Monthly Archives: April 2022

The Second International Annual Doctoral Students’ Conference, Department of Jewish Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, in Memory of Dr. Tsippi Kauffman

The Department of Jewish Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, invites doctoral students from around the world to submit papers to the Annual Conference, to be held on 3-4 August 2022, at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Requirements: A letter from the academic advisor.

Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (English). Paper titles should be submitted in Hebrew and English. Conference languages will be Hebrew and English.

Letters from advisors should be sent to phdjewishthoughtbiu@gmail.com

Deadline: 15 May 2022.

Harold Wechsler Award for Emerging Scholars

According to the Network for Research in Jewish Education (NRJE), “[t]he purpose of the Harold Wechsler Award is to support the research of one or more emerging scholars of Jewish education, defined broadly (see below), and to encourage their scholarly contributions to the field. The Awards Committee intends to distribute a total of $3000 each year to one or more recipients.”

Deadline: April 15, 2022.

The Franz Rosenzweig Lectures with David Nirenberg about “A History of Race and Religion”

This Franz Rosenzweig Lecture by Prof. David Nirenberg at Yale University will take place online via Zoom in three parts:

April 8, 2022, 12 Noon EDT
Ancient Worlds: From Seed of Enlil to Seed of Abraham
Register here: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1HQkGb3fTES14dW5rkYktg

April 12, 2022, 5 pm EDT
Medieval Worlds: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
Register here: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KFSaSzvPQZyskKE41N5R9Q

April 14, 2022 5 pm EDT
New Worlds: From Columbus to Post-Colonialism
Register here: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KFSaSzvPQZyskKE41N5R9Q

Hallgring Visiting Professorship

The History Department at Rutgers University-New Brunswick is pleased to announce the inaugural Hallgring Visiting Professorship in pre-modern history. This one-year position is renewable for a second year and is open to early career scholars (no more than five years from the PhD) and independent scholars who work on any region of the globe between c.1250 and c.1750. The Hallgring Visiting Professor will join a vibrant scholarly community of premodern historians who work on European, Jewish, Latin American, Native American, African and African-diasporic, Islamic, and Asian history.

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