Thursday, June 3, 2010
3:00 - 4:15 pm
Lecture: Jerusalem By The Waters of Babylon: First Encounters Between Babylon, Judah, and Judeans
Prof. Wayne Horowitz
Le Meridien Hotel, Dead Sea
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Lecture: Introduction to the Creation of the Nabucco Opera
Ms. Tehila Mishor
Le Meridien Hotel, Dead Sea
Friday, June 4, 2010
Guided geological tour by Hebrew University experts of the Dead Sea area, the lowest point of the entire Earth on dry land. Tour will include lecture by Prof. Amotz Agnon and Prof. Yehouda Enzel on “The Wisest Place on Earth: the Dead Sea as a Recorder of Mankind’s Environment.” Bus will depart hotel at 11 am and will continue directly to Jerusalem after the tour, arriving at 3pm.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Study groups
- In the Beginning…: Perspectives on Science and Faith with Prof. Moshe Halbertal (English)
- Turkey - What’s Next? with Dr. Anat Lapidot-Firilla and Dr. Alon Liel (English)
- El Reloj Biológico with Dr. Sebastián Kadener (Spanish)
- Politics and current events (French)
The David Citadel Hotel
Sunday June 6, 2009
9:00 am – 12:30 pm
The Big Bang and the Birth of the Universe: a panel discussion with Hebrew University experts
- Prof. Avishai Dekel - The Big Bang
- Prof. Re’em Sari - The Birth of the Solar System and the Earth
- Prof. Yair Zakowitch – One Creation, Many Traditions
- Prof. Rachel Elior - Mystical Perspectives on Creation
The Ezequiel Liwerant- Fomento Mexico Hall
Monday June 7, 2010
9:45 – 11:00 am
Concurrent lectures:
- Prof. Eliezer Rabinovici
- Dr. Guy Tal: The Singularity of Michaelangelo’s Genesis Cycle in the Sistine Chapel
- Dr. Jonathan Garb: Reincarnation, Cosmic Cycles and Evolution in the Kabbalah
- Genesis: Three Theological Approaches – sponsored by Aldegonde and Hubert Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn and Martin Brenninkmeijer
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
9:45 – 11:15 am
Concurrent lectures:
- Prof. Ruth HaCohen: The Music of Genesis and the Genetic Code of Music
- Prof. Yoram Bilu: How are holy places created? Some contemporary examples
2:45 – 4:30 pm
Seminar: Where do we come from and where are we going?
- Prof. Joe Gale: The Cosmic Origin of Life
- Prof. Chaim Cedar: The Programming of Life
- Prof. Naama Goren-Inbar: Exodus from Africa: Hominids and Their Culture in the Levant
- Prof. Nili Wazana
Ezequiel Liwerant- Fomento Mexico Hall
Wednesday June 9, 2010
2:00 – 4:30 pm
Panel Discussion: For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return
(Genesis 3:19b)
- Prof. Tsvi Piran
- Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum: Climate Change and Collapse
- Prof. Nir Shaviv: Anthropogenic Global Warming – Really?
- Prof. Bianca Kuehnel: The End of Days and After – Images of Art and Science
Wise Auditorium
Edmond J. Safra Campus