Program
The Dubnow Institute disseminates the focal points and findings of its research in various analogue and digital event formats, actively seeking a dialogue with the general public alongside an academic exchange. The conferences, workshops, colloquia, the annual Simon Dubnow Lecture, general lecture series, book presentations, and film screenings are mostly organized in cooperation with regional, national, and international partners. The institute also participates in cultural events with a broad public appeal such as the reading festival of the Leipzig Book Fair, the Long Night of Scholarship, and the Jewish Week. At these events, the institute not only opens the doors to its building in the central Graphic Quarter, but invites the public to regular events at various cultural locations in the city, making scholarship accessible to all interested parties.
Coordinator of Science Communication
Dr. Julia Roos
Current events
Workshop
Academic symposium
to mark Jörg Deventer’s 65th birthday
Friday, 15 May 2026
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
Colloquium
Passing Through Hands: Objects in Jewish Everyday Lives
Research colloquium in cooperation with the IRTG »Belongings«
On five Thursdays, 5.15 to 6.45 p.m. at the Dubnow Institute: May 7, May 21, June 4, June 11, and July 2
Dubnow Institute/digital
Colloquium
Capturing Life.
German-Jewish Private Photography in the 1930s
Thursday, 21 May 2026, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig / Stream
Lecture
Books, their Creators and their Owners: Towards A Social History of the Jews of Medieval Europe
Lunch Talk with Elisheva Baumgarten
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 11 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
Colloquium
The Everyday in a Vitrine. Curating the unfolding Present in German Jewish Museums
Sara Soussan in conversation with Alina Gromova
Thursday, 4 June 2026, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig / Stream
Lecture
Wie verkauft man rechtliches Wissen mit Gewinn? Der Verleger Otto Liebmann und die deutsche Rechtswissenschaft um 1900
Lunch Talk with Clemens Boehncke
Monday, 8 June 2026, 11 a.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
Colloquium
Blood Butterfly Formation.
Epigenetic Objects, the Migration of Things from their Original Places and their Metamorphosis in the Work of Talia Tokatly
Thursday, 11 June 2026, 5.15 p.m.
digital
Lecture
Un/Visible. Four Kippahs and the Making of Jewish Life in Europe
English lecture with Itamar Ben Ami (Utrecht)
Tuesday, 23 June 2026, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig
Further
Refuge on the Mediterranean
A Staged Reading With Students from Leipzig University on the Forced Migration of German-Jewish Scholars from Nazi Germany
Thursday, 26 June 2026, 8 p.m.
Cammerspiele Leipzig e. V. in der Kulturfabrik Leipzig
Further
Who writes Jewish history?
Guided tour of the portrait gallery with Dr. Nicolas Berg
Thursday, 25 June 2026, 5 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

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