JS Lecture Series: Lars Dencik: The Dialectics of Diaspora: The Art of being Jewish in Contemporary Modernity.

The Central European University

Jewish Studies Program

cordially invites you to a lecture by

Lars Dencik

Roskilde University

The Dialectics of Diaspora: The Art of being Jewish in Contemporary Modernity.

‘In this lecture I will provide a perspective on what “a Jewish way of relating to life” in contemporary modernity builds upon, implies and signifies. I will elucidate how historic experiences and cultural traditions become transformed to fit contemporary conditions. I will elucidate how modern Jewishness comprising kaleidoscopic Jewish identities is shaped, and how the predicament of living as a minority in Diaspora have rendered European Jews a position of being at the same time well integrated in modern society and a distinct ethno-cultural minority in their respective nation states.’

Thursday, October 03 at 6 p.m.

In Gellner Room

Lars Dencik resides in Stockholm, Sweden and is Professor of Social Psychology at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is member of the Academic Board of Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, and also board member of the research network The history of the Jews in Scandinavia. He is part of the international research team of the project ‘Perceptions and Experiences of Antisemitism among Jews in selected EU Member States’, and is Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) in London.

A reception will follow