Past Events for You to Listen To and Watch 2011–2020
We have recorded some of our conferences, lectures, readings, and panel discussions for you as audio or video files.
About a Tea Bowl
Discussion with brief presentations about interwoven experiences of post-Soviet Jewish migration
Video: in German
Lecture/Discussion
27 Nov 2019
Ruth Wodak: Swing to the right?!
Ruth Wodak traces how a new “normality to the right” is establishing itself in many European countries, in German
Lecture/Discussion
17 Oct 2019
“To Know One Religion Is to Know None”
W. Michael Blumenthal Fellow Walid Abdelgawad talks about reflections on Islam and Judaism in the writings of German-speaking Jewish orientalists between 1833 and 1955
Video: in German
Lecture/Discussion
28 Aug 2019
Museums, Religion and the Work of Reconciliation and Remembrance
with the curators Jisgang Nika Collision (Haida Gwaii Museum, Haida Nation & Canada) and Léontine Meijer-van Mensch (Saxonian State Ethnographic Collections)
Lecture/Discussion
9 May 2019
Access Barriers. Critical Perspectives on Racism in Schools and Curatorial Practices
Keynote by Bonita Bennett (District Six Museum, Cape Town) at the conference Access Barriers on museums as places of social change.
Video:in English
Lecture/Discussion
20 Mar 2019
Happy Birthday, Academy Programs!
Introducing the Academy Programs as well as Panel Discussions: Jewish Fathers – Jewish Children? and A Pre-fascist Era?
Video Recording
2 Dec 2018
Living with Islamophobia
The international conference Living with Islamophobia considered how cultural and religious affiliations are constructed and invited experts to enter into discussion.
Video: in English
Conference
11 + 12 Oct 2018
Imported Antisemitism?
We discuss with political, academic, and practical experts which manifestations of antisemitism among Arab migrants and Muslims in Germany exist
Video: in German
Lecture/Discussion
30 Aug 2018
Ongoing Struggles. Anti-Discrimination Work during the Rise of the Far Right
with Imani Perry: “What Lies Underneath: Difficult Histories and the Resurgence of The Far Right”
Video: in English
Conference
7 Jun 2018
What is the Relationship Between Antisemitism and Islamophobia?
Lectures by David Feldman and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Video: in English and German
Video Recording
20 Mar 2018
New Judaism – Alliances in Postmigrant Society
On concepts of being Jewish within the third generation of Jews in Germany
video: German and English
Discussion
16 Nov 2017
Germanija. How I Became an Adult and a Jew in Germany
on Dmitrij Belkin's narrative that also throws light on immigration today, in German
Reading/Discussion
19 Oct 2017
IN-/EXCLUSIONS and Self-Empowerment in the Cultural Business
With Max Czollek, Dan Thy Nguyen, Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, and Mutlu Ergün-Hamaz, in German
Discussion
12 Oct 2017
People, National Community, AfD
Book presentation and discussion with the author Michael Wildt and Alexander Häusler, in German
Audio: in German
Lecture/Discussion
10 Oct 2017
Future Memories
Discussion on the Importance of Minority Perspectives for European Societies’ Commemorative Cultures, in German and English
Discussion
26 Sep 2017
Man as Lord or Guardian of Creation?
Nawal Ammar and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Video: German and English, no subtitles
Reading/Discussion
13 Jul 2017
Yousef Abad
Eliz Sanasarian and Elham Rokni on video art by Elham Rokni and the situation of Jews in Iran from the 1979 revolution to today.
Audio: in English
Lecture/Discussion
6 Jul 2017
Religion. Fashion. Empowerment.
Discussion with Reina Lewis and Meriem Lebdiri, in English and German
Lecture/Discussion
29 Jun 2017
With Karamba to the Bundestag – My Journey from Senegal to the German Parliament
Karamba Diaby tells of his birth country Senegal, of life in the GDR, his work in the Bundestag, and of his vision of an open and future-oriented society.
Audio: in German
Lecture/Discussion
1 Jun 2017
Ariel Sabar: My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
Reading and talk with the writer Ariel Sabar on the story of his father Yona Sabar, professor of the Neo-Aramaic language, and the Kurdish-Jewish history.
Audio: in English
Lecture/Discussion
11 May 2017
Israelis in Germany
Ideological Debates and Changing Identities
Talk and Slideshow with Dr. Dani Kranz and Katja Harbi from the University of Wuppertal on Israeli Jews in today's Germany.
