Frauen in der Spätantike – wie Judentum und Christentum ihre Rolle definierten

Frauen in der Spätantike – wie Judentum und Christentum ihre Rolle definierten

© Naples National Archaeological Museum | Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Frauen in der Spätantike – wie Judentum und Christentum ihre Rolle definierten Referentinnen: Prof. Dr. Dr. Catherine Hezser und PD Dr. Dagmar Hofmann 7. März 2024, 19:30 Uhr, Katholische Akademie in Berlin Was heute jüdisch oder christlich heißt, ist aus dogmatischen, juristischen und sozialethischen Festlegungen…

Diasporic Knowledge – Winter School: Modern Talmudic Hermeneutics III

Diasporic Knowledge – Winter School: Modern Talmudic Hermeneutics III

Winter School: Modern Talmudic Hermeneutics III With Oded Schechter, Elchanan Reiner, Vivian Liska and Elad Lapidot December 12–14, 2023 The Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora brings together graduate students and early-career scholars to participate in a master class on modern talmudic hermeneutics.  The master class will be led by two main instructors through guided readings…

Diasporic Knowledge – Talmud and Contemporary Thought III

Diasporic Knowledge – Talmud and Contemporary Thought III

International Workshop in cooperation with the University of Lille and the Antwerp Institute of Jewish Studies Talmud and Contemporary Thought III Exile November 30 – December 3, 2023Institute of Jewish Studies Antwerp The theme for the 2023 workshop is Exile. Exile is existence removed or in distance from one’s own home, land or state. The…

Was heißt hier ‚immaculata‘? Braut und Reinheit in jüdischen und katholischen Kontexten

Was heißt hier ‚immaculata‘? Braut und Reinheit in jüdischen und katholischen Kontexten

© Elisabeth Masé Was heißt hier ‚immaculata‘? Braut und Reinheit in jüdischen und katholischen Kontexten Ein Abend mit Kunst und Debatte 7.12.2023, 19.00 UhrKatholische Akademie Berlin, ClubraumHannoversche Str. 5, 10115 Berlin Seit dem Mittelalter wird am 8. Dezember, genau 40 Wochen vor dem 8. September, an dem die Geburt Marias gefeiert wird, das Hochfest der unbefleckten…

A Loving Conduct: Marking 30 Anniversary of Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture

A Loving Conduct: Marking 30 Anniversary of Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture

Image from the cover of Carnal Israel A Loving Conduct: Marking 30 Anniversary ofCarnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture A conversation between Dr. Hannah (Omri) Ben Yehuda and Prof. Daniel Boyarin August 24, 2023, 19 h, Katholische Akademie Berlin In 1993 Daniel Boyarin has published his first big success in Talmudic research. Carnal Israel: Reading…

Literature in Diaspora:  What is the Place of Words?

Literature in Diaspora:  What is the Place of Words?

Portable typewriter, Olympia Splendid 66′ © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, CC BY-NC 4.0 Literature in Diaspora: What is the Place of Words? Public Evening – Discussion and ConcertJuly 11, 2023Katholische Akademie BerlinHannoversche Str. 5, 10115 Berlin Intensified processes of migration, voluntary or forced, generate in recent years new diasporic forms of…

Weltliteratur: Contemporary Readings of a Contested Concept

Weltliteratur: Contemporary Readings of a Contested Concept

Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq (c) Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, CC BY-NC 4.0 Weltliteratur: Contemporary Readings of a Contested Concept July 10–11, 2023Katholische Akademie BerlinHannoversche Str. 5, 10115 Berlin The notion of Weltliteratur has a long and rich history. Since Goethe’s reflections on the encounters between different literary traditions, Weltliteratur has been used in a variety of contexts and…

Safed: Jewish Exile in Falastin?

Safed: Jewish Exile in Falastin?

