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.

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Coordinator of Science Communication
Dr. Julia Roos

Current events

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

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

Book Presentation

Der Almanach zum 7. Oktober – Versuch einer Einordnung

Book presentation by Prof. Gisela Dachs and Prof. Gideon Reuveni

Thursday, 10 October 2024, 7 p.m.
Ariowitsch-Haus, Leipzig

Further

The Determining Gaze. Images of Jewish Life in Postwar Poland

Guided Tour

Next guided tour: Thursday, 10 October 2024, 4 p.m.
Dubnow Institute

Colloquium

Antisemitism among the Educated

Lecture series in the winter semester 2024/2025

Thursdays, 5.15 to 6.15 p.m., first lecture: 17 October 2024
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig/SAW Leipzig/Stream

Colloquium

Zuversicht und Enttäuschung

Moritz Lazarus‘ Antwort auf den akademischen Antisemitismus im späten 19. Jahrhundert

with Mathias Berek

Thursday, 17 October 2024, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig

Simon Dubnow Lecture

Still Lives: Jewish Photography and Experiences in Nazi Germany

23rd Simon Dubnow Lecture

with Prof. Dr. Ofer Ashkenazi (Jerusalem)

12 November 2024, 6 p.m.
Leipzig University, Paulinum

Colloquium

Der Mediävist Samuel Steinherz (1857 Güssing – 1942 Theresienstadt) und die »Affäre« um sein Rektorat an der Karls-Universität in Prag 1922

with Marta Keil

Thursday, 28 November 2024, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig/Stream

Colloquium

Gelehrter Antisemitismus

Spannung und Kontroverse im Zeitalter der Emanzipation

with Shulamit Volkov

Thursday, 12 December 2024, 5.15 p.m.
Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig/Stream

Colloquium

Die Ursprünge der modernen Judenfeindschaft im Kontext der deutschen Nationalbewegung 1813 bis 1819

with Werner Treß

Thursday, 16 January 2025, 5.15 p.m.
Dubnow Institute, Leipzig/Stream