2016-2017

The information in the university’s course catalog shall prevail.

 

Teddy Kollek Chair for the Study of Cultural Aspects of Vienna and Jerusalem

08910

0 c.p.

Colloquium for Mandel School

 

 

Prof. Israel Yuval

 

 

Spring Term | Wednesday | 14:30-16:00

 

 

Room 521 | Mandel Building

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

13124

4 c.p.

The Jews in the Middle Ages: under Crescent and Cross

 

 

Prof. Israel Yuval & Prof. Miriam Frenkel

 

 

Fall Term | Wednesday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

Auditorium Barbara Mandel | Mandel Building

 

 

Spring Term | Wednesday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

Room 2712 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Guest Lecturers at the Center for Austrian Studies

54844

2 c.p.

Human Mobility in the European Union: From Migration to Tourism

 

 

Dr. Valeria Croce

 

 

Fall Term | Monday | 14:30-16:00

 

 

Room 3205 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

54844

2 c.p.

Tourism in Vienna: The Austrian and European Perspective

 

 

Dr. Valeria Croce

 

 

Spring Term | Monday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

Computer Center

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

54815

1 c.p.

Successes and Pitfalls of European Economic Integration

 

 

Prof. Michael Landesmann (The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies & Johannes Kepler University Linz)

 

 

Fall Termn

 

 

13.11.2016

18:30-20:00

 

17.11.2016

18:30-20:00

 

 

15.11.2016

16:30-20:00

 

20.11.2016

16:30-20:00

 

 

Room 2302 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

54839

1 c.p.

The "Other" Austrians

 

 

Dr. Jasmin Dum-Tragut

 

 

Fall Term

 

 

22.11.16

18:30-20:00

 

01.12.16

18:30-20:00

 

 

24.11.16

18:30-20:00

 

04.12.16

18:30-20:00

 

 

27.11.16

18:30-20:00

 

06.12.16

18:30-20:00

 

 

29.11.16

18:30-20:00

 

 

 

 

 

Room 3202 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Cornerstones

54637

&

54677

2 c.p.

European Forum’s Colloquium

 

Prof. Noam Shoval

 

Annual | Wednesday | 18:30-20:00

 

 

Room 2415 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

51509

2 c.p.

Freud's Thinking & Influence on Current Intellectual Thinking

 

 

Dr. Zvi Carmeli

 

 

Fall Term | Thursday | 16:30-18:00

 

 

Room 3301 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

54821

2 c.p.

Modern European History

 

 

Dr. Samuel Barnai

 

 

Spring Term | Monday | 08:30-10:00

 

 

Room 3205 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Department of History

39085

2 c.p.

World War I - Part I

 

 

Prof. Alon Kadish

 

 

Fall Term | Sunday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

Room 2205 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

39086

2 c.p.

World War I - Part II

 

 

Prof. Alon Kadish

 

 

Spring Term | Sunday | 14:30-16:00

 

 

Room 2403 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

39065

2 c.p.

Urban Centers and Urban Life in Medieval Europe

 

 

Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten

 

 

Spring Term | Wednesday | 08:30-10:00

 

 

Room 2331 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

39204

2 c.p.

Europe in the Early Modern Era

 

 

Prof. Dror Wahrman

 

 

Fall Term | Wednesday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

Room 2718 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

39044

2 c.p.

Subordinated Groups in Early Modern Germany

 

 

Dr. Aya Elyada

 

 

Spring Term | Wednesday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

Room 2302 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

39421

2 c.p.

From Newton to Freud: an Intellectual History of Western Science (Part B)

 

 

Dr. Raz Chen-Morris

 

 

Spring Term | Thursday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

Room 2714 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Department of History of the Jewish People

13722

2 c.p.

Research Seminar for German-Jewish History

 

 

Prof. Yfaat Weiss

 

 

Fall Term | Wednesday | 16:30-18:00

 

 

Room 1001 | Rabin Building

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

13921

2 c.p.

Herzlian Zionism between Assimilation and Nationalism

 

 

Dr. Dimitri Shumsky

 

 

Spring Term | Monday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

Room 2404 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

13312

2 c.p.

Czechs, Germans and Jews in the Modern Central Europe

 

 

Dr. Dimitri Shumsky

 

 

Spring Term | Monday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

Room 2102 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Department of Comparative Literature

10510

2 c.p.

Masterpieces of World Literature I

 

 

Dr. Gur Zak

 

 

Fall Term | Tuesday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

Room 6837 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

10610

2 c.p.

