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We are please to present the programme for our conference in June, including a second registration form. If you have already registered, you will need to complete this form only should you want to attend the conference dinner or take part in the visit to the British Library. If you have not registered at all so far, please use this form to register.
BAJS Conference 2012 Programme
Please note that you need to return the conference and dinner registration to Sara BenIsaac (s.benisaac@ucl.ac.uk). If you would like to participate in the visit to the British Library, please contact Sacha Stern (sacha.stern@ucl.ac.uk). The number of places for the visit to the British Library is very limited so you’ll be well advised to register for this as soon as possible, should you want to go.
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Although the conference is open to all who are interested in an academic approach to Jewish Studies, anyone presenting a paper who is not a member of BAJS will ordinarily be expected to join by the time of the conference. Membership is open to anyone with a serious academic interest to Jewish studies. For membership enquiries and applications, please write to the BAJS Secretary, Lars Fischer lf309@cam.ac.uk, and see BAJS Websit : http://britishjewishstudies.org/about/join-bajs/
This international and interdisciplinary Conference is jointly organised by the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research (University of Cape Town), the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations (University of Southampton), and the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies (University of Sydney).
The conference seeks to explore the connections and intersections between Jews, colonialism, and postcolonialism. The existing scholarly literature, mainly following the work of Paul Gilroy, has begun to recognise this conjunction in a variety of ways whether in relation to ‘multidirectional memory’ (Michael Rothberg), ‘the crisis of postcolonial culture’ (Aamir Mufti), or the exclusions of ‘disciplinary thinking’ (Bryan Cheyette). But there is still a need to bring together these sometimes contradictory approaches and to begin to constitute this topic as a new field of comparative studies.
Proposals are welcome from those who want to promote theoretical engagement between Jewish and postcolonial studies as well as those providing more detailed case studies – including from all periods and all places – relating to the history, sociology, and anthropology of Jews (as both ‘white’ and ‘not quite’) in relation to colonialism and postcolonialism. This conference is part of a growing attempt to explore the substantial ways in which these fields inform each other. We welcome papers – theoretical and case studies – covering all chronologies and locations, including discussions of Jews in imperial contexts from antiquity to the present day. Papers are also welcome on how these tensions and intersections have been articulated in the cultural sphere, including, for example, art, film, literature, museums, music and television.
Please send proposals, maximum of 250 words, and a brief biography by 1 September 2012 to:
Dr James Jordan (jaj1@soton.ac.uk) and Dr Shirli Gilbert (s.gilbert@soton.ac.uk)
The Kaplan Centre will provide four nights’ accommodation for those presenting papers at the conference.
The editorial board of Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, a peer-reviewed electronic journal, invites submissions for its 2012 volume. SCJR publishes scholarship on the history, theology, and contemporary realities of Jewish-Christian relations and reviews new materials in the field, providing a vehicle for exchange of information, cooperation, and mutual enrichment in the field of Christian-Jewish studies and relations.
Interested authors are encouraged to contact the editors in advance. For publication in the 2012 volume, papers should be submitted by September 1, 2012 through the journal’s website. Papers submitted after September 1, 2012 may be considered for publication in a future volume. All papers will be subject to peer-review before acceptance for publication.
Ruth Langer, Co-Editor of SCJR, Professor of Jewish Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, Boston College
Kevin Spicer, CSC, Co-Editor of SCJR, Professor of History, Stonehill College
Co-organised by Dr. Gil Pasternak (The University of Huddersfield) and Lior Libman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The University of Leeds), ‘Insight Palestina’ is a one-day international conference to be hosted at the University of Leeds (UK) on 7 June 2012, 9.30 – 20.45.
