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Final call for papers
This is the final call for papers for the annual conference of the British Association of Jewish Studies, which will take place at UCL, London, from 27-29 June 2012. An earlier call for papers was issued in October. The deadline for submission of proposals is 3 January 2012.
The conference theme will be ‘The Jews and the Sciences’. The term ‘science’ is open to interpretation because of the wide range of meanings it has been given in different cultures and in different periods of history. Even today, ‘science’ (or its counterpart in other languages) means different things in Britain and in other parts of Europe. For the purposes of this conference, ‘science’ will be taken in its widest sense. In ancient and medieval contexts, for example, it may include the disciplines of magic, astrology, and alchemy. For all periods of history, it may include philosophy, linguistics, literary theory, sociology, psychology, and all other human sciences.
In short, ‘science’ will be taken to mean any form of knowledge or study that is not culture-specific to Jews or to Judaism. It will be viewed at once as an intellectual activity (the science itself, involving study, research, discovery, dissemination), a cultural phenomenon (related to other aspects of culture such as language, religion, etc.), and an aspect of social history. Science is a context in which Jews have shared a common culture with their wider society.
The theme of ‘The Jews and the Sciences’ can be approached, therefore, in several ways. Participants may present papers, for example, on the contribution of Jews and Judaism to the sciences, or conversely, on the contribution of science to Jewish culture, literature, and Judaism. They may consider Jewish attitudes to science, the historical involvement of Jews in scientific inquiry, the production of scientific literature for Jewish audiences and in Jewish languages, or the historical and contemporary impact of sciences on Jewish culture and Jewish society.
The BAJS 2012 conference will take place consecutively after another conference at UCL on the more narrow theme of ‘Time, astronomy, and calendars in Jewish tradition’, from Monday 25th — Wednesday 27th June 2012. This conference will be hosted by the UCL AHRC-funded research project ‘Medieval Monographs on the Jewish Calendar’ and by the Institute of Jewish Studies. It will be open to the public, and we would like to encourage BAJS Conference participants to attend this conference too. The keynote lecture, delivered by Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute, London) will be shared by both conferences on Wednesday evening, 27th June. Scholars who have so far agreed to participate at the AHRC-IJS conference include Jonathan Ben-Dov (Haifa), Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia), Tzvi Langermann (Bar- Ilan), Reimund Leicht (Hebrew University), Raymond Mercier Cambridge), Marina Rustow (Johns Hopkins), and Shlomo Sela (Bar-Ilan), as well as research staff of the Jewish calendar projects at UCL.
The deadline for submission of proposals is 3 January 2012. This call for papers for the BAJS Conference 2012 is being issued at an earlier date than usual, because the forthcoming Olympic Games in London (July 2012) make it necessary for our conference to be planned well in advance.
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As usual, papers and panels on aspects of Jewish Studies that are not related to the conference theme will also be welcome.
Please send proposals for individual papers (including title and a short, max. 300-word abstract) and panels to the President, Sacha Stern (sacha.stern@ucl.ac.uk). We look forward to your submissions.
Although the conference is open to all who are interested in an academic approach to Jewish Studies, anyone wishing to present 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/
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.
Contributors:
Professor Dan Michman (Yad Vashem, Hebrew University)
The Wannsee Conference: the view from Berlin
Professor Christoph Dieckman (University of Keele)
Mass murder in Lithuania and the transition to ‘the Final Solution’
Dr Alexander Korb (University of Leicester)
The Balkans as a site of mass murder and implementation of the ‘Final Solution’
The workshop is open to undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and others. The idea of the ‘workshop’ format is to explore debates arising from specific issues in Holocaust Studies in an informal atmosphere. In addition to the three presentations there will be plenty of time for conversation and a final ‘open’ panel.
Pre-booking is essential.
Time: 10.00 to 16.00
Location: The Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DP
Cost: £10/ £5 concessions. Payment on the day.
For further information and pre-booking: Please email Rachel.century.2009@live.rhul.ac.uk
This conference will be the first full academic conference organised by the European Association of Israel Studies.
It will build on our successful launch conference in September 2011 at SOAS, University of London, which was attended by representatives of many European countries, from Siberia to Iberia .
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research in any aspect of Israel studies.
It will continue to build on areas previously investigated in the academic literature and also open up new fields of intellectual enquiry.
The organisers welcome all proposals including suggestions for panels which are pertinent to Israel Studies.
The EAIS will offer a limited number of travel and accommodation stipends for the Munich conference for graduate students and junior faculty.