Audio: in German
Lecture/Discussion
4 May 2017
Im/Possibilities – Perspectives on Refugee Participation
Conference on the situation for refugees in Europe and Germany. Recording of the opening event with a talk by Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.
Audio: in German and English
Reading/Discussion
23 Mar 2017
Our Father: A Sinti Family Recounts
Conversation and reading with the German-Sinti civil rights activist and author Anita Awosusi and her daughter Tayo Onutor about their family’s history.
Audio: in German
Reading/Discussion
23 Mar 2017
The Acid Test – How Fear of Foreigners is Threatening our Democracy
The Islamic studies and education scholar Lamya Kaddor reads from her book and discusses integration with Minister of State Aydan Özoğuz and Andreas Zick.
Audio: in German
Reading/Discussion
16 Feb 2017
Jews in North Africa During the Second World War
Theme day with lectures by Michel Abitbol, Eric Salerno, Patrick Bernhard, Haim Saadoun, and panel discussion
Language: German, English, and French
Lecture/Discussion
26 Jan 2017
A Jew in Neukölln – My Path to Coexistence of Religions
The theology student and writer Ármin Langer reads from his book and talks about Jewish life in Neukölln.
Audio: in German
Reading/Discussion
19 Oct 2016
Sites of Memory: Lost and Entangled Narratives
with Dr. Rosa Fava, Juliane Jurewicz, Prof. Dr. Iman Attia, Olga Gerstenberger, Ozan Keskinkiliç, Anita Awosusi, Ilona Lagrene, Prof. Dr. Michael Rothberg, and Serpil Polat
Video: in German and English, no subtitles
Conference
16 Sep 2016
Time of Crisis
with Dan Diner, Adam Michnik, Dietmar Herz, Étienne François, and Hans Kundnani
Video: in German, no subtitles
Discussion
7 Sep 2016
Antisemitism in the Arabic World – Facts and Myths
with Michael Kiefer and Omar Kamil
Video: in German, no subtitles
Discussion
26 Apr 2016
“Angst ums Abendland” (Fears For the West) Book Presentation
Talk with Daniel Bax and Gideon Botsch on Right-wing populist parties, anti-Muslim sentiments, flight and asylum.
Audio: in German
Reading/Discussion
6 Apr 2016
Post-migrant Society?!
International conference, recording of the opening event
Video: in German and English, no subtitles
Conference
12–14 Nov 2015
Kill Me a Son!
Recording of the opening event
With: Prof. Dr. Peter Schäfer and Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth
Video: in German, no subtitles
Conference
3–4 Sep 2015
A Shared View of Europe – Jewish and Muslim Experiences as Reflected in Public Controversies
Panel discussion with Prof. Nilüfer Göle, Shai Lavi and Gökçe Yurdakul
Video: in English, no subtitles
Discussion
19 Jan 2015
The Realignment of “Education after Auschwitz” in Immigration Society
Book presentation and panel discussion with the author Rosa Fava, Angela Kühner (University of Frankfurt), Selman Erkovan, history teacher in training, and Marco Kühnert
Audio recording: in German
Reading/Discussion
27 Jan 2015
Contemporary Jewish Life in a Global Modernity
Recording of the presentation “Future of European Jewry”
With: Dr. Karen Körber and Dr. Diana Pinto
Video: in English, no subtitles
Conference
11–12 Dec 2014
Snip it?!
Presentation of a study on the circumcision debate followed by a discussion as part of the Judeo-Islamic Forum.
Video: in German, no subtitles
Lecture/Discussion
4 Dec 2014
Concepts of Citizenship and Participation in European Comparison
Recording of the keynote by Prof. Dr. Rainer Bauböck and the followed panel discussion
With: Prof. Dr. Rainer Bauböck, Dr. Manuela Bojadžijev, Josip Juratovic and Dr. Monika Lüke
Video: in German, no subtitles
Conference
7–8 Apr 2014
Is Higher Education a Safeguard Against Racism and Antisemitism?
Presentation of a study followed by panel discussion with Wassilis Kassis, Charlotte Schallié, Iman Attia, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum and Andreas Zick
Video: in German, no subtitles
Lecture/Discussion
20 February 2014
Modernized, then Tolerated?
Micha Brumlik, Petra Bahr, Kadir Sanci, and Thomas Bauer about religion and navigating between tradition and adaptation, in German
Discussion
10 Oct 2013
The History of Jews and Dönme in Turkey
The Turkish studies scholar Corry Guttstadt and the historian Marc Baer discuss the history of Jews and Dönme (converts) in Turkey, in German
Lecture/Discussion
31 Jan 2011