Colloquia
The research colloquia constitute a part of the Dubnow Institute’s teaching program at Leipzig University. In six to eight lectures per semester, invited speakers illuminate a given topic, which is selected for its topical relevance and reflects a focal point of the institute’s research program. The colloquia typically take place in the seminar room at the institute and are directed at students as well as the broader scholarly public. Interested parties are welcome to sit in on the lectures any time, no registration required.
Winter Semester 2024/2025
Colloquium
Zuversicht und Enttäuschung
Moritz Lazarus‘ Antwort auf den akademischen Antisemitismus im späten 19. Jahrhundert
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
Colloquium
Der Mediävist Samuel Steinherz (1857 Güssing – 1942 Theresienstadt) und die »Affäre« um sein Rektorat an der Karls-Universität in Prag 1922
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig/Stream
Colloquium
Die Ursprünge der modernen Judenfeindschaft im Kontext der deutschen Nationalbewegung 1813 bis 1819
Thursday, 16 January 2025, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig/Stream
Colloquium
Max Weinreich reconsidered
Hitlers Professoren – vor und nach 1945
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig/Stream
Colloquium
Eduard Goldstücker und der akademische Antisemitismus im Osten Europas in den späten 1960er Jahren
Thursday, 6 February 2025, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig/Stream
Summer Semester 2024
Colloquium
Hebrew Literature in the 20th Century
Israeli-German Constellations and Resonances
Summer Semester 2024, on five dates from 5.15 p.m. to 6.45 p.m. each
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig/Literaturhaus Leipzig
Colloquium
Beyond the Canon and Within It:
How To Say »Schwarze Milch« in Hebrew?
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow-Institut
Colloquium
»Nähe und Ferne« (1993)
A documentary film about the German-Israeli writers' meeting in Berlin
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
»Der fremden Schnitterin zu.«
Jehuda Amichai übersetzt Else Lasker-Schüler ins Hebräische
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 5.15 p.m.
Literaturhaus Leipzig
Colloquium
Sprachmischung in »Eine runde Sache«
Reading and Conversation with Tomer Gardi and Anne Birkenhauer
Thursday, 27 June 2024, 5.15 p.m.
Literaturhaus Leipzig
Winter semester 2023/2024
Colloquium
Living in the Land of Death
Jews in Poland immediately after the Holocaust
Winter semester 2023/2024, on six dates from 5.15 p.m. to 6.45 p.m. each
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig and digital
Colloquium
Between a Teleology of Demise and Communist Optimism.
Jewish Life in Lower Silesia, 1945–1950
Thursday, 19 October 2023, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig/Stream
Colloquium
Ein jüdisches Gedächtnis.
Die Rolle des Jüdischen Historischen Instituts beim Wiederaufbau jüdischen Lebens in Polen
Thursday, 16 November 2023, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig/Stream
Colloquium
The Visual Heritage of Polish Jews.
The Complex History of the Collection of Postwar Photographs in the Jewish Historical Institute
Monday, 11 December 2023, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow-Institut, Leipzig/Stream
Colloquium
»There Is No Jewish Question, There Are Only Jewish Problems«.
Jewish Communists in Postwar Poland
Thursday, 4 January 2024, 6.15 p.m.
digital
Colloquium
What Did We not Know about the Kielce Pogrom until Now?
Notes on the Research for the New Monograph "Cursed. A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom"
Thursday, 25 January 2024, 5.15 p.m.
digital
Colloquium
The Flight of Poland’s Jewish Survivors, 1945–1947
Thursday 1 February 2024, 5.15 p.m.
digital
Summer Semester 2023
Colloquium
Jewish Museums:
Foundation Histories and Current Positionings
Sommer semster 2023, thursdays, 5.15-6.45 p.m.
In-person or digital
Colloquium
Jüdische Museen in Europa – ein Überblick
Thursday, 11 May 2023, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, seminar room
Colloquium
Jewish History in Museums.
A report from Amsterdam and Berlin
Thursday, 1 June 2023, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, seminar room
Colloquium
Jüdische Ritualgegenstände in Museen.
