The historian from Dusseldorf,
Alexander Friedman, has been monitoring official propaganda in Belarus for several months. He concluded that pro-government Telegram channels and employees of state-owned media are cultivating neo-Soviet anti-Semitism.
Friedman spoke about the result of his research on Jewish views on protests in Belarus, which was published in the Russian magazine Ab Imperio, during a round table of historians on the air of Radio Svaboda.
Who is Alexander Friedman:
• graduate of the Faculty of History, BSU, Doctor (PhD)
• employee of the project Memory of the Jewish heritage in Belarus, Ukraine, and Poland after 1945 (Center for Anthropological Research of Museums and Heritage at the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University (Berlin)
Leibniz Prizes 2021: DFG awards four female and six male researchers
The latest recipients of the most prestigious research funding prize in Germany have been announced: the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) today awarded the 2021 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize to four female and six male researchers. They had previously been selected from 131 nominees by the selection committee responsible. Of the ten prizewinners, there are two each from the humanities and social sciences, the natural sciences and the engineering sciences, and four from the life sciences. Each will receive prize money of €2.5 million. They are entitled to use these funds for their research work in any way they wish, without bureaucratic obstacles, for up to seven years.. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Joint Committee met by video conference. The Leibniz Prizes 2021 will be awarded virtually on 15 March.
SPIE Advanced Photonics event to showcase latest advances in photonics research
Date Announced: 14 Dec 2020
Free online event, hosted by SPIE and Chinese Laser Press, will present a comprehensive range of photonics-related technology and applications.
Advanced Photonics. The six 90-minute interactive events will be moderated by the journal s associate editors and will cover new research and innovations in nanophotonics, imaging, quantum research, and metalenses. Registration for the events is free and open to the public.
The sessions will be streamed in time zones convenient to anyone in the world, and recordings of the individual sessions each of which will include interactive Q&A time will be available at a later date via the