10 May 2010, 6.15 p.m. at the IFK (free entrance, lecture in english)

Adi Efal teaches at Tel Aviv University, the Bezalel Academy of Art, and Beit-Berl College. She had research post-doctoral residencies at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the Rosenzweig Center for German-Jewish Culture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is an IFK Research_Fellow.

Selected publications: Panofsky’s Idea and Auerbach’s Figura: Two Iconodulist Philological Experiments, in: The Protocols of the History and Theory Department of the Bezalel Academy, 14, October 2009; Iconology and Iconicity. Towards an Iconic History of Figures, between Erwin Panofsky and Jean-Luc Marion, in: Naharaim. Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte, I/2/III, 2008; Habitude against itself: Redefining the 'Symbol' in Turn-of-the-Century French Visual Symbolist Discourse, in: Æ. Canadian Aesthetics Journal, 13, Summer 2007.

Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies launches its call for papers for its issues in 2011. The third special issue is on "Religious Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe at the Beginning of the Third Millenium". Deadline: February 1, 2011.