Category Archives: Conferences

Conference: Apokryphen in der mittelalterlichen Stadt. Parabiblische Welten im christlichen und jüdischen Regensburg, 12.-14.11.2026

Conferences

Internationale Jahrestagung des Mittelalterzentrums “Forum Mittelalter” in Kooperation mit dem Centre for Advanced Studies “Beyond Canon_” und der Kath. Erwachsenenbildung (KEB) Regensburg Stadt
gefördert von der Regensburger Universitätsstiftung Hans Vielberth und dem Institutum Liturgicum Ratisbonense
Regensburg, 12.-14.11.2026

Apokryphe Traditionen begegnen in mittelalterlichen Städten auf Schritt und Tritt: in Kunst und Ritual, im literarischen Schaffen und in Gebrauchstexten, in der Verehrung von Heiligen und in Spekulationen über das Jenseits, in der Ausstattung religiöser Gebäude und im öffentlichen Raum. Als Heterotopien religiöser Autorität stiften Überlieferungen jenseits des Kanons Identität und prägen das Leben und Denken von Christen und Juden.
Am Beispiel von Regensburg geht die Tagung der vielfältigen Bedeutung parabiblischer Überlieferungen nach, wobei nach dem Einfluss und den Variationen nicht nur von konkreten Motiven, sondern auch von Themen und Mustern gefragt wird. Als Quellen werden Texte, materiale Kultur und religiöse Rituale gleichermaßen in den Blick genommen.

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Rethinking Pluralism and Peripheries in Jewish Studies, University of Leeds, 28–30 June, 2027

Call for Applications, Conferences

According to their call, “[t]he 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.”

Deadline: 1 December 2026.

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference

Call for Applications, Conferences

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.”

Deadline: 1 December 2026.

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Vassals and Lords. Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Western Mediterranean (13th-15th Centuries)” Madrid, 26-28 October 2026

Conferences

According to their call, “[m]edieval history has been traditionally dominated by a monarchical and State-centric perspective. Yet the decentralized nature of medieval power demands a broader analytical framework that goes beyond the dichotomy between monarchy and nobility. This conference invites scholars to examine the intermediate tiers of authority −the complex and often negotiated relationships between lords and their vassals of different religions− in the late medieval western Mediterranean.”

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Material Records, Digital Tools, and Analytical Methods: Rethinking History through Architecture, 15–16 September 2026, The Open University of Israel

Conferences

This international conference will explore architecture and space as sources of historical knowledge. We will examine layers of meaning in architecture through new digital methods (Day 1) and new analytical prisms (Day 2). By integrating 2D and 3D visualizations, virtual reality, and sound-based reconstructions of historic sites with academic analysis, we will reconstruct lost experiences, communities, and ritual practices through multidisciplinary approaches to architecture and space.

Many papers are relevant to medieval Jewish Studies.

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Inside/Outside: Jews, Law, and Jewish Law July 19-21, 2027, University of Vienna

Conferences

According to their call, “Jewish law is often presented as a comprehensive, self-contained, and all-encompassing legal system. Yet beyond the classics on the bookshelf and in the classroom, lived experience and theoretical inquiry challenge this conception. To explore these tensions and their implications, the Jewish Law Association invites scholars from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to reflect on the theme of the Jewish Law Association’s International 2027 Conference, Inside/Outside: Jews, Law, and Jewish Law.”

Deadline: 9 October 2026.

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