Simone Lässig gave two Lectures as part of the Dorit & Gerald Paul Lectures for the Study of Germans & Jews. The lecture held at the Indiana University Bloomington (April 9, 2019) was titled: “Knowing What’s Best for the Jews: Knowledge, Authority, and Social Change in an Age of Upheaval”. The other lecture was about “German Cities, Jewish Spaces: Belonging, Sociability, and Cultural Transformation in the Early Nineteenth Century”, and was given on April 10 at the IUPUI Campus Center in Indianapolis.