This communication follows closely upon a consequential moment in my career, or in anyone’s career, that of retirement from one’s university position. Six months after having finished teaching my final university course, I am finishing a project that has both professional and personal meaning for me.
Continue reading Toward a Social History of Jews in the Visigothic KingdomThis call for papers is open to all historical periods.
Deadline: 29 January 2023.
The Program in Jewish Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas, invites applications for the Anna Smith Fine Lecturer in Jewish Studies. Scholars from all fields of Jewish Studies will be considered; however, the Program is particularly interested in scholars specializing in Jewish literature; Holocaust studies; Jews of the modern Middle East; and Jewish ethics and philosophy.
Deadline: January 15, 2023.
The new issues of Sephardic Horizons 12.2-3 (2022) offers some medieval Jewish Studies content as well.
The editors of Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies are very pleased to publicly announce that the journal is now accepting proposals for its 9th volume. For this volume, we particularly welcome proposals offering original analysis on the broad subject of Judaic and Islamic studies. The deadline for this call for papers is 28 February 2023.
The papers should be send to hamsa@uevora.pt.
The Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas invites applications for a full time, Senior Lecturer position as the Director of Jewish Studies to start in Fall 2023.
Continue reading Senior Lecturer & Director of Jewish Studies, University of North TexasThe Center for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) in Madrid, November 24, 2022, 12:00 CET.
The event will also be broadcast via Zoom using the following credentials: ID – 897 2550 1422, Access Code – 765078
The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies is pleased to announce its 2023 annual national conference taking place at York University, Monday to Wednesday, May 29-31, 2023, in association with the Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program at the University of Ottawa, the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University, and the Jewish Studies Program at Huron at Western. We are so excited to meet in person again. Please note the days of the conference, which are different from our usual Sunday to Tuesday schedule. Due to the timing of Shavuot (Thursday to Saturday) and our desire to join Congress this year, observant members of the ACJS would not have enough travel time to make a Sunday morning start.
Continue reading Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Conference 2023, 29–31 May 2023Rose will be speaking as part of the President’s lecture series for the Jewish Historical Society on the 1255 ritual murder case of Little Hugh of Lincoln. This will take place on 15 December via Zoom.
2022/5782 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of R. Moses Cordovero (1522-1570), one of the key figures in the Safedian sixteenth-century kabbalistic renaissance and one of the most proliferous writers in the history of Jewish thought. Cordovero’s voluminous and comprehensive literary corpus deals with the full plethora of topics concerning both human life and the Divine. It reveals one of the most impressive intellectual endeavors of his era and places him among the central Jewish thinkers of the early modern Ottoman empire.
Continue reading Shi’ur Komah: An Issue of the Journal Jewish Thought commemorating the 500th year of R. Moses Cordovero’s birth
