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
CFP: Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies 2016-2017 and 2017-2018
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
CFP: “Tracing Topographies: Revisiting the Concentration Camps Seventy Years after the Liberation of Auschwitz”, Jewish Museum in London, 6-8 January 2015, Extended Deadline!
‘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!
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
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
CFP: ‘The Art of Cultural Translation: Performing Jewish Traditions in Modern Times’, 26-27 January 2015, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford
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
CFP: ‘The aesthetics of crossing: experiencing the beyond in Abrahamic traditions’, International conference, Utrecht (NL), 19-21 March 2015
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
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
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
CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘Atheism, Scepticism and Challenges to Monotheism’, BAJS Conference 2015, 5-7 July, University of Manchester
For further information, to submit proposals and to register for the conference, please go to http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/bajs-conference/.