Lecture Series

Aside from the events geared toward the academic professional context, the Dubnow Institute also offers a lecture series addressed to the broader public as well as the scholarly community in Leipzig. This regular series features renowned scholars as well as public figures, whose talks offer new impulses for the thematic focal points of the institute.

A further series of so-called lunch talks offers Fellows and Guests at the institute the opportunity to present their ongoing projects and to discuss their current findings.

Lecture

Kritischer Konstruktivismus. Richard Koebners Wortbedeutungsforschung

Lunchtalk Peter Tietze

Thursday, 8 February 2024, 11 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

Lecture

Jewish activism in Soviet Belarus between the fight against discrimination and the decision to leave the country, 1950s–1960s

Lunchtalk with Uladzimir Valodzin

Monday, 27 November 2023, 2 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

Lecture

Die rumänisch-jüdische Frage. Eine transatlantische Geschichte (1872–1938)

Lunchtalk with Dr. Andreas Pfützner

Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 11.15 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

Lecture

Macht und Machtlosigkeit: Wilhelm Filderman und die Juden Rumäniens, 1938–1944

Lunchtalk with Dr. Gaëlle Fisher

Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 11.15 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

Lecture

Jacob & Esau, Catastrophe, and Jewish European History

Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Dr. Malachi H. Hacohen

8 May 2023, 6 p.m.
Bibliotheca Albertina, Lecture Hall

Lecture

“It's nothing. It's in the Ghetto.” Reflections on the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Jan Tomasz Gross

17 April 2023, 6 p.m.
Paulinum, Leipzig University and digital

Lecture

Lyricism and Violence: On Isaiah Spiegel's »Flamen fun der erd«; a Novel from the Łódź Ghetto

Lunchtalk with Prof. Dr. Julian Levinson

29 March 2023, 11.15 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

Lecture

Europe’s Jewish Armed Forces: Through the Long Nineteenth Century to the Wars of Galician Succession

Lunchtalk with Dr. Jan Rybak

1 March 2023, 11.15 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

Lecture

»The largest country in Europe. Yet it was mostly missing from our mental maps.« (Olesya Khromeychuk)

Leipzig Lecture Series on Literature, Culture and History of the Ukraine

Winter semester 2022/2023, wednesday, 5 p.m.
GWZO, Specks Hof, Eingang A, and online

Lecture

Strategies of Survival of Jews in Kyiv Region in 1930s

Lunchtalk with Dr. Tetiana Perga

27 September, 11 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

Lecture

»Wir halten es für fahrlässig, über uns zu schweigen.« (Serhij Žadan)

Leipzig Lecture Series on Literature, Culture and History of the Ukraine

7 July, 5.15 p.m.: Panel discussion with refugee scholars from the Ukraine
Polnisches Institut

Lecture

Jewish Scholars at the Leipzig University

Presentation of the web portal by Dr. Ulrich Schuster, Josefine Klaus, and Sophie Rabenow

5 July 2022, 7 p.m.
Ariowitsch-Haus

Lecture

Bücher in »fremden Händen«

Die Privatbibliothek Franz Rosenzweigs in Tunis und Versuche des Transfers nach Jerusalem

Lunchtalk with Julia Schneidawind

7 June 2022, 10 a.m.
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Dem Holocaust entkommen: polnisch-jüdisches Überleben in der Sowjetunion (1939–1946)

Lunch talk with Markus Nesselrodt

9 November 2021, 11.30 a.m.
Seminar Building of the Leipzig University, Universitätsstraße 1, room S 420

Lecture

The US National Security Establishment on Zionism and then Israel in 1947–1948:

From Outright Opposition to Unenthusiastic Acceptance

with Jeffrey Herf (University of Maryland)

15 January 2020, 11:58 am
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Flaubert – Abramovitsh – Martin Walser:

Wie positioniert man jiddische Literatur?

with Susanne Klingenstein (Boston)

22nd November 2019
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Zur Philologie des Bösen:

Sprachkritik als Widerstand

with Jeremy Adler

21 October 2019, 5 p.m.
Literaturhaus Leipzig

Lecture

A Visit to the Capital of Nowhere:

The End of the Polish State and the Beginning of the Jewish Shtetl

with Ofer Dynes (Jerusalem)

