Education

• 2018-2020 : B.A. History Department, Art History Department, and the Institute for History Honors Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Summa cum laude).

• 2021-2023 : M.A. History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• 2023- : Ph.D. History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• 2023-2024 : Études doctorales libres, EHESS, Paris.

Awards and Fellowships

• 2018
  - Dean's List (B.A. Humanities), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• 2019
  - The Dean's Prize for Excellent Students (B.A. Humanities),
  - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  - The Jacob Talmon Prize for Excellence (B.A. History), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  - The Rector’s Prize for Excellent Students (B.A. Humanities), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• 2020 
  - Dean's List (B.A. Humanities), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  - The Michael Heyd Award for Exceptional Seminar Papers, on the subject of “Point de vue: Diderot’s Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who Can See” (B.A. History), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• 2021
  - Dean's List (M.A. Humanities), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  - The History Department Scholarship for Excellence (M.A. History).
  - The Rector’s Prize for Excellent Students (M.A. Humanities), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• 2021-2022
  - Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities M.A. Honors Program (M.A. Humanities), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• 2022
  - The Gender Fairness Scholarship for Research Trips (M.A. Humanities), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• 2023
  - The President’s Stipend for Doctoral Students (Ph.D. Humanities), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Conferences

2021

• Shir Ventura and Lital Henig, “Migrating Images of the Holocaust in the Digital Age: New Methods for Digital Curation.” Digital Holocaust Memory from the Margins: Practices, Places, and Narratives. The Esther and Sidney Rabb Center for Holocaust and Revival Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. June 1-3, 2021.

2022

• Shir Ventura, “House of Tolerance: Prostitution and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Paris.” The 45th Annual Conference of the Historical Society of Israel: Body, Gender, and Sexuality in History. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. April 26, 2022.

• Shir Ventura, Lital Henig, and Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, “The Visual Walkthrough Method: A Tool for the Analysis of Playful Images in Interactive Digital Media Ecologies.” The Hybrid 72nd Annual ICA Conference, Palais des congrès, Paris. May 26-30, 2022.

2023

• Shir Ventura, “Point de vue: Diderot’s Letter on the Blind.” The 22nd Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science. Tel Aviv University. July 2, 2023.

Research Experience

2021-2023 : Research assistant, the EU Horizon 2020 project. Title: “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age.” Head: Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann.
Research assistant, ISF project. Title: “Geometry and the Making of Utopian Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.” Head: Prof. Raz Chen Morris.

2022- : Research assistant. Prof. Dror Wahrman.
Research assistant. Prof. Guy G. Stroumsa.
Research assistant. Prof. Sarah Stroumsa.

Teaching Positions

2021-2023

• Teacher, “Trends in Historiography: Basics to Cutting Edge.” The Institute for History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Teaching assistant, “The Laws of History.” Prof. Yuval Noah Harari, The Institute for History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Teaching assistant, “Cultural Encounters between Judaism and Islam.” Prof. Miriam Frenkel, The Institute for History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2022-2023

• Teacher, “Methodological Training.” The History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• Teaching assistant, “Europe in the Early Modern Era.” Prof. Raz Chen-Morris, The History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

•  Teaching assistant, “Introduction to the 20th Century History.” Prof. Moshe Sluhovsky, The History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

•  Supervisor of high school theses in the humanities. The Israel Arts and Science Academy, Jerusalem.

2023

• Teaching assistant, “Eighteenth-Century Paris: From Absolutism to Revolution.” Prof. Moshe Sluhovsky, The History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Conference Organization

• 2022 First Fruits and Criticisms: The Mandel School Annual Conference for Outstanding Master Students. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. June 22-23, 2022.

• VHH Conference in Jerusalem: Migrating Images and Image Migration – How Popular Culture Shapes the Visual History of the Holocaust. The Jerusalem Cinematheque and Mishkenot Shaananim, Jerusalem. September 12-14, 2022.

• 2024 The Politics of Imagination and the Making of Knowledge in Early-Modern Europe. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. November 2024 (forthcoming).

Volunteer Experience

• 2017 : Assistant. The Israeli Art and Photography Departments, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
  Writer of the index for the exhibition catalogue Behold the Man: Jesus in Israeli Art. The Israeli Art Department, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

• 2021-2022 : Senior editor, Hayo Haya Journal. The Institute for History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• 2022-2023 : Co-founder and editor, Narkiss Journal. The Art History Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Languages

• Hebrew – native proficiency.

• English – full professional proficiency.

• French – professional reading and conversational proficiency.

• German – intermediate proficiency.

• Latin – basic proficiency.

 

Accueil et durée du séjour

• Supervisée par Silvia Sebastiani (GEHM)

• 1er octobre 2023 au 30 septembre 2024 (1 an)