The Research Unit sponsors initiatives for interdisciplinary curriculum development. Initiatives in 2006-07 include

• The Modern Hebrew Literature Program (contact: Amir Eshel)
• The Digital Encyclopedie Project (contact: Dan Edelstein)
• Thinking Terrorism course (contact: Amir Eshel)
• The Philosophy and Literature Program

In summer 2005 the RU co-sponsored a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, led by Russell Berman (Stanford) and Julia Hell (University of Michigan). The topic of the seminar was "Terror and Culture: Revisiting Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism." Learn more about the seminar.