Ein Vergleich zwischen Europa und den USA
Thursday, 1 June 2023, 5.15 p.m.
digital
Colloquium
Why Jewish Museums Matter.
The Creation of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Thursday, 22 June 2023, 5.15 p.m.
digital
Colloquium
Ein Jüdisches Museum für Sachsen?
Aufgaben – Inhalte – Objekte
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 5.15 p.m.
Grassi-Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig
Winter Semester 2022/2023
Colloquium
Research Colloquium: Educational Paths.
New Approaches to the History of Jewish Higher Education
Winter semester 2022/2023, thursdays, 5.15-6.45 p.m., every other week
Dubnow Institute or digital
Colloquium
Wissenschaftler:innen jüdischer Herkunft an der Universität Wien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.
Jüdische Studien ohne Juden?
24 November 2022, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, seminar room
Colloquium
»The Sciences Have Not Let Me Penetrate Them Normally:«
Seductive Science in the Jewish 18th Century
15 December 2022, 5.15 p.m.
digital
Colloquium
Akademische Zwangsmigration während des Nationalsozialismus und die Schweizer Universitäten.
Einblicke in ein (digitales) Forschungsprojekt
12 January 2023, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, seminar room
Colloquium
Ewigkeit vs. Kontingenz.
Zum philosophischen Erbe der Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums
26 January 2023, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, seminar room
Colloquium
Imperial Education.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the British Mandate Area
2 Feburary 2023, 5.15 p.m.
digital
Summer Semester 2022
Colloquium
Digital Lecture Series: Jewish-Muslim Encounters within the European Context
Politics, Religion and Scholarship in the Late Modern Period
13th April to 15th June 2022, wednesdays, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST)
Digital event
Colloquium
»My Oriental, my Mohammedan year.«
Ignác Goldziher in Constantinople, Beirut, Damascus, Jerusalem, and Cairo (1873–74)
13th April 2022, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST)
Digital event
Colloquium
Towards a Minor History:
Jewish-Muslim Encounters and Dialogue in Interwar Germany and India
18th May 2022, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST)
Digital event
Colloquium
Jewish Responses to the Massacre in Damascus 1860
25th May 2022, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST)
Digital event
Colloquium
The Colony and the Village:
Jewish Memories of Hierarchical Coexistence in Ottoman and Mandate Palestine
15th June 2022, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST)
Digital event
Winter Semester 2021/2022
Colloquium
Lecture Series: »The Search for Traces«
Current Discussions on the Provenance and Dispersion of Jewish Book Collections in Germany
18 October to 13 December 2021, mondays (every other week), 6 p.m.
Bibliotheca Albertina, Lecture Hall or digital
Colloquium
Nachlassgeschichten.
Provenienzforschung zwischen Überlieferung, Eigentumsfragen und Philologie
18 October, 6 p.m.
Bibliotheca Albertina, Lecture Hall
Colloquium
Rekonstruktionen.
Die Jüdische Bibliothek an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
25 October, 6 p.m.
Bibliotheca Albertina, Lecture Hall
Colloquium
Wenn Bücher reden könnten...
Einblicke in die Provenienzforschung der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
15 November, 6 p.m.
Bibliotheca Albertina, Lecture Hall
Colloquium
Cancellation of the lecture
Judaica Frankfurt: Zur Geschichte einer Sammlung jüdischer Sammlungen
scheduled for 29 November, 6 p.m.
at the Bibliotheca Albertina, Lecture Hall
Colloquium
Zwischen Realitäten und Illusionen.
Zur Provenienzforschung jüdischer Bücher
6 December, 6 p.m.
Digital event
Colloquium
»Wir Zurückgebliebenen gleichen Konservatoren eines geplünderten Museums«.
