Public Lectures 2015-2016
November 17, 2015
Nation, Denomination, Volk, Race? Hungarian Jewish Self-Definitions in the Emancipation Era
Miklós Konrád, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
December 1, 2015
Radicalisation of Antisemitism in Europe During and After the First World War
Ulrich Wyrwa, University of Potsdam / Technical University, Berlin
February 9, 2016
Female Bodies – Male Souls: Asceticism, Mysticism and Gender in Jewish Tradition
Ada Rapoport-Albert, University College London
February 16, 2016
Ethnic Cleansing and its Legacies: Germans, Jews, and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War
Thomas Weber, University of Aberdeen
Co-organized with the Nationalism Studies Program and Department of History
February 23, 2016
Yiddish Books in the Early Modern Period
Marion Aptroot, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Postponed
March 1, 2016
Jewish "Renaissance" in Byzantine Italy
Tamas Visi, Palacký University, Olomouc (Czech Republic)
Co-organized with the Department of Medieval Studies
March 22, 2016
Curating Between Hope and Despair: Creating POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, New York University / POLIN Museum Warsaw