We are pleased to share this Call for Papers for the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Society for Sephardic Studies, to be held in Izmir, Turkey, October 9-13, 2023.
Focus of the conference is: Sephardic Jews, between Messianism and Modernity
Abstracts must submitted before December 31, 2022
The conference will bring together researchers of Sephardic social, cultural, and art history, languages, and literature from before and after the Expulsion of 1492.
More specifically, we are encouraging papers on Mosaic, Christian, and Muslim attitudes toward Jewish messianism as reflected in the scholars’ particular areas of interest. In addition, the Conference will focus on the overlooked Sephardic embracement of modernity and Virtual Sepharad’s gradual yet unwavering secularization, whether in the expanse’s south—the ex-Ottoman realms—or its northern extremities – Holland, England, and the Americas.
The Academic and Steering Committees hope to draw researchers from many and manifold disciplines (e.g., anthropology, folklore, literature, art, history, geography, and museology) covering a broad gamut of periods and regions, but they are leaning toward papers on several themes:
— Messianism
— Dialogue with Neighboring Ottoman Cultures
— The City of Izmir
There is scope to present on topics related to Jewish material culture and heritage in all three main areas.
The conference is organized in cooperation with the Moshe David Gaon Center for Ladino Culture of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Izmir Jewish Heritage Project & the Jewish Community Foundation of Izmir, the Center for Sabbatean Sephardic Culture, and the J. Elyachar Center for Studies in Sepharadi Heritage.
Click here to see the detailed Call for Papers, with extensive information and background.