Category: Conferences

BIAJS Annual Conference 2024 The BIAJS Annual Conference 2024 will take place from 8 to 10 July 2024 at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. The theme is 'Jews, Gender, and Sexuality'. Further details to follow shortly. 

Comparative Approaches to Apocalyptic Literature In Judaism, Islam and Christianity (c. 600-c. 900) Online and at the University of St Andrews 5-6 June 2023 Monday 5 June 2023 9:30-10 Registration and Coffee 10-1 Session One: Welcome David Cook (Rice University), “Apocalypse in the History of Damascus: Ibn `Asakir (d. 1176) and the Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic … Continue reading Conference: ‘Comparative Approaches to Apocalyptic Literature In Judaism, Islam and Christianity (c. 600-c. 900)’

Call for Papers: 3rd Parkes Institute International Summer Graduate Seminar 26th-27th June 2023, University of Southampton (UK) ‘Experiencing and Imagining Jewish/non-Jewish Relations’   The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton, supported by the Institute for Historical Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, are pleased … Continue reading CfP: 3rd Parkes Institute International Summer Graduate Seminar (26-27 June 2023), ‘Experiencing and Imagining Jewish/non-Jewish Relations’ (University of Southampton, UK)

YiLaS 3: Yiddish in the 21st Century International conference University College London The UCL Departments of Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Lily Kahn and Sonya Yampolskaya) and Linguistics (Kriszta Eszter Szendrői and Zoë Belk) are delighted to invite abstracts for the international conference YiLaS (Yiddish Language Structures) 3: Yiddish in the 21st Century, to be held … Continue reading CfP: ‘YiLaS 3: Yiddish in the 21st Century’ International conference (UCL, 27-29 March, 2023)

Apocalyptic Transformations and Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Workshop   19-20 September 2022  Programme   Monday, 19th September 2022   Session 1 Chair: Menahem Ben Sasson  14:00-14:15: Emmanouela Grypeou & Helen Spurling: Welcome address  14:15-15:00: András Kraft (Vienna): “The Place of Pseudo-Hippolytus in Early Byzantine Eschatology”  15:00-15:45: Stefanie Rabe (Berlin): "The First Apocryphal Apocalypse of John:  … Continue reading Apocalyptic Transformations and Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Workshop (September, 2022)  

BIAJS Annual Conference (11-13 July 2022): Preliminary Programme   It is with great pleasure that we share the preliminary programme for this year's BIAJS conference 'Unfolding Time: Texts - Practices - Politics': http://www.kcl.ac.uk/trs/assets/biajs-draft-programme-22-05-11.pdf With more than 120 speakers, the conference promises a lively return to an in-person meeting. For more information, including visits and tours, … Continue reading BIAJS Annual Conference (11-13 July 2022): Preliminary Programme

CALL FOR PAPERS: Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800–1939 25–26 May, 2023, University of Warwick, Global History and Culture Centre This conference will explore the role played by discoveries and debates about the ancient past in the development of ideas about the Middle East in the nineteenth and … Continue reading CfP: Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800–1939 (25–26 May, 2023, University of Warwick)

Annual Conference of the British Association for Jewish Studies ‘World in Crisis’ – Participant Registration Closing on Thursday 1 July Registration for the BAJS annual conference on ‘World in Crisis: Reflections and Responses from Antiquity to the Present’ (online from 5th - 7th July 2021) has closed for speakers but is currently open until 1st … Continue reading Annual Conference of the British Association for Jewish Studies ‘World in Crisis’ – Participant Registration Closing on Thursday 1 July

BAJS Annual Conference ‘World In Crisis’ 5-7 July 2021 We are delighted to be able to share details of the programme and registration for the annual conference of the British Association for Jewish Studies on ‘World in Crisis: Reflections and Responses from Antiquity to the Present’, which will run online from 5th - 7th July … Continue reading BAJS Annual Conference ‘World In Crisis’ (5-7 July 2021)

International Conference: Jewish Dissidents in the Eastern Bloc 14-15 April 2021 Organisers: Cathy Gelbin (University of Manchester); Sander Gilman (Emory University); Monika Schärtl (Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg) Registration: info@selma-stern-zentrum.de 09.00-09.30 EDT / 14.00-14.30 BST / 15.00-15.30 MESZ / CEST Welcome: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Selma Stern Center) Keynote: Thomas Krüger (German Federal Agency for … Continue reading International Conference (Reminder): ‘Jewish Dissidents in the Eastern Bloc’ (14-15 April, 2021)

