Maren Niehoff has developed numerous interdisciplinary courses, which are offered in the Dept. for Jewish Thought, Classics and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University. Recent examples include: “Who is against Who? Schools of Ancient Jewish Thought”, “Jewish-Christian Polemics”, “Journeys in Antiquity: Imagined and Real”, and “Eros and Ethics in Antiquity”.
As a teacher in the AMIRIM Honors Program she has developed international cooperation with Oxford University, Harvard University and the Humboldt University in Berlin. She organized two student conferences with Prof. Teresa Morgan at Oxford, a conversation with the author Tom Mackenzie in London and a joint skype assignment with a parallel course of Prof. Laura Nasrallah at the Harvard Divinity School . She has prepared the next students conference at the Humboldt University, in cooperation with Prof. Bernd Schipper.
Pictures from the 2017 Visit to Oxford
In Israel she had organized several inter-cultural excursions for the AMIRIM program, most recently an excursion to the Old City on the topic of Easter (May 2017) and a two-day visit to Majdal Shams on the Golan Heights to explore Druze culture and meet the 12th graders of the local high school (May 2017). This will be followed by a return visit of the high school students to the Hebrew University on June 15th (supported by the Vice Rector of the Hebrew University).
Pictures from the trip with the AMIRIM program to Majdal Shams
