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…
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…
© 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…
Image: Husserl-Archiv Freiburg Back to the Texts Themselves! Phenomenology and Ressourcement November 8–9, 2023 In cooperation with the University of Lille, the University of Frankfurt and the University of Haifa We already know that modernity was not only secular, and that secularization was not the end of religion. Modern secularization in many ways recreated – and some…
Community & Critique Transatlantic Workshop Series “Religion and the Cultures of Democracy Democratic societies are currently facing a situation that has been described as a ‘crisis of representation’ or even as ‘post-democracy’. The self-image of Western societies characterized by the idea of democratic participation of their citizens in the political shaping of the community is…
Photo crediits Blasphemie im interreligiösen Vergleich 25. Oktober 2023, 19.00 UhrKatholische Akademie Berlin Etwas nicht sagen dürfen – das empört den Freiheitswillen des menschlichen Geistes. Das Heiligste beleidigt zu finden – das empört den Kultursinn der menschlichen Seele, die sich nicht ohne große Mühen und Verluste in die Kultivierung unter Zeichen fügt. „Werte“, westliche Werte,…
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…
Image from the Cover: Jacob’s Younger Brother Jacob’s Younger Brother – Christian-Jewish Relations after Vatican II July 12, 2023, 19:00–21:00 With Karma Ben Johanan (Hebrew University in Jerusalem), Christian Rutishauser SJ (Central European Province of the Jesuits), Axel Töllner (Augustana Hochschule Neuendettelsau) and Elad Lapidot (University of Lille) A new chapter in Jewish–Christian relations opened…
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…
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…
Photo: Louis Massignon 1909 | Wikimedia Orientalismus – jüdisch und katholisch 26.–28. Juni 2023 Das Aufspüren von jüdisch-islamischen Affinitäten steht angesichts des kaum überwindbar scheinenden Konflikts zwischen Israel und Palästina gerade hoch im Kurs. Neben dem Topos des „Goldenen Zeitalters“ in Al-Andalus rückt hier auch eine Erscheinung des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts in den…
The Role of the Intellectual in Times of Turmoil: Ways of Looking at Europe’s Troubled Geist 17th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) July 3–6, 2023 Catholic Academy of Berlin, Hannoversche Str. 5, 10115 Berlin The Berlin Center for Intellectual Diaspora at the Catholic Academy in Berlin is honoured to host…
Abb: Stiftsatlas des Klosters Neuzelle, Quelle: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Beyond Liberalism: Commons, Constitutionalism, and the Common Good May 31 – June 2, 2023 Catholic Academy of Berlin, Hannoversche Str. 5, 10115 Berlin One characteristic of the postliberal era are initiatives that converge around the common, commons and the common good – that reclaim common wealth or refocus…
Photo: Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach Mensch-Sein inmitten der Geschichte Karl Löwith und die Kritik der historischen Vernunft 10.–12. Mai 2023 Die Arbeit an Epochenschwellen, insbesondere die Säkularisierung christlicher Heilserwartung als Ursprung der Geschichtsphilosophie, war das Lebensthema von Karl Löwith. Nach 1945 aus dem Exil mit den Stationen Italien, Japan und USA zurückgekehrt, wurde er in…
Photo: Frédéric Brenner The Jewish Diaspora of Berlin April 30 – May 5, 2023 Students from Jerusalem and Berlin explore in a joint seminar the remarkable diversity of the Jewish Diasporas in Berlin and ask about its relevance for debates in Israel today. For one week, we will explore the city together to encounter the…
Image from the Book ”Politics and the Limits of Halacha” – Cover designed by Jacques Levy. On Thinking God: A Conversation with Menachem Lorberbaum April 27–28, 2023 We find our republics undergoing tectonic quakes rendering the very fabric of our civil societies. Social life is premised upon a basic trust and the exploitation of political…
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…
Gustav Landauer: Skepsis und Antipolitik Donnerstag, 30. März 2023, 19:00 Uhr – Podiumsgespräch Gustav Landauer, den Martin Buber als „einen Propheten der kommenden Menschengemeinschaft“ genannt hat, war ein radikaler Denker und unkonventioneller Anarchist, der eine Wiederherstellung des gemeinschaftlichen Lebens anstrebte. Diese begehrte Gemeinschaft steht im Spannungsfeld zwischen Absonderung und Vereinigung, Nostalgie und Hoffnung. Seine antipolitische…
„Kein Staat kämpft für die Freiheit der Völker“ – Martin Buber in Berlin 27.–30. März 2023 Katholische Akademie in Berlin, Hannoversche Str. 5, 10115 Berlin Zwischen 1907 und 1916 lebte Martin Buber mit seiner Familie in Berlin Zehlendorf. In seine Berliner Zeit fiel der Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges und seine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema. War er…
