Jahne Nicolaisen 

Program Director, Political Scientist

 

Jahne Nicolaisen is currently working as program director at the MFFB on the project "Bildungsbaustein Israel" and on the topics of antisemitism, Islamism and right-wing extremism. His regional focus in the Middle East is on Israel, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran. In Germany, he focusses on Berlin, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein (where he also works on memorial site education). Nicolaisen also gives lectures on Adorno, Horkheimer and critical theory in general (especially on education, science & state) and advises on local and university policy strategies against antisemitism. He wrote his master's thesis on the "Conflict between academic freedom and antisemitism at German universities" at the Free University of Berlin in 2023.

Contact: nicolaisen@mideastfreedomforum.org

 

Lectures

  • 2 May 2024: Speaker and co-organizer of the conference "Academic anti-Semitism - academic and practical perspectives" at the FU Berlin, organized by the Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin (MFFB) and Chaverim@FU - Netzwerk für jüdische Themen - lecture title: "A critical theory of academic freedom against academic antisemitism".
     
  • 18 March 2024: Speaker at the panel discussion "The Effects of Israel-Hamas War on Academica in Europe and North America", organised by ICE - Israeli Community Europe - lecture title: "Networks and Strategies against Antisemitism at German Universities"
     
  • October 13, 2022: Speaker at the Critical Orientation Weeks at the FU Berlin - lecture title: "Max Horkheimer's 'Concept of Education' (1952)"
     
  • July 21, 2022: Speaker in the context of the lecture series on right-wing extremism of the NaturFreunde Berlin - lecture title: "What does Adorno's 'Education after Auschwitz' (1966) mean today? Theses on the Categorical Imperative in University Education, Activism and Nation-State Politics".

 

Scientific publications

Master's thesis at Freie Universität Berlin: "The conflict between anti-Semitism and academic freedom at German universities", published on January 23, 2024. 
 

Media

"Always stay in dialogue with the Islamic Associations", with Jahne Nicolaisen, in: Jungle World v. 16.11.2023 (link)

"Suspicion of murder visit in Hanover," with Ulrike Becker, in: Jungle World v. Aug. 3, 2023 (link)