Man as Lord or Guardian of Creation?
Reading with Discussion (video recording available, in English and German)
The lecture series Ethical Questions in Judaism and Islam addresses ethically sensitive questions from different areas of life and illuminates them from a Jewish and Islamic perspective. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Director of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, and Nawal Ammar, Dean of the Humanities & Social Sciences College at Rowan University in New Jersey have been invited to attend.
recording available
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
Video recording of the reading with discussion Man as Lord or Guardian of Creation? with Nawal Ammar and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson on 13 July 2017, in German and English; Jewish Museum Berlin 2017
Man as Lord or Guardian of Creation?
For a long time, the Abrahamic tradition was blamed for bringing about the ecological crisis due to the call of God to take control of the earth. But can the exploitation of nature really be blamed on the religions? Which stances can be deduced from Jewish and Muslim ethics on the legitimacy of interfering with nature, for example on the cultivation of genetically modified organisms or climate engineering?
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of Modern Judaism and Director of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe. She published “Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed World.”
Nawal Ammar
Nawal Ammar is Professor of Law and Justice and Dean of the Humanities & Social Sciences College at Rowan University, New Jersey. Her research interests include ecology and ecofeminism.
The event will be chaired by Dr. Martin Mahmud Kellner, Institute of Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück.
The discussants will be Nawal Ammar and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson; Photos: private; ASU.
Information and Program (in German only)
Dialogical Lecture Series Ethical Questions in Judaism and Islam
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Lecture Series 2016/17: Ethical Questions in Judaism and Islam (with video recordings) (6)
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Ethical Questions in Judaism and Islam (with video recordings)
The lecture series explored contentious ethical issues from diverse aspects of life and shed light on them from Jewish and Islamic perspectives. Two guest scholars gave each lecture, presented their tradition’s position, and engaged in a mutual dialogue.
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Man as Lord or Guardian of Creation?
With Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Arizona State University in Tempe) and Nawal Ammar (Rowan University in New Jersey), in German and English
Video Recording
13 Jul 2017 -
Sexual Ethics: Sexuality, Lust, Eroticism, and God
With David Biale (Eros and the Jews) and Kecia Ali (Sexual Ethics and Islam), in German and English
Video Recording
16 May 2017 -
Military Ethics: The (Religious) Laws Silent Beneath the Weapons?
With Michael Broyde (Emory University) and Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University), in German and English
Video Recording
6 Apr 2017 -
The Boundaries of Life - Bioethical Challenges
With Laurie Zoloth (Weinberg College, Northwestern University) and İlhan İlkılıç (University of Istanbul), in German and English
Video Recording
23 Feb 2017 -
Business Ethics – Is Capitalism Kosher/Halal?
With Nathan Lee Kaplan (author) and Idris Nassery (University of Paderborn), in German
Video Recording
8 Dec 2016 -
Social Ethics – On Fair Social Order
With Ingrid Mattson (Western University, Canada) and Micha Brumlik (Berlin-Brandenburg Center of Jewish Studies), in German and English
Video Recording
26 Oct 2016
Academy Programs: Past Events for You to Listen To and Watch 2011–2019 (40)
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Past Events for You to Listen To and Watch 2011–2019
We have recorded some of our conferences, lectures, readings, and panel discussions for you as audio or video files.
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About a Tea Bowl
Discussion with brief presentations about interwoven experiences of post-Soviet Jewish migration, video recording, in German
Lecture/Discussion
27 Nov 2019 -
Ruth Wodak: Swing to the right?!
Ruth Wodak traces how a new “normality to the right” is establishing itself in many European countries, video-recording, in German
Lecture/Discussion
17 Oct 2019 -
“To Know One Religion Is to Know None”
W. Michael Blumenthal Fellow Walid Abdelgawad talks about reflections on Islam and Judaism in the writings of German-speaking Jewish orientalists between 1833 and 1955, video recording, in German
Lecture/Discussion
28 Aug 2019 -
Museums, Religion and the Work of Reconciliation and Remembrance
with the curators Jisgang Nika Collision (Haida Gwaii Museum, Haida Nation & Canada) and Léontine Meijer-van Mensch (Saxonian State Ethnographic Collections), video recording
Lecture/Discussion
9 May 2019 -
Access Barriers. Critical Perspectives on Racism in Schools and Curatorial Practices
Keynote by Bonita Bennett (District Six Museum, Cape Town) at the conference Access Barriers on museums as places of social change, video recording
Lecture/Discussion
20 Mar 2019 -
Happy Birthday, Academy Programs!
