“Self-worth, desire for normalcy, symbolic politics? Jewish cultural events in the German context.”
Jewish cultural events currently take place in a field of tension between mainstream societal desires and appropriations, as well as the longing for visibility and recognition. They occur amidst a more confident, louder diversity of Jewish life and a growing antisemitism. Additionally, in many areas of arts and culture, it is not entirely clear what the label “Jewish” signifies, making the corresponding attribution a matter of politics, as well as the question of who is allowed to speak as Jewish or not in the German cultural landscape. It is a difficult terrain from which many withdraw – and yet it is precisely art, as Sasha Marianna Salzmann recently formulated, that could unlearn the either-or mentality.
Speaker:
Lea Wohl von Haselberg is a film and media scientist and researches and writes on German-Jewish topics and culture of remembrance. Her research at the Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF Film University is located at the interface of media studies and Jewish studies; since 2020 she has been funded by the PostDoc Network of the State of Brandenburg. She is an associated member of the Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg and co-editor of the magazine Yalta. Positions on the Jewish present and co-program director of the Berlin Brandenburg Jewish Film Festival.
Get your ticket:
Symposium “Jewish, Now! – The Significance of Jewish Culture for a Democratic Society”
When: April 15th and 16th, 2024
Location: Kulturrathaus, Königstr. 15, 01097 Dresden
Ticket: karten@juedische-woche-dresden.de
Cost: €80 (participation & catering)
! EARLY-BIRD: For the first 20 registrations, participation costs €65 !
Registration deadline: April 4th, 2024
Diese Maßnahme wird mitfinanziert durch Steuermittel auf der Grundlage des vom Sächsischen Landtag beschlossenen Haushaltes. Das Projekt wird durch das Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz der Landeshauptstadt Dresden gefördert. Und unterstützt durch den Beauftragten der Sächsischen Staatsregierung für jüdisches Leben.
