EAJS Conference Grant Reports: 2017/18

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During the 2017-18 academic year, the EAJS Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies ran in parallel with another grant programme, the EAJS Programme in European Jewish Studies (the latter funded by the Stiftung “Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft”, Berlin).

Reports for EAJS Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies

2017-18

  1. Rabbinic Instruction in Context: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Transmission of Religious Knowledge and Praxis in Antiquity and Late Antiquity. Göttingen, 18-19 September 2017
  2. Ukrainian Jews: Revolution and Post-Revolutionary Modernization. Policy, Culture, and Society. Kyiv, 15-16 October 2017
  3. Jews in Europe in Immediate Postwar Period. Frankfurt am Main, 3-5 December 2017
  4. 25th Annual International Conference on Jewish Studies. Moscow, 4-6 February 2018
  5. Digital Humanities & Jewish Epigraphy. Utrecht, 19-21 February 2018
  6. Young Scholars’ Conference “Genocides, Mass Murders and Deportations in Ukraine during WWII: How to Work with Sources. Kharkiv, 17-19 April 2018
  7. New Loyalties, Old Dramas: Jewish Community Life in the Aftermath of the Great War in Central and Eastern Europe. Bucharest, 10-12 May 2018
  8. Emotions in Rabbinic Literature: Methods and Approaches. Groningen, New Dates: 24-25 May 2018
  9. Greek expanded, Greek transformed: The Vocabulary of the Septuagint and the Cultural World of the Translators. Oxford, 18-20 June 2018
  10. Theories and Histories: Jewish Studies in Other Disciplines. Durham, 9-11 July 2018
  11. Aramaic Language and Literature: Local and Global Influences on the Targums and Targumic Aramaic. London, 9-11 July 2018
  12. EAJS XIth Congress: “Searching for the Roots of Jewish Traditions”. Krakow, 15-19 July 2018

EAJS Programme in European Jewish Studies

(funded by the Stiftung “Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft”, Berlin)

2017-18

1. EAJS Summer Laboratory for Young Genizah Researchers and those interested in the field

Conveners: Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (EPHE Paris), Dr Ben Outhwaite (Genizah Research Unit Cambridge), Professor Ronny Vollandt (LMU Munich)

Organiser: Dr Friederike Schmidt (LMU Munich)

Report: Young Genizah Researchers and those interested in the field report

2. E Pluribus Unum? Multidisciplinarity in Jewish Studies Programmes and Teaching

Organisers: Dr Javier Castaño and Dr François Guesnet

Report: Girona workshop report

3. EAJS Roundtable on an International Program of MA Jewish Studies: Teaching Methods and Implementation Perspectives

Organisers: Dr Jurgita Verbickiene and Professor Marcin Wodzinski

Report: Link for EAJS Roundtable on an International Program of MA Jewish Studies