From ajhyman@tortoise Mon Dec 2 22:27:19 1996 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 00:00:52 -0400 (EDT) From: from the desk of Avi Hyman To: Jewish Studies Subject: Jewish Studies - Calls for Papers JEWISH * STUDIES * J U D A I C A * e J O U R N A L ____________________________________________________________ Issue 4.001p2 * Sept. 1995 * Readership = 6200+ ____________________________________________________________ Conferences, Calls for Papers, and Contributors: - Yiddish Language and Culture - American National Biography - Social Science History Convention - Reference Books & Databases ($) - Hebrew and the Humanities - Western Jewish Studies Conference ------------------------------------------------------------ From: MaryEllen Read Subject: Klutznick Symposium Schedule CALL FOR PAPERS The Ninth Annual Klutznick Symposium: October 27 & 28, 1996 Yiddish Language and Culture: Then and Now Creighton University's Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization and Center for the Study of Religion and Society will host the Ninth Annual Klutznick Symposium to take place in Omaha, Nebraska on Sunday, October 27 and Monday, October 28, 1996. The theme of the Symposium will be Yiddish Language and Culture: Then and Now. The Program Committee seeks proposals for presentations on Yiddish language and culture, past and present. It is interested in receiving proposals on topics related to the history and development of Yiddish as a language, and aspects of Yiddish culture, including music, fiction, poetry, humor, and theater. Those chosen to participate in the symposium will be expected to submit their papers in a scholarly format; those papers will be published in a collected volume. Participants will also be expected to make twenty minute presentations of the essential elements of their papers in a manner suitable to an audience composed of the general public and scholars. Please note that the reading of papers as submitted for publication would not be appropriate to this audience. Audio/visual aids are encouraged. Subsidies for the presenter's costs of transportation and accommodation will be provided. For further information contact Leonard Jay Greenspoon, Chairholder of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization (ljgrn@creighton.edu or phone 402-280-2304), or Bryan Le Beau, Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society (blbeau@creighton.edu or phone 402-280-2562) at Creighton University, 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, Nebraska 68178. One page abstracts and vitae should be submitted to either Dr. Greenspoon or Dr. Le Beau by April 1, 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: H-Net Services Subject: Authors needed for _AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY_ Oxford University Press is looking for authors to write 1000-word scholarly articles on some 4,000 subjects that remain to be commissioned for the AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. The authors will be paid $50 and will receive a byline. We especially hope advanced graduate students and recent PhDs will come forward. Sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB is slated for publication by Oxford University Press in 1998. It will be a twenty-volume set comprising more than 19,000 articles on deceased historical figures in the following fields: politics, diplomacy, and the military; religion; education; business; law; medicine; science and technology; social sciences; social reform; literature; art; performing arts; sports; and miscellaneous categories. A detailed description of the project, the names of the subjects who need biographies, and general format of biographical sketches can be obtained by sending the following command to: Listserv@uicvm.uic.edu Get AmerBiog Package. There you will be given more information, including the name and email address of the contact at Oxford University Press. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: H-Net Services Subject: Social Science History convention, Chicago, Nov 16-19, '95 SSHA Annual Convention 16-19 November 1995 - Chicago, IL The Social Science History Association will hold its 20th Annual Conference 16-19 November 1995 at the Palmer House in Chicago, Illinois. This year, as in the past, the conference will attract historians, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, geographers, and other social scientists. Graduate students are encouraged to attend and a number are participating as panelists. This year's program will have approximately 155 panels and roundtables, involving upwards of 600 participants. There will be a total of 10 session times, with 2 on both Thursday and Sunday, and three sessions on Friday and Saturday. The conference will begin with the 1:30 Thursday session and conclude after the second Sunday session at 12:45. Also, the number of scheduled network meeting times has been increased from two to three to accommodate those with multiple network interests. The following sessions are scheduled: - Regions - Sociology and History - History of Sociology - The Elias Paradigm and Social Science History - Borderlands - Transitions Revisited - Historian as Ethnographer/Ethnographer as Historian SESSION