Lecture2Go
Lecture2Go is the central online video portal of Universität Hamburg, where you can watch, listen, and download recorded lectures. The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies intends to provide recordings of the lecture series, workshops, and conferences.
Conferences
Scepticism from Antiquity to Modern Times
May 8–11, 2017
The First International Conference on Scepticism at the University of Hamburg addressed the main elements, strategies, and definitions of scepticism with a focus on ancient, medieval, and early modern philosophy.
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Abulafia and the Early Maimonideans: Trends, Approaches, and Sceptical Strategies
March 12–15, 2018
The conference focused on the different trends and sceptical attitudes Maimonideanism took in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by examining various approaches to major religious topics.
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Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in
Jewish Averroism
November 12–14, 2018
The purpose of the conference was to crystallise the understanding of Jewish Averroism as a philosophical and cultural phenomenon.
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Workshops
Buddhism and Scepticism: Historical,
Philosophical, and Comparative
Perspectives
November 14–16, 2017
The conference investigated the place of scepticism in the development
of classical Buddhist thought from historical and philosophical perspectives.
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Jewish-Christian Polemics in the
Middle Ages and in the Early
Modern Period
June 15, 2016
This workshop focussed on sceptical aspects in Jewish-Christian polemics.
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Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Ancient Judaism
April 18-19, 2016
The aim of this Workshop was to discuss elements of sceptical thought in Ancient and Late Ancient Judaism through a new analysis of relevant texts.
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Converts of Conviction:
Faith and Scepticism in Nineteenth Century European Jewish Society
March 29, 2016
The Workshop considered a small group of converts in the modern era who moved from Judaism to Christianity out of a conviction.
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Isaac Orobio: The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt
February 15, 2016
The Workshop assessed the impact of Jewish criticism on the early modern quest for philosophical certainty and religious pluralism.
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Lectures
Grand Opening of the
Maimonides Centre for
Advanced Studies
October 29, 2015
What is Jewish Philosophy? A View from the Middle Ages
Josef J. Stern (University of Chicago)
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Maimonides Lectures on Scepticism
February 23, 2016
The Use and Abuse of Argument on both Sides of the Question: Where Platonism and Scepticism could find Common Ground
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Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Thought
- Charles Manekin
- Warren Zev Harvey
- Yehuda Halper
- Howard Kreisel
- Lawrence J. Kaplan
- Ariel Malachi
- Racheli Haliva
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Maimonides Lectures on Scepticism
Summer Term 2017
- Moshe Idel
- Nuccio Ordine
- Jonathan Garb
- Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
- Omri Boehm
- Carlos Fraenkel
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Maimonides Lectures on Scepticism
2018
- Moshe Halbertal
- Christoph Schulte
- Glenn Dynner
- Richard Bett
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Annual Lectures
- 2016: Giuseppe Veltri: The Limits of Scepticism and Tolerance
- 2017: Katja M. Vogt: The Nature of Disagreement: Ancient Relativism and Skepticism
- 2018: Julie R. Klein: Scepticism in Spinoza and the Project of Critique
Feminism & Scepticism
- 2016: Channa Pinchasi: On Yalta and Scepticism
- 2017: Judith R. Baskin: Rabbinc Forensics
- 2018: Tsippi Kauffman: Hasidism and Scepticism: Shades of Scepticism
- 2019: Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel: Scepticism and Gender. King David in the Image of the Shekhinah
Lecture Series
"Reason and Revelation in Jewish
Tradition"
Summer Term 2018
- Meir Buzaglo
- Christoph Schulte
- Ze'ev Strauss
- Aryeh Botwinick