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

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
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.
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
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).
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.
08.09.2024 – 11.09.2024, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen
Internationale Auftakttagung des Akademienprojekts „Steinerne Zeugen digital. Deutsch-jüdische Sepulkralkultur zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne – Raum, Form, Inschrift“.
Im vergangenen Jahr hat das Langzeitvorhaben „Steinerne Zeugen digital. Deutsch-jüdische Sepulkralkultur zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne – Raum, Form, Inschrift“ im Forschungsprogramm der deutschen Wissenschaftsakademien die Arbeit aufgenommen. Es wird vom Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte an der Universität Duisburg-Essen in Zusammenarbeit mit der Professur für Judaistik und dem Kompetenzzentrum Denkmalwissenschaften und Denkmaltechnologien der Universität Bamberg durchgeführt und von Lucia Raspe, Mona Hess und Susanne Talabardon gemeinsam geleitet.
Continue reading Conference: Jewish Cemeteries in Premodern Europe: Interdisciplinary PerspectivesWith many promising papers on medieval topics!
Auctor – Auctoritas – Authorship
Claiming authorial agency in rabbinic literature and medieval midrash
5-6 December 2024 at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Organization: Annabelle Fuchs
Application Deadline: 31 July 2024.
The deadline to submit abstracts is September 15th, 2024. These can be submitted through the ICMS conference portal, which is accessible here.
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 15:15 – 19:00 (GMT +1), Leeds University and online
Session Number 1202 – Collecting and Displaying Medieval Jewish Artefacts and Heritage, I (Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 15:15 – 16:45)
1202-a – The Alienation of Medieval Jewish Manuscripts from German Public Collections, 1945-1960
William Diebold, Reed College, Oregon
1202-b – The Seder Plates that Weren’t
Julie Harris, Independent Scholar
1202-c – A Medieval Jewish Prayer Book in Texas
Diane Wolfthal, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Session Number 1302 – Collecting and Displaying Medieval Jewish Artefacts and Heritage, II (Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 17:30 – 19:00)
1302-a – The John Rylands Library’s Hebrew Manuscript Collection and Its Audiences
Zsofia Buda, University of Manchester
1302-b – The Art of Reframing the Narrative: Jewish Material Culture in an Encyclopedic Museum
Abigail H. Meyer, Touro University, New York
1302-c – Renewing the Middle Ages at the ANU Museum, Tel Aviv
Simona di Nepi, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
For more lectures and sessions on Medieval Jewish Studies brows the IMC Programme.