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.

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

2–3 November 2022

Photo: Bardadrac, "Charles Le Brun La Colère", CC-BY-SA-4.0; cropped

Workshop: Morality, Emotions, and Scepticism

22–23 August 2022

Photo: Public Domain

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

26–27 July 2022

Photo: BnF

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

14–15 June 2022

Photo: UHH/SUB HH

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

February 1–2, 2021

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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

January 14–15, 2020

Photo: Wikimedia Commons/MCAS

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

October 27–28, 2019

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Workshop: Early Modern (Anti-) Scepticism

June 4, 2018

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Photo: UHH

Workshop: A Touch of Doubt. On Haptic Scepticism

March 27–28, 2018

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Photo: Bibliotheca Hertziana, MPI Florenz

Workshop: Visuelle Skepsis. Wie Bilder zweifeln

December 11–12, 2017

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Photo: UHH

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

November 14–16, 2017

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Early Career Workshop on Scepticism

November 9, 2017

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

November 7–8, 2017

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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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Photo: Nat. Library of Israel & Publ. Domain

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

February 6–10, 2017

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Photo: UHH

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

June 15, 2016

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

April 18–19, 2016

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Photo: Dep. CMJ

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

March 29, 2016

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Photo: Ets Haim Bibliotheek Amsterdam

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

February 15, 2016

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Photo: UHH/SUB HH

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

November 5, 2015

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Workshops/Sceptical Ateliers

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

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

Workshop: Morality, Emotions, and Scepticism

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

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

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

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

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

Workshop: Early Modern (Anti-) Scepticism

Workshop: A Touch of Doubt. On Haptic Scepticism

Workshop: Visuelle Skepsis. Wie Bilder zweifeln

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

Early Career Workshop on Scepticism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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