Monthly Archives: August 2026

University of Virginia Visiting Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence

Call for Applications

According to their call, “[t]he Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia’s scholar-in-residence fellowship program is a short-term residency open to distinguished national and international applicants, who may be academic scholars or scholars of practice. Recipients will typically spend 3 – 6 weeks at the University of Virginia and are invited to conduct their own research and contribute to the intellectual life of the Jewish Studies Program.”

Deadline: 1 October 2026.

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Special Issue “Heritage and Memory: Jewish Cultural Narratives in Historical Context”

Call for Papers

According to thier call, “Scholars are invited to submit proposals for this upcoming Special Issue, ‘Heritage and Memory: Jewish Cultural Narratives in Historical Context’. This project seeks to explore how Jewish communities across time have constructed, transmitted, preserved, and reinvented cultural memory. We welcome papers from history, religious studies, anthropology, law, education, literature, philosophy, and related fields.”

Deadline: 1 October 2026.

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