International Conference Jewish Dissidents in the Eastern Bloc 14-15 April 2021 Organisers: Cathy Gelbin (University of Manchester); Sander Gilman (Emory University); Monika Schärtl (Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg) Please register by 12 April 2021: info@selma-stern-zentrum.de April 14 09.00-09.30 EDT / 14.00-14.30 BST / 15.00-15.30 MESZ / CEST Welcome: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Selma Stern Center) … Continue reading International Conference, ‘Jewish Dissidents in the Eastern Bloc’ (14-15 April, 2021)

Call for Papers: KCL/UCL Hebrew Bible Day Conference, ‘Foreign Nations in the Prophets’, Thursday 7th May 2020 As previously announced, King’s College London and University College London have established an annual joint Hebrew Bible Day Conference. The first day conference, focusing on ‘Foreign Nations in the Prophets’, will take place at King’s on Thursday 7th … Continue reading CfP, KCL/UCL Hebrew Bible Day Conference, ‘Foreign Nations in the Prophets’ (Thursday 7th May, 2020)

Hermeneutic Interventions Sunday 1st and Monday 2nd December 2019 Oriel College, University Oxford Organizers: Hindy Najman (Oriel); Daniel Weidner (ZFL); Adriana X. Jacobs (St. Cross); Yael Fisch (Oriel); Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (Oriel) Is a common reading possible across languages, cultures, and disciplines? Under what terms may texts be compared and shared while acknowledging their differences? Revisiting Hartman … Continue reading Conference: ‘Hermeneutic Interventions’, (1-2 December, 2019) Oriel College, Oxford

Call for papers, Workshop: “Globalising French Jewish Politics” Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2-3 July 2019 This workshop revisits the history of French Jewish activism internationally from its origins in the nineteenth century until today. French Jewish internationalism has often been studied through the lens of a single organisation or in isolation from the broader European … Continue reading CfP, ‘Globalising French Jewish Politics’ (workshop), Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2-3 July 2019

International Conference Announcement Call for Papers Urban Jewish Heritage: Presence and Absence 3-7 September 2018 Krakow, Poland We are delighted to announce an important international Conference which is taking place as part of the European Year of Cultural Heritage in 2018. Urban Jewish Heritage: Presence and Absence is being held from 3-7 September 2018 in the World … Continue reading CfP, ‘Urban Jewish Heritage: Presence and Absence’, 3-7 September 2018, Krakow

Call for papers One-Day International Conference on 3 July 2018, hosted at Leo Baeck College in London (UK) JEWS AND STRANGERS Since the Diaspora, Jews have been forced to adopt the role of the stranger. Edmond Jabès even writes that when one says ‘stranger’ one thinks ‘Jew’. While this concept is deeply embedded in the … Continue reading Correction: CfP, ‘Jews and Strangers’, 3 July 2018.

CfP, EAJS 2018: The fate of Hebrew manuscripts, collections/collectors and scholars in the 20th century  For EAJS Cracow 2018, I am looking for historical and historiographical papers about the fate of Hebrew manuscripts, manuscript collections, and manuscript collectors and scholars in the 20th century. The rupture of 1933-45 looms large, of course, and continues to cast … Continue reading CfP, EAJS 2018: The fate of Hebrew manuscripts, collections/collectors and scholars in the 20th century

Conference on ‘Emergent Religious Pluralism(s)’ 16-17 April 2018, Woolf Institute (Cambridge) We invite 250-word abstracts for an interdisciplinary conference on the theme of ‘Emergent Religious Pluralism(s)’. The event will be held at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge, in April 2018 and will include a keynote talk from Professor Nasar Meer (University of Edinburgh). Please submit … Continue reading CfP, ‘Emergent Religious Pluralism(s)’, 16-17 April 2018, Woolf Institute (Cambridge)

Jewish Engagement with the Public Sphere: New Perspectives on Jewish Philanthropy Thursday, 15 June 2017 University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, 65/2117 A conference organised by the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations, University of Southampton, in memory of Clemens Nathan 09.30 – 10.00     Registration and Tea and Coffee 10.00 – 10.15     … Continue reading Conference on ‘Jewish Engagement with the Public Sphere: New Perspectives on Jewish Philanthropy’, University of Southampton

