets the Israeli Audience
Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner, DJA BIU
Participants:
Dr Orit Shaham-Gover, Director, Beit Hatfutsot
Dr Batsheva Ida Goldman, Curator, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
Dvora Liss, Curator, Mishkan LeOmanut Museum, Ein Harod
Nurit Sirkis Bank, Curator, Wolfsohn Museum for Jewish Art, Hechal Shlomo, Jerusalem
Svetlana Reingold, Curator, Mane-Katz Museum and Herman Struck Museum, Haifa
Ronit Sorek, Curator, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
January 6, 2015
Colloquium: Allegoric Animals in Images and Texts
Organizer and moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU
Dr Ilya Dines, The Open University
Medieval Illuminated Bestiaria
Dr Sara Ofenberg, DJA BIU
On Symbolic Animals in Medieval Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts
January 27, 2015
Conference: Jewish Art in Contemporary Israel (DJA BIU with the Administration for Religious Education, the Ministry of Education)
Organizer: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU; Mrs Orna Segal and Mrs Revital Shtern, the Administration for Religious Education
Dr. Nira Tessles, Talpiot College, Holon
Self-portait of a Young Artist and Consolidation of Personal Artistic Self-identification: The Case of Reuven Rubin
Dr. Mor Presiado, DJA BIU
Meta-Generation Memory in the Artwork of Holocaust Survivors' Daughters
David Sperber , Gender Studies, Bar-Ilan University
"Women's Court of Justice": Feminist Activism in Contemporary Jewish Art
Dr Irit Miller, History of Art Department, Haifa University
Avram Kampf: Educator, Historian and Curator of Jewish Art
May 26, 2015 (forthcoming)
Colloquium of PhD Students: Animal Allegories in Jewish Art: Monkey, Dog and Ostrich
Organizer and moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU
Leor Jacobi, BIU
"By a Monkey": Human-Like and Monkeys and Monkey-Falconers in Halakhah, Aggadah and Art
Chana Shacham-Rosby, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Elijah the Prophet: A "Guarding Dog" of Israel
Zvi Orgad, DJA BIU
Mystery of an Ostrich in Eliezer-Zussman's Paintings
“From the Researcher’s Desk” Series of Lectures
Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner, DJA BIU
October 29, 2013
Nurit Sirkis Bank, Curator of the Wolfsohn Museum for Jewish Art at the Hechal Shlomo, Jerusalem; Ph.D. student, DJA BIU
Ceremony as Text: the Visual Culture of the Contemporary Hassidic Weddings in Israel
December 24, 2013
Dr Eyal Baruch, DJA BIU
Amphora as a Decorative Motif in Ancient Jewish Art
April 1, 2014
Dr Eliya Bartal, DJA BIU; Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design
The Pretty Woman Wore a Shoe: Psychoanalytic Analysis of Cinderella and her Shoe in the Films "The Pretty Woman" and "Catch the Bride"
March 4, 2014
Dr Ronit Steinberg, Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design; Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
Secrets Hidden in the Public Space: Micha Ulman's Artistic Creation
“Creating and Curating Jewish Art in Post-Modern Era” Series of Guest Lectures
Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner
November 18, 2014
Dr Andreina Contessa, Chief Curator, The U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art, Jerusalem
History of the Collection: The Museum of Italian Jews in Jerusalem
December 2, 2014
Dr Batsheva Ida Goldman, Curator, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art
From the Research to the Exhibition
December 30, 2014
Prof. Alisa Cohen-Mushlin, The Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
History of The Center for Jewish Art: Research, Documentation, Publication
January 13, 2015
Niv Goldberg, Art Collections Curator, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
History of the Art Collection at the Museums’ Department in Yad Vashem
Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner
December 9, 2013
Dr Przemysław Strożek, Polish Academy of Sciences
Sport and Visual Culture in Weimar Germany
March 24, 2014
Dr Marina Dmitrieva, Institute of the Central and East-European History and Culture, University of Leipzig, Germany
East-European Jewish Artists in Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s
March 23, 2015
Prof. Roman Grigoriyev, History of Art Department, The European University, St. Petersburg
Orientalism in Rembrandt’s Art
November 26, 2013
Sara Offenberg, Illuminated Piety, Pietistic Texts and Images in the Northern French Hebrew Manuscripts (Cherub Press: Academic Publishers of Studies and Editions of Jewish Mystical Literature, 2013)
Moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU
Lecturers:
Prof. Katrin Kogman-Apel, the Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dr Peter Lander, the Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Respondent:
Dr. Sara Offenberg, DJA BIU
January 7, 2014
Dr Shulamit Laderman, Images of Cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine Art (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
Moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU
Lecturers:
Prof. Moshe Idel, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Hartman Institute
Prof. Daniel Sperber, Bar-Ilan University
Respondent:
Dr Shulamit Laderman, DJA BIU; Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
March 18, 2014
Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Giedrė Mickūnaite, Sergey Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin, Jurgita Šiauciūnaitė-Verbickienė, Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue, 2 Vols. (Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2010-2012)
Moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU
Greetings:
Prof. Eliahu Assis, Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University
H.E. Mr Darius Degutis, the Ambassador of Lithuania in Israel
Lecturers:
Prof. Shaul Stampfer, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Mordechai Zalkin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Respondents:
Dr Vladimir Levin, director, the Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr Sergei Kravtsov, the Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Artists and Art Critics Meet Together in Bar-Ilan
Organizer: Dr. Mirjam Rajner, DJA BIU
May 13, 2014
“And You Shall Tell Your Daughter," Meeting with the artist Dvora Morag and art historian Dr. Mor Presiado
Moderator: Dr Mor Presiado, DJA BIU
March 10, 2015
Meeting with the artist Michael Grobman and art historian Dr Lola Kantor-Kazovski, History of Art Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov
April 14, 2015
Meeting with the artist Tuli Ziv and art historian Dr Batya Brutin, Art College Beit Berl
Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner, DJA BIU
April 28, 2015
Meeting with the artist Sigalit Landau and art critic David Sperber, Bar-Ilan University
Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner, DJA BIU
May 12, 2015
Meeting with the artist Michael Yahilevich and graduate student of DJA BIU
Inna Gorshtein
Moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU
May 26, 2015 (forthcoming)
Meeting with the artist Jacob Busidan and art historian Ruth Busidan, History of Art Department, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner, DJA BIU
