Vorträge

Lectures (selection)

"German-Jewish Refugees in British Ceylon in the 1930s and 1940s." Jewish Immigration Reconsidered. A Symposium by the 2023-2024 Harry Starr Fellows in Judaica and Alan M. Stroock Fellows for Advanced Research in Judaica. Harvard University, May 6, 2024.

"Walter Jaeger's Greeks, Jews, and Germans." The Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History: Refugees (Not) Welcome: European Exile Scholars at Harvard in the 1930s and 1940s, Harvard University. March 21, 2024.

"The 'Jewish Refugee' as a Transatlantic Figure and its Blindspots: German- Jewish Intellectuals and Forced Migration from the Global South." Starr Seminar on Jewish Migration, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University. February 27, 2024.

Welcome and discussant in the final discussion at the international conference: The Holocaust and Migration: Beyond Flight and Displacement.Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie, Kochel am See. May 20-23, 2023.

"The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Bermuda Conference: Two Global Events in April 1943." International Conference: Looking at the Ghetto... The Warsaw Uprising: Eighty Years in Retrospect, Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow. April 19, 2023.

"Jewish China: Between Wu Wei (無爲) and German modernity", Global China Research Centre, Virtual Seminar Series, University of Exeter, March 8, 2023.

"On Anger, Loneliness, and Scapegoats: Reading Arendt on Migration in the Age of Resentment", Virtual Symposium - Reading Arendt Today: Migration and Prejudice, Maynooth University, January 20, 2023.

"The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Bermuda Conference on Refugees. Global and Local (Dis)Connectivity in April 1943." Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Boston, December 19, 2022.

"Antisemitism, Christianity, and the Quest for the Buddhist Jesus," Conference: Towards the Study of Jewish-Buddhist Relations, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford. March 11, 2022.

"German, Jewish, and Buddhist? Identity and Belonging in the Weimar Republic", Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford. March 2, 2022.

"Dreaming of Stones, Walls, and Mountains-China in German-Jewish Thought", David Patterson Lecture, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford. February 17, 2022.

"The Cologne Community Rabbi Zvi Asaria between Germany and Israel." Evening lecture in the series Zionism in Cologne, Cologne City Library, September 14, 2021.

"Jewish Encounters with Buddhism in German Culture. Between Moses and Buddha (1890-1040)." Virtual book presentation, International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Kyoto Seika University, August 28, 2021.

"History, Religion and the Transformation of the Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony in the 1960s." International Online Workshop Jewish Communities in Germany in Transition: Objects, Spaces and Traditions as a Mirror of Religious Transformation Processes after the Shoah, July 20, 2021.

"Hermann Helfgott-Zvi Asaria - Militärrabbiner im Osnabrücker Kriegsgefangenenlager Oflag VI C", evening lecture in the series Topographien des Terrors. National Socialism on site. Museumsquartier Osnabrück, September 3, 2020.

"Die 'Schmierwelle' 1959/60 - Antisemitismus und Rechtsextremismus in der frühen Bundesrepublik", lecture as part of the lecture series: Der lange Schatten - Antisemitische Gewalt in der Geschichte, Osnabrück University, January 21, 2020.

"Hermann Helfgott - Zvi Asaria. Ein transnationales Rabbinerleben im Zeitalter der Extreme", Workshop: Juden, Christen, Deutsche, Israelis - Beziehungsnetze im Köln der 1950er und 1960er Jahre, University of Cologne, December 3, 2019.

"Gustav Landauer and Fritz Mauthner on Language, Religion and Buddhism", The Skepsis and Antipolitics of Gustav Landauer - International Conference for the 100th Anniversary of Gustav Landauer's Death, University of Haifa, November 25-26, 2019.

"Methodische Herausforderungen biographischer Geschichtsschreibung", 23rd symposium on Emsland local and regional history, Historisch-Ökologische Bildungsstätte, Papenburg. November 2, 2019.

"Möglichkeitsräume von Religiosität in nationalsozialistischen Kriegsgefangenenlagern am Beispiel der jüdischen Gefangenen im Oflag VI C", Religiosität in nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern und anderen Haftstätten, Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück. June 28-29, 2019.

