Questions of Faith: A conversation with Curator Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek

The Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar Presents a conversation with Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Viennese freelance curator and museum consultant about her recent exhibit in Ulm. The exhibit addresses the conflict between faith communities in Southern Germany during the Middle Ages. A joint project between the Ulmer Museum and the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C., this unique exhibit concentrates on similarities between Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, living in Vienna; studied Jewish Studies and Art History in Vienna and Tel Aviv; received her PHD from the Univeristy of Vienna. Focusing on Jewish cultural history, she has been working as a curator in Jewish museums in Europe and the US since 1984. From 1993 to 2011, she was the chief curator of the Jewish Musuem in Vienna. Since 2011 she works a a freelance curator, researcher and museum consultant, since 2012 as xhibit.at in cooperation with Michaela Feurstein-Prasser. As an university lecturer, her specialities are Jewish art and museology.

co-sponsored by the Triangle Medieval Studies Seminar, Duke Center for Jewish Studies, NC State Public History, NC State Jewish Studies Duke Council for European Studies