Guest Lecturers, Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society

Guest Lectures

A complete list of all Bucerius Guest Lecturers
2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-9 2007-8 2006-7 2005-6 2004-5 2003-4 2002-3 2001-2 Academic Year 2012-2013 January 3, 2013 Dr. Felix Wiedemann, Free University Berlin, The Aryan and the European. The Intertwining of Race and Religion from völkisch Movement to the 'New Right' March 5, 2013 Dr. Klaus Hödl, University of Graz, What's so Jewish about Viennese Popular Culture? March 17, 2013 Dr. Herbert Lappe, Dresden, A Jew in the Former German Democratic Republic May 30, 2013 Prof. Dirk Moses, European University Institute, Florence; How and Why Did Genocide Become a Non-Political Crime? June 3, 2013 Prof. Bernard Levinson, University of Minnesota, The "De-Jewing" of the Old Testament under National Socialism: Gerhard von Rad's Struggle against the Ideological Transformation of the Discipline June 11, 2013 Prof. David Myers, Professor of Jewish History and Chair, History Department, UCLA, Yosef Haim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History Academic Year 2011-2012 December 8, 2011 Dr. Margit Berner, Department of Anthropology, The Museum of Natural History Vienna, The Nazi Period Collections of Physical Anthropology in the Museum of Natural History Vienna January 16, 2012 Dr. Marcel Stoetzler, Department of Sociology, Bangor University of Wales, The Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution and the "Jewification of Society" April 30, 2012 Dr. Simon Cook, Private Scholar and Academic Editor, Aryans, Cave Men, and an Economist: Meanings of Race in Alfred Marshall's Writings May 10, 2012 Dr. Johannes Becker, Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Philipps University of Marburg, "Who or what is the European Union? Economic Geography of Europe. Chances and Risks of the European Unification Process" May 10, 2012 Anke Költsch, Visiting Research Fellow at the Bucerius Institute, Scholarship holder from the Gerda Henkel Foundation, "High and Low Conversion: Conversion from Judaism to Lutheranism in Late 17th Century Gotha" June 11, 2012 Prof. Anne Rothe, Wayne State University, Detroit, An Oral Histpry of Germans in Israel: Project Summary and Reflections on Methodology and Ethics 2012-13 2011-12 2009-10 2008-9 2007-8 2006-7 2005-6 2004-5 2003-4 2002-3 2001-2 Academic Year 2010-2011 November 25, 2010 Dr. Felix Wiedemann, Free University, Berlin What have the Jews to do with the Hitties? December 28, 2010 Benjamin Stein, Author, Munich Memory, Identity, Text. Reading Carefully - Preconception and Misconception March 13, 2011 Prof. Uwe Hoßfeld, Friedrich Schiller University Jena Weawing Networks: The University of Jena in the Weimar Republic, the 'Third Reich' and the postwar East Germany April 13, 2011 Margret Heymann, Theater Referent and Author, Hamburg A Moment of Glory in German Theater May 30, 2011 Prof. Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis Blindness and Insight: The Conceptual Jew in Arendt and Adorno's Post-Holocaust Reflections on the Antisemitic Question June 6, 2011 Dr. Rachel Suissa, University of Haifa EU Security Grand Strategy and German Strategic Culture June 13, 2011 Prof. Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis On George Mosse: Modernity, Culture, and "the Jew" July 1, 2011 Lea Dror, Bucerius Institute, University of Haifa The Jewish Professional School "Masada" in Darmstadt: Unveiling a Forgotten Story
2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2008-9 2007-8 2006-7 2005-6 2004-5 2003-4 2002-3 2001-2 Academic Year 2009-2010 November 15, 2009 Dr. Frederic J. Schwartz, Department of History of Art University College, London The Case of Adolf Loos: Architecture, Crime and Public Sphere in Early 20th-Century Vienna December 1, 2009 Dr. Shoshanna Mayer, Formerly Faculty of Education, University of Haifa Presenting her Hebrew Translation of Gregor Ziemer’s: Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi December 29, 2009 Dr. Beate Mueller, School of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom Of Wolves and Lambs: The Holocaust in East and West German Literature March 14, 2010 Prof. Sander Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Sciences, Emory