Gemäß Ausschreibung beschäftigt sich “[d]ie Jahrestagung des Mittelalterzentrums „Forum Mittelalter“ der Universität Regensburg […] vom 12.-14.11.2026 in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Centre for Advanced Studies „Beyond Canon_“ mit der spezifisch städtischen Ausprägung parabiblischer Überlieferungen am Beispiel von Regensburg.”
Category Archives: Call for Papers
CfP: Interne Organisation und Außenkommunikation jüdischer Gemeinschaften in der Frühen Neuzeit
Here is the call for papers for a conference on “Interne Organisation und Außenkommunikation jüdischer Gemeinschaften in der Frühen Neuzeit”, organized by the Forum Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur in der Frühen Neuzeit (Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Stuttgart-Hohenheim). The conference focuses on the history of Jewish communities after their expulsions in the late Middle Ages and examines how these communities coped with the challenges of a new beginning in the Early Modern period.
Deadline: 19.10.2025.
CfP: HBI Research Award 2026 Application Is Open
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) awards grants to support research or artistic projects in Jewish women’s and gender studies across a range of disciplines. Awards are made to graduate students, early career, and established researchers. The HBI Research Awards are funded by gifts from the HBI Board of Advisors and other donors.
Apply by September 2, 2025.
The purpose of the HBI Research Award is to support work that has the potential to make a significant contribution to the field of Jewish Gender Studies in one of the following ways:
- by using the lens of gender to inform the field of Jewish Studies
- by bringing insights from Jewish Studies to the field of Women’s and Gender Studies
- by exploring interreligious collaborations between Jewish women and women of other faiths
Online Workshop: “Suicide in Jewish History”
According to their call, “[t]he Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the Lamar University Department of History are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for an online workshop on “Suicide in Jewish History.” [They] invite proposals for papers that focus on the significant, sensitive, and underexplored issue of suicide in Jewish history.”
Deadline: 8 October 2025.
EAJS Virtual 2025: Translating Maimonides
Here is the call for papers for the EAJS Virtual 2025 “Translating Maimonides.” Deadline for Abstracts: 18 September 2025, event date: Late Autumn (exact date TBC).
Conference: Beyond Digital Awe. European Jewish Studies and the Challenge of Digital Humanities
According to their call, “[t]he Centre for Eastern European Jewish History at Vilnius University and the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław invite proposals for the international conference Beyond Digital Awe. European Jewish Studies and the Challenge of Digital Humanities, which will take place at Vilnius University, 17–18 November 2025.”
Traditions and the Present of Antisemitism: Special Issue of the Journal for Religion, Society and Politics (Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik – ZRGP)
According to their call, “[t]his special issue of the Journal for Religion, Society and Politics (ZRGP) seeks to bring historical insight into critical dialogue with contemporary analysis. We aim to trace the long durée of antisemitism, explore its transformations, and interrogate how religious traditions, political ideologies, and social movements have shaped — and continue to shape — its many manifestations.”
Deadline: 1 October 2025.
AJS 2025 Annual Conference
Read the call for papers for the 2025 Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference.
Deadline: 6 May 2025.
CfP: Architektur / Repräsentation / Restriktion – Schaufassaden im mittelalterlichen Stadtraum
25./26. September 2025, Erfurt
The focus will be on an architectural phenomenological aspect in its urban context: Public buildings are generally characterized in the urban space by the fact that they stand out architecturally from their surroundings. Architecture and use interact with the adjacent square and street space in a special way. Architecturally elaborate storefronts often form the framework for a special act or rite, be it the presentation of relics, homage or urban legal acts. In contrast to civic or ecclesiastical institutions, Jewish institutions, especially synagogues, appear to have made hardly any architectural appearance as a result of restrictions or even bans on building in public urban spaces. And yet here too, at least during certain periods (e.g. the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century), more elaborate and architecturally sophisticated measures were taken, which were at least visible in the semi-public space of the Jewish quarter, but sometimes also more prominently in the urban space.
The invitation to apply with short abstracts (max. 2000 lines) on specific case studies or source studies is aimed at interested parties from all disciplines (building research, archaeology, building and art history, history, Jewish studies, monument preservation and museology).
Please send your application by May 31, 2025 to maria.stuerzebecher@erfurt.de or simon.paulus@ifag.uni-stuttgart. The number of participants for both days is limited. Unfortunately, travel and accommodation costs cannot be covered.
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.