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.
2023
Prof. Stephen Greenblatt
Harvard University
Literature in a State of Siege
2022
Prof. Daniel Kahneman
Princeton University
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
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