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Colloquium 2021-2022 | Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center

Colloquium 2021-2022

During the academic year the Center holds a weekly bilingual colloquium. The colloquium gives the fellows and other young scholars the opportunity to present their research, as well as to hear lectures by experts in the field.

All lectures will be held in Room 1001, Rabin Building, Mt. Scopus, unless otherwise stated.

 

Monday, 11.10.21, 10:15

Prof. Benjamin Pollock, FRMRC, Hebrew University

Introductions: Theological-Political Predicaments. Representations of Religion and Politics in the German-Jewish Context

 

Monday, 18.10.21, 10:15          

Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten, Hebrew University

Quotidian Theology? An Everyday Perspective on Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval Ashkenaz

 

Wednesday 20.10.2021 19:00  

Book Launch

Dr. Sebastian Schirrmeister, Lichtenberg-Kolleg Göttingen

Begegnung auf fremder Erde: Verschränkungen deutsch- und hebräischsprachiger Literatur in Palästina/Israel nach 1933

Via Zoom

 

Monday, 1.11.21, 17:00           

Prof. Samuel Hayim Brody, University of Kansas

The Economics (Or Lack Thereof) in German-Jewish Ethical Socialism

Via Zoom

 

Monday, 15.11.21, 10:15         

Joshua Shelley, FRMRC, Hebrew University

Im Naturtheater von Palästina: Reading Kafka’s Der Verschollene in its Cultural Zionist Context

 

Sunday-Monday, 21-22.11.21   

Conference

Is There Still Room for Tikkun Olam? A Conference in Honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr

Van Leer Institute

 

Monday, 6.12.21, 10:15

Ansgar Martins, FRMRC, Hebrew University

Dialogue, Polemics, and Negative Theology. Siegfried Kracauer's Answer to Martin Buber

 

Monday, 13.12.21, 10:15         

Prof. Michael Fagenblat (Open University)

Heidegger's Hölderlin and the Jewish Moses

 

Monday ,20.12.21, 10:15         

Prof. Doren Wohlleben, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Freiheit und Augenblick. Hannah Arendts und Hilde Domins lyrische Korrespondenzen

Via Zoom

 

Thursday, 6.1.2022, 15:30-17:30          

Naharaim Symposium: Carl Schmitt and the Theological Political Predicament: Affirmations and Antidotes in Jewish Political Thought

Prof. Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University

Prof. Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp/Hebrew University

Room 530, Mandel Building, Mt. Scopus

 

16.01.2022      

Scholars Workshop

Navigating the Writing Process: Efficiency, Clarity, and Enjoyment in Academic Writing

 

Sunday-Tuesday

13-15.02.2022  

International Conference

Jewish Wit and Zionist Satire – An International, Interdisciplinary Conference on the Life and Works of Sammy Gronemann

Room 530, Mandel Building, Mt. Scopus

Organized by Dr. Jan Kühne, FRMRC, Hebrew University

 

6.3.2022           Beginning of 2nd semester

 

Monday, 7.3.2022, 10:15         

Prof. George Yaakov Kohler, Bar-Ilan University

Theologische Emanzipation: Jüdische-Christliche Debatten über Politik und Religion in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert

 

Thursday, 10.3.2022, 20:00      

FRMRC Salon 

Kosher and Conservative: German-Jewish Theopolitics Today

A Discussion with Dr. Max Czollek

 

Monday, 14.3.2022, 10:15        

Prof. Christoph König, Universität Osnabrück

Paradoxien des philologischen Modells der deutschen Universität. Zu Peter Szondi, Jean Bollack und Gershom Scholem

 

Wednesday, 23.3.2022, 16:00  

Prof. Elad Lapidot, University of Lille

After Evil: On Anti-Antisemitism and Postcolonialism

Room 530, Mandel Building, Mt. Scopus

 

Monday, 28.3.2022, 16:00        

Itamar Ben Ami, Hebrew University

The Ultra-Orthodox Conservative Revolution

Adrian Paukstat, University of Augsburg

Political Theology and Political Metaphysics: Adorno and Blumenberg Moving Beyond Carl Schmitt

Via Zoom

 

Wednesday, 30.3.2022, 20:00   Special Issue Launch for Naharaim

Bildung and Therapy: On German-Jewish Self-Formation

Via Zoom

 

Monday, 4.4.2022, 10:15         

Dr. Arndt Engelhardt, FRMRC/ Dubnow Institut

Über die theo-politische Dimension von „Weltliteratur“: Moritz Veit (1808-1864) als Kritiker und Verleger

 

Monday, 25.4.2022, 10:15        

Prof. Rebekka Voss, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt

Get Up or Sit Back? Diasporic Empowerment in Early Modern Yiddish Literature

 

Monday, 2.5.2022, 10:15         

Dr. Martijn Buijs, FRMRC

Erotic Revelations: Earthly and Divine Love in The Star of Redemption

 

Monday, 16.5.2022, 17:00

Prof. Dana Hollander, McMaster University

Ethics out of Law: Hermann Cohen and the “Neighbor

Via Zoom

 

Monday-Friday, 23-27.5.2022  

Buber-Rosenzweig Verdeutschung Workshop (Participants Only)

 

Monday, 30.5.2022, 10:15        

Rakefet Anzi, FRMRC

Martin Buber and Abraham Halevi Fraenkel: Two Ways in Adult Education

 

Wednesday, 8.6.2022, 19:00

(Tentative Date)          

Third Annual Else Lasker-Schüler Lecture

Liora Bing-Heidecker, TBA

 

Monday, 13.6.2022, 10:15        

Dr. Ynon Wygoda, FRMRC (Lakritz Fellow)

Nechama Leibowitz and the Political Stakes of the Buber-Rosenzweig Translation

 

Sunday-Monday, 26-27.6.2022 

End-of-Year Retreat/Workshop:

Speakers will include: Ghila Amati, Dr. Roy Amir, Tammy Bashmashnikov, Dr. Johannes Czakkai, Dr. Jan Kühne, Stefan Leicht, Dr. Antoine Levy, Dr. Amit Levy, Shakked Meromi, Asif Rahamim, Dana Rubinstein, Evyatar Varman