Top Hats, Low Standards. It is the telling title of the collection of essays published in 1969 by Jaap Meijer (1912-1993), an outstanding historian of Jewish life and thought, a fierce Dutch public […]
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic our research seminar takes place on the Kolleg’s digital platform (Wednesdays, 4.15-5.45 pm) 8th January 2020Birgit Erdle:Broken universalism. Siegfried Kracauer’s political thought 15th January 2020Thomas Maissen:Britannia […]
The Lichtenberg-Kolleg is Göttingen’s Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Named after one of the most important and versatile representatives of the Göttingen Enlightenment, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, the […]
Dear Friends, As you know, I am working on a project entitled Feelings about Jews: Morality and Emotions in German Film, 1914-2014. I am currently working on the second chapter, which deals […]
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Hello colleagues—Kolleagues?—and whoever else who has happened to find this post. It’s an odd time to be writing about research—something that has most certainly taken a back seat in these stressful and […]
I recently discovered a hitherto unknown letter by the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) to a certain Isaac Ironside (1808–70), dated 10 July 1855. Ironside was a leading radical, […]
Since the beginning of the corona crisis, my time in home-office has mostly been spent completing two articles that are related to my on-going research project Governing Religious Diversity in a (Post)Secular […]
My research focuses on the concept of Caesarism. Linguistically speaking, Caesarism is a neologism closely connected to the political situation of mid-nineteenth-century France. In the words of the conservative pamphleteer Auguste Romieu […]
My research project as a Moritz Stern Fellow in Modern Jewish Studies at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg investigates the figure and scholarship of Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960), a pioneering although neglected scholar of Jewish Studies. […]
