סדנה: גרמניה, ישראל ומדעי הרוח: היבטים היסטוריים [ירושלים] 1-2.11.15

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From: Sharon Livne <liv...@gmail.com>

We are glad to invite you to the colloquium: 'The Humanities between Germany and Israel: Historical Perspectives':

The colloquium is the opening event of the research project "German-Israeli Research cooperatio in the Humanities (1970-2000)," which focuses on studying this cooperation in the field of German Literature and History. The project is a joint initiative of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute with the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, and the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt. 

The participants are scholars in the fields of History, German Literature and the History of Science. Their research lies at the interface between the German and Israeli scientific communities.

The aim of the colloquium is to discuss major questions of the research project: why and how German literature and language as well as German history became part of the Israeli university curriculum? Did the cooperation between the two states, which has gathered pace since the 1970s, exert an influence on the disciplines and their canon in both states? 

What were the political implications of the German-Israeli cooperation, and were there also political consequences? The link between politics and academia is one of the questions to be addressed. Moreover, methodological questions of transfer and migration of knowledge will be discussed.

The colloquium will take place on November 1-2, 2015 at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 43 Jabotinsky Street, Jerusalem

Program:

Sunday, 1 November 2015

16:00-18:00

Opening Greetings

Gabriel Motzkin, Director, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Yfaat Weiss, Director, Rosenzweig Minerva Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Preconditions and Boundaries

Chair:  Dan Diner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hanoch Gutfreund, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University Friends Organizations before and after WWII

Rivka Feldhay, Tel Aviv University, Minerva Humanities Center

Knowledge Migration between Germany and Israel: Some Methodological Remarks 

Mitchell G. Ash, University of Vienna

Dealing with Burdened Pasts: Remarks of an American from Austria

18:00-18:30  Coffee Break

18:30-19:45  First Encounters: Motivations, Dilemmas and Atmosphere

Chair: Shulamit Volkov, Tel Aviv University

Nicolas Berg, Simon-Dubnow-Institute, Leipzig; Fritz Bauer Institute Frankfurt a/M

The “Jerusalem Question” – The Memories of a German Visitor to Israel in 1959

Sharon Livne, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; University of Haifa; Rosenzweig Minerva Center

The Hebrew University’s Attitude toward Germany in the 1950s-1960s

Monday, 2 November 2015 

9:30 Gathering

10:00-11:15

Greetings

Gabriele Hermani, Science Counsellor, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany 

Preliminary Model: Contacts in the Sciences

Chair:  Dorothee Wierling, Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg 

Ute Deichmann, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

The Early Israeli-German Collaboration in the Sciences – Political and Scientific Interests and Potential Implications for the Humanities

Jenny Hestermann, Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt a/M

Funding Policies of German Foundations

11:15-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45-13:30  Approaching German History and Literature together

Chair: Steven Aschheim, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Andreas Kilcher, ETH Zürich

Verhandlungen eines Bindestrichs. Wissenschaftlicher und öffentlicher Diskurs zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur seit 1970

Irene Aue-Ben-David, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; LBI Jerusalem; Rosenzweig Minerva Center

The Beginning of a “Fachgespräch” – The First German-Israeli Cooperative Conferences

Yonatan Shiloh-Dayan, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Rosenzweig Minerva Center

Displaced Historian, Misplaced Histories – The Walter Grab Archive

13:30-15:00 Lunch Break

15:00-16:15  Institutionalizing Cooperation

Chair: Raphael Gross, Simon-Dubnow-Institute, Leipzig

Jürgen Kocka, Berlin Social Science Center

Contacts and Institutions: Some Personal Recollections of the 1980s

Wilhelm Vosskamp, University of Cologne

Zwischen Philologie und Kulturwissenschaften. Zum deutsch-israelischen Dialog nach der Gründung des Rosenzweig-Zentrums

16:15   Concluding Remarks

16:45 Reception

לפרטים נוספים: 

שרון ליבנה

  sha...@vanleer.org.il

02-5608940

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