Liliana Ruth Feierstein
Education
2007 Ph.D. in Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf
Dissertation: “Von Schwelle zu Schwelle. Einblicke in den didaktisch-historischen Umgang mit dem Anderen aus der Perspektive jüdischen Denkens,” Augsburger Wissenschaftspreis für Interkulturelle Studien [Augsburg Prize for Scholarship in Intercultural Studies] 2008)
1999 Master in Sciences (Educational Research), Center for Advanced Research and Studies (CINVESTAV), University of Mexico
1998 Semester at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Project: “History of Cultural Minorities and Education”)
1995 Licenciatura in Educational Science, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Fellowships and Awards
March 2010 Special Award, International Reception of Heine, Heinrich-Heine-Gesellschaft
June 2008 Augsburg Prize for Scholarship in Intercultural Studies
Sept. 2005 Nahum Goldmann Fellowship
Feb. 2005 Leo Baeck Institute (Colloquium for Doctoral Students)
May 2004 Neuberger Fund Fellowship, Institute for German History, University of Tel Aviv
March 2004 Fellow at Georg Eckert Institute for Textbook Research, Braunschweig.
Feb. 2004 Fellow, Colloquium for Doctoral Students, Leo Baeck Institute, Schloss Elmau
Sept. 2002 Fellow, Summer University, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
2000/2003 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Grant for Ph.D. Research
1999 North American Free Trade Agreement Exchange Fellowship at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver
1998 Fellow of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations (research project: “Historical-epistemological Analysis of Discourses on the Education of the Indios of Mexico”)
Research and Teaching Experience
Since 4/2010 Postdoctoral research, Universität Heidelberg: Narratives of Terror and Disappeareance. Fantastic Dimensions of Argentina’s Collective Memory since the Military Dictatorship (European Research Council)
2006/2010 Researcher, Universität Bayreuth (Comparative Studies)
2007/09 External researcher, Universidad de Entre Ríos, Argentina (project: “Schoolbooks, Dictatorships and Democratic Transition”)
Since 2007 Educational consultant, Landesverband Deutscher Sinti und Roma, BW (design and guidance of the school program “Augenblicke des Einhaltens: Argumentationshilfen gegen Antiziganismus und Antisemitismus” [Moments of Compliance: Argumentation Aids to Combat Anti-Gypsy and Anti-Semitic Sentiments])
2005 Research assistant, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf
2002 Teaching assistant, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf
1998 Research assistant, Colegio de México
1996/8 Teaching assistant, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Guest Lectureships
2009 Jewish Literature in Latin America: A Chapter Unknown to the People of the Book, Université Liege
2008 a) Jewish Thought in German: From Mendelssohn to Cohen and Beyond, Latin American Rabbinical Seminary and German Embassy in Argentina, Buenos Aires
b) Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish Enlightenment, Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos
Aires
c) Sources of Jewish Thought, Universidad Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires
Courses (selection)
2010 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies
2009 Ethical Dimensions of Textuality (Benjamin, Levinas, Derrida)
And Our Heritage Was A Net with Holes:. Native and African Voices in Latin American Literature
French Philosophers and Their Influence on the Study of Literature and Culture (Derrida/ Deleuze)
Research Areas
Chilhdood, political violence, and trauma
Ethics and pedagogy (Benjamin, Levinas, Derrida)
Classics of educational science (Durkheim, Dewey, Piaget)
Theories of justice
Children’s literature
Intercultural and interreligious education and integration
Project
The Child’s View of Terror and Its Treatment in the Post-Dictatorship Society of Argentina.
Publications (selection)
Books
Astillas en la memoria: de fantasmas, heridas y ausencias en los discursos de educación indígena (Buenos Aires: Galerna, 2008).
Von Schwelle zu Schwelle. Einblicke in den didaktisch-historischen Umgang mit dem Anderen aus der Perspektive jüdischen Denkens (Bremen: edition lumière, 2010).
Habitar la Letra. Judaísmo, escritura y transmisión, Acervo Cultural ediciones y Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires 2011
Editions
¿Ser niño? Entre la nostalgia, la pérdida y la instrumentalización. Representaciones mediáticas de la infancia en Africa francófona y América Latina, with Ute Fendler (in publication).
Jüdische Gauchos von Alberto Gerchunoff (mit einem Gespräch mit Jorge Luis Borges) (Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Jüdische Spuren I, 2010).
Traducción y Poder. Sobre marginados, infieles, hermeneutas y exiliados, with Vera Gerling (Madrid: MEDIAmericana 4, Iberoamericana, 2008).
Articles (selection)
De orillas y de textos. Entretango. In: Kristine Vanden Berghe, ed.: El retorno de los galeones (Frankfurt, 2011), 59-76.
El puente de papel: respuestas judías a la destrucción, with Liliana Furman. In: Revista de Estudios sobre Genocidio (Buenos Aires, 2010), 26-39.