British Jewish Contemporary Cultures: An International Conference 26-27 March 2018, Bangor University, Wales. We invite proposals for the first international British Academy funded conference on British Jewish Contemporary Cultures. Any topic which explores the study of contemporary British Jewish culture, widely defined, is welcomed. We are particularly interested in locating British Jewish contemporary cultures in … Continue reading CfP, ‘British Jewish Contemporary Cultures: An International Conference’, 26-27 March, 2018

ZIONISM AND ANTISEMITISM, AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London Keynote Speakers: Derek Penslar (Harvard University) and Bashir Bashir (Open University, Israel and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute) Date: 24-26 May 2017 Venue: Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7HX Event for … Continue reading ‘Zionism and Antisemitism’ (International Conference) Pears Institute, 24-26 May 2017

Jews on the Move: Exploring the movement of Jews, objects, texts, and ideas in space and time 10-12 July 2017, The University of Edinburgh This conference is hosted by the British Association for Jewish Studies, in cooperation with the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. We gratefully acknowledge the following grants received in support of … Continue reading BAJS Conference 2017 DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO 15 FEBRUARY 2017

The  deadline for proposal submissions to the World Congress of Jewish Studies has been extended to December 15 (Round Tables to November 30). Please see: http://www.jewish-studies.org/17con_en.ehtml  

Reassessing The State Of Research:  The Jew As “Other” Research over the last 50 years has often described the figure of the Jew as the quintessential ‘Other’ in the Middle Ages. However, as recent scholarship has emphasised the peaceful interactions of Jews and Christians in daily life and business, it might be appropriate to assess … Continue reading CFP, IMC 2017 Otherness (3-6 July 2017) Hebrew & Jewish studies / Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim relations strand

The University of Manchester Library and the John Rylands Research Institute invite submissions for a one-day interdisciplinary conference on the history of the Guardian newspaper. Potential topics for papers might include Zionism, the development of foreign correspondence and coverage of foreign policy and international news, and the role of the Guardian in Manchester life, including … Continue reading CFP, ‘The Guardian in Local, National, and Global History’. Thursday, 6 April 2017, The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester

A conference will take place on 7 and 8 November 2016 at Exeter College. Subject: ‘The exegetical value of the Masora: Pointing and accentuation in historical perspective’ Convenors: Professor Jan Joosten and Professor Joanna Weinberg. Speakers include: Philip Alexander, Manchester; Yochanan Breuer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Elvira Martin Contreras, CSIC, Madrid ; Danny Crowther, CMCS … Continue reading Conference, ‘The exegetical value of the Masora: Pointing and accentuation in historical perspective’, 7 – 8 November, 2016, Exeter College, Oxford.

  The relationship between Shakespeare and the Jews is a rich and multifaceted one with an extensive history dating back to the Elizabethan era. Attitudes to Jews in Shakespeare’s England comprise a complex topic with religious, racial, and cultural components that has been explored in detail in James Shapiro’s seminal 1996 work Shakespeare and the … Continue reading CFP: International Conference ‘Shakespeare and the Jews’, University College London, 28-30 March 2017

Organised by the Holocaust Research Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London Our colleague David Cesarani (1956-2015) was a leading historian of the Holocaust and of Anglo-Jewry, and a public intellectual concerned with the importance of historical understanding. The aim of this conference is to celebrate his work through presenting and debating leading and new research … Continue reading CfP: ‘The Holocaust and History: The Work and Legacy of David Cesarani’, London, 3-4 April 2017

The conference will explore the history of family and childhood, in conjunction with that of religion, religious conflict and the confessional state. It will focus on the experiences of children and young people in minority groups (of any religion) in different contexts throughout the early modern world from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, and their … Continue reading CFP: ‘Childhood, youth and religious minorities in early modern Europe and North America’, 14-15 October 2016, University of Warwick

A major international conference on ‘The Classification of Humanity: Defining and Dividing Societies in the Modern Era’ conceived by the International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism (ICRAR), of which the Pears Institute is a founding member, will be held in Haifa, Israel, 27-28 November 2016. This is the fourth annual conference of ICRAR … Continue reading CFP: ‘The Classification of Humanity: Defining and Dividing Societies in the Modern Era’, 27-28 November 2016, Haifa

On the 120th anniversary of the discovery of the Genizah manuscripts of Ben Sira, this conference will consider the particular contributions of the Hebrew manuscripts of Ben Sira, in connection with the language and transmission of the book. Despite the existence of six versions in the Genizah as well as the scroll from Masada and … Continue reading International Conference: “Discovering, Deciphering and Dissenting: Ben Sira’s Hebrew Text, 1896-2016”, St John’s College, Cambridge, UK, 12-14 September 2016

