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23 January, 2023

Dis-Cover | A dialog with Dorit Rabinyan

The third in the series of dialogues between literati and scientists with Dorit Rabinyan, an author and screenwriter.  Her book ‘Persian Brides’ won her the Winner Award for Young Authors; her second book ‘Our Weddings’ was also very successful both in Israel and worldwide, and in London the book won the Charles Orde Wingate Award.  Her books have been translated into about 30 languages. Her last book ‘Hedgerow’ was at the center of a public scandal due to its being cancelled from the curriculum of the Ministry of Education.

Rabinyan has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Hebrew writers, the Akum (Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel) award for the encouragement of creativity, and the Bernstein Award for Literature.


Rabinyan is invited to a dialogue with Dr. Meital Oren-Suissa, a researcher in the Brain Research Department of the Weizmann Institute of Science.  In her research, she focuses on the connection between genetic sex and the structure and function of the nervous system, in both ill and healthy states.
The discussion will be about the laboratory of literature, creation and creativity in science, about what was discovered and what had to be peeled off or removed, to find and invent and the place of gender identity in all of this.


The audience is invited to participate and the event will be held under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.
 

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo

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With audience participation. Under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.

 

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo
03 June, 2024

Dis-Cover | A dialog with Noa Yedlin

As part of our series of dialogs between writers and scientists, Noa Yedlin, winner of the Sapir Prize and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works, and author of bestsellers ‘House Arrest’, ‘Stockholm’, People like us’ and ‘The wrong book’, which were adapted for television and theatre, in dialog with Professor Yifat Merbl from the Department of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. A conversation about truth and fiction, literary characters and real people, on imaginary boundaries and the origins of make-believe.

 

With audience participation. Under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.

 

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo
 
27 May, 2024

Dis-Cover | A dialog with Zeruya Shalev

As part of our series of dialogs between writers and scientists, writer Zeruya Shalev (winner of the ACUM Prize, French Femina Prize, the German Die Welt award and others) whose books ('Love Life', 'Thera', ‘Wonder’ and more) have been translated into 28 languages and were bestsellers in Israel and around the world, in dialog with Professor Shafi Goldwasser, researcher in computer science and cryptography (2012 Turing Award winner) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
A conversation about encryption and the secrets of the heart, discovery and inspiration, and what should be peeled off or discarded, in order to discover and to create. 


With audience participation. Under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.

 

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo