Autumn Semester 2017

Jewish Bodies

The topic of this lecture series allows almost limitless transdisciplinary approaches. The title "Jewish Bodies" can be understood in two ways: in relation to the bodies of Jews on the one hand, and to Jewish body discourses and practices on the other. In the tension between idealisation and exclusion, the topic of the lecture series raises fundamental questions about the construction of alterity and humanity in history and the present.

In the cultural sciences and humanities, scientific discourses on the human body as an object of study have usually taken the form of determining the body's relationship to other "components" of the human being. Philosophical considerations address the connection between body and soul, physis and psyche, etc., religious studies and theology ask about the implementation of such distinctions in diverse religious traditions; cultural anthropology addresses different body cultures, sociology the construction of gender identities. The lecture series reflects this diversity of disciplinary cognitive interests in a broad range of research objects between literature and real life.
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