Lecture by Prof. Michael Keren

Israeli politologist Prof. Michael Keren will give a lecture called “The Role of a Public Intellectual in the Digital Age” at the SASA Grand Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 12 o’clock.

Prof. Michael Keren is Dean of the School of Communication, Society and Government at the Emek Yezreel Academic College in Israel. He has served as chair of the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, head of the Bronfman Center for the Media of the Jewish People, and director of the Ben-Gurion Heritage Centre. Prof. Keren is professor emeritus at the University of Calgary, Canada, where between 2002 and 2017 he held a Canada Research Chair.

“In this lecture at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts I focus on the central role played by public intellectuals in small states, such as Serbia and Israel, as guardians of the historical heritage and guides toward the future. I show how Israel’s scientists, writers, scholars and artists have dealt with the two questions preoccupying every nation-state: its relations with the national diaspora living outside its boundaries and the treatment of national minorities living within those boundaries”, says Prof. Keren.

Prof. Keren is the author of a large number of books on political science and has given lectures at universities and scientific institutions in North America, Europe and Asia.