Introducing the Academy Programs as well as Panel Discussions: Jewish Fathers – Jewish Children? and A Pre-fascist Era?, video recording, in German
Panel Discussion
2 Dec 2018 -
Living with Islamophobia
The international conference Living with Islamophobia considered how cultural and religious affiliations are constructed and invited experts to enter into discussion, video recording, in English and German
Conference
11 + 12 Oct 2018 -
Imported Antisemitism?
We discuss with political, academic, and practical experts which manifestations of antisemitism among Arab migrants and Muslims in Germany exist, video recording, in German
Lecture/Discussion
30 Aug 2018 -
Ongoing Struggles. Anti-Discrimination Work during the Rise of the Far Right
with Imani Perry: What Lies Underneath: Difficult Histories and the Resurgence of The Far Right, video recording
Conference
7 Jun 2018 -
What is the Relationship Between Antisemitism and Islamophobia?
Lectures by David Feldman and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, video recording, in English and German
Video Recording
20 Mar 2018 -
New Judaism – Alliances in Postmigrant Society
On concepts of being Jewish within the third generation of Jews in Germany, video recording, in German and English
Discussion
16 Nov 2017 -
Germanija. How I Became an Adult and a Jew in Germany
Reading and discussion on Dmitrij Belkin's narrative that also throws light on immigration today, audio recording, in German
Reading/Discussion
19 Oct 2017 -
IN-/EXCLUSIONS and Self-Empowerment in the Cultural Business
With Max Czollek, Dan Thy Nguyen, Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, and Mutlu Ergün-Hamaz, audio recording, in German
Discussion
12 Oct 2017 -
People, National Community, AfD
Book presentation and discussion with the author Michael Wildt and Alexander Häusler, audio recording, in German
Lecture/Discussion
10 Oct 2017 -
Future Memories
Discussion on the Importance of Minority Perspectives for European Societies’ Commemorative Cultures, video recording, in German and English
Discussion
26 Sep 2017 -
Man as Lord or Guardian of Creation?
Nawal Ammar and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, video recording, in German and English
Reading/Discussion
13 Jul 2017 -
Yousef Abad
Eliz Sanasarian and Elham Rokni on video art by Elham Rokni and the situation of Jews in Iran from the 1979 revolution to today, audio recording
Lecture/Discussion
6 Jul 2017 -
Religion. Fashion. Empowerment.
Discussion with Reina Lewis and Meriem Lebdiri, video recording, in English and German
Lecture/Discussion
29 Jun 2017 -
With Karamba to the Bundestag – My Journey from Senegal to the German Parliament
Karamba Diaby tells of his birth country Senegal, of life in the GDR, his work in the Bundestag, and of his vision of an open and future-oriented society, audio recording, in German
Reading/Discussion
1 Jun 2017 -
Ariel Sabar: My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
Reading and talk with the writer Ariel Sabar on the story of his father Yona Sabar, professor of the Neo-Aramaic language, and the Kurdish-Jewish history, audio recording
Lecture/Discussion
11 May 2017 -
Israelis in Germany. Ideological Debates and Changing Identities
Talk and Slideshow with Dr. Dani Kranz and Katja Harbi from the University of Wuppertal on Israeli Jews in today’s Germany, audio recording, in German
Lecture/Discussion
4 May 2017 -
Im/Possibilities – Perspectives on Refugee Participation
Conference on the situation for refugees in Europe and Germany. Recording of the opening event with a talk by Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK, audio recording, in German and English
Lecture/Discussion
29 Mar 2017 -
Our Father: A Sinti Family Recounts
Conversation and reading with the German-Sinti civil rights activist and author Anita Awosusi and her daughter Tayo Onutor about their family’s history, audio recording, in German