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London (19th July) Professor Wulf Kansteiner, Binghamton University, USA (20th July) Professor Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz, Germany (20th July).   In the mid- to late-1970s, the afterlife of the Nazi extermination of Europe’s Jews entered into a new phase. Research has shown that there was … Continue reading CFP: ‘The Presence of the Holocaust in society, politics and culture, c.1970 – 2015’, British Association of Holocaust Studies (BAHS) conference 2016, 19-21 July 2016, UCL Centre for Holocaust Education

Venue: University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT http://www.fine-art.leeds.ac.uk/events/jewish-presences-and-presents-in-the-museum-jewish-museologies-and-the-politics-of-display/ As political and social upheavals in and beyond Europe are transforming the meanings of cultural diversity and notions of heritage, a two-day international symposium will explore the critical debates about Jewish museums, museologies and Jewish presences in non-Jewish museums. Organised by the Centre for Jewish … Continue reading Conference: ‘Jewish Museologies and the Politics of Display’, 13-14 March 2016, University of Leeds

Monday 27–Wednesday 29 June 2016 at The John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH Call for Papers - Extended Deadline The John Rylands Research Institute invites paper proposals for its upcoming conference on the Hebrew and Jewish collections of The John Rylands Library. The John Rylands Library preserves one of the world’s valuable collections … Continue reading John Rylands Research Institute Conference 2016 ‘The Other Within’ – The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of The John Rylands Library Monday 27–Wednesday 29 June 2016 at The John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH

This conference is hosted by the British Association for Jewish Studies, in cooperation with the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion and the College of Arts and Law of the University of Birmingham. The written word as manifested in a spectrum from classical Jewish texts to contemporary literature, alongside texts unearthed in locations including desert … Continue reading BAJS Conference 2016: The Texture of Jewish Tradition: Investigations in Textuality, 10-12 July 2016, The University of Birmingham

Supported by a grant from the European Association for Jewish Studies Confirmed speakers: Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (Association of European Jewish Museums, Amsterdam/Vienna) Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw) Cilly Kugelman (Jewish Museum, Berlin) A two-day international symposium is to explore the critical debates about Jewish museologies in the light of a) Jewish … Continue reading CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘Jewish Museologies and the Politics of Display’, 13-14 March 2016, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds

Over the course of multiple centuries prior to the modern era, Jewish culture was shaped in various ways by the concept of ‘exile’ and by the practical circumstances that corresponded to this concept.  This conference aims to explore ways in which inherited Jewish culture has been reshaped and affected by the presence of non-exilic or … Continue reading Call for Papers: Rethinking Exile, Center, and Diaspora in Modern Jewish Culture, Cambridge University, May 2-4, 2016

Monday 27–Wednesday 29 June 2016 at The John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH Call for Papers The John Rylands Research Institute invites paper proposals for its upcoming 2016 conference on the Hebrew and Jewish collections of The John Rylands Library. The John Rylands Library preserves one of the world’s valuable collections of Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts, archives … Continue reading CFP: ‘The Other Within’ – The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of The John Rylands Library, John Rylands Research Institute Conference 2016, 27-29 June 2016, John Rylands Library, Manchester

Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp) Center for European Philosophy (University of Antwerp) January, 20–22, 2016, Antwerp Abstract submission deadline: 20/09/2015 One cannot effectively approach Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical works without recognizing the importance modern literature plays in his writings. From Baudelaire to Dostojevski, from Blanchot to Celan, and from Kafka to Grossman, the references … Continue reading CFP: ‘Levinas, Law and Literature’, International Conference, January, 20–22, 2016, Antwerp, Belgium

We are pleased to announce that registration for the forthcoming international conference to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Parkes Library at the University of Southampton is now open. 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Parkes Library at the University of Southampton, the catalyst for the establishment of … Continue reading Jewish/non-Jewish Relations from Antiquity to the Present, Monday 7 – Wednesday 9 September 2015, University of Southampton

The grief-stricken faces at Edward’s deathbed in the Bayeux Tapestry; the ambiguous ‘ofermod’ in The Battle of Maldon; the body-crumpling anguish of the Virgin witnessing the Man of Sorrows; the mirth of the Green Knight; the apoplectic anger of the mystery plays’ Herod and the visceral visionary experiences of Margery of Kempe all testify to … Continue reading CFP: ‘Gender and Emotion’, Gender and Medieval Studies Conference 2016, The University of Hull, 6th – 8th January 2016

