The Hub offers associate positions for scholars developing projects that integrate computational methodologies into research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Positions are open to PhD holders at early stages of their academic careers who are not currently in tenured faculty roles and who wish to advance innovative, interdisciplinary research. Apply here.Associates will participate in the Hub’s core activities—seminars, workshops, conferences, summer school, and collaborative lab sessions—and receive individualized guidance in shaping the methodological design of their research. Moreover, associates will have the opportunity to apply to relevant funding calls that do not require a faculty appointment. For more details.
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Seminar
Roman Mafte'akh:
Distant Reading in the Hebrew Novel
Dr. Yael Dekel
You are cordially invited to the DHSS Hub Seminar, Wednesday, December 3,
at 13:30, for a lecture by Dr. Yael Dekel. In this lecture, Dr. Dekel will present her project Roman Mafte'akh, a literary citizen science project that attempts to analyze the Hebrew novel in its entirety. By using questionnaires, Dr. Dekel has assembled a database currently comprising more than 700 novels, including detailed information on various subjects, such as themes, geographies, narrator types and more. Join us to hear about the project and the various research that Dr. Dekel conducts using its database.
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Workshop
Transkribus AI:
Automatic Text Recognition
Dr. Sinai Rusinek
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We are pleased to invite you to a hands-on workshop on Transkribus, an open online platform for the automatic transcription of texts, which will take place on Sunday, December 7. The workshop will offer practical tools for working with the Transkribus platform to produce transcriptions of scanned files, such as books, newspapers, tables and handwritten manuscripts. Participants will become familiar with the capabilities and limitations of the technology and learn how to make the most of scanned text collections. The workshop is free of charge, but requires prior registration. Space is limited. Check out the program and register here.
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Art Exhibition
Weaving Sky and Earth
Mali De-Kalo
Curator: Carmit Blumensohn
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You are invited to the opening of Weaving Sky and Earth, a site-specific exhibition by video artist Mali De-Kalo. The opening event and tour will take place in January 9, 2026, at the Open University Ra'anana campus.
For more details.
Mali De-Kalo is one of Israel’s finest video artists, whose work emerges from a profound exploration of architectural spaces and the human stories they contain. She views buildings as living organisms shaped by history, emotion, and power. In this exhibition, she turns her gaze to the Open University, intertwining the place, its people, and their memories into a layered visual and emotional journey.
Weaving Sky and Earth moves between the personal and the collective, between surface impressions and the “underground city” that supports them. De-Kalo exposes hidden mechanisms, revealing the tension between human experience and architecture. The campus emerges not only as a physical structure, but as a social and emotional arena. Through interviews and a visual study of the university’s architecture and activities, the exhibition links the visible and the concealed, the above and the below, and invites viewers to observe, wander and wonder with a spirit of exploration.
The exhibition opens on November 24, 2025 and will run until April 17, 2026.
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