Reading/Discussion
23 Mar 2017 -
The Acid Test – How Fear of Foreigners is Threatening our Democracy
The Islamic studies and education scholar Lamya Kaddor reads from her book and discusses integration with Minister of State Aydan Özoğuz and Andreas Zick, audio recording, in German
Reading/Discussion
16 Feb 2017 -
Jews in North Africa During the Second World War
Theme day with lectures by Michel Abitbol, Eric Salerno, Patrick Bernhard, Haim Saadoun, and panel discussion, video recording, in German, English, and French
Lecture/Discussion
26 Jan 2017 -
A Jew in Neukölln – My Path to Coexistence of Religions
The theology student and writer Ármin Langer reads from his book and talks about Jewish life in Neukölln, audio recording, in German
Reading/Discussion
19 Oct 2016 -
Sites of Memory: Lost and Entangled Narratives
with Dr. Rosa Fava, Juliane Jurewicz, Prof. Dr. Iman Attia, Olga Gerstenberger, Ozan Keskinkiliç, Anita Awosusi, Ilona Lagrene, Prof. Dr. Michael Rothberg, and Serpil Polat, video recording, in German and English
Conference
16 Sep 2016 -
Time of Crisis
with Dan Diner, Adam Michnik, Dietmar Herz, Étienne François, and Hans Kundnani, video recording, in German
Discussion
7 Sep 2016 -
Antisemitism in the Arabic World – Facts and Myths
with Michael Kiefer and Omar Kamil, video recording, in German
Discussion
26 Apr 2016 -
“Angst ums Abendland” (Fears For the West) Book Presentation
Talk with Daniel Bax and Gideon Botsch on Right-wing populist parties, anti-Muslim sentiments, flight and asylum, audio recording, in German
Reading/Discussion
6 Apr 2016 -
Post-migrant Society?!
International conference, recording of the opening event, video recording, in German and English
Conference
12–14 Nov 2015 -
Kill Me a Son!
Opening event with Prof. Dr. Peter Schäfer and Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth, video recording, in German
Conference
3–4 Sep 2015 -
The Realignment of “Education after Auschwitz” in Immigration Society
Book presentation and panel discussion with the author Rosa Fava, Angela Kühner (University of Frankfurt), Selman Erkovan, history teacher in training, and Marco Kühnert, audio recording, in German
Reading/Discussion
27 Jan 2015 -
A Shared View of Europe – Jewish and Muslim Experiences as Reflected in Public Controversies
Panel discussion with Prof. Nilüfer Göle, Shai Lavi and Gökçe Yurdakul, video recording
Discussion
19 Jan 2015 -
Contemporary Jewish Life in a Global Modernity
Recording of the presentation Future of European Jewry with Dr. Karen Körber and Dr. Diana Pinto, video recording
Conference
11–12 Dec 2014 -
Snip it?!
Presentation of a study on the circumcision debate followed by a discussion as part of the Judeo-Islamic Forum, video recording, in German
Lecture/Discussion
4 Dec 2014 -
Concepts of Citizenship and Participation in European Comparison
Keynote by Prof. Dr. Rainer Bauböck and the following panel discussion with Dr. Manuela Bojadžijev, Josip Juratovic and Dr. Monika Lüke, video recording, in German
Conference
7–8 Apr 2014 -
Is Higher Education a Safeguard Against Racism and Antisemitism?
Presentation of a study followed by panel discussion with Wassilis Kassis, Charlotte Schallié, Iman Attia, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum and Andreas Zick, video recording, in German
Lecture/Discussion
20 Feb 2014 -
Modernized, then Tolerated?
Micha Brumlik, Petra Bahr, Kadir Sanci, and Thomas Bauer about religion and navigating between tradition and adaptation, audio recording, in German
Discussion
10 Oct 2013 -
The History of Jews and Dönme in Turkey
The Turkish studies scholar Corry Guttstadt and the historian Marc Baer discuss the history of Jews and Dönme (converts) in Turkey, audio recording, in German
Lecture/Discussion
31 Jan 2011