La lección de anatomía: de la antropología „operando“ en la escuela. In: Maria Bertely et al., eds.: Educando en la diversidad cultural. Investigaciones y experiencias educativas interculturales y bilingües (Quito, 2008), 57-82.
The World as a Collection of Postcards: Evita’s Architecture Project(ion)s in the Making of Argentinean Identity. In: Peter Herrler and Eric Wegerhoff, eds. Architecture and Identity (Münster, 2008), 39-46.
N. de la T.: los pies del texto. In: Liliana Ruth Feierstein und Vera E. Gerling:Traducción y poder (Madrid, 2008), 17-33.
Memory under Siege: Jewish Veterans of the Soviet Army in Present-Day Germany, with Liliana Furman. In: Withold Bonner and Arja Rosenholm, eds.: Recalling the Past – (Re)constructing the Past: Collective and Individual Memory of World War II in Russia and Germany (University of Helsinki).
El Proceso: De Kafka a Oesterheld. In: Frank Leinen and Guido Rings, eds.: Bilderwelten - Textwelten – Comicwelten (Munich, 2007), 183-203.
Oyf di bregn fun Plata - Am Ufer des Silberflusses. Versuch einer Topographie jüdischer Erfahrungen in Argentinien. In: Hiltrud Wallenborn et al.: Der Ort des Judentums in der Gegenwart (Berlin, 2004), 93-118.
“Nor er redt nish arois kejn Vort..." (Name, Memory, Silence: Darkness of the Shoah). In Jewish Quarterly Studies (London, 2002), 109-120.
Reviews
Martin Lienhard: Disidentes, rebeldes, insurgentes. Resistencia indígena y negra en América Latina. Ensayos de historia testimonial. In: Iberoamericana X 38, 2010, 273.
Sonia Mattalia: La ley y el crimen. Usos del relato policial en la narrativa argentina (1880-2000). In: Romanische Forschungen 2011 (in publication).
Lectures (selection)
Dialectics of Enlightenment: The Pedagogical Project of Sarmiento, Universität Heidelberg.
The Journey to Jerusalem. Representations of Jews, Judaism, and Israel in German Schoolbooks, Schulmuseum Bremen, 2010.
Alberto Gerchunoff and the Jewish Gauchos, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, 2010
Desde el otro lado: Jewish Experiences of History in Latin America after 1945, Simon
Dubnow Institut, Leipzig, 2009.
Babel: Jewish Heritage? Davka! Jewish Magazines in Argentina: The Wealth of an
Unknown Heritage, Simposio Literatura judeolatinoamericana de los siglos XX y XXI:
identidades múltiples, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Berlin, 2009.
The Media Work of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Search of the Children
Who “Disappeared,” Tagung Blickpunkt Lateinamerika, Universität Mannheim, 2009.
¿Cómo decir la ausencia? Argentina’s Dictatorship in Literature and Film, Hispanists’
conference, 2009, Tübingen.
The New Midrash: The Jewish Press in Argentina, conference 80 Jahre Pressa : Der jüdische
Beitrag zum modernen Journalismus, Universität Bremen, 2008.
From the Other Side of the Mirror: A World of Exploited Children and Infantilized
Adults, conference ¿Ser nino?, Universität Bayreuth, 2008.
Ha Men(t)sch: The Little Difference in Yiddish Ethics, conference Ethik und/oder
Gerechtigkeit nach der Postmoderne, Universität Erlangen, 2007.
The “Disappeared” Writers in Argentina: Letters, Violence, Legacy. Universität des
Saarlandes, 2006.
“Praise of Madness” or How to Resist Tor(ah)quemada, conference Cervantes y las tradiciones
judías, Heinrich Heine Universität/Goethe-Museum, Düsseldorf, 2005.
"Nor er redt nisht arois keyn vort" ("But he doesn't utter a word") Name, Memory,
Silence: Darkness of the Shoah, conference Representing the Shoa in the XXI Century, Trinity College, Dublin 2001.
All Papers 
Organization of International Conferences
2008 Organized the international congress Enfances? Nostalgie, perte et instrumentalisation, Universität Bayreuth (with Ute Fendler).
2008 Planned and organized the advanced training seminar for teachers Argumentationshilfe gegen Antiziganismus und Antisemitismus, Evangelische Akademie Bad Poll.
2007/10 Planned and led the school program Augenblicke des Einhaltens: Argumentationshilfen gegen Antiziganismus und Antisemitismus, Landesverband Deutscher Sinti und Roma Baden-Württemberg
2006/09 Organized the “Fest des Buches” on behalf of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Commitee in the Jewish Community of Duisburg
2005 Organized conference sessions on Translation and Power for the Hispanists’ Conference in Bremen (with Vera Gerling)
Additional Professional Experience
since 2002 Freelance contributor, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Germany
