CFP: Association for Canadian Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2019

Jesse Toufexis Discussion

The ACJS is pleased to announce our 2019 conference, which will take place from June 2-4 at the University of British Columbia, with Sunday’s community day at Vancouver’s Peretz Institute for Secular Jewish Culture. The conference will provide a platform for exciting and original research on Canadian Jewish life, past, present and future. 

 

We welcome paper proposals on any topic relating to the Canadian Jewish experience.Given this year’s centennial of the formation of the first Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC), we particularly welcome proposals on the theme of Jewish communal organizations, past and present, including studies of the CJC and other Canadian Jewish institutions.

 

Individuals are invited to submit proposals for paper presentations 20 minutes in length. All submissions must include (1) an abstract of 250-400 words formulated to clearly and concisely state the main argument of the scholarly paper and indicate how it will contribute to existing scholarship in the field of Canadian Jewish Studies, including a short bibliography of relevant sources; (2) a biography of 50-75 words. 

 

Please submit your proposal by email, as a .doc or .rtf attachment, to the ACJS co-Chair, Jesse Toufexis (jtouf007@uottawa.ca). Because proposals undergo blind review, please do not include any personal, identifiable information in your proposal attachment. Instead, please indicate your name, affiliation, address, telephone number, and email address in the body of the email

 

Paper proposals are due on January 14th, 2019. After an anonymous peer-review process, presenters will be contacted by February 12th.

 

All presenters must be paid members of the ACJS for the year of the conference (2019) at the time that proposals are submitted. Membership information for the ACJS can be found on our website: http://acjs-aejc.ca/membership. Please attach the receipt from your 2019 membership to your proposal. 

 

Partial financial support to defray travel and accommodation costs is available for presenters who are students or underwaged and live more than 100 km from Vancouver. In all cases, because the ACJS support funds are limited, all applicants for financial support are expected to apply first to any host institutions for travel and accommodation support. Applications for financial support, which will be sent to eligible presenters along with the notice of acceptance of their paper proposal, will be due on March 4, with results communicated by March 25.

 

The best student paper presented at the conference will be given the Marcia Koven Award, which is accompanied by a cash prize. The award is granted based on the scholarly quality of the paper and its contribution to the field of Canadian Jewish Studies.