Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German
Guest lecture: How Antisemitism expresses itself and what we can do about it
Lecture
Date:Monday 17 February 2025
Time:18.00 – 19.30
Location:Auditorium 9, Södra huset
The German Embassy, the Section for German at Stockholm University and the DAAD Sweden invite you to a guest lecture and Q&A with Dr Felix Klein, Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Antisemitism.
18:00 Guest lecture by Dr Felix Klein on the state of antisemitism in Germany
18:30 Q&A moderated by Svante Weyler, former chairman of the Swedish Committee Against Antisemitism
The lecture and Q&A will be held in English.
Dr Felix Klein was appointed Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Antisemitism in 2018. He is the first to hold this post, which was created in response to growing antisemitism in Germany and the debate on how best to counter this phenomenon at the federal level. Dr Felix Klein holds a master’s degree in Public International Law (LL.M.) and held various posts at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin from 2007 to 2018, most recently as Special Representative for Relations with Jewish Organizations and Issues relating to antisemitism.
Svante Weyler is the former chairman of the Swedish Committee against Antisemitism and a Swedish publisher, writer and journalist. He was Swedish Radio's correspondent in Berlin in the 1990s and a cultural writer for the Swedish newspapers Expressen and Sydsvenskan.
