THE LBI YEAR BOOK 2011
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.
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.
Jews, Politics and Austria
A lecture series organised by the Austrian Cultural Forum London and the Leo Baeck Institute London.
29 March 2012, 7.00pm, Austrian Ambassador’s Residence
Professor Raphael Gross (LBI London)
Hans Kelsen – 20th Century Lawyer: Comeback not desired
‘The complexity of my condition: an Austrian, a Jew’. This diary entry by Arthur Schnitzler in 1913 serves as epigraph of our lecture series Jews, Politics and Austria organised jointly with the Austrian Cultural Forum London. The series introduces Jewish intellectuals, artists and scientists who, in the early years of the twentieth century, lived and worked in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and in the Republic of Austria. Read the rest of this entry »