Waldman, Ofer

Academic Background

2014

Guest student at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

2014

PhD Candidate at the DAAD Center for German Studies, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2009-2013 M.A. magna cum laude in German Studies from the DAAD Center for German Studies, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2000-2006

Diplom in Orchestral Music (French Horn) from the University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Research Interests

  • Middle European History
  • Contemporary German Literature
  • Memory Studies

Scholarships and Grants

2014-2015 Student Exchange Scholarship at the Freie Universität Berlin
2013 Research grants from the Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2013 Research grants from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
2011 Recipient of the excellence scholarship of the Dean of social sciences at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2010-2014

Recipient of student scholarships on behalf of the Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

1994-2000

Recipient of the "America-Israel cultural foundation" scholarships for outstanding musicians

Conference Presentations

  • Paper presentation at the world convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities at the Columbia University, New York, April 2014
  • Paper presentation at the conference "Germany in Israel", the Center for German Studies, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 2014
  • Paper presentation at the international workshop "How to define cultural dynamics" at the Dahlem Humanities Center of the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 2014
  • Paper presentation at the international conference of the centers for Austrian Studies at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 2013
  • Paper presentation at the yearly workshop of the Israeli forum for German History and Culture, held at the University of Tel Aviv, 2013
  • Paper presentation at the international conference „Competing Histories and Conflicted Spaces: Property, Ethnicity and Contested Memory in Post-War Societies" at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2013
  • Research presentation at the international DAAD conference „Im Auge des Betrachters. Deutschland. Europa. China. Interdisziplinäre Konferenz der DAAD-Zentren für Deutschland- und Europastudien" at the University of Beijing, China, 2012

Publications

  • The Binding Fracture: Memory Activism in the Former Sudetenland, Adenauer Foundation Publications, forthcoming.
  • בין גרמניה לגרמניה. פולמוס וולף - רייך-רניצקי כמקרה מבחן ספרותי-פוליטי בגרמניה המחולקת. טבור – פרסומי מרכז קובנר להסטוריה גרמנית באוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים, forthcoming
  • 'I wanted to show – we are here!'. Memory Activism in the Former Sudetenland. Austrian Studies Edited Volume, forthcoming.