The German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities (GISFOH) Symposia are a series of interdisciplinary, binational conferences jointly conducted by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (IASH) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH). Funding on the German side is provided by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.
The conference brings together about 50 outstanding young researchers from Israel and Germany working in various fields in the humanities. They share knowledge across disciplines and take the opportunity to work on future Israeli-German cooperations. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation supports such collaborative work with its special follow-up programme CONNECT which funds working visits in the partner countries for up to 30 days.
This year´s conference is dedicated to the theme Access and covers the following topics:
- Performing Democracy: Access to the Public Sphere
- Making Home under Conditions of Instability
- Rethinking Food Poverty: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Innovations, and Societal Impact
- Access, Equity, and Multilingual Realities
Find more information here.
Participation is by invitation only.
This symposium is part of the Frontiers of Research Programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The Foundation regularly convenes bi- and tri-national Frontiers of Research Symposia in cooperation with its partner organisations in Brazil, China, Japan, India, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.