Leo Beack Institute: Shared History Conference
3 days of discussion on 1,700 years of Jewish-Life in German-Speaking Lands.
A conference of Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin in Cooperation with the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) and the Jewish Museum Berlin, supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. Live online, December 7–9, 2020. Attendance via video conference is free with advance registration. The conference languages will be German and English with simultaneous translation.
Hourly Schedule
7. december
- 16:30 - 18:00
- Images & objects from a shared history in the collections of the Jewish Museum Berlin
8. december
- 13:30 - 15:00
- The Search for Belonging: The ongoing struggles for minority identity
- 15:00 - 16:30
- Migration: From refugees to citizens
- 16:30 - 17:30
- A Rupture in History: Talking about the Holocaust
- 18:00
- Flight: Exile in modern times
9. december
- 14:30 - 16:00
- Memory and Commemoration: Historical narratives of minorities within discourse of the majority society
- 16:00 - 17:30
- Withstanding the Pressure: Resilience and self-assertion in times of discrimination
- 17:30 - 18:30
- Shared Spheres and Cultural Exchange: Acceptance as challenge and opportunity
- 19:00
- Closing Discussion: “Shared” history? Reflections on a complex interplay
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