CfP: The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations

Ludwig Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 19-21 January 2026

Deadline: 15th September 2025

The Unit for Judaic Studies at the Institute for the Near and Middle East (LMU, Munich) is inviting abstracts for a two-day conference funded by the Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR).

The concluding conference of the BMFTR-funded project Beyond Conflict and Coexistence: An Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations (Munich, Halle, Heidelberg 2022-2026) will centre around the materiality of Jewish-Arab relations: How does materiality mediate, shape, or challenge Jewish-Arab relations across historical and spatial contexts? How can the physicality of our source material offer new insights into shared practices, cultural transmissions, or histories of rupture?


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About Maria Stürzebecher

I am the curator of the Museum Old Synagogue in Erfurt and scientific coordinator for the UNESCO World Heritage application Jewish-Medieval Heritage in Erfurt. Since 2012, I am editing the series "Erfurter Schriften zur Jüdischen Geschichte"; in 2020, the 6th volume "Ritual Objects in Ritual Contexts." was published. I studied History of Arts, Archaeology, Sociology and History and wrote my PhD thesis about the medieval Erfurt Treasure, which was published in 2009 entitled „Der Schatzfund aus der Erfurter Michaelisstrasse – Mittelalterliche Goldschmiedearbeiten als Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Erfurt“.