"Hermann Helfgott-Zvi Asaria. From prisoner of war to regional rabbi", Workshop: Jewish life paths and lifeworlds: Jewish Biographies of Lower Saxony, Landeskirchenamt Hannover. June 19, 2019.

"Hermann Helfgott-Zvi Asaria and the Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Postwar Germany", 50th Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, USA. December 17-20, 2018.

"German Jews and the Challenge of Buddhism (1890-1940)", Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. December 14, 2018.

"Hermann Helfgott-Zvi Asaria and the Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Postwar Germany", European Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Krakow, Poland. July 16-19, 2018.

"Paul Cohen-Portheim and the Messianic Mission of the Jewish People", Workshop: Messianism Now and Then - Religion, Ethics and Politics, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. July 1-3, 2018.

"Jewish Migrants from Germany to British Ceylon and their Networks of Knowledge, 1933-1950", In Global Transit: Jewish Migrants from Hitler's Europe in Asia, Africa, and Beyond. Organized by the German Historical Institute in Washington/DC at Loreto College, Kolkata, India. 14-16 February 2018.

"Alfred Döblin's Engagement with Buddhism and Daoism - Eastern Religions as an Antidote to Human Alienation", 21st International Alfred Döblin Colloquium, University of Cambridge. September 18-20, 2017.

"The German-Buddhist emigration to British Ceylon and its Bifurcation", Emigration from Nazi-Occupied Europe to British Overseas Territories after 1933, Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies Triennial International Conference, University of London. September 13-15, 2017.

"Walter Tausk's Contested Identities between Judaism and Buddhism", 48th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego, USA. December 18-20, 2016.

"The Reciprocal Exchange of Ideas on Buddhism and Modernity Between Germany and Asia (1900- 1930)", Buddhism in the Global Eye Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. August 10-12, 2016.

"Rise of the Outsider, Decline of Society? Felix Dormann's Jazz in the Perspective of a Comparison with The Great Gatsby and Jud Suß", together with Bernhard Stricker, Berkeley-Tübingen-Wien-Harvard Research Network on German Modernity Conference, Harvard University, USA. May 5-8, 2016.

Session Chair: "Responsibility for the World: Jean-Luc Nancy, Freedom, and the Future", The American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Ninetieth Annual Meeting, San Francisco. March 3, 2016.

"Lion Feuchtwanger between Judaism and Buddhism", 7th International Feuchtwanger Society Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. September 17- 19, 2015.

"Theodor Lessing and Lion Feuchtwanger - On Buddhism in German Thought", DAAD Postgraduate Summer School in German Studies - Culture in a Global Context, University of Oxford, England. July 7-10, 2015.

"Buddhism and Social Conflict in the Age of Rational Modern Capitalism - A Weberian Reading of Early 20th-Century €-Buddhism", United Nations Day of Vesak 2015/2558, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, Thailand. May 28-30, 2015.

"Jewish Responses to the Influx of Buddhism into German Thought during the Wilhelmine Era and the Weimar Republic", 46th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, Baltimore, USA. December 14-16, 2014.

"Franz Rosenzweig's Encounter with Far Eastern Wisdom", International Rosenzweig Congress, Goethe University Frankfurt. October 26-29, 2014.

"Calls for spiritual renewal through Eastern wisdom and Jewish counter-discourses in Wilhelmine Era and Weimar Republic", Conference Gloom Goes Global: Towards a Transcultural History of Melancholy since 1850 , Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe", Heidelberg University. October 2-4, 2014.

"Asia as a remedy for the decline of the West in German-Jewish writing", Workshop: Jewish Messianism and the Avant-Garde, EAM Conference, University of Helsinki, Finland. August 29-31, 2014.

"Judaism to the Rescue! - Jewish Responses to the First World War", The Second Conference of Young Israeli Researchers in European Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. June 11, 2014.

"Jewish Responses to the Influx of Eastern Wisdom into German Thought during the Wilhelmine Era and the Weimar Republic", The 7th Bucerius Research Workshop, University of Haifa, Israel. June 10, 2014.

"Freud in Beirut - The Mechanisms of Trauma in Waltz with Bashir", Imagining the Ineffable - Representation and Reality in Religion and Film, The Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. March 29-31, 2013.

"Rosenzweig, Heidegger and the Social Individual", Workshop: Issues in German Social and Political Thought, 8th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science, International Relations & Public Policy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. December 12-14, 2012.