On May 21 at 1:30 p.m., we invite you to an open lecture, “Living with the Unknown: Coping with Uncertainty in the Israeli Context.” The lecture will be given by Prof. Sibylle Heilbrunn (Touro University, Berlin).
You can join the lecture by clicking on this link - https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/389882179858390?p=vXjvpencnMcnNtVBP9
About the lecture:
Israel today confronts uncertainty at security, political, social, and existential simultaneously, making it an urgent setting in which to ask how individuals and societies actually cope when the future feels genuinely unknowable. At the psychological level, Terror Management Theory reveals how mortality salience drives people toward collective meaning-systems, solidarity, and shared symbols, coping strategies that can be both genuinely sustaining and vulnerable to manipulation. From Beck's sociological perspective, the deeper challenge is institutional, namely effective coping requires societies to build the kind of resilience and adaptive capacity that converts unbearable uncertainty into something livable without surrendering to the false comfort of simple answers.
About the Lecturer:
Sibylle Heilbrunn, is an organizational sociologist, and is currently Visiting Professor at Touro University Campus Berlin. She served as Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee (2014-2024) and was Israel's representative for the EU COST Program on International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities' Survey Data Network (2018-2021) and received a Horizon 2020 grant for a comparative international study of women entrepreneurs in entrepreneurial ecosystems. Her research focuses on entrepreneurship, particularly examining issues of inequality, marginalization, and social positioning through the lenses of critical theory and intersectionality, with special emphasis on refugee, migrant, and women entrepreneurs. Lately she joined the Fritz-Bauer-Forum for Democracy and Human Rights as project organizer of a lecture series on Germany and Israel in Dialog about political responsibility and safeguarding democracy.
You are welcome to participate.