A History of EAJS Colloquia

EAJS Colloquia

1996 Medieval Jewish Bible Exegesis. Yarnton Manor, Oxford, 15th-19th July 1996. Co-ordinator: Albert van der Heide, Leiden University
1997 Early Rabbinic Judaism (convened by the European Centre for the University Teaching of Jewish Civilization). Yarnton Manor, Oxford, 22nd-26th September 1997. Co-ordinators: Martin Goodman, University of Oxford, and Philip Alexander, University of Manchester
1998 No Colloquium. VIth EAJS Congress, Toledo, 19th-23rd July 1998.
1999 No Colloquium
2000 Medieval Hebrew Poetry in Its Religious and Secular Context. Yarnton Manor, Oxford, 24th-27th July 2000. Co-ordinator: Dr Wout van Bekkum, University of Groningen
2001 Issues in Jewish Philosophy. Yarnton Manor, Oxford, 23rd-26th July 2001. Co-ordinator: Professor Reinier Munk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2002 No Colloquium. VIIth EAJS Congress, Amsterdam, 21st-25th July 2002: Jewish Studies and the European Academic World.
2003 Teaching the Holocaust in Higher Education in Europe. Yarnton Manor, Oxford, 2nd-4th July 2003. Co-ordinators: Professor Jonathan Webber and Dr Isabel Wollaston, University of Birmingham
2004 Epigonism and the Dynamic of Jewish Culture. Yarnton Manor, Oxford, 5th-8th July 2004. Co-ordinators: Professor Shlomo Berger and Professor Irene Zwiep, University of Amsterdam
Papers published in Studia Rosenthaliana Volume 40, 2007
2005 The Teaching of Hebrew in European Universities. Yarnton Manor, Oxford, 18th-20th July 2005. Co-ordinator: Professor Nicholas de Lange, University of Cambridge
2006 No Colloquium. VIIIth EAJS Congress, Moscow, 23rd-27th July 2006: Past and present perspectives in Jewish Studies.
2007 The Cultures of Maimonideanism: New Approaches to the History of Jewish Thought. Wolfson College, Oxford, 16th-19th July 2007. Co-ordinators: Gad Freudenthal, CNRS, Paris, and James T. Robinson, University of Chicago
Papers published in Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
Volume 9, 2009 (online: http://www.jewish-studies.info/files/maimonidesbrill.pdf)
2008 Hebrew linguistic thought and its transmission in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. Wolfson College, Oxford, 7th-10th July 2008. Co-ordinator: Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne, Paris
2009 Manuscripts and History in the Jewish Middle Ages. Wolfson College, Oxford, 6th-9th July, 2009. Co-ordinators: Piero Capelli, Universita Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, and Marina Rustow, Emory University
2010 No Colloquium. IXth EAJS Congress, Ravenna, 25th-29th July 2010: Judaism in the Mediterranean Context.
2011 Books within Books – New Discoveries in Old Book Bindings. Wolfson College, Oxford, 18th-20th July, 2011. Co-ordinator: Andreas Lehnardt, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
2012 Wissenschaft des Judentums and Jewish Studies in Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Comparative Perspectives. Yarnton Manor, Oxford, 23rd-26th July 2012. Co-ordinator: Christian Wiese, Goethe University Frankfurt
2013 The Jewish-Theological Seminar of Breslau, the ‘Science of Judaism’ and the Development of a Conservative Movement in Germany, Europe, and the United States (1854-1933): An EAJS Workshop in Memory of Francesca Y. Albertini z”l (1974-2011). Wolfson College, Oxford, July 2013. Co-ordinators: Andreas Brämer, Institut der Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg, and Frederek Musall, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg