The Leo Baeck Institute/Wiener Library Lecture Series 2003/2004 has been most successful, drawing capacity audiences of up to 150 people. Among the contributors were Steven Aschheim, Robert Wistrich, Ignacio Klich, Ute Deichmann, Joanna Bourke, Cilly Kugelmann, Alistair Davidson, Nicolas Berg, Sigrid Weigel and Carlo Ginzburg.
Professor Steven Aschheim (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Locating Nazi evil: the contrasting visions of Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt and Victor Klemperer
Professor Robert Wistrich (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Chair: Professor Peter Pulzer
Dr Ignacio Klich Commission of Enquiry into the activities of Nazism, Buenos Aires, Argentine
Dr Ute Deichmann (Leo Baeck Institute London and University of Cologne) From pre-eminence to decline in German biomedical research, 1900-1950. The impact of politics, anti-Semitism and isolation
Professor Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck College, London) Memory in an age of trauma
Dr Michael Ignatieff (Carr Professor and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University)
Cilly Kugelmann (Jewish Museum, Berlin)
Professor Alistair Davidson (Swinburne University, Melbourne)
Dr Nicholas Berg, (Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig)
Professor Sigrid Weigel (Technical University and Zentrum fuer Literaturforschung, Berlin)