University, USA "The Nose on Your Face": Faces and Souls in August Sander's Germany April 27, 2010 Prof. Matti Bunzl, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Thinking the Center through the Margins: Jews and Homosexuals in Post-WWII Austria May 12, 2010 Dr. Linde Apel, The Research Centre for Contemporary History in Hamburg (FZH) Interviewing Yekkes in Haifa: Possibilities and Limits of an Oral History Approach May 16, 2010 Prof. Eugene Sheppard, Brandeis University Ernst Kantorowicz: Between Ruler Worship and Academic Freedom May 17, 2010 Dr. Simone Heil, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University, Bremen The 'Special Relationship' between the State of Israel and Germany Youth Exchange between Haifa and Bremen May 26, 2010 Prof. Kristin Kopp, University of Missouri Colonial Mappings: Cartographic Propaganda and German Eastward Expansionism in the Interwar Period May 30, 2010 Prof. Eugene Sheppard, Brandeis University A Different Mode of Scholarship: Jewish Writings in the Third Reich June 8, 2010 Dr. Thomas Weber, University of Aberdeen Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Man of the List Regiment, and the First World War June 13, 2010 Dr. Thomas Weber, University of Aberdeen The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross: Jewish Agency in the Holocaust Reconsidered
2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2007-8 2006-7 2005-6 2004-5 2003-4 2002-3 2001-2 Academic Year 2008-2009 December 24 , 2008 Dr. Rakefet Zalashik, Associate Professor, Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University Commentator: Dr. Nadav Davidovitch, Ben-Gurion University Ad Nafesh: Immigrants, Refugees, Newcomers, and the Psychiatric Establishment in Israel December 30, 2008 Prof. Till van Rahden, Canada Research Chair in German and European Studies, University of Montreal Fatherhood, Christianity, and the Quest for a Liberal Republic: Making Authority Safe for Democracy in Postwar West Germany January 4, 2009 Prof. Till van Rahden, Canada Research Chair in German and European Studies, University of Montreal Vision of Community and Belonging among Central Europe Jews, 1850-1933 The lectures will be held in English February 8, 2009 Prof. Niels Werber, Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft, Intermedialität und Interkulturalität an der TU-Dortmund Der „Deutsche Osten“ als literarisches and geopolitisches Programm June 1, 2009 Dr. Dirk Rupnow, Institute for Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck Annihilating Preserving Remembering: The Aryanization of Jewish History and Memory during the Holocaust June 24, 2009 Prof. Hans Joachim Hahn, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture Leipzig ”Europe” as a Metaphor: Jewish and Non-Jewish Discourses July 16, 2009 Annekathrin Helbig, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute, Freie Universität Berlin Jewish converts in the Duchy of Mecklemburg-Schwerin in the 18th century
2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-9 2006-7 2005-6 2004-5 2003-4 2002-3 2001-2 Academic Year 2007-2008 January 3, 2008 Dr. Friedrich von Borries, University of Arts, Nuremberg Architect in Berlin Shrinking Cities Contemporary Urban Issues in East Germany January 10, 2008 Dr. Friedrich von Borries, University of Arts, Nuremberg Architect in Berlin Copper Houses Prefabricated Houses in Germany and Israel March 16, 2008 Prof. Hubert Knoblauch, Institute of Sociology at the Technical University of Berlin Department of Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Students Workshop: "Video Analysis and Workplace Studies" March 18, 2008 Prof. Hubert Knoblauch, Institute of Sociology at the Technical University of Berlin Department of Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Seminar:"Popular Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Europe" May 13, 2008 Prof. Hasia Diner, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studeis at the New York University Department of Jewish Land Studies Graduate Students Seminar: "Taking One "Common Knowlege": Rethinking American Jewry and the Memoralization of the Holocaust" May 14, 2008 Prof. Hasia Diner, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studeis