Forum

The forum serves exchanges and networking outside of the institute with the national and international scholarly community. The most significant elements in this context are the fellowships and event formats offered at the institute.

The forum allows members of the Research Units as well as fellows and guests at the institute to discuss methods and research approaches, to enhance their respective projects through dialogue, and to define new topics and innovative hypotheses. In this context, guests and fellows report on their ongoing projects in the form of public lectures and lunchtime talks.

The biannual closed meetings offer an opportunity – for doctoral candidates in the spring and postdocs in the fall – to present their research within the institute and to discuss the current state of their projects and appertaining methodological questions. The annual »Programmklausur« serves to further develop the institute’s scholarly profile.

Forum Coordinator
Dr. Enrico Lucca

Jewish Material Culture

The Dubnow Institute is establishing an interdisciplinary research area on material Jewish cultural heritage. In initial third-party-funded, collaborative projects and publications, the DI is already researching fundamental processes such as the dispersal, translocation and collection of Jewish cultural assets as well as conflicts over cultural property on an international level.

Visiting Research Fellowship Program

The Dubnow Institute regularly hosts PhD candidates, postdocs, and senior scholars as guests from international and German academic institutions. Here they have the opportunity for an intensive exchange with the members of the institute, to publicly present their research, and to contribute to the courses taught at Leipzig University. The annual open call for the fellowship program serves to integrate German research into the international field of Jewish history and culture and encourages an interdisciplinary dialogue beyond national borders and across academic cultures.

Lunchtalks

Im Rahmen des Dubnow Institute Fellowship Programms sind am Dubnow-Institut jedes Jahr sowohl international als auch national renommierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Postdocs sowie Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden als Fellows zu Gast. Auch jenseits des institutseigenen Fellowship Programms sind renommierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Postdocs sowie Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden regelmäßig als Gäste am Dubnow-Institut. So-called lunch talks offers international guests at the institute the opportunity to present their ongoing projects and to discuss their current findings.