Yoram Bilu‘s book talk: With Us More Than Ever Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad
Discussant: Daniel Falk (Penn State)
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Open Theology invites submissions for the topical issue
Call for papers for the 27th International Conference on Jewish Studies
Dear Colleagues,
The German Studies Association (https://www.thegsa.org
In 2021, when there are more than 79.5 million displaced people across the world and the British Home Secretary proposes re-housing refugees on distant islands, an understanding of refugees as innocent people rather than an invasion is sorely needed. Through an exploration of British responses to the 1930s and 1940s Refugee Crisis, this course will reveal a neglected history of support for refugees from remarkable people and institutions of all faiths and none.
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In all humanities disciplines, scholars find themselves confronted with the rapidly increasing availability of digital resources (data), new technologies to interrogate and analyze them (tools), and the question of how to engage with these developments. The digitisation boom of the last two decades, and the rapid advancement of digital tools to analyse data in myriad ways, have opened up new avenues for humanities research. The field of Jewish Studies is no exception. How can these digital developments be harnessed to address specific questions and problems in our field?
As this challenging year is coming to an end, I would like to encourage fellow scholars and students to submit paper proposals for the 2021 conference of the American Academy of Religion-Midwest region, which will be held virtually on April 22-23 and 29-30.
The University of Virginia Jewish Studies Program, an interdisciplinary program drawing on more than thirty faculty from across the University, invites applications for a three-year visiting assistant professor (VAP) in Israel Studies, anticipated to begin August 25, 2021. We are particularly interested in candidates who can teach courses in the history and politics of modern Israel as well as courses in related topics that may include Israeli culture, literature, religion, and society.
