December 2005

"The Jewish Question in German Philosophy - From Idealism to Materialism".

Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.

November 2005

"Compensation for Holocaust Survivors from Today's Perspective: A German-Israeli Research Dialogue"

 An International Workshop hosted by the Minerva Institute for German History as part of the GIF project "Practices of Wiedergutmachung".
Workshop Rationale and Abstracts of Papers

March 2005

Victor Klemperer - The man, the documentation, the time
Lecture evening on the occasion of the publication of "Diaries 1933 - 1945" in Hebrew.

December 2004

"Heinrich Heine - Poet and Intellectual".

Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.

October 2004

"Dyonisos at the Center - Theatre, History and the Urban Space".
Lecture evening on the stage adaptation of Tamar Berger's Book on the history of the Dizengoff Center site.

May 09, 2004

"German Enterprises in the Era of the 'Economic Miracle' - Mentalities and Biographies"

Documentary films, lectures and panel discussions.
In cooperation with the Goethe Institute.

May 2004

"History and Memory", Lecture evening in connection with the exhibition
Synagogues in Germany: Virtual Reconstructions.

In cooperation with the Diaspora Museum.

January 2004 - "Karl Marx - On Nature and Utopia".

Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.

November 16, 2003

"Theodor W. Adorno - A Philosopher of Damaged Life"

In cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation Tel Aviv and the Goethe Institute. [View Poster]

Theodor W. Adorno - Philosoph des beschädigten Lebens

April 28, 2003

"Hannah Arendt - Half a Century of Controversy"

[View Program in Hebrew / English]

In cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
חנה ארנדט - חצי מאה של פולמוס

January 2003

"Liberty and Violence in the French Revolution".

Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.

October 2002

"Vicious Circle - Jews, Anti-Semites, and other Germans".
Lecture evening on the occasion of the publication of Shulamit Volkov's book.

June 09, 2002

"20th Century German History as reflected in German-Speaking Literature"

In cooperation with and with the support of Goethe Institut, Tel Aviv and the Austrian Embassy, Tel Aviv. [View Program]
Deutsche Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur

May 13, 2002

- "Opposing Oppression, Occupation and Persecution - The Resistance against the Nazi Regime"

Supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Goethe Institute Tel Aviv. [View Program]

March 2002

"The German Presence in Latin America".

In cooperation with the Institute for the History and Culture of Latin America, TAU.

January 2002

"Jews and Germans - Cultural Encounters".
Symposium with young Israeli scholars, organized by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. In cooperation with the Institute for German History.

December 2001

"Georg Büchner - Revolutionary and Artist".

Annual lecture evening in memory of Prof. Walter Grab.

November 13, 2001

"Wagner in Context - Art, Ideology, Politics"

In cooperation with the Goethe Institut Tel Aviv and the Music Academy, Tel Aviv University. [View Program]
Some of the lectures delivered at the symposium "Wagner in Context" have been assembled in Zmanim 79, Summer 2002 (Hebrew).
Contributions by: Moshe Zuckermann, Na'ama Sheffi, Haim Gans, Hartmut Zelinsky, Shimon Kagan, Gad Kaynar, Susanne Vill, Jochen Hoerisch Papers by Na'ama Sheffi, Haim Gans, Gad Kaynar and Bazon Brock appeared in the Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History 2003 (in German) - see under Publications

June 03, 2001

"Ethnicity, Modernism and the Eclipse of Tradition"

Supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Israel. [View Program]
Conference papers have been published in the Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History 2002

May 2001.

A Symposium on the occasion of the publication of "Like an Egyptian Movie" by Ron Barkai

March 2001

"In the Name of Liberty and Equality".

Symposium in memory of Prof. Walter Grab (1919-2000).

January 2001

"On Robbers, Tyranny and Liberty".

Symposium on the occasion of the Hebrew translation of "Die Räuber" by Friedrich Schiller.
In cooperation with the School of Cultural Studies.

January 2001

"Heldenplatz and Other Tales From Austria": A Symposium on the Austrian Writer Thomas Bernhard.

In cooperation with the Austrian Embassy Tel Aviv and Schocken Publishing House Ltd.

January 2001 - Symposium gathering former participants of the student exchange program between the University of Munich and TAU, presenting their current research.
In cooperation with the Chair of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich and the Konrad Adenauer Chair for Comparative European History.

November 22, 2000

"Between Politics and Culture - Jews in the GDR"

In cooperation with the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [View Program]
Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Zwischen Politik und Kultur - Juden in der DDR

May 2000

Guest Lecture by Prof. Jeffrey Herf, Ohio University, Athens
"Divided Memory - The Holocaust in the Political Cultures of the Two Germanys".

April 2000

Guest Lecture by Prof. Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel
"Marx: Dialektik im Primat der Praxis".
In cooperation with the School of Philosophy

March 20, 2000

"Vom Nationalsozialismus zur Bundesrepublik - Verdraengung und Erfolg?"

Workshop. In cooperation with the Goethe Institute.

March 2000

"Austria 2000 - Resurrection of the Past?".
In cooperation with the Curiel Center for International Studies, Tel Aviv University.

December 1998 - Book presentation:            
"Flucht nach Eretz Israel - Die Bricha und der jdische Exodus durch ?sterreich nach 1945" by Dr. Thomas Albrich, Innsbruck University, Austria.
(In the framework of the Austria-Israel project)

November 21, 1999

"Czernowitz as Paradigm - Cultural Pluralism and the Nationalities Question"

In cooperation with Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna.
Supported by the Goethe Institute Tel Aviv and by the Austrian Embassy, Tel Aviv. [View Program]

November 1999

Guest lecture by Dr. Michael Minkenberg, Viadrina European University, Frankfurt (Oder):
"The New Radical Right in Western Democracies - Comparative Observations".

June 1999

Guest lecture by Prof. Derek J. Penslar, University of Toronto, Canada:
"Rabbis and Stockbrokers - Jews and the 'Spirit of Capitalism' in 19th Century Germany".

June 1999

Guest lecture by Prof. Lutz Niethammer, Jena University and European University Institute, Florence, Italy:
"Collective Identity - Skeptic Remarks on the Roots and Uses of the Concept".

February 1999

"Transforming Europe - Legacies of '68 and Changing Political Cultures".

In cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

November 1998

Meeting with the German author Ernst Loest on:
"Bilanz und Ausblick einer neuen gesamtdeutschen Identität".

June 1998

"Critical Theory in Contexts - On the History, Legacy and Impact of the Frankfurt School".

Supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne, the Goethe Institute Tel-Aviv, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

May 1997

"Mirroring Germany - Imagination, Representation, Memory".
Supported by the Bertelsmann Foundation, Guetersloh.

January 1997

"Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt - A Conference in Legal History".
In cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt/M.

December 1996

"German-Israeli Relations: History, Culture and Politics".

October 1996

"Between Germany and Russia: The Legacy of East-Central Europe".

In Cooperation with the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies, Tel Aviv University

December 1995

"The Last Nationality Question? Social Democracy, National Identity and Jewish Emancipation".

April 1995

"German Historiography at Era's End - The 19th and 20th Century".