BAJS Conference 2012 Programme

Registration Form

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/

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

www.bc.edu/scjr

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

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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.

For more details and the schedule for the day see here.

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 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 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

For more information see here.