Von der Rekonstruktion jüdischer Sammlungen der Weimarer Republik
13 December, 6 p.m.
Digital event
Summer Semester 2021
Colloquium
Digital Lecture Series: American Jewish Political Thought
Transnational Varieties
15th April to 3rd June 2021, thursdays (every second week), 5.15–6.15 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Colloquium
Political Theology in America
On the Impact and Legacy of Jewish Refugees and Immigrants
3rd June 2021, 5.15–6.15 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Colloquium
»Always Right«:
Midge Decter, Norman Podhoretz, and the Making of an American Jewish Conservative Politics
20th May 2021, 5.15–6.15 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Colloquium
Revolution, Decolonization, Democracy, and Cooperation
Zionism and the Middle East from an American Jewish Perspective
6th May 2021, 17.15–18.15 Uhr (CEST); 11.15–12.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Colloquium
Beyond American-Jewish Exceptionalism
The State in American Jewish Politics
29th April 2021, 6.15–7.15 p.m. (CEST); 12.15 p.m. to 1.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Colloquium
The Political Exceptionalism of American Jewry
A Contextual Approach
15th April 2021, 5.15–6.15 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Winter Semester 2020/2021
Colloquium
Digital Lecture Series: »Let My People Go!«
Jewish Emigration from Eastern Europe since the 1960s
12th November 2020 to 2nd February 2021, thursdays (every other week), 5.15–6.15 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Colloquium
Rethinking Soviet Spaces
A New Paradigm in Comparative Literature
4th Feburary 2021, 5.15–6.15 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Colloquium
A Scholar as Scholarly Subject:
Contemporary Historiography on East European Jews and their Material Culture seen in a Personal Perspective of Physical and Intellectual Migration
21st January 2021, 5.15–6.15 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Colloquium
Vom Objekt zum Subjekt:
Contemporary HistorioNeueste jüdische Geschichte und Gegenwart im wiedervereinigten Deutschlandgraphy on East European Jews and their Material Culture seen in a Personal Perspective of Physical and Intellectual Migration
7th January 2021, 5.15–6.15 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Colloquium
The Long Silent Revolution:
Narrating Russian and Soviet Jewish Migration across the Long Twentieth Century
10th December 2021, 5.15–6.15 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Colloquium
Integration of Jewish Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union:
Lessons for the Recent Refugees
26th November 2020, 5.15–6.15 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Colloquium
Loyalität, Widerspruch, Auswanderung:
Pogromgerüchte, Aktivismus und jüdische Emigration aus der UdSSR während der Perestroika
12th November 2020, 5.15–6.15 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. (EST)
Digital event
Winter Semester 2019/2020
Colloquium
Lecture Series: Ruptures and New Beginnings:
Jews and the Foundation of New States in the Twentieth Century
7th November 2019 to 6th February 2020, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Der Traum vom anderen Deutschland –
Jüdische Antifaschisten und ihre Rückkehr nach 1945
6th February 2020, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Kampf an allen Fronten –
Polen und Juden im Staatsgründungsprozess, 1918–1921
30th January 2020, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Imperial Peoples in an Ethno-National Age –
Jews and the Foundation of the First Republic of Austria, 1918–1920
16th January 2020, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
What’s Wrong with International Law?
Europäisch-jüdische Emigrantenjuristen und das humanitäre Völkerrecht, 1930–1990
19th December 2019, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Nation-State Formation in Egypt –
Consequences for the Jewish Community
28th November 2019, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Neue Staaten und legal activism –
Anfänge des humanitären Völkerrechts und des internationalen Strafrechts
7th November 2019, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Summer Semester 2019
Colloquium
Lecture Series: Jewish Material Cultures in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century
4th April to 4th Juli 2019, thursdays 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Spuren einer zerstörten Welt:
Das deutsch-jüdische Kulturerbe in Slask Cieszynski nach 1945
4th July 2019, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Remnants of the German-Jewish Past:
Archival Holdings at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw after 1945
27th June 2019, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Silent Witnesses: Books in Ghetto Terezín during and after World War II
16th May 2019, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Zwischen Szeged und Jerusalem:
Das Schicksal der Immánuel-Löw-Bibliothek
2nd May 2019, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Jewish Things?
