The third Azrieli Graduate Studies Forum of the academic year took place on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. The gathering brought together Graduate Studies Fellows and one new Visiting PhD Fellow for a full day of presentations, discussion, and shared activity. The gathering provided an opportunity for fellows to reconnect, exchange ideas, and support one another.
The forum opened with a welcome to Dana Hikry, the Azrieli Fellows Program’s new Wellbeing Officer, attending her first forum, and to Carter Barnett, the Visiting PhD Fellow this term, who joined from Johns Hopkins University, where he is pursuing doctoral research in the history of medicine.
The programme combined research presentations with interactive activities led by the steering committee. Fellows presented work across a broad disciplinary range, including plant gene editing in the life sciences, AI-generated imagery and questions of representation, psychological perspectives on the perception of criticism, cellular and colour-related processes in biology, legal aspects of marital captivity in Israeli rabbinical courts, and research on post-trauma. These sessions were framed by collaborative activities that encouraged participation and reflection throughout the day.
The day reflected the program at its best — intellectually rigorous, collegially warm, and genuinely cross-disciplinary.
To watch the incredible presentations by the fellows, please visit our YouTube playlist.