20th Century Literatures: Basic Topics

 

 

Dr. Shimrit Peled

 

 

Spring Term | Tuesday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

Room 2718 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

19523

2 c.p.

Ethics and Rhetoric in Franz Kafka

 

 

Prof. Yoav Rinon

 

 

Fall Term | Tuesday | 16:30-20:00

 

 

Room 2301 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Department of Musicology

23121

4 c.p.

EU Institutions in Brussels

Study Trip

 

 

Mr. Sarig Sela

 

 

Fall Term | Sunday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

Room 2729 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Dr. Yosef Maurey

 

 

Fall Term | Sunday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

Room 2729 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Department of Yiddish Studies

18871

4 c.p.

The Rise of Modern Yiddish Literature

 

 

Prof. David G. Roskies

 

 

Spring Term | Monday | 14:30-18:00

 

 

Room 2204 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

18877

2 c.p.

Life Experiences in Yiddish Writing

 

 

Prof. Avraham Novershtern

 

 

Fall Term | Monday | 16:30-18:00

 

 

Room 2501 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

38517

4 c.p.

The Balkans: Between East and West

 

 

Prof. Eyal Ginio

 

 

Annual | Thursday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

Room 2606 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Department of German, Russian and East European Studies

10615

2 c.p.

Landmarks of Criticism: From Plato to Nietzsche

 

 

Dr. Yael Levin

 

 

Fall Term | Tuesday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

Room 2718 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

32806

2 c.p.

Imagining Society: Civil Values and Aesthetic Practise in German Literatur 1785-1929

 

 

Prof. Birgit Erdle

 

 

Spring Term| Monday | 14:30-16:00

 

 

Room 2501 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

32820

2 c.p.

Hoelderlin, Heidegger, Celan – an Uncanny Encounter (1942/1967)

 

 

Prof. Birgit Erdle

 

 

Spring Term | Wednesday | 14:30-16:00

 

 

Room 2201 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

26230

2 c.p.

Meeting Points between Russian & German Literature – 20th Century

 

 

Dr. Michael Weiskopf

 

 

Spring Term | Tuesday | 14:30-16:00

 

 

Room 2331 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

32829

2 c.p.

German Poetry after 1945

 

 

Prof. Vivian Liska

 

 

Spring Term | Wednesday | 12:30-14:00

 

 

Room 2507 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Department of Jewish Thought

14940

2 c.p.

Messianic thought during the Holocaust

 

 

Prof. Gershon Greenberg

 

 

Spring Term | Wednesday & Thursday | 14:30-16:00

 

 

Room 2201 | Faculty of Humanities

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

53841

4 c.p.

Lessons from Prague: Golem, Kafka and Critique

 

 

Prof. Gad Yair

 

 

Study Excursion | 19-24.02.2017

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Department of Political Science

56441

2 c.p.

Fascism - Past and Present

 

 

Dr. Ofer Cassif

 

 

Spring Term | Wednesday | 14:30-16:00

 

 

Room 2203 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Department of International Relations

58725

2 c.p.

Israel, the EU and the Mediterranean: A Political Economy Perspective

 

 

Prof. Alfred Tovias

 

 

Fall Term | Monday | 16:30-18:00

 

 

Room 3305 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

58802

4 c.p.

Immigration to Europe

 

 

Dr. Tal Dingott Alkopher

 

 

Annual | Monday | 10:30-12:00

 

 

Room 2304 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

58802

4 c.p.

European Security: From NATO to Immigration

 

 

Dr. Tal Dingott Alkopher

 

 

Annual | Monday | 14:30-16:00

 

 

Room 3305 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

58385

2 c.p.

Regions of Peace and Regions of War: Europe, Asia and the Middle East

 

 

Prof. Karina Kagan

 

 

Fall Term | Monday | 16:30-20:00

 

 

Room 1706 | Faculty of Social Sciences

 

 

Syllabus

 

 

 

Faculty of Law

62424

2 c.p.

The Holocaust and the Law

 

 

Al Arieh Barnea

 

 

Spring Term | Tuesday | 18:30-20:00

 

 

Room 315 | Faculty of Law

 

 

 

62028

1 c.p.

International Law, Global Governance and the European Union

 

 

Prof. Jan Wouters (Institute for International Law, Catholic University of Leuven)

 

 

Fall Term

 

 

08.01.2017

18:30-20:00

 

15.01.2017

18:30-20:00

 

 

10.01.2017

18:30-20:00

 

17.01.2017

18:30-20:00

 

 

12.01.2017

16:30-20:00

 

19.01.2017

18:30-20:00

 

 

Room 307 | Faculty of Law

 

 

Syllabus