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
Staatsräson – On the History of a Misunderstanding
Annual conference
4 to 5 December 2024
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
Conference
Thinking Beyond the »Soviet Jewry« Narrative
Localism, Diversity, and Subjective Experiences of Jews in the Soviet Republics under Late Socialism
9 to 10 October 2024
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association, Marburg
Conference
The Knowledge of the Witness, the Engagement of the Historian and the Writing of History. The Holocaust historian and documentarist Joseph Wulf (1912–1974)
An international conference on the occasion of the 50th commemoration of his death
8 to 10 October 2024
House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Educational Site
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
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
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
The conclusion conference of the FMER-Project »Communicating Europe. Jewish Knowledge Cultures beyond the Nation-State«
8th to 10th October 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
»From Pre-Modern Corporation to Post-Modern Pluralism. Diasporic Cultures and Institutions of the Jews between Empires and Nation States«
International Conference
22nd to 24th May 2004
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