Jewish History / Studies

NA’AMAT USA is pleased to invite proposals for the Second NA’AMAT USA Research Fellowship in Honor of Elizabeth J. Raider. A lifelong member of NA’AMAT USA, Ms. Raider is the organization’s immediate past national president. The fellowship was inaugurated in 2015-16 and previously awarded to Dr. Pnina Lahav (Boston University) for her work on “The Political Leadership of Golda Meir: Pioneer Women and the Campaign for Jewish Statehood.”

Date: 3. February 2017
Place: Topography of Terror, Berlin
Organizers: Frédéric Bonnesoeur (Berlin), Janine Fubel (Berlin), Christoph Gollasch (Berlin), Borbála Klacsmann (Budapest), Denisa Nešťáková (Bratislava)

Report by: Katja Grosse-Sommer (Amsterdam) and Mareike Otters (Oberhausen)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Edited Volume of Critical Essays on Clarice Lispector

Mariela Méndez (University of Richmond) and Anna Katsnelson (Medgar Evers College, CUNY) invite essay proposals for a volume of critical essays on Clarice Lispector’s contributions to the Brazilian press throughout her entire writing career.

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) has been praised, together with João Guimarães Rosa, as the best Brazilian fiction writer of the twentieth century.

Together with the Centre de Recherches Historiques (EHESS) and the Institut de Sciences Sociales du Politique (Université Paris Nanterre-ENS Paris Saclay-CNRS), the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention is organizing an international conference: "Home as a place for anti-Jewish persecution in European cities, 1933-1945. Crossing urban social history and history of the Holocaust". The conference will be held at the American University of Paris on January 11th-12th, 2018.

CPF: Intersections between Jewish Studies and Israel Studies in the 21^st Century (University of Graz, May 23-24, 2018)

Academica Press, a leading independent scholarly publisher, is proud to call for manuscripts from dynamic scholars at all levels seeking to publish cutting edge work that challenges traditional disciplinary boundaries and provocatively revisits conventional topics. New publications will ideally be devoted to eclectic and under-explored issues in cultural, intellectual, and historical studies and make imaginative uses of theory and method.

Levinas, The Material, and Ethics
North American Levinas Society 
12th Annual International Conference
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
July 24-27, 2017
 
Plenary Speakers:
Adriaan Peperzak, Loyola University Chicago
Tom Sparrow, Slippery Rock University
Annual Talmudic Lecture: Georges Hansel, SIREL

Uncovering Hungarian Jewish Displaced Persons in the ITS Digital Archive: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Dr Ildikó Barna