Lecture series on Israel and Middle East Studies







Research colloquium in the winter term of 2015/ 16:
Research colloquium in the summer term of 2015:

Location:
Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, Room S 2
Time:
Thursday, 4-6pm (exceptions: Wednesday, 4-6pm on May 13 and June 3)
Coordinator:
Dr. Johannes Becke, Assistant Professor
Registration:
susanne.zahn@hfjs.eu
Program:
April 16: Sara Hirschhorn (University of Oxford)
Unsettled questions: On the research methodology of studying Israeli ultra-nationalism and the settler movement
April 23: Yemima Cohen-Aharoni (Hebrew University)
Speedily and in our days: Temple activism and collective memory in Israel
April 30: Johannes Becke (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg)
Between post-genocidal identity politics and 'Islamwissenschaft': Paradigms and research gaps in German research on Israel
May 7: Jenny Hestermann (Fritz-Bauer-Institut)
Between ‚private pilgrimage‘ and ‚normalization‘: Konrad Adenauer and Willy Brandt in the Holy Land
May 14: Derek Penslar (University of Oxford)
What is Israel Studies?
May 28: Magdalena Kirchner (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik)
Sitting on the fence or going in: Syria’s neighbors and the civil war
June 18: Daniel Mahla (Technische Universität Berlin)
(En)Countering Zionism: The Orthodox Agudat Yisrael confronts Modern Jewish Nationalism
June 29: Angelika Timm (frühere Leiterin des Seminars für Israelwissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität)
On the history of Israel Studies in the German Democratic Republic (in German)
July 2: Josef Herbasch (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg)
Theories of Exile in Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy
July 9: Stephan Stetter (Universität der Bundeswehr München)
Of Structural Couplings and Irritations: EU and German Foreign Policy vis-à-vis Israel and the Middle East
July 16: Shelley Harten (Freie Universität Berlin)
The Manufacture of a Hebrew Orient. Representations of the "Orient" and the "Arab" in Zionist and Eretz-Israeli High Arts, 1906-1948


