The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions
In Collaboration With
The University of Hamburg
Workshop on: Multiple, Complex & Cascading Extreme Conditions
November 21-22, 2025, Hamburg, Germany
This workshop is the second workshop of the Scholars Research Group – Extreme Conditions: Multiple, Complex & Cascading.
The first workshop took place in Sde Boker, Israel, together with the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies (MALI), The Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism. See here for more details
Day 1 – Friday, November 21, 2025
Program
- 09:00 – 09:20: Arrivals and Opening words
- 09:20 – 09:45: Round of Introductions
- 09:45 – 10:45: Amnon Reichman – Opening – Cascading and Multiple Extreme Conditions – Current Framework
- 10:45 – 11:00: Coffee break ☕
- 11:00 – 12:30: Fady Khoury – Cascading and Compound Political Crises:Polarization, Institutions and Democratic Resilience [Respondet: Nadiv Mordechai]; Nadav Dagan – Startling Matryoshka in Rising Water: Polycrisis of Autocratisation and Emergency [Respondent: Eli Salzberger]
- 12:30 – 13:30: Lunch
- 13:30 – 14:40: Magda Pacholska – Weaponizing Wartime Population Movements in Lawfare [Respondent: Yahli Shereshevsky];
- 14:40 – 15:00: Coffee break ☕
- 15:00 – 16:15 – Anne van Aaken – Weimar Republic and Nowday Israel – Open discussion
- 17:00 – 19:30: A Walking Tour in Hamburg
- 19:30: Dinner
Day 2 – Saturday, November 22, 2025
- 09:00 – 10:30: Benny Newman – Emergency Justice: The Erosion of Judicial Review in Detention Hearings during Times of War and Crisis [Respondent: Nadiv Mordechai]; Uri Ansenberg – Disputing the Price of Loss: Valuation, Compensation, and Cascading Crises in Israel After October 7 [Respondent: Deborah Shmueli]
- 10:30 – 10:45: Coffee break ☕
- 10:45 – 12:00: Stephanie Assaf – Brasil and COVID – 19: cascading, complex and extreme conditions [Respondent: Amnon Reichman]
- 12:00 – 13:30: Lunch
- 13:30 – 14:15: David Alexander – Guest Lecture: Cascading and Complex Disasters
- 14:15 – 14:30: Coffee break ☕
- 14:30 – 16:30: Maya Mark – Concluding discussion + moving forward
Workshop organizers:
Ido Rosenzweig and Michal Ben-Gal, Minerva RLEC, University of Haifa
Anne van Aaken and Sonia Mestre, University of Hamburg
