On Monday, 15 May 2019, SICSA held a Research Seminar titled Political hysteria: Diagnosis, Remedy and Context, featuring a lecture by Prof. Iván Zoltán Dénes (Visiting Scholar Fellow at SICSA) that introduced  a close reading of a very unusual possibilist and contactualist interpretation of anti-Semitism. Read more about Research Seminar — Political Hysteria: Diagnosis, Remedy and Context

On Sunday, 5 May 2019, SICSA held an international one day reading and discussion seminar, organized by Prof. Manuela Consonni, SICSA's director and Prof. Arnold Davidson, SICSA's honorary fellow. Read more about Myth, Ethics, and the Foundations of Society: A Seminar on Levinas and Cassirer

On Sunday, April 7, SICSA held a colloquium about Jewish refugees in Shanghai titled Compassion, Boundaries, and War. It included two fascinating lectures of Prof. Vera Schwarcz and Dr. Ran Shauli and was chaired by Ms. Qingwen Zhang, doctoral fellow at SICSA. Read more about Compassion, Boundaries, and War: Jewish Refugees in Shanghai

The Vidal Sasson International Center for the Study of Antisemitism is honored to announce the awarding of up to four awards in the academic year 2018/19 to young researchers who have shown exceptional excellence, depth and originality in their academic work, and whose research investigates antisemitism, anti-Jewish hostility and the mechanisms of antisemitic prejudice through the ages, including comparative perspectives on other forms of discrimination and racism.

For more information see the attached announcement (in Hebrew): Read more about Call for Applicants: Robert Wistrich Prizes 2019