TITLES POLITICS: Apportionment, Districting, and Politics in U.S. History; Popular Politics in Comparative Perspective; Beyond Social Control; The Game of Politics in Chicago; Politics and U.S. Economic Development in the 20th Century; Historical Geography of American Elections: 20th Century Longitudinal Perspectives; Examining the Second Party System: American Politics in the 19th Century; The United States and the World, 1878-1925; Reflections on Twenty Years of Political History in the SSHA; Intellectuals, Politics, and Public Identities in Europe, 1870-1940; Group Identity and Political Change in Cross Cultural Contexts; Is Social Class Declining in Politics?; Historical Geography of American Elections: 19th and 20th Century Perspectives; Networking in Cyberspace: H-Pol and the Politics Network.* ------------------------------------------------------------ From: H-Net Services Subject: NEH $ for creating new historical reference books & databases REFERENCE MATERIALS AWARDS: The National Endowment for the Humanities Reference Materials Program supports projects to prepare reference works that will improve access to information and resources. Support is available for the creation of dictionaries, historical or linguistic atlases, encyclopedias, catalogues raisonnes, other descriptive catalogues, grammars, databases, textbases, and other projects that will provide essential scholarly tools for the advancement of research or for general reference. Support is also available for projects that address important issues related to the design or accessibility of reference works. The application deadline is November 1, 1995 for projects beginning after September 1, 1996. For more information contact (please include surface mail address): Reference Materials, Room 318, National Endowment for the Humanities Washington, DC 20506 or via e-mail at REFERENCE@NEH.FED.US. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: pats Subject: Hebrew and the Humanities Melton Center for Jewish Studies Call for Conference Papers Hebrew and the Humanities April 28-29, 1996 This conference aims to explore how Hebrew studies have infused and been infused by recent developments in the Humanities. Special sessions will address new research in the following areas: Hebrew and Cultural Studies; Hebrew and Ethnography; Hebrew and History; Hebrew and Literary Theory; Hebrew and Linguistics and Cognate Languages; Hebrew and Gender Studies. Planned plenary speakers include: PROFESSOR ADELE BERLIN, University of Maryland; PROFESSOR YEHOSHUA BLAU, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem; PROFESSOR JAMES L. KUGEL, Harvard University; and PROFESSOR LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN, New York University. The conference Hebrew and the Humanities will take place April 28-29, 1996 at The Ohio State University. Scholars who wish to present a paper are invited to submit a one-page abstract by November 15, 1995. Papers will be twenty-five minutes in length. Please send three copies of your abstract (one typed page) and a 3x5 card containing the title of your paper and your name to: Conference Director, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, The Ohio State University, 306 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210-1311. Phone: (614) 292-0967; Fax: (614) 292-8838; E-mail: schlam.3@osu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ From: SETH WARD http://www.du.edu/~sward/western.html Subject: Western Jewish Studies Conference C A L L F O R P A P E R S Second Annual Western Jewish Studies Conference April 28-30, 1996 -- University of Denver Denver, Colorado U.S.A. The 1996 Western Jewish Studies Association conference will be held on April 28-30, at the University of Denver. Presentations may be in any area of Jewish Studies, including pedagogical and academic issues. We are particularly interested in topics relating to the conference theme "CHANGING MODELS OF JEWISH LEADERSHIP -- FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT." Proposals, including a brief (100-250 word) abstract for either individual papers (approximately 20 minutes) or panels (1 1/2-2 hours) are due by October 15, 1995, and may be made by mail, fax or e-mail. Abstracts should be sent to: Frederick E. Greenspahn Center for Judaic Studies University of Denver Denver CO 80208-0292 Fax: 303 871 3037 E-Mail: FGREENSP@DU.EDU ------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________ Editor: Avi Jacob Hyman, (ajhyman@oise.on.ca) Chair: Tzvee Zahavy Editorial Board: Henry Abramson, Josh Backon, Lewis Barth, Herb Basser, Mark Flumerfelt, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblat, Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak Kerem, Chana Lajcher, Richard Menkis, Jim Mott, Leslie Train, Belarie Zatzman ------------------------------------------------------------ Jewish Studies Resources: http://shamash.nysernet.org/~ajhyman/jsjej.html ------------------------------------------------------------ JSJeJ is published & distributed by: The SHAMASH Project@NYSERNET (jewstudies@shamash.nysernet.org) and The H-Net (Humanities) Project@MSU (h-judaic@msu.edu) - back issues available via GOPHER, WWW or FTP ___________________________end part 2_______________________