Louis Ginzberg – Die Legenden der Juden Akademieabend mit Prof. Dr. Andreas Kilcher (Zürich), Prof. Dr. Gerhard Langer (Wien), Dr. Johannes Sabel (Bonn) und Dr. Thomas Sparr (Berlin) Um Moses, Abraham, Esther und andere ranken sich in der jüdischen Tradition zahlreiche Legenden, die biblische Stoffe ausschmücken und aktualisieren.Der große Talmudgelehrte Louis Ginzberg hat mit seinen…
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…
Alte Sprache, Neue Sprache – Die Bibel und das Moderne Hebräisch Wer sich mit dem Dialog der Religionen beschäftigt, kommt nicht umhin, sich dann und wann Gedanken über die Sprache zu machen, in der wir miteinander reden. Grundlage der drei sogenannten abrahamitischen Religionen Judentum, Christentum und Islam ist der Text der Hebräischen Bibel. Gerade über…
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…
60 Years after the Algerian War: Interculturality in the Postcolonial Age Over the six decades since it officially ended, the Algerian War has become a key event for marking, retrospectively, the beginning of a new era in European, Western and global history. This new era is characterized by the proclaimed end of Western hegemony – by the…
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…
Anti-Antisemitismus und Postkolonialismus 13.10.2022, 19 Uhr Öffentliches Podiumsgespräch Prof. Dr. Dan Diner (Hebräische Universität Jerusalem und Universität Leipzig, i.R.),Prof. Dr. Christina von Braun (Humboldt-Universität-Berlin, i.R.) und Prof. Dr. Gregor Maria Hoff (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) sprechen mit Prof. Dr. Elad Lapidot (Katholische Akademie Berlin/Universität Lille) Livestream on Youtube Prof. Dr. Christina von Braun Prof. Dr….
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…
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…
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,…
Bildnachweis: Carl Schmitt als Student im Jahre 1912 Quelle: Aus Paul Noack, Carl Schmitt, 1993 / wikipedia.de Political Theology in Jewish an Christian Contexts: Reception Histories and Controversies with Carl Schmitt Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology, written in 1922, is present in almost every discussion on the place of the theological within the politics of our secularized societies….
Seele und Moral der Truppe – Militärseelsorge in schwierigen Zeiten Ein interkonfessioneller und interreligiöser Dialog zur Situation der Militärseelsorge (Fachtagung) Es gibt wieder Krieg in Europa. Am 24. Februar 2022 überfiel die russische Armee das Nachbarland Ukraine. Insbesondere mit Blick auf die westeuropäischen Staaten wurde seither immer wieder von einem „Erwachen in der Realität“ gesprochen. In dieser Realität gibt es Krieg…
From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen’s troubled relationship with God is here mapped onto his troubled relationships with sex and politics. Analysing Covenantal theology and its place in Cohen’s work, this book is the first to trace a consistent theology across…
Anti-Anti-Semitism and Postcolonialism Contemporary debates feature a growing tension between the theoretical and political struggle against anti-Semitism, on the one hand, and the theoretical and political discourse of postcolonialism. This tension may seem paradoxical, insofar as both discourses – the postcolonial and the anti-anti-Semitic – at least nominally feature resistance to historical forms of deep-seated…
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”…
IISG Photograph: Ben van Meerendonk Derivative work: Jahobr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Media on Youtube Gerd Koenen: Autorität zwischen Macht und Religion – Ein Blick auf Russland José Casanova: Sources of Papal Authority in Our Global Age Menachem Lorberbaum/Frank Furedi: Liberalism’s Threshold: Authority and the Authoritarian Judith Hahn/Teresa Forcades: Modern Catholic Crisis of Authority/Why Catholics…
Annual Network Meeting “Jewish and Catholic Intellectuality” The public is invited to attend the conference digitally through the following links: Evening Event, October 25, 19h: YouTube Conference, October 26: Zoom Evening Event, October 26, 19h: Zoom Conference, October 27: Zoom Recent decades have seen a renewal of interest in political theology, in the broadest sense of the interrelations between…
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…
Kulturkampf Epochales Ereignis und aktuelle Denkfigur Organisation: Prof. Dr. Daniel WeidnerDr. Stephan Steiner Die Veranstaltung findet statt in Kooperation mit der Universität Halle/Saale. Veranstalter:Universität Halle/SaaleKatholische Akademie in Berlin Veranstaltungsort:Katholische Akademie Berlin, SR 5 (3. OG)Hannoversche Straße 5 10115 Berlin Programm Dienstag, 31. August 2021 15:30 Get togetherBegrüßung der Veranstalter Prof. Dr. Daniel Weidner (Halle/S.) und…