The Annual Buber Memorial Lectures
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The Annual Buber Memorial Lectures

In 2009, its jubilee year, the Council of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities decided to establish an annual lecture series named for the Academy’s first president, Prof. Martin Buber. The lectures in the series are on a range of topics in the humanities and social sciences and target a broad audience of scholars and laypersons.
2024
Prof. Stephen Greenblatt
Harvard University
 
2022 
Prof. Daniel Kahneman
Princeton University
 
2020
Prof. Robert Alter
University of California, Berkeley
Paganism as Redemption in the Poetry of Shaul Tchernichovsky (Hebrew)
 
2019 
Prof. Sir Partha Dasgupta
University of Cambridge
The Economics of Biodiversity 
 
2018
Prof. Michael Cook
Princeton University
 
2017 
Prof. Jonathan Israel
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
2016
Prof. Guido Calabresi
Yale Law School
Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
About Equality - A Fable Understanding the Recent American Election
 
2015
Prof. Michael Walzer
Institute for Advanced Study, USA
 
2014
Prof. Lorraine Daston
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
 
2013
Prof. Carlo Ginzburg
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
 
2012  
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