Category Archives: Call for Papers

Leo Baeck Institute Year Book Essay Prize

According to their call, “[t]he Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of the History and Culture of German-speaking Jewry is inviting submissions for its 2026 Year Book Essay Prize. The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book is a fully refereed Oxford University Press journal and covers cultural, social, and economic history. A leading journal in the field, the Year Book has appeared annually since 1956.”

Deadline: 31 March 2025.

Between Baghdad and Barcelona: Jewish Experiences in the Mediterranean

According to their call, “[t]he Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna invites paper proposals for the 3rd Baron Young Scholars Workshop on May 27, 2025. […] This workshop welcomes papers examining Jewish life, its history, traditions and transformations in the Mediterranean world, from late antiquity to modern times.”

Deadline: 15 March 2025.

Workshop: The Book and the Library among the Jews of Islamic Lands, The Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem

According to their call, they “invite researchers to submit proposals for presentations at a workshop which will focus on the topic of the book and the library in Jewish communities in Islamic lands and in their diasporas. The workshop will address manuscripts and printed works from the Middle Ages until the modern era. The workshop will address these topics among Jewish communities throughout the Islamicate world, Asia, Ethiopia, and Sephardic diasporas all over the world.”

The workshop will take place in Jerusalem, September 14–15, 2025.

XXVIII. Symposium für Jiddische Studien in Deutschland, 1. bis 3. September 2025 in Trier

Das XXVIII. Symposium für Jiddische Studien in Deutschland wird vom 1. bis 3. September 2025 an der Universität Trier stattfinden. Dieses jiddistische Forum wird jährlich im Wechsel von den Jiddistik-Lehrstühlen der Universitäten Trier und Düsseldorf veranstaltet.

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Call for Papers: Pre-modern literary transnationalism from a historical-comparative perspective

Conference, Brussels, 19 and 20 June 2025

The international Scientific Research Group (SRN) ‘Literatures without Borders’, funded by the Research-foundation Flanders (FWO) organizes a conference on premodern transnational literatures in the Palace of the Academies in Brussels on 19 and 20 June 2025. The conference aims to investigate how transnational/cosmopolitan literatures function, and if a conceptual framework could be devised that better characterizes, defines, and understands premodern literary transnationalism. Keynote speaker will be Prof. dr. Karla Mallette (U-Michigan), whose work on premodern literary cosmopolitanism (e.g. Lives of the Great Languages, 2021) forms an important cornerstone of the current scholarly debate.

Call for Papers: Tracing Jewish Histories – The Long Lives of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts, Judaica, and Architecture

Submission deadline Feb. 27, 2025

The Courtauld Institute of Art and Case Western Reserve University are delighted to jointly host the two-day symposium Tracing Jewish Histories on 19-20 May 2025. The call for papers is now open, and submissions are due on 27 February 2025.

Works of art and architecture made by or for Jewish communities in the medieval period are often examined through the lenses of persecution and expulsion, or are contrasted against Christian or Muslim “styles.” This symposium seeks to expand and nuance these narratives in order to highlight how works of art and architecture can uniquely trace the history of particular Jewish communities by mapping their movements and traditions across generations and geographies. Medieval Jewish objects and spaces can also serve as loci to examine ideas related to collective memory and cultural identity. To that end, the symposium seeks to open new dialogues regarding the “afterlives” of medieval Jewish art writ large, initiating discussions regarding the ways in which works of art and architecture continued to bear witness to the richness of Jewish life and culture long after they were created.