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. With this in mind, the foundation announced the creation of the Alfred Landecker Lecturer Program in May 2020. Over the course of five years, the Landecker Lecturers Fellows are provided funding and support.
Pavel Brunssen is a Research Associate at the Research Center on Antigypsyism at Heidelberg University. His project examines antigypsyism and minority subjectivity in German popular culture.
Bareez Majid is a literary scholar affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her research revolves around the exploration of post-memory, stemming from both the Holocaust and the anti-Kurdish genocidal campaign perpetrated by Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, recognized as Anfal.
Avner Ofrath is a historian at the FU Berlin. His project examines the transformation of Jewish-Muslim relations and deals with citizenship, language and the public sphere in the Mediterranean region in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Jan Rybak is a historian at the Central European University in Vienna. He works on Jewish armed self-organisation and self-defence in Eastern and Central Europe during from the Second Partition of Poland to the Holocaust.