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, seventeen of them have now taken place, two have been postponed until later in 2022 or until 2023, and two have been cancelled. Reports for the events that have taken place 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
Postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
1. Jewish Economic Praxis and its written records: Communicating, accounting, archiving; Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UK. (Postponed until Spring 2023)
Link for reports from previous years: https://www.eurojewishstudies.org/cgp/conference-grant-programme-reports/past/