Conference on "The Materiality of Jewish-Arabic Relations", January 19-21, 2026, at Ludwig Maximilians-Universität, Munich

The Unit for Judaic Studies at the Institute for the Near and Middle East (LMU, Munich) invites abstracts for a two-day conference.

The conference will focus on the materiality of Jewish-Arab relations: How does materiality mediate, shape, or challenge Jewish-Arab relations across historical and spatial contexts? How can the physicality of our source material offer new insights into shared practices, cultural transmissions, or histories of rupture? Contributors are asked to focus on a primary source to explore how materiality may help to rethink inherited categories of conflict or coexistence of Jewish-Arab relations.

Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2025 | DETAILS