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THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER
positions & events in academic Jewish Studies
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Issue 6.002p3   *   May 1997   *   Readership = 6200+
for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic
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Table of Contents:		<best read as a print-out>
   
        CONFERENCES and CALL FOR PAPERS:
                - Envisioning the Future - Call for Papers
                - The Culture and Politics of the Diaspora
                - SSHA Meeting:  Washington D.C. - Call For Papers
                - 10th Annual Klutznick Symposium
                - Babylonian (Iraqi) Jewry - Call for Papers
         
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From: Richard Jensen <H_NET_DIR@APSU01.APSU.EDU>
Subject:  Envisioning the Future - Call for Papers

"Envisioning the Future:Creating the History "Classroom" of the 21st Century.

     H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line, with the financial
support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Michigan State
University, will host a conference on the use of new educational
technologies in the teaching of history September 26-28, 1997, in East
Lansing Michigan.  The conference will focus on the ways that new
communication and computer technologies and software can be used to enhance
student learning, build student skills, and increase student-faculty
interaction.  The conference will also explore the potential costs of using
technology as a cost-cutting substitute for high quality teaching.
     We are particularly interested in proposals that:

1. Envision the Future of History Education in the Information Age.

2. Explore Ways to Teach a Wide Range of Historical Skills (including
research methods, quantitative analysis, mapping and geographical skills,
writing, and critical thinking skills) with New Tools.

3. Critically Evaluate New Teaching Tools, such as WWW pages, email,
distance learning, and CD-ROMs, and assess the impact of current experiments
on student learning in a variety of educational settings ranging from
community colleges and small liberal arts colleges to large private and
public universities.

4. Predict the New Roles of the Teacher in the 21st Century Classroom and
suggest ways to improve teacher training.

5. Report on innovative new software and on-line teaching resources,
including interactive instructional resources and collections of primary
sources, as well as multimedia authoring tools.

6. Examine how humanities faculty can cooperate with museums, historical
societies and libraries.

     Proposals for individual papers, demonstrations or workshops, or for
complete panels, are invited.  H-Net will offer a one day workshop on using
the WWW to teach History on Thursday September 25 in conjunction with this
conference.
     Please send proposals and inquiries to conference@h-net.msu.edu or fax
to 517-355-8363; phone inquiries to :::517-355-9300

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From: Geoffrey Brahm Levey <G.Levey@unsw.edu.au>
Subject: The Culture and Politics of the Diaspora

THE CULTURE AND POLITICS OF THE DIASPORA

     An international conference on this theme will be held at The
University of New South Wales, Sydney in February 1998, in association with
the Centre for Intercultural Jewish Studies, Sydney, the Australian
Association for Jewish Studies, and Modern Greek Studies at the Univesity of
New South Wales. 
     The conference will consist of two consecutive sections:

1)  MONDAY 23 FEBRUARY a.m. till WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY a.m., will focus on
the GREEK experience;

2)  WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY p.m. to FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY p.m., on JEWISH
existence in Europe, Australia and North America.

     Although the sections share a common theme, the relationship of Greek
and Jewish diaspora existence both to the "host" societies and to the idea
or the reality of a historical homeland lost and found, they are planned as
self-contained "seminar-conferences", and participants may choose to attend
either or both. The conference language will be English.
     Enquiries about the GREEK section should be addressed to a member of
the organising group: 

Nick Doumanis <hind@cc.newcastle.edu.au>  
Nina-Maria Potts <n-m.potts@unsw.edu.au> 
Helen Amvrazi <h.amvrazi@unsw.edu.au>

Topics for discusssion will include:

- Literature and self-identity of the Greek Diaspora: Australia and beyond
- Identity and migration
- Return migration
- The Greek-Australian Experience
- The Greek-Jewish Experience
- Greek women in the Greek Diaspora
- The Greek Lobby and International Politics
- The Greek-Cypriot Lobby and Cyprus
 - Expatriot Cypriots: A Diaspora within a Diaspora?

