Monthly Archives: October 2023

W1 professorship with tenure track W2 for Jewish Studies, University of Göttingen

The University of Göttingen enjoys high international acclaim, owing to its long research tradition and broad spectrum of subjects in the natural sciences, life sciences, humanities and social sciences. With more than 210 degree courses, we offer an attractive range of subjects for around 30,000 students. Göttingen is characterized by the close cooperation of the University, the University Medical Center and seven non-university research institutions that forms the Göttingen Campus. Its innovative, interdisciplinary potential creates excellent conditions for cutting-edge research at the highest international level.

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Penn Jewish Studies Graduate Student Conference 2024

Topic: Jews and Political Authority: Citizenship, Homeland, and Diaspora

On March 11-12 the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania will host a graduate student conference that wishes to explore Jewish relationships to political authority from the biblical to modern era. How have Jews imagined, constructed, and created both physical and conceptual homes under the rule of various political powers and across millennia? How did they transform non-Jewish strangers into neighbors and seemingly foreign polities into homelands? When under foreign rule, how did they wrestle with intersecting memberships in strictly Jewish collectivities, families, and networks? How did they aspire to, imagine, and construct forms of political authority that were Jewish by definition? How did Jewish cultural production – including art, literature, and music – subvert or reinforce political structures?

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New Book: Paul Salmona, Philippe Blanchard, Amélie Sagasser (dir.), L’archéologie du judaïsme en Europe, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2023.

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The proceedings of the colloquium “The Archaeology of Judaism in Europe”, held in March 2022 at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris in cooperation with the German Historical Institute and the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research, contain about thirty contributions by international researchers that illustrate the considerable progress made in archaeological research into the Jewish presence in Europe, thanks to the development of preventive archaeology and a new focus on Jewish sites. The increase in the number of excavations and the expansion of this field, both chronologically – now from the Antiquity until the contemporary period – and methodologically, have led to major discoveries.

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Women Writing Women’s Lives Kathy Chamberlain Research Awards 

Women Writing Women’s Lives (WWWL), a women’s group dedicated to the writing of women’s lives, is pleased to offer five research awards to women who are furthering the group’s mission. The awards were originated by a generous gift from Edith Penty, a veteran activist in the civil rights and women’s movement, who wished to express her gratitude for the work of WWWL and to honor Kathy Chamberlain. A long-time WWWL member and author of Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian WorldKathy Chamberlain served as WWWL steering committee chair for ten years. The 2023-2024 awards are funded by a second gift from Ms. Penty with additional contributions from WWWL members.

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