at the New York University School of History Workshop: "The Atittude of the American Jews towards the Holocaust in the 50's" 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-9 2007-8 2005-6 2004-5 2003-4 2002-3 2001-2 Academic Year 2006-2007 October 22, 2006 Wolf Biermann, One of the Most Prominent Political Singer-Songwriter-Poet in Germany Isaac and Ishmael-Abraham's Sons: Israel and the Arabs: German Perspective Isaak und Ismael- Abrahams Söhne: Israel und die Araber aus deutscher Perspektive October 30, 2006 Prof. Manfred Lahnstein, Chairman of the Board of Governors, University of Haifa The Aftermath of the Lebanon War on European-Israeli Relations November 22, 2006 Dr. Harald Kindermann, German Ambassador to Israel Critical Aspects of the German Re-unification Process November 29, 2006 Anke Schlimm, Consul General, German Embassy The German Immigration Policy and Nationality Law December 6, 2006 Prof. Alon Confino, University of Virginia, The Travels of Bettina Humpel: One Stasi File and Narratives of State and Self in East Germany December 20, 2006 Jörn Böhme, Director of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Tel Aviv Linke Israel-Kritik in Deutschland: Geschichte, Probleme, Perspektiven December 27, 2006 Prof. Jeffrey Peck, Georgetown University, currently Fulbright Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin Being Jewish in New Germany March 7, 2007 Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Institute for the History of German Jews, University of Hamburg Die Beste aller Welten. Juden in Königsberg 1870-1933 Perfect World Jews in Königsberg 1870-1933 March 21, 2007 Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Institute for the History of German Jews, University of Hamburg The Pilots' War. The Condor Legion in Spain 1936-1939 March 21, 2007 Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Institute for the History of German Jews, University of Hamburg No Hope - no Future. Politics and Violence in Spain and in the Basque Country 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-9 2007-8 2006-7 2004-5 2003-4 2002-3 2001-2 Academic Year 2005-2006 November 3, 2005 Prof. Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union, New York "The American Zone of Germany 1945 - 1949" Defeated Germans and Surviving Jews: Encounters and Confrontations in Everyday Life November 10, 2005 Prof. Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union, New York "'Poor Germany': Past and Present Debates about German Victims" November 22, 2005 Prof. Dr. Bernd Weisbrod, Institute of Modern History, University of Goettingen, Goettingen “Cultures of Change: Political Generations and Silent Generations in Modern Germany” December 06, 2005 Prof. Michal Bodemann, Department of Sociology, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto Learning Diaspora: The Turkish Immigrant and the Jewish Master Narrative December 22, 2005 Prof. Michael Brenner, Chair for Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich, Munich Jewish Historiography and the Challenge of Totalitarianism: The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany Jan. 05, 2006 Prof. Michael Brenner, Chair for Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich, Munich Jewish Historiography and the Challenge of Postmodernism: A New Relativism in American Jewish Scholarship March 8, 2006 Gisela Dachs, Journalist, Die Zeit Book Presentation. Juedischer Almanach – Die Jeckes. March 9, 2006 Prof. David Engel, New York University Violence against Jews and its Historical Context March. 21 2006 Prof. Dr. Rita Suessmuth, Former President of the German Parliament; Member of the Global Commission on International Migration "The Migration Policy in a Re-united Germany" For the video recording of the lecture , please click here: Part 1 and Part 2 . March 16, 2006 Prof. Hajo Funke , Otto-Suhr-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, "New Informal right-wing Extremism – A Reaction to GDR and the Opening of the East?" March 30, 2006 Prof. Martin Sabrow, Institut für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, University of Potsdam, Historiography of the GDR (English) May 11, 2006 Dr. Anne Rothe, Wayne State University, Holocaust