According to their call, “The annual conference of the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies (BIAJS 2027) seeks to showcase the pluralism and dynamism of Jewish Studies, exploring the subject’s diversities and encouraging intra-disciplinary collaboration, exchange, dissent, and cross-fertilisation of ideas and research. The conference seeks to place particular emphasis first, on who or what is at the apparent centres and margins of Jewish Studies, and second, on the ideological and practical reasons for and impacts of this. We invite contributions (including panels and co-presentations) from across the fields of Jewish Studies – history, literature, religious studies, archaeology, the arts, linguistics, law, political studies, the social sciences, and more – that reflect critically on self- and on subject-specific positionality. We welcome contributors who feel on the margins of, or minoritized by, the subject/s of Jewish Studies: maybe because they work with or on academic approaches, or communities, or texts, or languages, or cultural expressions and practices on the fringes of Jewish Studies, or maybe because of their personal identity, or geographical, or institutional location. The conference theme encourages marginal, minority and counter-voices and interrogation of who or what lays claim to normativity.”

Deadline: 1 December 2026.

The theme of the International Congress 2027 will take place at the University of Leeds 5-8 July 2027. Its special theme is ‘Communities’, see the general CfP here:

IMC 2027 Call for Papers – ‘Communities’ | International Medieval Congress

I am looking for papers that engage with some of the methodological challenges raised by the frameworks of Visual Culture and Material Culture. Papers about medieval Jewish visualities and materialities may wish to consider concepts such as (but not limited to):

• ‘textual community’ (Brian Stock, The Implications of Literacy, 1981; Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past, 1990). Is it a useful concept to think with when considering visual culture and material culture? Can we speak of visual communities and material communities?
• ‘contact zone’ (Mary-Louise Pratt, “Arts of the Contact Zone”, 1991) which issued a challenge to thinking in terms of communities and bounded cultures when she developed the concept of the contact zone, in which cultural patterns are constantly renegotiated in shifting power configurations.
• ‘Jewish materiality/ies’? Bynum, book Christian Materiality, 2015 shook the community of medieval cultural historians. A decade and more later, this call addresses scholars working within the areas of material culture, medieval religion, medicine, magic, art, craft, and book history, as well as historians working on medieval anti-Judaism, to ask: what have we learned from Christian Materiality about medieval Jewish materialities, or about Christian perceptions of Jewish materialities?

Contributors are invited to consider some of the challenges of theoretical work in visual culture and material culture studies, including on the properties of matter, scopic regimes and sensory regimes.

Expressions of interest, ideally with a working title and a couple of lines of abstract, by Monday 28 September 2026 please to Eva Frojmovic at the University of Leeds, clsef@leeds.ac.uk.

Department of the Arts and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 14 December 2026.

Deadline: Submission deadline: 11 October 2026

The Department of the Arts and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) invite proposals for an international workshop examining anti-Judaism and antisemitism, their representations and transformations, and the diverse strategies developed to challenge, reappropriate, and resist them from antiquity to the present. We therefore welcome contributions that examine not only the differences between anti-Judaism and antisemitism but also their continuities, ruptures, transformations, and conceptual boundaries. How do medieval religious stereotypes and myths relate to modern antisemitic imagery? When does tracing continuity illuminate the history of anti-Jewish hostility, and when does it obscure historically specific phenomena? How have older motifs been reformulated in response to changing media, audiences, ideologies, and political circumstances?

According to thier call, “Scholars are invited to submit proposals for this upcoming Special Issue, ‘Heritage and Memory: Jewish Cultural Narratives in Historical Context’. This project seeks to explore how Jewish communities across time have constructed, transmitted, preserved, and reinvented cultural memory. We welcome papers from history, religious studies, anthropology, law, education, literature, philosophy, and related fields.”

Deadline: 1 October 2026.

According to their call, they invite to submit “proposals for an interdisciplinary workshop titled Mapping Jewish Communities: Spaces of History and Memory, which will focus on the study of cities of important Jewish presence as multilayered spaces of history, memory, and contemporary heritage.”

Deadline: 25 August 2026.

You can now submit articles for this speciual issue: “Following the international workshop “Migrations and Multiple Homelands,” held on February 15–17, 2026, the editorial board of Pe’amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry invites workshop participants and members of the wider scholarly community to submit original research articles for a special thematic issue arising from the workshop’s scholarly exchange. Scope of the Issue: The issue will focus on Jewish migrations and the evolving concept of “homeland” in Sephardic and Mizrahi contexts. ‘Multiple homelands’ can be explored as the transmission of legal and family traditions across pre-modern borders. The term ‘multiple homelands’ reflects the negotiation of loyalty, citizenship, and identity in the passage from empires to nation-states. Finally, multiple homelands may be explored as a modern reconstruction of “home” through language, cinema, memory, and as a social category. The issue will explore what the study of Jews from Islamic lands can contribute to broader debates on migration and transnationalism.”

Deadline: 15 October 2026.

According to their call, “[t]he LOEWE Centre Dynamics of Religion (DynaRel) at Goethe University Frankfurt invites proposals for its first international annual conference, organised by Research Area 1, “Religious-Cultural Entanglements: Translation – Transfer – Mediality.” The conference explores textual and intellectual neighbourhoods between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It focuses on dialogue, polemics, and translation, asking how religious traditions relate to one another through processes of exchange, appropriation, demarcation, and transformation.”

Deadline: 31 August 2026