DIS-COVER Yair Assulin and Professor Idan Segev
Yair Assulin, writer and thinker, winner of the Sapir Prize for a Debut Novel in 2011, the Ministry of Culture Prize and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works in 2016. He previously taught Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale University, writes a regular column in Haaretz newspaper and hosts the thought program on ‘Kan’.
Idan Segev is a professor of computational neuroscience at the Center for Brain Sciences at the Hebrew University, a senior partner in the Blue Brain Project (Switzerland) and the Human Brain Project (EU), and one of the founders of Frontiers, the international scientific journal. His main field of interest is the study of neurons and neural networks in mammalian and human brains, with the aim of understanding “what makes humans unique.” Idan is also interested in the connection between the brain and art, and has run fascinating meetings between artists and scientists.
The dialog will address the revolutionary times we live in – the changing of the world order – the great challenges and opportunities facing humanity today, and the burning questions that lie ahead. It will illuminate the critical importance of partnerships between researchers in the natural sciences and those in the social sciences and humanities, so that we can thrive in a new, fruitful and creative world – humanity as a whole, and Israeli society in particular.
Under the auspices of The Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.