commemoration in the GDR (English) June 8, 2006 Dr. Jan C. Behrends, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Stalin Cult in the DDR (English) 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-9 2007-6 2006-7 2005-6 2003-4 2002-3 2001-2 Academic Year 2004-5 Nov. 9, 2004 Dr. Omar Kamil, Simon-Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig Seminar of Department of Middle Eastern History "Secularisation Is The Solution" Some Thoughts Around A Contemporary Arab Debate" Nov. 23, 2004 Dr. Omar Kamil, Simon-Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig Bucerius Institute Research Seminar: "The Arabs and the Holocaust: An Epistemological Scrutinization" Dec. 07, 2004 Prof. Dr. Inge Marszolek, University of Bremen Moderator: Prof. Yosi Ben Artzi, Rector of the University of Haifa Bucerius Institute Research Seminar: "Propaganda as social practice. A new approach to propaganda in the Third Reich" March. 15, 2005 Prof. Michael Graetz , Rector of the College of Jewish Studies, Heidelberg University "The Jewish Studies in Germany after 1945" April 5, 2005 Prof. Michael Brenner , Chair for Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich "Jews in Post-War Germany" May 10, 2005 Prof. Neima Barzel, Oranim College "Israeli Society and the German Payments" May 17, 2005 Prof. Ulrich Bielefeld, Hamburg Institute of Social Research, Germany "Antisemitism and Racism: Before and After the Reunion" May 24, 2005 Julia Berenstein, Faculty of Soziology, Goethe University Frankfurt/M, Germany "Identity Construction Among Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel and Germany Through Food Practices" May 31, 2005 Raul Teitelbaum "Personal Restitution to Holocaust Survivors and the Stratification of Israeli Society" May 31, 2005 Prof. Gesine Schwan, President of the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt(Oder) Bridge to Europe: an Event Celebrating Five Years of the Bucerius Institute "Mediating Multi-Ethnicity: The Viadrina University on the German-Polish Border" 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-9 2007-8 2006-7 2005-6 2004-3 2002-3 2001-2 Academic Year 2003-4 November 5, 2003 Dr. Michael Schäfer "Civil society, constitutional law and European Integration" (Abstract) , Faculty of Law December, 22, 2003 Prof. Ursula Hoffmann-Lange "Empirical Elite Research: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches" (Abstract), Department of Sociology and Anthropology December, 23, 2003 Prof. Ursula Hoffmann-Lange "Regime Change and Elite Transformation in Germany" (Abstract) , Department of Sociology and Anthropology December, 29, 2003 Prof. Ursula Hoffmann-Lange "Empirical Elite Research: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches" (Abstract) Continuation of Lecture from Dec. 22, 2003. Department of Sociology and Anthropology March, 4, 2004 Prof. Wolfgang Frindte , Jena University, Germany "Authoritarianism, social dominance orientation and xenophobic prejudice" Department of Psychology. Department seminar March 9, 2004 Prof. Elazar Barkan, Claremont Graduate University "Reconciliation, Restitution and Compensation: A Historical Overview" Bucerius Institute, Faculty of Law and Dept. of Jewish History March 10, 2004 Dr. Lars Rensmann , The Free University Berlin "Hannah Arendt and the Problem of European Anti-Americanism" Bucerius Institute and School of History March, 16, 2004 Dr. Lars Rensmann, The Free University Berlin "Leo Lowenstein and the new right" Bucerius Institute internal seminar March 18, 2004 Prof. Wolfgang Frindte , Jena University, Germany "The development of national Xenophobia and social possibilities to moderate it" Faculty for Welfare and Health Studies Department seminar March, 18, 2004 Prof. Wolfgang Frindte , Jena University, Germany "Anti-Semitism today as observed in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Preliminary data and its interrelations with attitudes towards Israel" Department seminar March, 23, 2004 Prof. Wolfgang Frindte , Jena University, Germany " Xenophobia – its expressions in different nationalities and differing religious and political affiliations, as well as its relations to socio-demographic and psychological variables" Department of Sociology March 23, 2004 