Material Culture and Jewish Studies
4th April 2019, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Winter Semester 2018/2019
Colloquium
Lecture Series: Linguistic Criticism as Historical Reflection in the Early Twentieth Century
18th Oktober 2018 to 14th February 2019, thursdays, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Sprache und Sprachverlust im Exil
14th February 2019, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Die Sprache lügt nicht – Victor Klemperer
31st January 2019, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Simmel und die Sprachkritik um 1900
10th January 2019, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Karl Kraus und die Sprache
13th December 2018, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dunow Institute
Colloquium
Franz Kafka: Jargon and the Critique of Language
22nd November 2018, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Mauthner liest Mendelssohn: Zur Genese der modernen Sprachkritik
18th Oktober 2018, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Summer Semester 2018
Colloquium
Lecture Series: Lucha y Libertad – Jews in Twentieth-Century Latin America
3rd May to 5th July 2018, thursdays 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Pertencer. Geschichte und Erfahrung im Werk von Clarice Lispector (1920–1977)
5th July 2018, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Unter dem Kreuz des Südens. Jüdische Erfahrungen in Lateinamerika
28th June 2018, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Psychoanalysis in Latin America. A Jewish Science?
7th June 2018, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Lecture and discussion
Zeitschichten. Bernardo Kucinski (São Paulo) über jüdische Geschichtserfahrung in Brasilien
15th May 2018, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Coming to Terms with the Holocaust and Hoping for Eretz Israel.
The Jewish Communities of Mexico City and Buenos Aires (1945–1946)
3rd May 2018, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Winter Semester 2017/2018
Colloquium
Lecture Series: Transnationale Verschränkungen – Jüdische Institutionen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
25th October 2017 to 31st January 2018, wednesdays 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Von Wilna nach New York: Das YIVO-Institut und der steinige Boden Amerikas
31st January 2018, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Institutions in a Time of Nation Building: The Conflict over the National and University Library in Jerusalem
24th January 2018, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Zwischen Ideologie und Ökonomie: Zionistische Organisationen und die Migration nach Palästina (1880–1938)
17th January 2018, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Jüdische Geschlechterforschung und Organisationsgeschichte: Bund und Centralverein im Vergleich
2nd December 2017, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
State Servants and Jewish Leadership: The Jewish Community of Istanbul (1826–1922)
25th October 2017, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Summer Semester 2017
Colloquium
Lecture Series: Beyond a »Prescribed Anti-Fascism« New Approaches to the History of the Jews in the GDR
12th April to 5th Juli 2017, wednesdays 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Judentum als Provokation. Stefan Heym und die DDR
5th July 2017, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Juden in der DDR – Marginalien zu einer »Fußnote der Geschichte«?
14th June 2017, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Thomas Brasch: Ödipus oder Isaak? Eine historisch-literarische Spurensuche
31st May 2017, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Der Gerichtsreporter als Zeuge. Rudolf Hirsch und die verborgene Präsenz der Schoah
3rd May 2017, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow-Institut
Colloquium
»Leben danach« – Jüdische Kindheit im Osten Deutschlands nach 1945
26th April 2017, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
»Sojourners« (documentary USA/D/CZ 1993)
Screening and discussion with the co-producer Jeffrey M. Peck (Berlin/New York) and the historian Annette Leo (Berlin)
12th April 2017, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Winter Semester 2016/2017
Colloquium
Lecture Series: The Epistemological Value of the Historical Individual.
New Perspectives in Biographical Research
9th November 2016 to 8th February 2017, wednesdays 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
»Woran die Menge glaubt, ist leicht zu glauben«: Überlegungen zur politischen Biografie des deutschen Zionisten Richard Lichtheim (1885–1963)
8th February 2017, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Biografie ohne Biografismus?
(has been cancelled)
1st February 2017, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Raul Hilberg (1926–2007) erzählen: Zur Quadratur der Trias von Leben, Werk und Wirkung
11th January 2017, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Biography Writing as a Cross-Boundary Genre: Reflections from the Life-Trajectory of Hugo Bergmann (1883–1975)
7th December 2016, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
Das biografische Paradox: Biografien als Fenster zur Welt – oder bloß ein Narrativ?
30th November 2016, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute
Colloquium
A Glimpse into the Promised Land of Law: The Life of Helen Silving-Ryu (1906–1993)
9th November 2016, 5.15–6.45 p.m. (CEST); 11.15 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. (EST)
Dubnow Institute