Keynote Speakers Paper Titles:
- Prof. Sander Gilman: SCANDAL! Images, Discourses, and the Image of Discourse that ‘hurt people’s feelings’
- Prof. Griselda Pollock: Screen Memories: Making Pasts Futures in ‘And Europe Will Be Stunned’ by Yael Bartana
- Dr. Ihab Saloul: Sites and Insights: Exilic Memory and the Politics of the Anti-linear Sound-Image
Confirmed Speakers Paper Titles:
- Dr. Alma Mikulinsky (University of Hong Kong): Crossing Discursive Borders: Representations of Checkpoints in Palestinian Art and Film
- Dr. Simon Faulkner (Manchester Metropolitan University): Israel/Palestine and the Politics of Curiosity
- Dr. Orly Shevi (Tel Aviv University): Ici et Ailleurs – Godard’s Cinematic reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Lior Libman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Shadows over the Land Without Shade: The Iconisation of the Kibbutz in the 1950s as an acting-out of post-Nakba Cultural Trauma
- Dr. Gil Pasternak (The University of Huddersfield): Jewish Soldiers of the Time: Ethos, Pathos and Logos in Rineke Dijkstra’s ‘Israel Portraits’
Screening and Artist’s Talk:
- Yael Bartana and Sławomir Sierakowski (founder and chief editor of Krytyka Polityczna magazine) will discuss Bartana’s piece ‘And Europe Will be Stunned’ (2011)
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: http://www.store.hud.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=208&modid=1&compid=1
University of Leeds and Huddersfield Students: Free (please read the ‘Read More’ section)
Delegates Early Bird Registration – 26 April – 7 May 2012: £15 (please read the ‘Read More’ section)
Delegates Late Registration: 8 – 20 May 2012: £20
For updates please do follow us on Twitter @GilPasternak or at: http://gilpasternak.wordpress.com/
The Woolf Institute (Cambridge), in partnership with the School of International Service at the American University in Washington, is delighted to announce that following a successful first year, the e-learning programme, Bridging the Great Divide: the Jewish-Muslim Encounter, will be offered again in 2012.
This 15-week e-learning course will explore the history, culture and theology of Muslims and Jews, reflecting on similarities and differences as well as the major challenges. Assisted by leading scholars in the US and Europe with a wealth of experience in this field, the course will also offer strategies for building bridges between the communities.
Because this course is committed to the highest levels of scholarly integrity, it will provide a space for the discussion of the entire range, in the broadest sense, of the Jewish-Muslim encounter. This discussion does not preclude more controversial issues.
Applications are now being accepted for the course starting week commencing 27 August 2012. (The deadline for applications is 6 August 2012.)
The normal course fee for the American University award is £2500 but Woolf Institute students will be able to apply either for one of the 5 full scholarships or 5 bursaries (resulting in a reduction of fees to £450 each).
For more details of the course, together with the application form, visit the website http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/courses/mj.asp.
Venue: Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Room S261, Senate House, Bloomsbury, London
For more details and the schedule for the day see here.
The Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (Woolf Institute, Cambridge) is delighted to announce that it is hosting a colloquium, Regarding the Other in Modern Jewish Thought. The colloquium will be held on Wednesday, 27 June 2012 and take place at Lucy Cavendish College (Cambridge).
The speakers at the colloquium will be CJCR Visiting Fellow, Aaron Rosen (KCL), Agata Bielik-Robson (Nottingham), and Melissa Raphael (Gloucestershire).
Melissa Raphael (University of Gloucestershire):
The Other as an incarnation of the divine: modern Jewish theology and counter-idolatrous images of the human
Aaron Rosen (KCL and CJCR):
Emmanuel Levinas and the hospitality of images
Agata Bielik-Robson (University of Nottingham):
The concept of the neighbour in Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption
Registration required. Bursaries for graduate students available.
For further details and the registration form, please see http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/events/details?year=2012&month=6&day=27#ID449.
The Woolf Institute is delighted to announce that, together with the Center for the Study of Jews, Christians, Muslims at The Open University of Israel, it is hosting a conference, Tradition and Transition in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Cultures. The conference will begin on the evening of Sunday 24 June and run through to 26 June 2012. It takes place at Lucy Cavendish College (Cambridge).
The conference assembles a range of international scholars and will focus on the following broad themes: Space, Family, Art & Music, and Exile.
We are delighted that Hagit Messer-Yaron, President of The Open University of Israel, and Kamel Abu Jaber, Director of the Royal Institute of Inter-Faith Studies (Jordan), will be joining us, together with the patron of the Woolf Institute and the Chancellor of the Open University of Israel, the Right Honourable the Lord Woolf.
Conference highlights will include Keynote Lecture given by Ada Rapoport-Albert (UCL) and a lecture given by Hilary Pomeroy (UCL) with musical illustrations from Lucie Skeaping and Jon Banks (of The Burning Bush, http://www.theburningbush.co.uk/).
Full details of the programme, together with the registration form, can be found at http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/events/details?year=2012&month=6&day=24#ID359
Dapim Studies on the Shoah is a peer-reviewed bi-lingual (English and Hebrew) academic journal devoted to the study of the Second World War, the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism written by scholars from all disciplines and methodologies.
Dapim is published jointly by the University of Haifa and the Ghetto Fighters house in Israel.
