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Lior Herman

Prof. Lior Herman

Director
+972-2-5880355
lior.Herman@mail.huji.ac.il
Faculty of Humanities Building, Room 42617
Office Hours upon personal appointment

Lior Herman is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations and the Director of the European Forum, at the Hebrew University.

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He is also the Academic Chair of the University’s Sustainability Centre. His research focuses on energy, climate, sustainability politics and geopolitics, international political economy, and international trade in services. He has extensively authored numerous articles in leading academic journals and has been a visiting scholar in universities in North America, Asia and Europe. His book (co-authored with Gadi Heimann) “Israel’s Path to Europe” focuses on Israel-European Community relations from 1957 to 1970. Before joining Academia, he served as a senior official at the Israeli Ministry of Finance, where he held the positions of Director for International Organizations and European Union Affairs, and Head of the Department of Insurance Agents and Agencies. He co-initiated Israel’s accession to the OECD and served as the Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for the OECD and a non-resident member of Israel’s delegation to the WTO. Lior serves as a board member of several international and local organizations.

Research Areas: Research Areas Energy, climate, sustainability politics and geopolitics, international political economy, and international trade in services

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Gisela Dachs

Prof. Gisela Dachs

+972-2-5882873
gisela.dachs@mail.huji.ac.il
Room 6218 (Faculty of Humanities Building)
Wednesdays, 13:00-14:00
Personal Webpage - Prof. Gisela Dachs

Gisela Dachs is a Full Professor at the European Forum and the DAAD-Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also an international publicist with extensive experience reporting for French, German, Swiss, and Austrian media.

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She studied Literature and Philosophy at Sorbonne University in Paris and holds a PhD from Tel Aviv University, where her research focused on media use and migrant identities.

Her journalistic career began at the French daily Libération in Paris. She later joined the German weekly DIE ZEIT, starting as a political editor in Hamburg before serving for two decades as the paper’s correspondent in Israel.

  • HU-EF Barometer: In 2022, Prof. Dachs founded the HU-EF Barometer, which collects data through regular surveys tracking mutual perceptions between Israel and Germany.
  • DFG Project: She serves as Principal Investigator for the Israeli-German audience research project, “From Dallas to Berlin-On-Demand: The Transnationalization of Meaning? A Multilevel Replication Study in Israel and Germany,” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

She has authored several books on the history, politics, and culture of Israeli society, including the Country Report Israel (2016), published by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. Since 2001, she has edited the Juedischer Almanach, published by the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem.

Her teaching covers media, migration, European topics of common concern, French-German relations, and German-Israeli relations.

Latest publications: co-editor of Cross-Cultural Television Audiences in the Age of Streaming, (2026) Routledge, London. 

Chapter: Narratives that travel the world: the Israeli case, (2026) in: Cross-  Cultural Television Audiences in the Age of Streaming, Routledge, London. P. 127-144.

Whither the “Special Relationship”? Israeli– German Relations in the Shadow of October 7 and the War on Iran”, (2025): Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs 19 (2), 135-151. 

Israel’s relations with Germany (1973 through to the present day), (2024) in: J. Peters and R. Pinfold (eds.) the Routledge Handbook on Israel’s Foreign Relations, pp.315-327.

 

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Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

Prof. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

+972-2-5881329
tobias.ebbrecht-hartmann@mail.huji.ac.il
Room 6219 (Faculty of Humanities Building)
Office Hours upon personal appointment
Personal Webpage - Prof. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

Prof Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann is an Associate Professor at the DAAD Center for German Studies and in the Department of Communication and Journalism;

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his interest is in German and European postwar social, cultural and visual history with a special focus on Holocaust memory and the visual history of the GDR. His fields of research, teaching and publication are Digital Memory Culture; Digital and Visual History; Social Media Memory; Algorithmic Cultures & AI; and the Preservation of Digital and Audio-Visual Cultural Heritage.

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Arie Krampf

Dr. Arie Krampf

Former Adjunct Lecturer
Senior Lecturer for International Relations at the School of Government and Society, Tel Aviv Yaffo Academic College
Associate Researcher, Kolleg-Forschergruppe ‘The Transformative Power of Europe’ , the Freie Universität Berlin
arie.krampf@gmail.com
Wednesdays, 10:00-11:00
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Ina Kubbe

Dr. Ina Kubbe

Adjunct Lecturer
inakubbe@gmail.com
by appointment

Dr. Ina Kubbe is a political scientist whose research focuses on European politics, democratic governance, and political corruption.

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She works at the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University and is a Professor at the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), Austria. Using comparative, experimental, and mixed-methods approaches, she investigates how institutions, social norms, and political processes shape governance and public policy across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Dr. Kubbe has published in leading journals and with major academic publishers, including the Annual Review of Political Science, Regulation & Governance, Public Management Review, Journal of Institutional Economics, Crime, Law and Social Change, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Edward Elgar, Palgrave Macmillan, and Springer. She has authored and edited numerous books on corruption, democracy, governance, European politics, and gender.

She is one of the founders of the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network (ICRN), the founder and coordinator of the ECPR Standing Group on (Anti-)Corruption and Integrity, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic Criminology. Her research has informed the work of international organizations including the United Nations, the European Commission, the OECD, the OSCE, NATO, and Transparency International.

Profile here

 

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Oded Steinberg

Dr. Oded Steinberg

Cardinal Franz Koenig Chair in Austrian Studies
-972-2-5881535
oded.steinberg@mail.huji.ac.il
Room 6221 (Faculty of Humanities Building)
Personal Website

I am an assistant professor in the departments of International Relations and European Studies (European Forum) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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My research as a modern historian focuses on the circulation of ideas, particularly racial and nationalistic ones, between Britain and Central Europe from the mid-nineteenth century onward, as well as on the development of humanitarian advocacy. Within this framework, my publications have explored various aspects of British and central European intellectual, cultural and diplomatic history. My book Race, Nation, History: Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era (Penn: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) examines the way a series of nineteenth-century scholars in England and Germany first constructed and then questioned the periodization of history into ancient, medieval, and modern eras, shaping the way we continue to think about the past and present of Western civilization at a fundamental level. The book explores this topic by tracing the deep connections between the idea of epochal periodization and concepts of race and nation that were prevalent at the time—especially the role that Germanic or Teutonic tribes were assumed to play in the unfolding of Western history.

Building on my first book, which examined shared racial and religious ideas among a group of nineteenth-century Anglo-German scholars, I expanded my research to consider how some of these figures perceived the “East,” particularly the minorities living under the Ottoman Empire. This line of inquiry led to my current project, which offers a new perspective on the history of humanitarianism by investigating how racial and religious ideas shape forms of humanitarian advocacy. Supported by an ISF grant, the project explores the activities and ideological foundations of little-known Western networks that advocated on behalf of Christian Armenians during the final decades of the nineteenth century. 

Research Interests

Intellectual History; 19th century; British History; Armenians; German History; humanitarianism; ; Race; Nationalism

 

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