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The Marcell and Maria Roth Center for Research on the History and Culture of Jews in Poland and Polish-Jewish Relations, Institute of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University in cooperation with the Center of Jewish History and Culture, Institute of History, University of Rzeszów, the Galicia Jewish Museum Kraków and the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv invite proposals for the IV International Conference Jews in Galicia. Histories, Topographies, and Texts in Kraków on October 20-21, 2025. Contributions may cover a wide range of topics concerning Galician Jews.
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025 | DETAILS
The German Historical Institute in Warsaw (GHIW), in collaboration with the Polish Studies Association (PSA) and the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IH PAN), is organizing a network meeting for scholars at all career stages working on Polish topics in June 12-13, 2025. They invite English-speaking scholars (doctoral students, postdocs, professors) from Poland, Germany, and elsewhere who will be in Poland in mid-June to join them.
Deadline for applications: April 30, 2025 | DETAILS
The Jewish Museum in Prague – in co-operation with the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York – invites applicants to submit their topic proposals for the Bohemian National Hall Annual Lecture on the History and Culture of Jews in the Czech and Slovak Lands in New York between November 17–23, 2025. This call is open to scholars from different disciplines working on a variety of topics centred around Jewish history and culture in the Czech lands, Slovakia and in the other regions of the former Habsburg Monarchy from the Middle Ages to the present.
Deadline for applications: May 31, 2025 | DETAILS
The Shalom Foundation and Center of Yiddish Culture invite you to a three-week meeting with the Yiddish language and Jewish history, literature, culture, and art in Warsaw Muranow June 30 till July 18, 2025. Focus will be thematically on the Jewish press.
The program will include language courses at four levels, lectures on the Yiddish language and culture, workshops, tutorials and other activities.
Deadline for applications: May 30, 2025
Scholarship application deadline: April 30, 2025
The Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School will take place from August 26 – September 5, 2025 via Zoom. The school offers nine days of intensive teaching in Biblical Hebrew. Each weekday, there will be 3 hours of teaching, delivered in two separate 90-minute sessions, from 11.30-13.00 and 14.00-15.30 UK time.
The cost of the school is £290 per student for 27 hours of language instruction, including all video recordings of the lectures.
Deadline for applications: July 11, 2025 | DETAILS
The Frankfurt-Tel Aviv Center for the Study of Religious and Interreligious Dynamics invites applications for its international Summer School The Monotheistic Interreligious Moment – Past and Present for graduate students at Goethe University Frankfurt, September 7–17, 2025. Its focus will be on interreligious dynamics across a broad array of historical, systematic, and political dimensions ranging from antiquity to the present.
Deadline for applications: May 30, 2025 | DETAILS
The American Society for Jewish Music’s Jewish Music Forum and the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation at the CUNY Graduate Center; co-sponsored by YIVO invite to a symposium on Music, Sound, and Antisemitism May 28-29 and June 4-5, 2025.
Registration required
Vom 12.-13. Juni organisiert Dr. Veronique Sina, Institut für Theater-, Film-, und Medienwissenschaften an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt einen interdisziplinären Workshop zum Thema Jewish Visual Culture. Bilder ‚des Jüdischen‘ in Kunst und Medien im Jüdischen Museum Frankfurt. Der Fokus liegt auf künstlerisch-medialen Repräsentationen von Judentum und Jüdischsein und die Rolle der Jewish Visual Culture Studies in deutschsprachigen Raum.
Die Veranstaltung ist Teil des DFG-geförderten Forschungsprojekts „Queering Jewishness – Jewish Queerness. Diskursive Inszenierungen von Geschlecht und ‚jüdischer Differenz‘ in (audio-)visuellen Medien“ am Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Aufgrund begrenzter Platzkapazitäten ist eine Teilnahme nur mit Anmeldung möglich.
Lecture with Yair Wallach on Writing Jerusalem, Erasing Jerusalem: on Arabic and Hebrew texts in the streets of modern Jerusalem focusing on the transformation of written language in the city's streets. It investigates the emergence of enmity between Hebrew and Arabic, and the modern transformation of text into a tool of exclusion and conquest. It shows that erasure is not just used against the "enemy" but also of one's own traditions.
Registration required
April 29, 2025 19:00 CET | DETAILS
Die 15. Europäische Sommeruniversität für Jüdische Studien Hohenems findet vom 6. bis 11. Juli 2025 statt. Sie ist eine Kooperationsveranstaltung der Abteilung für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, des Zentrums für Jüdische Studien der Universität Basel, des Instituts für Judaistik an der Universität Wien, der Professur für Judaistik der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, der Sigi-Feigel-Gastprofessur für Jüdische Studien an der Universität Zürich, des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Innsbruck, des Jewish Studies Program der Central European University in Budapest/Wien und dem Jüdischen Museum Hohenems. Die Sommeruniversität für Jüdische Studien Hohenems 2025 steht Studierenden aller Fachbereiche offen. Bevorzugt angenommen werden Studierende der beteiligten Universitäten in Bamberg, Basel, Budapest, Innsbruck, München, Wien und Zürich.
Bewerbungsfrist: 31. Mai 2025 | DETAILS
The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg organizes the lecture series Philosophy by Hand, that reflects on the interaction between philosophical ideas and their expression in material form. The premise is that philosophical manuscripts are not mere contains of text, but rather places where philosophy happens. This perspective leads to new questions, new methods, and new forms of cooperation among disciplines. Each lecture will convey in a friendly and engaging manner the causal role manuscripts play in philosophical activity in different languages, eras, and cultural spheres.
Registration required.
From 28.04.2025 to 15.07.2025, 4:15PM-5:45PM CET | DETAILS
The Hadasssah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University invites guests to a panel with speakers presenting on different aspects of resistance followed by a discussion. Speakers include Karen Frostig, Debra Kaufman, Ornit Barkai and a presenter speaking on behalf of Sarah Silberstein Swartz, z”l, a writer and memoirist who recently passed away.
After a short break, the documentary Resistance - They Fought Back will be screened and followed by a talkback with Paula S. Apsell and Karen Frostig.
Registration is required.
April 24, 2025 at 6.15 p.m. CET | Hybrid | DETAILS
The European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) and the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Strasbourg invite proposals for papers for the international conference “Studying Hebrew in Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg” at the University of Strasbourg. It takes place June 16-17, 2025. The conference focuses on Christian Hebraism in Strasbourg during the sixteenth century. The organizers are providing a list of sixteenth-century Hebraists and of possible topics.