Session No. 45: Academy and Gender
25.03.2020, Tel-Aviv University
Opening Session:
Prof. Hagit Messer-Yaron, Tel aviv university, head of "Bashaar.
Prof. Shai Lavi, Tel aviv university, Director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Session 1:
Women in academia -A critical examination of twenty years of awareness and action Leader:
Prof. Rachel Erhard, Tel aviv university, The Gender Equity Program.
Speakers: Prof. Ronit Sarid, Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Life Sciences. Prof. Yosef Nir, Weitzman Institute of Science, Faculty of Physics.
Prof Shiri Artstein - Avidan, Department of Pure Mathematics, Tel Aviv University.
Prof. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, The Israel young academy. Reactive: Prof. Yaffa Zilbershats, Chairman of the Planning and Budgeting Committee.
Session 2:
Gender, academia and democracy - contemporary challenges
Leader:
Dr. Miri Rozmarin, Bar-Ilan University, The Gender Studies Program ;The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Speakers:
Prof. Yuli Tamir, President of Shankar Academic College, Former Minister of Education.
Prof. Miriam Faust, Rector of Bar Ilan University.
Prof. Emerita Henriette Dahan Kalev, Founder and first chair of the Gender Program at the Ben Gurion University.