     Enquiries about the JEWISH section should be addressed to a member of
the organising group:

John Milfull <j.milfull@unsw.edu.au>
Geoffrey Levey <g.levey@unsw.edu.au> 
Konrad Kwiet <kkwiet@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au> 
Suzanne Rutland <rutlands@edfac.usyd.edu.au>

     Key questions to be discussed might include:

- Identification and integration patterns of citizens of Jewish extraction 
- German-Jewish assimilation: myth or reality?
- "Ordinary people" and anti-Semitism
- Mapping European anti-Semitism(s)
- The self-definition of [Jewish] socialists
- Multiple identities: cultural pluralism and modernity
- Jewish Americans and US politics
- The Jewish-Australian Experience(s?)
- Migrants and refugees
- Zionism and national identity

     Further information is also available on our website:
http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/Centres/CES/CES_Web.htm

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From: Stan Nadel <nadels@swosu.edu>
Subject: SSHA Meeting:  Washington D.C. - Call For Papers

                    October 1997 SSHA Meeting, Washington DC.  
                        Call For Papers - Migration Panel

Please reply to:  Amanda Klekowski <104534.1260@compuserve.com>; please send
copy of reply 
to:  Stan Nadel <nadels@swosu.edu>      

     The panel would focus on the interaction of national identity with
political involvement when immigrants are defined as ethnically the same as
the dominant national group.  Many of these "co-ethnic" groups are
essentially new immigrants who receive citizenship and associated voting
rights.  Do they exercise these rights, or do they remain politically
isolated as well as socio-economically for the first several years, as they
grow to identify more with the society and its issues?  These are issues
that apply particularly to groups that were identified as ethnic minorities
in a host country and often discriminated against as such.  Upon returning
to their
"native" countries, they discover that they do not immediately fit on nor
are they overwhelmingly welcomed.  It might be interesting to look at
similarities and differences from country to country on this basis.
     Ms. Klekowski is a political scientist working on ethnic Germans from
the east who have gone to Germany, the Aussiedler, and will give a paper on
them.  Israel comes to mind as a fertile source of companion papers, along
with Greeks from Asia Minor after WWI.  I'm sure you will have many other
groups that could be added to this list and I think we could have here the
germs of a terrific panel. 

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From: Leonard Greenspoon <ljgrn@creighton.edu>
Subject: 10th Annual Klutznick Symposium

The Tenth Annual Klutznick Symposium: September 14-15, 1997
Sacred Text, Secular Times:  The Hebrew Bible in the Modern World

     Creighton University's Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization and
Center for the Study of Religion and Society will host the Tenth Annual
Klutznick
Symposium to take place in Omaha, Nebraska on Sunday, September 14, and
Monday, September 15, 1997.  The theme of the Symposium will be *Sacred
Text, Secular Times: The Hebrew Bible in the Modern World.*
     The Program Committee seeks proposals for presentations on the impact
of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh on art, literature, philosophy, religion, and
other areas of the humanities or sciences over the past two centuries or so.
Papers on textual studies of the Hebrew Bible are also appropriate if
accessible to the Symposium's target audience (see below).
     Those chosen to participate in the symposium will be expected to make
twenty minute presentations of their papers in a manner suitable to an
audience composed of the general public and scholars. Participants must
submit their papers in a scholarly format; those papers will be published in
a collected volume. Please note that the reading of papers as submitted for
publication would not be appropriate to this audience. Audio/visual aids are
encouraged.
     Some support 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.

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From: The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center <babylon@babylonjewry.org.il
Subject: Babylonian (Iraqi) Jewry - Call for papers 
 
          The Second International Congress for Babylonian Jewry Research
                               June 2-4, 1998
                                                             
    The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center will be holding in Or-Yehuda,
Israel its Second International Congress for Babyloninan Jewry Research
(Iraqi Jewry).

Main Topics:
  
1. The Babylonian Jewry Museum - A decade of development.
2. The Jewish Family in Babylon.
3. The close ties of Babylonian Jewry to Eretz Yisrael.
4. Jewish Leadership in Babylon.
5. Babylonian Jewry in the Far East.
6. Babylonian Jews in the Diaspora today - Reports from the Heads of the
Communities. 
 
     Please send your proposals for a lecture/paper in the above topics.
Other research topics on Babylonian Jewry will also be welcome.
     We are looking into the possibility of holding a second part to this
Congress in UCLA, Los Angeles, U.S.A. at a later date.
     Please send your abstracts/suggestions to the Babylonian Jewry Heritage
Center not later than the 1st of October, 1997.  Further details will be
announced at a later date.
     
     The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center
     Or-Yehuda, Israel              
     e-mail: babylon@babylonjewry.org.il
     URL: http://www.BabylonJewry.org.il
   
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