Faculty

Dr. Yuval Benziman

The Swiss Center for Conflict Resolution

Social Science, room 3515

A conflict studies scholar and practitioner. His fields of interest include formal and non-formal (track two) negotiations, society's understanding of conflicts in the change from old wars to new wars, fictional texts (mainly films and literature) in a conflicted society, and social narratives of conflicts.

Yuval's approach to conflict research is interdisciplinary: his teaching and research cross traditional academic fields and group together political psychology, cultural studies, political science, Israel studies, international relations, and peace and conflict studies. He teaches the theory of conflict research, skill and methodological courses, and case-studies of conflicts. His recent publications were in Negotiation Journal; Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology; Peace & Conflict Studies; and Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict.

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Dr. Tobais Ebbrecht-Hartmann

Department of Communication and Journalism;

German Social History and Culture in the DAAD Center for German Studies

02-5880097

tobias.ebbrecht-hartmann@mail.huji.ac.il

Social Science, room 5406

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann is a Lecturer of Cinema Studies in the Department of Communication and Journalism and of German Social History and Culture in the DAAD Center for German Studies. His fields of research, teaching and publication are film history and film theory; memory culture and cinematic remembrance of the Holocaust; West and East German cinema; German-Israeli film relations; filmheritage, archival films and echo cinema.

He holds his PhD from the Free University in Berlin where he also graduated in Film Studies, New German Literature and Political Science. From 2004 to 2010 he was research and teaching assistant in the field of media history at the University for Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam-Babelsberg. After defending his doctoral thesis on cinematic narration of the Holocaust in 2010 he was senior researcher and postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate Research Program “Media of History – History of Media” at the Bauhaus University of Weimar. In 2012 he was awarded a fellowship of the International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. From 2013 to 2014 he was head of a research project on East German Student Films based at the University for Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” and funded by the German Research Foundation.

Ebbrecht-Hartmann is author of three German monographs on German-Israeli film history, cinematic narration of the Holocaust and the filmmaker Romuald Karmakar; co-editor of three German anthologies on emotions and film perception, East German documentary cinema and contemporary German cinema; and contributed numerously to journals, collections and online-publications in German, English, French and Hebrew.

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Dr. Dmitry Epstein

The Department of Communication and Journalism

Federmann School of Public Policy and Governance

Dmitry.Epstein@mail.huji.ac.il

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Journalism and the Federmann School of Public Policy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His research focuses on digital policy, internet governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and the social impacts of technology.

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Prof. Itay Fischhendler

Department of Geography

02-5883349

Itay.Fishhendler@mail.huji.ac.il

Social Science, room 4609

Prof. Itay Fischhendler research interests focus on environmental conflict resolution; natural resources management and governance and decision making under conditions of political and environmental uncertainties.

Prof. Neta Kligler-Vilenchik

Department of Communication and journalism

02-5883385

neta.kv@mail.huji.ac.il

Social Science, room 5411

Her research focuses on youth civic and political participation in the context of the changing media environment. She is particularly interested in the ways that young people, who often feel disconnected by traditional political institutions, can find voice and agency in the context of digital participation.

Her current research projects include a theoretical elaboration of “Alternative Citizenship Models” as an emerging paradigm, and an examination of informal political talk and disagreement in WhatsApp groups. Neta has published in leading communication journals, including New Media & Society, International Journal of Communication, European Journal of Communication, Computers in Human Behavior, Social Media + Society and more. She is a co-author on the book “By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism” (New York University Press, 2016).

Kligler-Vilenchik’s work has received Top Paper awards from the AEJMC Cultural and Critical Studies Division and the ICA Mass Communication division. She received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University ofSouthern California, where she was the recipient of a Fulbright doctoral student grant.

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Dr. Lior Lehrs

The Departments of International Relations

The Swiss Center for Conflict Resolution

lior.lehrs@mail.huji.ac.il

Dr. Lior Lehrs is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations and The Swiss Center for Conflict Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include conflicts, peacemaking, diplomacy and mediation, and he works on various conflict areas, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland, Cyprus and the Balkans.

The journals in which he has published include International Studies Quarterly, International Affairs, Cooperation and Conflict, and Peacebuilding, and his book Unofficial Peace Diplomacy, was published in 2022 by Manchester University Press. Dr. Lehrs was a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University, and a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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Prof. Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt

Department of Communication and Journalism

02-5881059

keren.tw@mail.huji.ac.il

Social Science, room 5423

Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (Ph.D. 2011) is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on cultural and political dimensions of journalism from a comparative perspective, media and conflict, mediated memory, and the intersection of journalism, political communication and popular culture.

She is currently working on two major research projects: a comparative study of news temporalities (funded by the Israeli Science Foundation) and an EU FP7 collaborative project on the role of the media in conflict and peace building (INFOCORE). She is also member of the COST Action on Populist Political Communication in Europe.

Her work has received international recognition, including the International Communication Association's Outstanding Article Award (2014), the inaugural Outstanding Dissertation Award of the International Communication Association's Political Communication Division (2013), the ICA Political Communication Best Article of the Year Award (2010), and several Top Paper awards from the Journalism Studies Division of ICA. She received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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