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Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies
Maimonides Centre
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Workshops/Sceptical Ateliers

Workshops and Sceptical Ateliers are formal meetings between fellows, the research team of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, and invited researchers from Germany and abroad. The topics of the workshops reflect the broad variety of research projects at the Centre.
Workshops and Scepticial Ateliers are open to the public.

Workshop Mantovani

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Workshop: "Questioning Authority"

18 - 19 June 2024

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Workshop Idolatry

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Workshop: "Breaking Idols, Embracing Doubts"

14 - 15 May 2024

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Codex Levy 147, fols. 1v/2r

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Workshop: "Faith, Scepticism, and Human-Animal Boundaries in Jewish and Christian Religious Cultures"

9–10 August 2023

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Workshop: "Limits of Faith: Jewish Women’s Views of the Divine, Jewish History, and Tradition after Auschwitz"

Photo: Malva Schalek, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem/Israel

Workshop: "Limits of Faith: Jewish Women’s Views of the Divine, Jewish History, and Tradition after Auschwitz"

13–14 June 2023

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Workshop: "A Resolute Reading of Descartes": Author Meets Critics

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Workshop: "A Resolute Reading of Descartes": Author Meets Critics

2–3 November 2022

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Workshop: Morality, Emotions, and Scepticism

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Workshop: Morality, Emotions, and Scepticism

22–23 August 2022

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Workshop: Gates to Modernity

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Workshop: Gates to Modernity: New Perspectives on Hasidism and Haskalah

26–27 July 2022

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Workshop: Beyond Doubt: Prophetic Language and Esoteric Knowledge in Renaissance Kabbalah

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Workshop: Beyond Doubt: Prophetic Language and Esoteric Knowledge in Renaissance Kabbalah

14–15 June 2022

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Workshop: Henry Dodwell

Photo: UHH/SUB HH

Workshop: Scepticism in Mendelssohn’s Commentary on Qohelet and His Other Hebrew Writings

February 1–2, 2021

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Workshop: Spinoza's Anti-Sceptical System

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Workshop: Spinoza's Anti-Sceptical System and its Aftermath

January 14–15, 2020

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Workshop: Philo of Alexandria

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Workshop: Philo of Alexandria and the Beginning of Jewish Philosophical Scepticism

October 27–28, 2019

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Workshop: Henry Dodwell

Photo: UHH/SUB HH

Workshop: Early Modern (Anti-) Scepticism

June 4, 2018

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Workshop: Touch and Doubt

Photo: UHH

Workshop: A Touch of Doubt. On Haptic Scepticism

March 27–28, 2018

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Workshop: Visuelle Skepsis

Photo: Bibliotheca Hertziana, MPI Florenz

Workshop: Visuelle Skepsis. Wie Bilder zweifeln

December 11–12, 2017

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Workshop: Buddhism and Scepticism

Photo: UHH

Workshop: Buddhism and Scepticism. Historical, Philosophical, and Comparative Perspectives

November 14–16, 2017

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Workshop: Henry Dodwell

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Early Career Workshop on Scepticism

November 9, 2017

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Workshop: Scepticism and Religion

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Workshop: Scepticism and Religion in al-Ghazālī, Maimonides, and Hume

November 7–8, 2017

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Sceptical Atelier: Simone Luzzatto

Photo: Bibl. Nazionale Marciana Venezia

Sceptical Atelier: Simone Luzzatto's "Socrates": Reading the Forthcoming First English Translation

May 22–24, 2017

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Sceptical Atelier: Salomon Maimon

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Sceptical Atelier: Salomon Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte: reading a new English translation

February 6–10, 2017

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Workshop: Jewish-Christian Polemics

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Workshop: Jewish Christian Polemics in the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Period

June 15, 2016

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Workshop: Henry Dodwell

Photo: UHH/SUB HH

Workshop: Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Ancient Judaism

April 18–19, 2016

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Workshop: Converts of Conviction

Photo: Dep. CMJ

Workshop: Converts of Conviction: Faith and Scepticism in Nineteenth Century Europe

March 29, 2016

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Workshop: Isaac Orobio

Photo: Ets Haim Bibliotheek Amsterdam

Workshop: Isaac Orobio: The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt

February 15, 2016

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Workshop: Henry Dodwell

Photo: UHH/SUB HH

Workshop: Henry Dodwell: A Controversy Involving Deism, Scepticism, and Fideism

November 5, 2015

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Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies

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E-Mail: maimonides-centre@uni-hamburg.de