The Landecker Lecturer Program’s mission is to support outstanding, cutting-edge research on the origins, modes of action and aftermath of the Holocaust, on the social and political transmission of its memory, the influence of conspiracy ideologies and group-based enmity (for example antisemitism and racism) as a structural threat to democracy. We have invited applications from highly qualified postdoctoral researchers, from the fields of humanities and social sciences. The Landecker Lecturers were selected through a three-stage selection process.
We are dedicated to investing in innovative approaches to address contemporary challenges facing democracy and the politics of memory. A greater understanding of the events that led to the systematic murder of six million Jews and millions of other victims can help us grapple with these challenges today.
Marietta van der Tol is based at the University of Cambridge. Her project studies the relationship between space, identity and borders in Central- and Eastern Europe.
Esra Akkaya is a literary scholar at the Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Duisburg-Essen. As an Alfred Landecker Lecturer, her current project focuses on Turkish-Jewish histories and literatures, exploring texts written in Ladino, French, and Turkish.