Dr. Claudia Kraft, German Historical Institute in Warsaw "The Expulsion of the Germans after WWII in the Collective Memory of the Czechs and the Poles: Political, Moral and Legal Aspects" Interdisciplinary seminar, Department of Jewish History Faculty of Law March 29, 2004 Dr. Lars Rensmann , The Free University Berlin "Theorizing Political Authoritarianism: On Leo Löwenthal, the Frankfurt School, and the Origins of Critical Social Research" Bucerius Institute and School of History. March, 30, 2004 Prof. Wolfgang Frindte , Jena University, Germany "The strangers ante portas: Too near physically yet too remote mentally. With apologies to Zygmunt Bauman", Bucerius Institute Internal seminar March 30, 2004 Mrs. Julie Trappe, Max-Planck Institute, Freiburg "From Totalitarism to Democracy: Rumania" Interdisciplinary seminar, Department of Jewish History, Faculty of Law April 20, 2004 Dr. Joachim Schloer , Potsdam University "Tel-Aviv: From Dream to City" April 20, 2004 Prof. Ruti Teitel, New York Law School "Transitional Justice" April 28, 2004 Dr. Joachim Schloer , Potsdam University "The Jekkes: A history of arrivals" May 11, 2004 Dr. Jürgen Lillteicher, Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Germany "The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe: The Concept and Current Debate" May 11, 2004 Mr. Paul Prettitore (independent searcher) "The Right to Housing and Property Restitution in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Case Study" Interdisciplinary seminar, Department of Jewish History, Faculty of Law May 31, 2004 Prof. Malachi Hacohen , Duke University Lecture Series: Living In-between: Central European Jewish Intellectuals from Enlightenment to Cold War Lecture 1: "Jacob and Esau in the Emancipation Period: The National State and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism" June 7, 2004 Prof. Malachi Hacohen, Duke University Lecture Series: Living In-between: Central European Jewish Intellectuals from Enlightenment to Cold War Lecture 2: "Karl Popper, Vienna’s Assimilated Jews and the Cosmopolitan Culture of Central Europe" (in Hebrew) June 14, 2004 Prof. Malachi Hacohen, Duke University Lecture Series: Living In-between: Central European Jewish Intellectuals from Enlightenment to Cold War Lecture 3: "Austria, The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the End of the Central European Émigré Culture" 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-9 2007-8 2006-7 2005-6 2004-5 2003-4 2001-2 Academic Year 2002-3 October 24, 2002 Prof. Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Europe after 1989 October 31, 2002 Prof. Sami Samocha, Haifa University Demos and Ethnos in Eastern Europe after 1989 November 7, 2002 Mr. Moshe Yehuda, Jewish Claims Committee against Germany and Austria Austria and the Willingness of Retribution November 14, 2002 Dr. Philipp Spannuth, Freiburg University Retribution in Eastern-Germany after 1989 November 21 , 2002 Dr. Raphael Vago, Tel-Aviv University Memory and History in Romania and Hungary after 1989 November 28, 2002 Prof. Dan Diner, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig Memory and Property in the New Europe December 5 , 2002 Dr.Joanna Michlic, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Memory of the Past in Post-Communist Poland: Remembering and Forgetting December 12,2002 Prof. Dr. Hajo Funke, The Free University, Berlin The Curse of the Past: Rightwing Authoritarian Protest in East Germany December 19 , 2002 Avi Primor, Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung, Zukunft, Former Israeli Ambassador to Germany History, Memory and Restitution: The Challenges Facing the EVZ Foundation December 26 , 2002 Dr. Ali Salzberger, Haifa University The Constitutions of Eastern Europe after 1989 January 2 , 2003 Prof. Doron Kiesel, Erfurt University History and Memory in the German Discourse after 1989 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-9 2007-8 2006-7 2005-6 2004-5 2003-4 2002-3 Academic Year 2001-2002 January 9, 2001 Dr. Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union, New York "Antisemitism and Euthanasia" March 6, 2001 Dr. Michael Berkowitz, Department of Hebrew a

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