Aljosha Rohloff reports on the MiQua blog about the international conference ‘Up ewige tzyden’, which MiQua organised from 3 to 5 November 2024 to mark the expulsion of the Jews from Cologne in 1424. The conference was attended by academics from Germany, Austria, England, France and Israel, who discussed various issues in the context of the expulsion of Jews in medieval Europe.
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Conference: Digital in die jüdische Frühe Neuzeit. Innovative Formen der Vermittlung
14. Februar 18:00 Uhr bis 16. Februar 2025 13:00 Uhr, Stuttgart-Hohenheim
The so-called third mission – alongside scientific research and university teaching – refers to the socially relevant activities of academic institutions, through which they are more clearly recognised by the public. Digital forms of knowledge transfer are becoming increasingly important in this context. Following on from this observation, the anniversary conference of the Interdisciplinary Forum on Jewish History and Culture in the Early Modern Period 2025 will be dedicated to the topic of digital communication of Jewish history (in the early modern period).
The Nineteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, 4–8 August 2025
Scholars from all fields of Jewish Studies are invited to take part in the Congress. The six broad divisions of the World Congress are:
• The Bible and Its World
• History of the Jewish People
• Rabbinic Literature, Jewish Law and Jewish Thought
• Languages, Literatures, and the Arts
• Jewish Studies and Social Sciences
• Research Projects and Technology
Deadline: 1 December 2024.
Symposium: Sign of the Times: Marking Jewish Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Monday, November 18, 2024, 12:00 – 6:00 PM, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Conference: Religion, Urbanity and Trade: Processes of Mercantilisation in Urban Spaces
Ettersburg, 13.11.2024 – 15.11.2024
The Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” will hold its annual conference on processes of mercantilisation in urban space. The international conference focusses on mercantilisation brought on and shaped by the interaction of religious and urban practices, institutions, and agents. At the core of the conference lays the triangular relation of economies, religion, and urbanity. This triangular relationship will be approached from different disciplinary perspectives and across historical epochs and regions to come to a more complex understanding of cities in global history.
Conference: „Up ewige tzyden“ – For all eternity
International conference on the occasion of the expulsion of the Jews from Cologne in 1424.
Venue: Festsaal im Belgischen Haus, Cäcilienstraße 46, 50667 Köln
Date: 3. – 5. November 2024
Language: German, English
Conference: Jews in the Mediterranean and their Diasporas: Economic, Social and Cultural Intersections, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon
The Congress, considering the history of previous events and the premises set out above, accepts proposals for communication in the fields of Humanities and Human Sciences, i.e., History, History of Art, History of Science, Geography, Literature, Linguistics, Religious Studies, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology, Gender and Queer Studies, Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Memory and Museology, Monographs, Cinema, and Fine Arts. Other topics not mentioned here, if presented by scholars on time, will be examined by the Committee of Coordinators.
CfP Leeds 2025: Worlds of Learning
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
Judeo-Greek across the Centuries: Tracing Greek-speaking Jews
Papers are sought for the session, Judeo-Greek across the Centuries: Tracing Greek-speaking Jews, to be proposed for the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 8-10, 2025), organized by Michail Kitsos (Tel Aviv University).
Conference: תרבות חומרית בקרב יהודי ארצות האסלאם
A huge 3-days-conference about Jewish material culture in Islamic lands will take place from 9–11 September, 2024 at the Yad Ben Zvi Institute in Jerusaelm.