Conferences

The annual conference is the centerpiece of the institute’s scholarly events program. It is dedicated each year to a thematic focal point drawn from the institute’s research activities. It is always interdisciplinary in makeup, featuring both internationally renowned representatives of various fields as well as early career scholars. The conference also includes a public event outside of the institute, in which the annual focal point is presented to the broader public. A selection of presentations from the annual conferences are presented in the Dubnow Institute Yearbook.

 

Conference

East Central Europe at the Crossroads:

Jewish Transnational Networks and Identities

18 to 20 June 2023
POLIN Museum, Warsaw

Conference

European Jews Facing the Imminence of the Holocaust

23 to 25 April 2023
POLIN Museum, Warsaw

Conference

Looking at the Ghetto… The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Eighty Years in Retrospect

International Conference

17 April, 1 p.m. to 19 April 2023, 9.30 p.m.
Paulinum, Leipzig University/Salles de Pologne, Leipzig // The conference will take place in English and German, with simultaneous translation being offered

Conference

The Hochschule. Material History and Intellectual Legacy

Keynote lecture: Nils Roemer, University of Texas

29 to 30 November 2022
Centrum Judaicum Berlin and digital

Conference

»What Is on Trial Here Is the Yiddish Language«: The Making and Unmaking of Soviet Yiddish Literature

Annual Conference

with a keynote lecture by Harriet Murav (University of Illinois)

27th to 29th June 2022
Literaturhaus Leipzig e. V. / Haus des Buches

Conference

What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies

International conference

3rd to 7th October 2021
Online conference

Conference

American Jewish Political Thought – At Home and Abroad

Digital Annual Conference

15th to 16th June 2021
Digital Annual Conference

Conference

Messages in a Bottle. The Migration of Texts

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute

3rd to 4th December 2020
Digital event

Conference

Vielfalt vernetzen – Wissen teilen. Final conference of the joint project »Virtuelle Archive für die geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung«

Final Conference of the Joint Project

20th to 21st June 2019
Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB)

Conference

»Das Hebräerland«. Else Lasker-Schüler und die deutsch-jüdische Palästina-Dichtung ihrer Zeit

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute

6th to 8th February 2019
Dubnow Institute

Conference

Shared Space – Contact Zones: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in Eastern Europe

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute

23rd to 25th October 2013
Dubnow Institute

Conference

17th International Symposium of the Ettersberg Foundation

Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland und Europa nach der Shoah

19th to 20th October 2018
Reithaus Weimar

Conference

Conference 1948. The Jewish Quest for Rights and Justice in the Postwar Moment

17th to 18th April 2018
Brandeis University Faculty Club

Conference

Building from Ashes: Jews in Postwar Europe (1945–1950)

3rd to 5th December 2017
Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main

Conference

Placing the Irreplaceable – Restitution of Jewish Cultural Property: Negotiations, Historical Dimensions, Documentation

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute

16th to 17th November 2017
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»Empire – Community – Self Eastern European Jewry between Imperial Powers «

Annual International Conference of the Dubnow Institute

4th to 5th July 2016
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»The Dialectic of Enlightenment in America«

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute

15th to 16th June 2015
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»›Jewish Questions‹ in International Politics – Diplomacy, Rights and Intervention«

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute

12th to 13th June 2014
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»Biography and Meaning – Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888–1973) or the Conversions of Knowledge«

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute

7th to 8th October 2013
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»Textual Understanding and Historical Experience. A Conference on Peter Szondi«

International Conference

10th to 11th March 2013
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Conference

»Language, Knowledge and Meaning. German in Jewish Cultures of Knowledge«

International Conference

18th to 19th October 2012
Leipzig, 18. Oktober, Simon-Dubnow-Institut Berlin, 19. Oktober, Freie Universität Berlin

Conference

»Jewish History and Culture in Early Modern Europe – The Eigtheenth Century Reconsidered«

International Conference

24th to 26th December 2012
June 24: Künstlerverein Malkasten; June 25–26: Schloss Jägerhof / Goethe -Museum Düsseldorf

Conference

»Gustav Mahlers Wirkungsgeschichte. Jüdische Topographien in der Musikkultur des Fin de Siècle«

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute

23rd to 24th May 2011
Simon-Dubnow-Institut and Gewandhaus zu Leipzig

Conference

»Historicizing the Jewish People – A Conference in Honour of Simon Dubnow at 150«

International Conference

4th to 5th November 2010
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»Translating Culture. A Conference in Honour of Sholem Aleichem's 150th Birthday«

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute

15th to 16th Ocotber 2009
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»Between Coexistence and Divorce: 25 Years of Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jewry and Polish-Jewish Relations«

Internationale Konferenz

17th to 19th March 2009
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Conference

»Perplexities – The Holocaust and the Political Memory of the Left«

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute

29th to 30th October 2008
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»Collecting, Ordering, Knowing. Jewish and Other Worlds of Knowledge Preservation«

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute

9th to 10th July 2007
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»Reconsidering the Borderlines between Early Modern and Modern Jewish History«

Annual Conference of the Dubnow Institute

2nd to 3rd July 2006
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»Jews in the Modern World: Beyond the Nations«

International Conference

2nd to 3rd May 2006
2nd May: Centrum Judaicum, Berlin 3rd May: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Conference

»How General is Jewish History?«

International Conference

24th to 26th September 2005
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»»Secondary Conversions« – Transforming Religious and Ethnic Emblematics of Judaism and Jewishness«

International Conference

22nd to 24th February 2003
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»Restitution and Memory. On Historical Remembrance and Material Restitution in Europe«

International Conference

21st to 23rd June 2001
Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften an der Kunstuniversität Linz in Wien

Conference

»Jewish Questions – Communist Answers? On Secularization, Ethnicity and Secondary Conversions.«

International Conference

10th to 13th May 2001
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»Between Trieste, Salonika and Odessa: Historicizing Balkan and Related Jewries 1492-1918«

International Conference

4th to 6th November 2000
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»Polish Jewry, 1918-1939. Lifeworlds, Self Perception, and Political Action«

International Conference

11th to 13th December 1999
Dubnow Institute

Conference

»Jews and poverty in Middle- and Eastern Europe«

International Conference

September 1997
Dubnow Institute