We are pleased to share this call for papers for an international conference on Jewish Heritage in Slovenia, to take place September 18-19, 2019 at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Deadline for submissions in April 25, 2019.
The conference is organized by the Center for Jewish Art (CJA) at Hebrew University, the Department of Art History in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Maribor, and the France Stele Institute of Art History at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Background
The conference is organized within the framework of a two-year bilateral Slovene-Israeli research project entitled “Digitization of Slovenian Heritage,” launched in September 2018 by the institutions named above.
This project involves in-depth research, documentation and digitization of tangible and intangible Jewish heritage of Slovenia. It aims to create a special section of Slovenian Jewish heritage within the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art.
The project follows on from the earlier work of the Israeli researcher Zusya Efron (1966); Jewish Heritage Europe Director Ruth Ellen Gruber and Samuel D. Gruber (1996); CJA and the Department of Art History at the University of Ljubljana (2000‐2); and Janez Premk and Mihaela Hudelja (2014).
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The Conference CfP
The conference seeks to address the multifaceted history and culture of Jews on the territory of today’s Slovenia from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. We are particularly interested in Jewish heritage and its contextualization in various theoretical, spatial and chronological frameworks, within a wider context of the Balkans and Central Europe.
The language of the conference will be English. The presentation of each paper will last 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion.
Please submit a 300-word abstract and a short CV to [email protected] no later than 25th April 2019. Applicants will be notified by 20th May whether their paper was accepted.
The organizers will cover the participants’ accommodation in Jerusalem. Additionally, a limited number of grants covering travel expenses will be provided on special request.
Academic Organizing Committee:
Prof. Dr. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Vladimir Levin, the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Dr. Barbara Murovec, University of Maribor
Dr. Janez Premk, ZRC SAZU
Click to read our article about the two-year Slovene-Israeli research project