Bar-Ilan University hosted Israelectrochemistry 2021– this year’s annual meetings of the Israel Electrochemical Society (ISEL) on campus on June 17, 2021. Convening electrochemists from academia, research centers and industry, the event opened with an online keynote lecture given by the 2019 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, Prof. M. Stanley Whittingham, who received an Honorary Doctorate degree from BIU in May. He spoke on “Lithium Battery Origins & Future Challenges/Opportunities” on June 16.

BIU's Zalman Shamir Department of Bible held an online international conference in memory of Aharon Mondschein, "Mainstream and Margins: Jewish Biblical Interpretation in the Middle Ages", on June 16-17, 2021.

The conference focused on such topics as:

Hidden Dimensions in Nahmanides’ Commentary
on the Torah

Judeo-Arabic Exegesis in the Middle Ages

Between East and West: Rationalist Exegesis in the Later Middle Ages

BIU’s Conflict Management, Resolution and Negotiation Graduate Program held an online conference, “Religious Diplomacy in the Context of the UAE-Israel Abraham Accords: Theory and Practice”, on June 8, 2021. The event also marked the debut of Dr. Daniel Roth’s new book: “Third-Party Peacemaking in Judaism: Text, Theory, and Practice”, Oxford University Press, 2021.

Stibbe toured research labs and met with the BIU President, Prof. Arie Zaban, and with Prof. Orit Shefi, of the Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, and Dr. Adam Zaidel, of the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center.

BIU’s Berman Department of Literature of the Jewish People held an online symposium on “Russian-Israeli Literature, A History” on June 29, 2021.  The event included lectures on Russian Ghetto Literature, Israeli-Soviet Literary Ties, Russian-Israeli Poetry, Russian Language Israeli Dramaturgy, Genre Preferences of Israeli-Russian Fantastic, and more.