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

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

with Robert Mueller-Stahl

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

with 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