The editors invite the submission of original articles in all areas of holocaust Studies. The articles may deal with all aspects of the Holocaust, W.W.II and its aftermath, anti-Semitism and contemporary issues related
Papers should be submitted as an attachment via email to Dr. Yael Granot-Bein, University of Haifa: ygranot@univ.haifa.ac.il.
For more information about the journal as well as instructions for writers, please visit our website: http://holocaust-center.haifa. ac.il
Please see attached for a list of articles published in the last issue of Dapim.
With kind regards,
Dapim editorial board
Prof. Arieh J. Kochavi (Chair)
Editors: Sara Bender, Amos Goldberg, Wendy Lower
Dapim editorial board: Ilya Altman, Alon Confino, Hasia Diner, Yoav Gelber, Suzanna Heim, Dieter Pohl, Renee Poznanski, Alvin Rosenfeld, Hanna Yablonka
This season’s theme is Jews and Justice. The Lecture Series aims to explore their concepts of justice, how they are related to the different political and cultural environments they lived in, as well as the potential juridical and political conflicts that arise from these concepts.
For more information see here.
The representation of Jewish Languages on screen is not only a way to pay a tribute to pre-war Yiddish movie pictures. It also strives to understand the impact of the partial echoing of languages connected with a vanished past in modern and sometimes very recent films (as in the opening episode of A Serious Man by Ethan and Joel Coen, 2009). Sometimes, the episodes where a Jewish language is heard are extremely short; at other times, the presence of the Jewish languages is reduced to the epiphenomenal embedding of words within the frame of the hegemonic language (Yiddish in English; Judeo-Arabic in French or in Hebrew).
The conference will also deal with the aesthetic effect that derives from extracts of Jewish songs (in Yiddish or Judeo-Spanish) that are occasionally part of the sound track of movies dealing with Jewish issues, especially as far as the representation of the Shoah is concerned. Whatever the presence of Jewish languages in classic, modern or post-modern cinema might be, it is interesting to ask what this mediation of cinema means for the preservation of the endangered Jewish languages and conversely, how the nostalgic resonance of lost voices is affecting a post-modern representation of Jewish ethnicity on the screen.
This interdisciplinary conference is open to a wide range of specializations:
linguistics of the Jewish languages;
- cinema studies;
- musicology;
- cultural studies;
- Jewish history;
- Shoah studies;
- ethnology.
The working language will not be necessarily English although this option is obviously recommended.
An abstract for a suggested lecture/presentation should be sent to msjewciv@mscc.huji.ac.il by May 24, 2012.
Keynote speakers:
Rev Dr Naim Ateek
Rabbi Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbook
Professor Nur Masahla
Professor Ilan Pappé
And panel discussions with:
Professor Philip Davies
Professor Mary Grey
And others…
We are welcoming contributions from all perspectives under four main headings:
- Antisemitism, Philosemitism and the Bible
- the Bible and the Existence of Israel
- Judaism, Christianity and Zionism
- and the Bible and the Palestinians.
Topics may include (but are by no means limited to):
- biblical archaeology and historiography
- Palestinian liberation theology
- violence and peace in the Bible
- Christian Zionism
- postcolonial biblical criticism
- modern Judaism and its relationship to Zionism.
Please send a title and a 300 word abstract to bzpconference@sheffield.ac.uk, for a 20 minute paper.
In this season we examine ‘forbidden relationships’ across the Middle East divide, especially between Jews and Arabs. Spanning the period from the 1940s to the present day, the films explore the changing representations of Arab masculinities and Jewish women, including where these representations stand in present day Britain. In these films love, desire and politics blur the borderline between personal loyalty and the perceived demands of patriotism and national identity. FilmTalk stresses film as much as talk. The lectures are 20-25 minutes long and are followed or intercut with excerpts from the films under review.
For more information, please see here: FilmTalk 2011
Monday, 28 May 2012, 16.00
Aaron Rosen (Visiting Fellow, CJCR)
The hospitality of images
Venue: Faculty of Divinity, Room 2
Monday, 4 June 2012
Study day with Steve Mason (Aberdeen)
11.00: ‘The failure of Cestius Gallus’? Historical method and the study of Roman Judaea
14.15: Judaism, Christianity, and the problem of categories
Venue: Faculty of Divinity, Lightfoot Room
Sunday, 24 June–Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Tradition and Transition in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Cultures
Joint conference with the Open University of Israel
Venue: Lucy Cavendish College (registration required)
