We are pleased to share the Call for Papers for two upcoming conferences, one in Southampton in July 2020 and one in Moscow in January-February 2021. (Click on orange headers for more details.)
2ndParkes Institute International Summer Graduate Seminar: Cultural Heritage and Jewish/non-Jewish Relations
16-17 July 2020, University of Southampton
The Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton (UK) invites proposals for its second International Summer Graduate Seminar. The broadly defined theme of the 2020 conference is Cultural Heritage.
The Parkes Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations, with multidisciplinary scholarly expertise spanning from antiquity through to the present day.
The summer seminar is aimed at postgraduate students and early-career postdoctoral researchers (within one year of the submission of their doctoral thesis) working on all aspects of cultural heritage in interdisciplinary Jewish studies, especially Jewish history and culture.
Papers are invited to focus on topics and questions related, but not limited, to the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations across the ages in the following areas:
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- Tangible heritage structures such as cities, districts, buildings, monuments, objects;
- Museums, exhibitions, collecting;
- Intangible heritage through memory, testimonies, the movement and mobility of people, knowledge, languages, ideas;
- Cultural heritage and the environment;
- Heritage tourism and economic impact;
- Emotional reactions and attachments to cultural heritage.
The programme will also include professionalisation talks and workshops, as well as cultural events (tbc). The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr. Erika Szívós, Associate Professor and Head of Department, Department of Economic and Social History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
Deadline for proposals:
Please send proposals (maximum 250 words) and a short biography to [email protected] by 10 February 2020.
Bursaries: Some assistance is available towards the costs of travel and accommodation of participants with no institutional support. Additionally, thanks to a private donation, we have scholarships available for participants from Eastern Europe. If you would like to be considered for funding, please include a summary of costs with your application. Students are encouraged to apply to their own institutions for funding wherever possible.
Dr Katalin Straner
Lecturer in Modern European History
Department of History / Parkes Institute
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
University of Southampton
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27th International Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow
January 31 – February 2, 2021
The Sefer Center’s International conference program will include sections on traditional areas of Jewish studies (Biblical and Talmudic Studies, Jewish Thought, Jewish History, Judeo-Christian Relations, the Holocaust, Israeli Studies, Languages and Literature, Art, Ethnology, Demography, Jewish Genealogy, Museums and Archives, etc.).
Topics that require interdisciplinary approach are also welcomed.
The time limit for each presenter is 20 minutes (including questions). The Conference will be held in Russian and English.
Graduate students and young researchers are invited to take part in the youth panels of the conference, moderated by the leading experts in their fields of study.
Presentation of last year publications on Jewish studies will also take place. If you wish to submit new published works, please contact the organizers so they can include it in the program.
To apply for the conference please fill in this online form.
The deadline for the submissions is October, 1, 2020.
We will inform you about the results and send all the organizational details on November, 1, 2020. The participants will be provided with accommodation and meals during the Conference. The full program of the conference will be published on the Sefer Center website after December 20, 2020