Lecture program spring 2025
Overview lectures 2nd semester year 2024-2025 (PDF, 57Kb)
Newsletter 2025 (PDF, 2.6Mb)
Upcoming conference: "Comparative Universalisms. Jewish and Other Perspectives" (7-9 July 2025), Klooster van de Grauwzusters (7 & 8 July) and Het Brantijser (9 juli). First conference of the "Network for European Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition".
Attention: The international workshop "Jewish Thought and Empire: 1830-1939" will be rescheduled to 8-9 December 2025. Further details will follow.
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Welcome at the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp.
The Institute focuses on the academic study of Judaism from a variety of cultural disciplines, including history, philology, literary theory, religious studies, law, philosophy and sociology. The Institute is active in academic research, university education and educational services for a general public.
Each academic year, the Institute organizes more than twenty lectures by national and international experts. These Thursday evening lectures are aimed at a broad audience and are freely accessible. The Institute organizes language courses Yiddish and modern Hebrew, as well as reading groups.
The Institute also organizes academic conferences, seminars and workshops, often in cooperation with Belgian and international academic and cultural institutions.
The Institute is fully integrated into the University of Antwerp and is supported by the Ministry of Education of the Flemish Community. It was established in the autumn of 2001.
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