Category Archives: Call for Papers

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

Call for Papers

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.

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17th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low CountriesInstitute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp, 8 May 2025

Call for Applications, Call for Papers

The Institute of Jewish Studies organises for the seventeenth time an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Antwerp concerning Jewish Studies on the Low Countries. The purpose of the conference is to facilitate contacts between researchers working within this area of study.

Deadline: 15 December 2024.

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CfP Leeds 2025: Worlds of Learning

Call for Papers, Conferences

Next year’s general theme at the IMC Leeds is “Worlds of Learning”. Eveline Brugger and myself are planning two panels on the following topics which we would like to approach as broadly as possible:

Practical learning – i.e. all the circumstances in which Jews learn through application, from business practices to other activities to religious practices; or how difficulties/dangers were circumvented or avoided because lessons had been learned from practical experience.

Forbidden learning – what Jews are not allowed to learn (but may do so anyway); we would be interested in both Christian and Jewish prohibitions, as well as their observance/avoidance/ignoring (and potential repercussions).

IMC still offers the option of a virtual presentation in 2025, which experience has shown works very well.

Submission deadline is the end of September, so if you’re interested, we would ask you to contact us at birgit.wiedl (at) injoest.ac.at

More info on the congress, including bursaries 🙂

Jewish Cultural Heritage in Light of Critical Heritage Studies

Call for Papers

The definitions of what Jewish cultural heritage is or should be, what significance it has for various stakeholders, and how it is used as a social, cultural, religious, economic, and political resource are subject to social and political changes. The conference is dedicated to various tangible and intangible manifestations of Jewish cultural heritage, which will be discussed from the perspective of Critical Heritage Studies.

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Algerian Jewry Through the Ages, 26 September 2024

Call for Papers, Conferences

The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East wishes to hold an academic conference on Algerian Jewry through the ages. The conference will be dedicated to new research on this unique community, and to presenting a broad picture of its rich history and culture, of the deep changes the community has undergone in recent generations, and of its present. The conference will include a special session dedicated to the thought and activity of the late Rabbi Samuel René Sirat (1930-2023), on the second anniversary of his death.

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