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European Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series

Wednesday 23 May, 6.30pm at the German Historical Institute

Prof Vivian Liska (University of Antwerp)

‘Before the Law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper comes a man…’: Kafka, Narrative and the Law

This lecture is organised in cooperation with the German Historical Institute and the Austrian Cultural Forum.

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FilmTalk 2011/2012: Sleeping with the Enemy

Thursday, 10 May, 6.30 at the Wiener Library

Prof Carrie Tarr (Kingston University, London)

Secularism, difference and the family in Roschdy Zem’s Mauvaise foi/Bad Faith (2006)

This lecture series is organised by the LBI London in cooperation with the Wiener Library.

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From Experience, to Memoir, to History: Henny Brenner in Nazi Dresden

University College London, Institute of Jewish Studies: Public Lecture Series

Monday, 21 May 2012, 6.45pm in the Gustave Tuck lecture theatre

Henny Brenner and Prof Michael Brenner

Prof Michael Brenner, member of the LBI Year Book Advisory Board, will be taking part in a lecture of the Jewish Studies Public Lecture Series. His mother Henny, born in 1924 in Dresden, will speak about her childhood in Weimar Germany, her adolescence under the Nazis and the subsequent period of Soviet domination.

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European Leo Baeck Institute Lecture Series

26 April, 6.30pm, German Historical Institute

Prof. Gareth Stedman-Jones (Queen Mary, University of London)

Fathers and sons: Heinrich and Karl’s contrasting conceptions of the French Revolution

The European Leo Baeck Lecture Series is organised by the Leo Baeck Institute London, the Jewish Museum and the Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt am Main, in cooperation with the German Historical Institute London.

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Emotions and the History of Modern Anti-Semitism

International conference at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB), Center for the History of Emotions in Berlin organized by MPIB, Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin and the Leo Baeck Institute London.

Berlin, 16-18 April 2012

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