Artists, museum curators and educators are increasingly interested in devising more effective strategies of remembering painful pasts. To this end, many recent projects commemorating genocides, civil wars, dictatorships and terrorist attacks, invite audiences to actively engage in remembering and reflecting critically upon these historical events, and what they mean to contemporary societies. The term ‘performative’ … Continue reading CFP: ‘Commemorating Painful Pasts through Performative Practices’, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, Sweden, 15 – 17 June 2016

The John Rylands Library preserves one of the world’s valuable collections of Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts and printed books. The holdings span Septuagint fragments and parchment from Qumran to the papers of Moses Gaster and Arthur Marmorstein. The Rylands Genizah and rich collections of medieval manuscript codices and early printed books are among the strengths … Continue reading Advance Notice: John Rylands Research Institute Conference 2016: “The Other Within” – The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of the John Rylands Library, 27– 29 June 2016, The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH

We are delighted to announce the programme for On the Same Page: Digital Approaches to Hebrew Manuscripts at King's College London (Monday 18th May - Tuesday 19th May 2015). This two-day conference will explore the potential for the computer-assisted study of Hebrew manuscripts; discuss the intersection of Jewish Studies and Digital Humanities; and share methodologies. Amongst the topics covered … Continue reading CFP: ‘On the Same Page: Digital Approaches to Hebrew Manuscripts’, 18-19 May 2015, King’s College London

For further information, to submit proposals and to register for the conference, please go to http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/bajs-conference/.

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2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Parkes Library at the University of Southampton, the catalyst for the establishment of the unique Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The Institute is based on the life work of the Reverend Dr James Parkes (1896-1981), one of the most remarkable figures within … Continue reading CFP: ‘Jewish/non-Jewish Relations from Antiquity to the Present University of Southampton’, 7-9 September 2015

6th to 8th June 2016, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence (France), 5 rue du Château de l’Horloge, BP 647 13094 Aix-en-Provence This EAJS Laboratory workshop will focus on the material transmission of the Hebrew Bible from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. We will examine a range of research methods used in the three main fields of Hebrew Bible manuscript studies: … Continue reading Call for Papers for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers: EAJS Laboratory Workshop: ‘Research Approaches in Hebrew Bible Manuscript Studies. A Critical Overview Based on Evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls, Cairo Genizah and European Genizah’, 6-8 June 2016, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France

Co-organized by the German Historical Institute Washington, DC, the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg, the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts (Miriam Ruerup, Anne Schenderlein, Mirjam Zadoff). 25.03.2015, Hamburg, Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden  We invite proposals for papers to … Continue reading CFP: “Heritage” in the study of Jewish and other (Diaspora) Cultures – the search for roots as a recurring theme of 19th and 20th century history – Hamburg, Germany, July 2015

“The Crazy Genius of Herod the Great” Seen through the lens of his building programme, military strategy, contemporary texts, art and architecture, and political alliances Considering the enormous scale of his political ambitions and achievements during his lengthy reign, we shall be happy to receive submissions relating to any and all aspects of the rule of … Continue reading CFP: “The Crazy Genius of Herod the Great”, The Fourth Annual Conference of the Irish Society for the Study of the Ancient Near East, 29-31 May 2015, Dublin, Republic of Ireland

As those following the progress of DigiPal will be aware, an increasing number of projects are opting to study their corpora with the DigiPal framework (essentially, the database and a series of web-based tools for computer-assisted palaeography). SephardiPal is one of these "Daughters of DigiPal", and is now so grown up that she is organising her … Continue reading Call for Papers: “On the Same Page: Digital Approaches to Hebrew Manuscripts”, 18-19 May 2015, King’s College London, Strand

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the death marches, the liberation of Auschwitz and concentration camps in western Europe, the end of World War II, and early postwar trials including the First Bergen-Belsen Trial and the opening of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. This sequence of anniversaries is an appropriate time to reflect on … Continue reading CFP: ‘Another time, Another place? Challenges in Commemorating, Teaching and Researching the Holocaust 70 Years On’, Second Annual Conference of the British Association for Holocaust Studies, 21-22 July 2015, University of Birmingham

The Parkes Institute and the University of Southampton are hosting an international workshop on a particularly understudied area of Jewish/non-Jewish relations in Eastern Europe: the relations between Jews and so-called ‘small nations’. The participants will investigate the contribution of these former ‘peasant nations’ – Belorussia, Ukraine, Lithuania and Estonia – to Jewish history and culture. … Continue reading CFP: Jews and ‘small nations’ in Eastern Europe: cultural autonomy and nation-building in the western borderlands of Russia (1905-1939), International workshop, 1-2 July 2015, University of Southampton

