The LBI is pleased to announce our upcoming lecture series for 2017/18,  in collaboration with the German Historical Institute. This season’s topic is ‘The Dangers of Writing Family History’, in which we shall discuss the challenges which arise when writing a German Jewish family history set in the historically and politically charged period of the late 19th to mid 20th century.

This season’s speakers will be:

Thursday, 7th December 2017

Dr Lisa Appignanesi – Losing the Dead – Before and After

Thursday, 1st March 2018

Thomas Harding – ‘You’re doing what?’ – My family’s response to my trying to save the house stolen by the Nazis

Thursday, 8th March 2018

Prof. Atina Grossmann –  Trauma, Privilege, and Adventure in the “Orient”: A Refugee Family Archive

Thursday, 12th April

Dr Martin Doerry –  Lifting a taboo: The story of a holocaust victim which has never been told before.

Thursday, 17th May 2018

Prof. Philippe Sands (East West Street: A Personal History of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity) in conversation with Katrin Himmler (The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History)

We hope that you will mark the dates in your calendars. For more information on the this season’s lecture series please refer to the leaflet here.