EAJS Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies
2019-20 and 2020-21
Eleven events were originally funded for the 2019-20 cycle of the Conference Grant Programme, and ten events for 2020-21. Whilst several of these events were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and a few cancelled, eighteen of them went ahead. Reports for the events that went ahead can be found below:
Already taken place
1. Dynamic Jewish-Muslim Interactions (“DJMI”) in Maghribi Material and Performative Cultures; University of Cambridge, UK, 17-18 September 2019
2. Social Media and Antisemitism: Deciphering the Past and Present Relationship Between Prejudice and Communication; Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK, 6-7 November 2019
3. Biographies and Politics: The Involvement of Jews and Activists of Jewish Origin in Leftist Movements in 19th and 20th Century Poland; POLIN Museum, Warsaw, Poland, 1-2 December 2019
4. Stranger in a Land: Late-Antique and Medieval Narratives on Foreigners and Exile; University of Córdoba, Spain, 4-6 March 2020
5. Nordic Postgraduate Forum in Ancient and early Medieval Jewish History and Literature; Lund University, Sweden, 22-23 September 2020
6. Rural and Urban Jewries Between Tradition and Modernity: International Junior Scholars’ Workshop; University of Bamberg, Germany, 14-15 March 2021 as online event
7. World in Crisis: Reflections and Responses from Antiquity to the Present (BAJS); University of Southampton, UK, 5-7 July 2021 as online event
8. SEFER: Twenty-Seventh Annual International Conference on Jewish Studies; SEFER Center, Moscow, Russia, 11-13 July 2021 as online event
9. From Josephus to Josippon and Beyond; University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 23-26 August 2021 as online event
10. International Conference “Revealing of Secrets”: Hasidism and Haskalah in the Ukrainian Lands; Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies, Ukraine, 31 August – 1 September 2021 as online event (report pending)
11. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies; POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews, Poland, 3-10 October 2021. Video Recordings for What’s New, What’s Next? conference: https://polin.pl/en/aktualnosci/2021/12/14/whats-new-whats-next-video-recordings
12. Across Borders and Boundaries. Jewish Belongings in the Mediterranean Space and Beyond; Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, 6-7 October 2021
13. One Biography, Multiple Places: The Life and Work of Shmuel Hugo Bergmann; Between Prague and Jerusalem (1883–1975); Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 3-5 November 2021
14. Ancient and Medieval Religious Homelands: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Space, Place and Religion; University of Vienna, Austria, 8-10 November 2021 as online event
15. Hidden in Plain Sight: Yiddish in the Socialist Bloc, 1941/44–1991; Imre Kertész Kolleg/Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany (venue: POLIN Museum, Warsaw, Poland), 22-24 November 2021 as online event
16. Bibles and Scholars: A Tribute to Paul Kahle and Gérard Weil; Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France, 9 – 12 May 2022
17. The Hasidic Century: New Perspectives on Hasidism in the 20th and 21st Centuries; University of Wrocław, Poland, 20-23 June 2022
18. Schismatics, Heretics, and Religious Crisis: Frankism and the Turbulent 18th Century in East Central European Jewry (Summer School); Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, 11-21 August 2022
Link for reports from previous years: https://www.eurojewishstudies.org/cgp/conference-grant-programme-reports/past/