Organised by: Woolf Institute, Cambridge & Centre for Cultural Literary and Postcolonial Studies, SOAS, University of London Venue: SOAS, University of London Brunei Gallery, room B102 Date: 12 June 2015 Conference rationale Thanks to modern mass communication media and commercial entertainment, popular culture has increasingly become a large industry geared for massive consumption while engendering … Continue reading Call for Papers: Minorities and Popular Culture in Modern Middle East, 12 June 2015, SOAS, University of London

2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Parkes Library at the University of Southampton, the catalyst for the establishment of the unique Parkes Institute for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The Institute is based on the life work of the Reverend Dr James Parkes (1896-1981), one of the most remarkable figures within … Continue reading CFP: ‘Jewish/non-Jewish Relations from Antiquity to the Present University of Southampton’, 7-9 September 2015

Project leaders: Dr Alison Salvesen (University of Oxford) Prof. Sarah Pearce (University of Southampton) Dr Miriam Frenkel (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Dr Dorothy Peters (Trinity Western University, Canada) For Jews in ancient and medieval Palestine and the Diaspora, the land of Egypt was a real place and also an abstract notion shaped by scriptural texts. The … Continue reading CFP: ‘Israel in Egypt / Egypt in Israel: An investigation of the land of Egypt as concept and reality for Jews in Antiquity and the early medieval period’, Visiting Fellowships, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies 2016

CLOSING DATE: 16 JANUARY 2015 The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies invites proposals from individuals or institutions wishing to direct an Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies in 2016–2017 or 2017-2018. The Centre will host up to two Seminars in Oxford in each of the academic years 2016-2017 and 2017-2018. In each academic … Continue reading CFP: Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies 2016-2017 and 2017-2018

‘Auschwitz has become a site of memory with a future, and it has thus become another tourist site with all the required amenities, a “must” on any itinerary.’ (Sicher, Breaking Crystal: 21) Formerly locations of abject horror, the concentration camps have arguably been transformed into tourist hotspots, available as part of package deals complete with … Continue reading CFP: “Tracing Topographies: Revisiting the Concentration Camps Seventy Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz”, Jewish Museum in London, 6-8 January 2015, Extended Deadline!

Johannes Pfefferkorn and the dispersion of his texts The beginning of the sixteenth century saw the arrival of a new genre of polemical writing about Jews and Judaism, viz. ethnographical books that aimed at providing their readers with revealing knowledge about Jews, their rituals, and their customs. Among the most prominent of these writers was … Continue reading CFP: ‘“Noviter in lucem data – iudeorum secreta” – Johannes Pfefferkorn’s Campaign against the Jews: Antisemitism and Ethnography in the Sixteenth Century’, The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden, 23–25 February 2015

Conference Theme The dramatic modern processes of secularization, urbanization and immigration have made Jewish traditions an object of nostalgia, rejection, national pride, and ethnographic research, or various mixtures of these attitudes and practices. From the days of the Haskala movement to today, playwrights, theatre and film directors and other artists have been fascinated by Jewish … Continue reading CFP: ‘The Art of Cultural Translation: Performing Jewish Traditions in Modern Times’, 26-27 January 2015, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford

Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Hosted by the Dpt. of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University With keynotes from Hans Belting, Lindsay Jones, Christian Lange, Birgit Meyer, and Leigh Eric Schmidt “The aesthetics of crossing: experiencing the beyond in Abrahamic traditions” is a three-day, interdisciplinary, international conference dedicated to studying the manifold ways … Continue reading CFP: ‘The aesthetics of crossing: experiencing the beyond in Abrahamic traditions’, International conference, Utrecht (NL), 19-21 March 2015

Neighbours: Relations between Jews and non-Jews throughout History In 2001, Polish-American historian Jan T. Gross published a controversial monograph entitled Neighbours in which he described the destruction of the Jewish community in the Polish city of Jedwabne at the hands of the local Polish population. The term neighbour became synonymous with the suffering of the … Continue reading CfP: Australian Association for Jewish Studies, The 27th AAJS Conference, 15-16 February 2015, The University of New South Wales and the Shalom Institute, Kensington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

For further information, to submit proposals and to register for the conference, please go to http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/bajs-conference/.