Her PhD dissertation, written under the supervision of Dr. Jeanette Malkin, examines the aesthetic of American avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson from an intercultural German-American perspective. Initial conclusions of this research have been presented at international conferences and published as journal and book articles. Keren teaches at the Hebrew University’s Department of Theatre Studies and School of the Arts. She also serves as the academic coordinator of a new joint Program in Business Administration and Arts. She is a member of the academic committee of the Israeli Association for Theatre Research, and has taken part in the organization of conferences and other events. She served as head of the program committees for the conferences: A King of Infinite Space: Shakespeare beyond Borders (2012) and of the Annual Conference of the Honors Program for Outstanding Candidates in the Humanities (2013).

What teaching at the Department of Theatre Studies means to me: It is an opportunity to meet and interact with a unique and diverse group of creative, talented students, with whom I’m happy to share my knowledge and from whom I always learn new things.

 

. HaCohen is the author of books and articles that explicate the role played by music in shaping and reflecting wide cultural and political contexts and processes. Her points of departure are historical, aesthetic and semiotic, deploying as well theories from psychoanalyses, anthropology and critical thought. Her work extends from baroque music to modern one, with a special emphasis on opera, oratorio, and song, dealing also with the relations between Ashkenazi-Jewish and Christian music.

 

HaCohen was the Chair of the Department during 2001-4 and the Head of the PhD Honors Program in the Humanities during 2008-9. She was a visiting scholar as St. John College Oxford, in 1996-7 and a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2004-5. Since 2008 she is as a Senior Fellow and member of the research group “The Interpretive Imagination: Connections between Religion and Art in Jewish Culture in its Contexts” at Scholion, Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University. Since 2013 the Head of the School of the Arts there and since April 2014 also the Director of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences. 

 

Hacohen is the 2012 winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award by the American Musicological Society for the most distinguished book in musicology The Music Libel Against the Jews (Yale 2011) and the first Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines for the same book. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Balzan Research Project: “Towards a global history of music” (Director: Prof. Reinhard Strohm) and in the Advisory Committee of the Polyphony Foundation in Nazareth (organization whose purpose is to bridge the divide between Arab and Jewish communities in Israel by creating a common ground where young people come together around classical music).Other publication include Tuning the Mind: Connecting Aesthetic Theory to Cognitive Science (Transaction, 2003 [with Ruth Katz]). She is currently completing the volumes The Voices of the Individual and the Voice of the Many: A Musico-Political Dialogue (Van Leer and Hakibutz Hameuchad, in Hebrew, with Yaron Ezrahi). 

 

As part of her studies in the program, she interned at the Beta Arts Center, part of the Jerusalem Municipality’s Plastic Art Department. She is currently in her second year of internship at the Israel Museum’s Prints and Drawings Department. Shai served twice as the producer of the yearly Jerusalem Art Conference, part of the Manofim Contemporary Art Festival in Jerusalem, and she currently serves as the production coordinator for Outline, an illustration and poetry festival in Jerusalemץ

 

 He received his BA summa cum laude from the Joint Program in Business Administration and Art History, and he currently serves as a teaching assistant at the program. Maayan also produces art exhibitions and music and literature events at the Neve Schechter Cultural Center in Tel Aviv.  

 

and also serves as the representative of the program for welcoming of new students. Michal is a graduate of the Joint Program in Business Administration and Theater Studies. During her undergraduate studies she interned at HaZira Performance Arts Arena, where she took an active part in the institute’s various cultural activities. After completing her internship, she began working at the theater as director of marketing and sales. You are welcome to contact her with any questions regarding the program.