— Unfortunately, the Berliner Seminar on 10 June 2025 must be cancelled. —
In November 2022, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin gave a talk at at the EUME Berliner Seminar entitled “16th Century Safed, Zionism, and Palestine” in which he addressed “the urgency of binational thinking”. It seemed to him urgent then, because catastrophe was in the air. In his talk on June 10, 2025 he will ask if bi-national thinking still is relevant or urgent.
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin teaches at the department of Jewish history, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is a founding member of the Collegium of EUME, and was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2003/04). Among his publications are: The Censor, the Editor and the Text: Catholic Censorship and Hebrew Literature in the Sixteenth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007); Exil et Souverainete (Paris: La fabrique, 2007); Exile and Binationalism: From Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt to Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish (Carl Heinrich Becker Lecture 2011, Berlin 2012). His recent book in Hebrew is entitled “Mishnaic Consciousness, Biblical Consciousness: Safed and Zionist Culture” (Hebrew, Van Leer Institute and Ha-Kibbutz Ha-Meuchad, 2022). He is completing now a manuscript entitled Jewish History as a Counter-History.
Himmat Zoubi is a Palestinian researcher and feminist activist. She is the Research Director at Mada Al-Carmel – Arab Center for Applied Social Research, Haifa. She received her PhD in Sociology from Ben-Gurion University and holds two Master's degrees, one in Criminology and another in Gender Studies. Her work focuses on cities and urbanization in colonial context. She published several book chapters and articles on settler colonialism cities, Palestinian feminist movements, indigenous knowledge and resistance. Zoubi was a EUME Fellow during the academic years 2018-21. In 2021/22 she was a postdoctoral fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) at Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. In the academic years 2022-25, she remains a EUME Fellow.
Pleaser register in advance via eume(at)trafo-berlin.de. Depending on approval by the speaker(s), the Berliner Seminar will be recorded. All audio recordings of the Berliner Seminar are available on SoundCloud.