17th October 2019
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Facing Anti-Semitism with a Club in Hand. Jewish Self-Defense in Argentina of the 1960s and the 1970s

with Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv)

26th September 2019
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Schreiben von unterwegs:

Postkarten von Walter Benjamin

with Liliane Weissberg (Pennsylvania)

23rd July 2019
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Zionism: An Emotional State

with Derek Penslar (Harvard)

17th May 2019
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Jewish Immigration to Mexico during Nazism and the Strange Case of Consul Gilberto Bosques

with Daniela Gleizer (Mexiko-Stadt)

24th April 2019
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Europe, Europeanness, and Yiddish Literature: The Case of Dovid Hofshteyn

with Sabine Koller (Regensburg)

28th March 2019
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

»Denn es ist nicht alles gleich, was Menschenantlitz trägt«

Die NS-Doktrin der Ungleichheit der Menschen im Lichte eines Reichsgerichtprozesses vom Jahre 1936

with Gerald Stourzh (University of Vienna)

7 March 2019, 6 p.m.
Bundesverwaltungsgericht

Lecture

Martyr Memorial Services and the Formation of New Jewish Identities in Early Post-War Hungary

with Kata Bohus (Frankfurt)

17th January 2019
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Public reading Weiße Sprache – Moderne jiddische Lyrik

Efrat Gal-Ed (Düsseldorf), Sabine Koller (Regensburg) und Hans Henrik Wöhler (Leipzig)

24th October 2018, 7.15 p.m.
Ariowitsch-Haus e. V., Hinrichsenstraße 14, Leipzig

Lecture

»Neue Menschen« im Angesicht einer neuen Ordnung.

Bat'as Industrieutopie in Zlín unter deutscher Besatzung (1939–1945)

with Gregor Feindt (Mainz)

17th September 2018
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Cecylja Klaftenowa's Trade School for Girls in Lwow:

Pedagogy and Ideology

with Sarah Ellen Zarrow (Bellingham)

7th August 2018
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

The Zionist Critique of Spinoza's Politics

with Julie E. Cooper (Tel Aviv)

24th July 2018
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Swinging the Pendulum Again:

Historicising our View of the Jews and the Russian Revolution

with Eli Lederhendler (Jerusalem)

11th July 2018
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Zeitschichten. Bernardo Kucinski (São Paulo) über jüdische Geschichtserfahrung in Brasilien

Moderation: Lukas Böckmann

Bernardo Kucinski (Author) und Sarita Brandt (Translator)

15th May 2018
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

The Jewish Community in the Free City of Danzig, 1919–1939

with Adrian Mitter (Marburg/Toronto)

27th February 2018
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Sephardi »Aufklärung«: Jewish Enlightenment in the Ottoman East

with Tamir Karkason (Jerusalem)

20th February 2018
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Bilder der Schoah in der Kunst der DDR

with Florian Korn (Leipzig)

23rd October 2017
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Double Burden: Israelis in Contemporary Germany

with Uzi Rebhun (Jerusalem)

1st September 2017
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Found Photographs and the Commemoration of Europe's Jewry

with Ewa Stanczyk (Amsterdam)

24th August 2017
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

On Bifocality and German-Speaking Historians in Israel

with Yonatan Shiloh-Dayan (Jerusalem/Berlin)

10th August 2017
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

YIVO Paris: Modern Eastern European Jewish Scholarship in the Capital of European Culture and Thought

with Nick Underwood (Boulder, Col.)

19th June 2017
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

»Ich kenne nur Deutsche«:

Jewish Questions, 1916–1919

with Lucia Linares (Cambridge)

30th May 2017
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

»The Only University in Jerusalem«:

The Hebrew University and the Never Realized Projekt(s) of a Local University in Palestine (1920–1935)

with Adi Livny (Jerusalem)

23rd May 2017
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

»Nobody’s Autobiography«:

Memoirs by Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants

with Yael Ben-Zvi Morad (Beer Sheva)

27th April 2017
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

Beziehungskonstellationen:

Juden und Nichtjuden in Polen (1918–1956)

with Agnieszka Wierzcholska (Berlin)

23rd February 2017
Dubnow Institute

Lecture

The Tsaddik as Performer:

Rituals and Ceremonies in Eastern European Hasidism

with Gadi Sagiv (Ra'anana)

31st January 2017
Dubnow Institute