Leipzig Colloquium

The research colloquium is held usually on every second Thursday during the semester as part of the course offerings at Leipzig University. Each semester it features a special topic reflecting a key research focus of the Institute. The public lectures are usually delivered by scholars from outside of Leipzig.

Summer Semester 2013

»Die letzten Tage der Menschheit«. Schriften aus dem Großen Krieg

Instructors: Prof. Dr. Dan Diner/Carolin Kosuch

Time: Thursday, 5.15–6.45 pm  (every other week)

Place: Simon-Dubnow-Institut, Goldschmidtstr. 28

 

Course description:

Events transpiring in the summer of 1914 in Sarajevo marked the onset of the demise of an epoch. The security of an era was unraveling. That epoch had also seen the emergence of a number of Jewish artists and intellectuals who in the preceding period, in their role as critics, philosophers, journalists, poets and scholars, had often expressed a deep sense of weariness with the tedium of their times. In their wartime writings, they bore witness to the global conflagration then erupting. The research colloquium in the Summer Semester 2013 will explore how this diagnosis of their times impacted on their topics and views, and how they themselves were transformed during the years 1914–1918. Their essays, articles, stage dramas, poems and psychological interpretations, drawn from the war and their experiences of it, open up a broad spectrum of views and positions, oscillating between ebullient patriotism and a many-layered pacifism. The colloquium will provide a platform for discussing this multiplicity of views and attitudes as well as the individuals themselves.

 

Contact: info[at]dubnow.de, Phone: 0341–2173550

 

Lectures:

 

Thursday, 18 April 2013

Rainer Herrn (Berlin)

»Anders als die Andern.«

Magnus Hirschfeld gegen Antisemitismus und Homophobie

 

Thursday, 16 May 2013

Sigurd Paul Scheichl (Innsbruck)

Weltgericht

Karl Kraus' Bilanz über den Krieg

 

Thursday, 13 June 2013

Martina Steer (Wien)

»Hier ist düsteres Land.«

Über Gott und Krieg bei Margarete Susman

 

Thursday, 27 June 2013

Andreas Stuhlmann (Hamburg)

Censor Germaniae?

Maximilian Hardens Essayistik 1914–1918

 

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Elke-Vera Kotowski (Potsdam)

»Die Sinngebung des Sinnlosen.«

Theodor Lessing zu Geschichtsschreibung und Krieg

Summer Semester 2013