Inauguration Ceremony for the International Research Training Group "Belongings: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and Beyond" and 23. Simon-Dubnow-Lecture. Please registrate here.
Programme
- Welcome Remarks: Prof. Eva Inés Obergfell (Leipzig University), Rector
- Greetings: Prof. Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Vice President for International Affairs
- Greetings and Introduction: Prof. Benjamin Pollock, Speaker of the IRTG partner (HUJI), Prof. Yfaat Weiss, Speaker of the IRTG
- Dubnow-Lecture: Still Lives: Jewish Photography and Experiences in Nazi Germany
- Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ofer Ashkenazi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
About the Research Programme:
The International Research Training Group “Belongings: Jewish Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Europe and Beyond” − the first of its kind in Israel and Gemany in the humanities − conducted by the Hebrew University, Leipzig University and the Dubnow Institute, and funded by the German Research Foundation and the Alfred Landecker Foundation, offers a thorough qualification programme for outstanding international doctoral researchers. Bringing together German, Israeli, and other international scholars at all stages of their academic careers, the IRTG seeks to implement new tools for analysing European Jewish life and its entanglements with the non-Jewish surroundings by focusing on the realm of objects and materiality. Five research clusters (Practice, Ownership, Text, Memory, Stage) will be implemented within the IRTG in order to explore Jewish material cultures in Europe and the regions of Jewish (forced) emigration from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century from a multidisciplinary perspective. The two cohorts of international young scholars will not only share their findings with the scientific community and the interested public, but will also be encouraged to establish close relationships with libraries, museums and archives in order to create networks in different professional fields.