Photo: Safed 1908, Wikipedia Safed: Jewish Exile in Palestine? With Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Oded Schechter (Makhloykes Berlin) and Gil Anidjar (Columbia University), moderated by Elad Lapidot (University of Lille/Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora) May 1, 2023, 19–21h In the 16th century, especially after the Ottomans took over the country, a group of…

Diasporic Knowledge – Master Class Modern Talmudic Hermeneutics I

Diasporic Knowledge – Master Class Modern Talmudic Hermeneutics I

Master Class on Modern Talmudic Hermeneutics The Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora brings together graduate students and early-career scholars to participate in a master class on modern talmudic hermeneutics, which will take place on December 7-9, 2021, at the Katholische Akademie Berlin. Organisation: Prof. Dr. Elad Lapidot The master class will consist in text study led…

Re-Thinking Zion: Altneue Visions of Jewish Politics

Re-Thinking Zion: Altneue Visions of Jewish Politics

Photo: Weingärtner mit Kalebstraube, Wikipedia Re-Thinking Zion: Altneue Visions of Jewish Politics Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in cooperation with the Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora December 12, 2022 In recent years, various scholars, intellectuals, and authors have been working on projects that re-visit, re-assess, re-interpret, and re-imagine Jewish politics, both in its modern performance and in its…

Diasporic Knowledge – Talmud and Contemporary Thought II

Diasporic Knowledge – Talmud and Contemporary Thought II

Politics of Not Speaking Talmud and Contemporary Thought II The Workshop on Talmud and Contemporary Thought is an annual intellectual encounter, which explores ways of how the Talmudic tradition of text may offer a medium for contemporary thought, in the sense of thought that engages on issues of contemporary social, political and cultural concern.  The workshop revolves…

Diasporic Knowledge – Rabbinic Dissidence

Diasporic Knowledge – Rabbinic Dissidence

Diasporic Knowledge – Rabbinic Dissidence Public panel discussion in English with Prof. Yaacob Dweck (Princeton) and Prof. Marc-Alain Ouaknin (Paris), moderated by Prof. Elad Lapidot (Berlin/Lille). In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed messiah with a large following in the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of the world was imminent. As Jews everywhere…

Diasporic Knowledge – Opposition to Zionism in Jewish Orthodoxie

Diasporic Knowledge – Opposition to Zionism in Jewish Orthodoxie

Opposition to Zionism in Jewish Orthodoxy Public panel discussion in English with Prof. Yakov Rabkin (Montréal) and Dr. Hannah Tzuberi (Berlin), moderated by Prof. Elad Lapidot (Berlin/Lille) Orthodox Jews opposed Zionism when it emerged in the late 19th century. This rejection has not disappeared to this day and represents an important, often unknown aspect of…

Diasporic Knowledge – Master Class Modern Talmudic Hermeneutics II

Diasporic Knowledge – Master Class Modern Talmudic Hermeneutics II

Master Class on Modern Talmudic Hermeneutics II The Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora holds a master class on modern talmudic hermeneutics, which will take place on September 12-14, 2022, at the Katholische Akademie Berlin. Organisation: Prof. Dr. Elad Lapidot The master class will consist in text study led by two instructors. Elchanan Reiner (Tel Aviv University,…

Diasporic Knowledge – Conference

Diasporic Knowledge – Conference

Diasporic Knowledge – Conference Last decades have seen the rise of “diaspora” as a central category or Denkfigur for critical thinking of contemporary politics, culture and society, which calls into question dominant nation-state models. This conference seeks to examine more specifically the epistemic foundations of diapora, by exploring conceptually and historically the meaning(s) of diasporic knowledge, whereby “knowledge”…

Diasporic Knowledge – Talmud and Contemporary Thought I

Diasporic Knowledge – Talmud and Contemporary Thought I

Talmud and Contemporary Thought General The Talmud is an original intellectual heritage of the Jewish tradition. It is not only a text, but a medium of thought, which is both comparable to and fundamentally different from Western traditions such as philosophy, theology or modern science. Talmudic thought has been active and developing for almost two…