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Sculptures at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

It is not enough simply to learn and teach about what is. Ideas and culture are forever evolving, creating, and recreating from the past, while charging ahead to a future where globalization makes collaborations among countries imperative. American University's Center for Israel Studies will become a trendsetter in the fusion of national cultures and knowledge within a globalized society.

Through conferences, colloquia, collaborative research, and faculty exchanges, the center develops innovative ways to achieve the objective of understanding how nations can be integrated into a global discourse while preserving their national identities. Implementation of the New Knowledge Project is at the core of research activities in the Center for Israel Studies and will serve as a prototype for other country study programs in the United States.

The U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

Every second year, a major conference is held at American University on some topic that pushes forward the study of the tension between globalization and national identities, ideas, and societies. See our 1998 -2002 past events.

At the end of the first decade of American University's Center for Israel Studies, the five conferences, faculty collaborations, and books will constitute a major set of reference works on globalization and binational discourse.

American University has many attributes that make it an ideal site for the Center for Israel Studies:

  • gifted faculty with long-standing ties to Israel
  • commitment to sharing and enriching the heritage of Israel
  • a unique location with access to an existing international community and one of the largest Jewish communities in the United States-both of which can benefit from and contribute to the work of the center
  • extensive experience in international education
  • technology infrastructure which can provide inexpensive and rapid communication to facilitate dialogue among individual faculty, researchers, and students in both countries

 

The Center for Israel Studies will:

  • house and nurture both existing and new knowledge of Israel
  • provide opportunities for the education of the next generation of both Israeli and American researchers and teachers
  • ensure that the inheritance of knowledge is passed on to Israeli and American University students

 

 

 
 
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Last update: February 7, 2007
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