Please send an abstract of 200-250 words together with biographical background of about 50-100 words by Monday 2 April 2012 to: Daniel Lowe, dl25@soas.ac.uk
All proposals are subject to a review process. The conference will be held in English.
The conference fee will be 20 euros. The student rate will be 15 euros.
All presenters will be members of the EAIS. For membership details, click here.
For details of the EAIS Charter, click here.
Further information and registration details will be made available on our website.
European Association of Israel Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies,
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
+44 (0) 20 7898 4358 | infoeais@soas.ac.uk | www.soas.ac.uk/eais
MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2012, 5pm
Lecture: After Babel: A Jewish theology of interfaith
TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2012, 5pm
Lecture: Truth and translatability
WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2012, 5pm
Lecture: The face of the Other: the curious nature of biblical narrative
THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY, 4.30pm
(with drinks reception from 4pm)
Symposium: Making Space (does the Judaic model make sense in Christianity and Islam?)
with Professor Janet Soskice (Cambridge), Professor Abdou Filali-Ansari (Aga Khan University) and Professor Guy Stroumsa (Oxford).
The lectures and symposium are free and open to all however booking is required. For more information and free registration for all events, please visit:
www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/events/humanitas
Admittance will be by ticket only.
All events will take place at Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
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.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The Holocaust Educational Foundation, USA, and the Holocaust Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London are pleased to invite applications for Fellowships to participate in the first European Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization from 18-30 June 2012 at the Royal Holloway campus, Egham, Surrey in England.
This programme is an intensive two-week residential course designed to broaden and deepen the background of postgraduates in Holocaust studies, early career academics, and educators in relevant fields. It is open to students enrolled full- or part-time in postgraduate programmes, full- or part-time academic staff, and educators at recognized institutions such as museums and archives.
Approximately 20 Fellows will be selected, each of whom will receive free room, board, and tuition during the programme. (Fellowships do not however, cover travel expenses to and from Royal Holloway or the cost of field trips during the course.) We seek fellows from a wide variety of disciplines and all intellectual fields related to Holocaust Studies.
The Institute curriculum consists of courses, lectures, and seminars taught by leading scholars on the following themes: the history of Jews and Judaism in Europe; Holocaust history and historiography; the Holocaust in literature and film; the Holocaust and modern thought. In addition, the Institute offers a rich program of guest lectures on special themes and of cultural and recreational trips to sites in London.
Applications should include a statement explaining the prospective Fellow’s interest and experience in Holocaust studies, and intentions for teaching the Holocaust, a curriculum vitae, plus, a letter of recommendation from a line manager; in the case of graduate students, a letter of recommendation from the doctoral supervisor. Applications should be submitted online by February 29 to Rachel Century, Summer Institute Administrator rachel.century.2009@live.rhul.ac.uk.
Fellowships will be awarded and all applicants notified by March 30, 2012.
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
Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 14.15
James Carleton Paget (Peterhouse)
Recent trends in New Testament scholarship and their impact on the study of Jewish-Christian relations
Venue: Faculty of Divinity, Room 2
Monday, 30 January 2012, 16.00
Susanne Kord (UCL)
Humanities Research: How to question and complicate everything
Venue: Faculty of Divinity, Room 2
Wednesday, 1 February 2012, 14.15
Kati Ihnat (Queen Mary, University of London)
Mary and the Jews: Myth and meaning in the medieval Jewish-Christian encounter
Venue: Faculty of Divinity, Room 2
Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 14.15
Frank Dabba Smith (UCL)
Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar: Helping the persecuted during the Nazi years.
Venue: Faculty of Divinity, Room 2
Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 14.15
Tom Lawson (Winchester)
Rethinking the Church of England’s response to the Holocaust
Venue: Faculty of Divinity, Room 2
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 14.15
Daniel Langton (Manchester)
The (mis)use of history in Holocaust theology
Venue: Faculty of Divinity, Room 2
Wednesday, 29 February 2012, 14.15
Helen Bartos (UCL)
West Germany’s relations with Israel: bridge-building, morals and church input
Venue: Faculty of Divinity, Room 2
Monday, 5 March 2012, 16.00
Jay Geller (Vanderbilt)
How (not) to read Kafka from a Jewish cultural studies perspective
Venue: Faculty of Divinity, Room 2
Wednesday, 7 March 2012, 14.15
Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt and CJCR)
The Passion narrative and the Jews: History, hermeneutics and homiletics
Venue: Faculty of Divinity, Room 2
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)
