In the framework of the workshop “Friends, Enemies, Frenemies: Ambivalences of Jewish-Muslim Relations” supported by the German-Israeli Foundation), you are invited to the keynote lecture “Know your Enemy, be your Enemy” by Dr. Assaf David (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
which will take place on Monday, January 27th, 7pm, at the Alte Aula. Details on the poster - registration via registration@hfjs.eu.
We are looking forward to the upcoming workshop “Staging Enmity: From Representation to Projection” of our second research focus of the RTG . This workshop engages in the connection between enmity and representation. Focusing on questions like “In what context is enmity staged?” or “How should we understand the impact on, and agency of, the targets of enmity representation?“.
For a profound schedule of the workshop click here.
The workshop takes place at the HCTS (Voßstrasse 2) in Room 400.02.12 on the 24th and 25th January. You can register via ambivalent-enmity@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de or use the QR-code:
For a more profound description of the upcoming workshop our Mercator Fellow Dr. Lola Guyot provided a keynote explaining the topics, questions and goals of the workshop. Click here to access it.
We are delighted to announce the upcoming workshop “Knowing the Enemy. Perspectives from Art, Politics, and Science in the Early and Late Modern Era.” of our Research Field I “Knowing the Enemy” of the RTG. The workshop is divided into five panels:
Panel I: Entomology and Enmity
Panel II: Thinking about the Other in Israel/Palestine
Panel III: Mobility and Race: Knowledge Production and Legislation on Sinti and Roma in the Interwar Period
Panel IV: Shifting Tides. Antagonism in Maritime Spaces
Panel V: Emblematic Wars and Knowledge of the Enemy
The workshop takes place at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien (Landfriedstraße 12) on the 9th and 10th January. For a more profound schedule click here.
Please register for the upcoming workshop by 18th December 2024 via ambivalent-enmity@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de or use the QR-code:
Fabian Baumann, one of the postdoctoral scholars in the RTG Ambivalent Enmity, was awarded the 2024 W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize at the recent annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in Boston. The W. Bruce Lincoln Prize is awarded annually for an author’s first published monograph or scholarly synthesis that is of exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia’s past. The prize jury praised Baumann’s monograph Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism as “an exquisitely sophisticated study of how individuals came to embrace identities with profound political meaning.”
Here the link to the website:https://aseees.org/citation/fabian-baumann-2024/
We are glad to announce our upcoming workshop “Meeting the Enemy at the Border: The Relational Dynamics of Contact Zones” of our third research focus of the RTG.
The workshop takes place at the Völkerkundemuseum VPST (Hauptstraße 235) on the 12th and 13th December. You can register via ambivalent-enmity@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de or use the QR-code:
We are delighted to announce, that Dr. Ahmed Mansour is going to hold a Fireside Chat with the title Preventing Extremism on the 6th December 2024.
Dr. Ahmed Mansour is a psychologist, bestselling author and has a Dr. theol. h. c. from the University of Basel. His work focuses on preventing extremism, especially Islamic extremism. He is Founder and CEO of Mind (Mansour-Initiative für Demokratieförderung und Extremismusprävention), which offers young adults and teenagers as well as workers from psycho therapy, pedagogy and management, who had experience with migration, extremism and violence, the opportunity to think independently and reflected.
The chat is going to take place at the HCTS, Room 400.02.12 at 12:30 a.m.
Please register until the 2nd December 2024 under ambivalent-enmity@hcts.uni-heidelberg.com. We are looking forward to your participation.
The HfjS is going to hold a workshop about Antisemitism in Scholarship and the Arts with intriguing panels and engaging talks (e.g. featuring Aleida Assman from the University of Konstanz).
For more information about the upcoming workshop click here to see the program.
The workshop is going to take place at the HfjS at 9:30 a.m till 6 p.m.
Please register until the 21st October 2024 under ambivalent-enmity@hcts.uni-heidelberg.com. We are looking forward to your participation.
This week we are able to present to you our upcoming colloquium for the winter term 2024/2025.
During this semester, starting on the 14th of October, the doctoral researchers of the RTG “Ambivalent Enmity” will present their process and dissertation projects. We will also have interesting guest lecturers, who will inform us about collaborative research projects such as the Horizon Arenas-Project.
The colloquium takes place every Monday at 2 p.m.-4 p.m. at HCTS Room 400.02.12. Click here for an overview of our program.
We are excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Stefan Vogt, acad. adjunct professor for Jewish History at the Goethe University Frankfurt, who is going to talk about Unacknowledged Kinships. Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism.
Prof. Dr. Stefan Vogt is also research director of the project “Zerbrechliche Nachbarschaft. Gedenken der Synagogen und jüdischen Gemeinden in Hessen“. His research focuses on German-Jewish History, especially History of Zionism, History of Colonialism, History of German and European Nationalism as well as the History of Political Ideologies and Movements. If you would like to find out more about him and his work click here.
The lecture is going to start at the HfJS, S4 at 4 p.m. We are looking forward to every participant.
We are delighted to announce, that our Affiliated Researcher Dr. Lily Eilan is going to give a lecture about The Sacred Tie between the Druzes and the Jews? A Re-evaluation.
Dr. Lily Eilan has a B.A. in Middle Eastern studies in the Hebrew University and a M.phil. in Middle Eastern studies at Oxford University. Her research focus is on the Social History of the Western Galilee 1936-76.
The lecture is going to take place at the HfJS, S4 at 4 p.m. We are looking forward to every participant.
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