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SUMMARY:Volkswagen Momentum Workshop "Rethinking Jewish Cultures Beyond Europe"
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is organized within the framework of the Volkswagen Momentum Fellowship Programme “From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies\,” which seeks to bridge the traditionally segmented fields of pre-modern and modern Jewish history in the Near East through an integrated\, interdisciplinary approach. By encouraging the study of Jewish histories across temporal boundaries\, the programme highlights the mutual entanglement of pre-modern developments and modern contexts. \nIn this spirit\, the workshop brings together scholars working across different media\, geographies\, and methodological approaches to explore how Jewish pasts beyond Europe are narrated\, mediated\, and transformed into cultural heritage. Particular attention is given to challenging Eurocentric and Ashkenazi-centered paradigms in Judaic Studies by foregrounding Jewish cultural production in Arabic-speaking and other non-European contexts. \nMoving from textual and historical analysis to sound archives\, visual practices\, and participatory methods\, the program examines how meanings of the past are negotiated in relation to present-day political\, social\, and cultural contexts. Cultural production\, historical narratives\, and heritage practices emerge here as key sites in which competing understandings of the past are articulated and contested. \nThe workshop is structured in three parts. The opening day introduces different modes of narrating the past across media and disciplines\, framing key questions about authority\, representation\, and cultural translation. The following two-day masterclass led by Rudy Kisler focuses on the politics and semiotics of cultural heritage\, combining theoretical reflection with participatory methods such as photovoice. The final day turns to contemporary artistic practices in the exhibition “Yalla: Arab-Jewish Encounters” at the Jewish Museum Munich\, where participants reflect on how these questions are negotiated in curatorial and visual form. \n  \nProgram\nJune 9\, 2026\n9:30 Registration\n9:45 – 10:00 Introduction with Ronny Vollandt (LMU) and Marina Shcherbakova (LMU) \n10:00 – 12:30 Narrating the Past Across Media \nClaire Leibovich (Durham University)\nJacqueline Kahanoff’s Haggadah: Political Imagination and the Retelling of Biblical Stories in the Twentieth-Century Levant \nAlexandra Birch (Columbia University)\n“Let this be our Renaissance!”: Reconsidering Holocaust Evacuation to Soviet Central Asia in Jewish Intellectual History \nChristopher Silver (McGill University)\nSongs of the Land: Recording Trials and Tribulations in Arabophone Israel \n12:30 – 13:30 Lunch \n13:30 – 15:00 Discussion “From Narrative to Heritage: Scales\, Media\, and Authority”. Moderated by Joshua Krug (Independent Scholar) \nHow do cultural narratives become recognized as heritage? Which actors\, media\, and infrastructures shape this transition? And what forms of authority\, inclusion\, or exclusion emerge in the process? \n16:00 Lecture with Avner Ofrath (LMU) \nJudeo-Arabic Writing and the Question of Vernacular Modernity \n\nJune 10\, 2026\nMasterclass with Rudy Kisler (LMU)\nPast Values: Heritage\, Power\, and Ethics\nRead the full masterclass description \n10:00 – 13:00 Masterclass I: Concepts and Approaches \n13:00 – 14:00 Lunch \n14:00 – 16:00 Masterclass II: Photovoice and Participatory Methods \n  \nJune 11\, 2026\n10:00 – 13:00 Masterclass III: Imagining a New Jewish Heritage \n13:00 – 14:00 Lunch \n  \n16:00 Lecture with Rudy Kisler (LMU)\nIntersecting Heritages: The case of the Bir’am/Bar’am in Israel/Palestine \n  \nJune 12\, 2026\n10:00 – 11:00 Guided tour through the exhibition “Yalla: Arab-Jewish Encounters” at the Jewish Museum Munich with Fabio Ioppolo (LMU) \n11:30 – 12:30 Discussion with the curator Sapir van Abel (Jewish Museum Munich) \n  \nRegistration open till June 6\, 2026\, m.shcherbakova@lmu.de.
URL:https://www.jewisharabiccultures.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/calendar/volkswagen-momentum-workshop-rethinking-jewish-cultures-beyond-borders/
LOCATION:Room 2.33\, Herzogliches Georgianum\, Professor-Huber-Platz 1\, Professor-Huber-Platz 1\, Munich\, Bavaria\, 80539\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Masterclass,Public Lecture,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Marina Shcherbakova":MAILTO:M.Shcherbakova@lmu.de
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