Received: from sprynet.com (mh.sprynet.com [165.121.1.59]) by m1.sprynet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA29906 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 10:56:01 -0700 Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca [192.75.177.236]) by sprynet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA01134; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 10:55:58 -0700 Received: by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (rsm960611)) for js-network-outgoing id KAA19586; Sat, 2 Aug 1997 10:41:10 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970802104126.006ac808@pop.mindspring.com> X-Sender: scasper@pop.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 10:41:28 -0400 To: js-network@oise.utoronto.ca From: Susan Casper Subject: Jewish Studies Newsletter: Conferences and Calls for Papers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-js-network@oise.utoronto.ca Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Jewish Studies Newsletter Status: X-PMFLAGS: 34078848 0 THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER positions & events in academic Jewish Studies ____________________________________________________________ Issue 6.005p1 * August 1997 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: CONFERENCES and CALLS FOR PAPERS: - 4th Annual Western Jewish Studies Association - Los Angeles - The Jew in the City - University of Maryland - 28th Annual Scholars' Conference - University of Washington - 1998 Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History - Changing Needs of the Aging Holocaust Survivor - Jerusalem - The Holocaust Educational Foundation's 5th Lessons & Legacies Conference - Working with Aging Holocaust Survivors Conference - Toronto - Midwest Jewish Studies Association Conference - Univ. of Illinois - Notre Dame Holocaust Conference ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Randi J Sherman Subject: 4th Annual Western Jewish Studies Association - Los Angeles Fourth Annual Western Jewish Studies Association March 29-31 1998 "Exile/Diaspora/Homeland": In the 50th Year of the State of Israel at the UNIVERSITY OF JUDAISM, Los Angeles Areas of Interest: Literature, Performing & Visual Arts; Rabbinics; Philosophy; History; Israel; Cultural Studies; Sephardic Studies; Yiddish; Zionism; Pedagogy; Women's Studies; Gay & Lesbian Studies; Holocaust Studies; Medical Ethics; Biblical Studies, Mysticism, Ethics, Theology; Mass Media; Political Science Proposals on other topics for panels & workshops are also welcome. Deadline for Submission: October 6, 1997 Send one (1) page abstract (original & 2 copies) & brief bio: (graduate students include letter recommending paper from Faculty member) to: Miriyam Glazer/Aryeh Cohen, Co-Chairs University of Judaism 15600 Mulholland Drive Los Angeles, CA 90077-1599 Attn: WJSA --------- From: Bernard Cooperman Subject: Call for Papers: The Jew in the City - University of Maryland The Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at University of Maryland, in conjunction with the Dept. of History, is planning a conference on "The Jew and the City." The conference will be held on Sunday March 15, 1997, in College Park, MD, a suburb of Washington DC, and will coincide with the annual meeting of the Business History Association, which will take place on the campus that week-end. Our intention is to organize the morning session of the conference specifically around the issue of Jews as Entrepreneurial City-Builders. Although there has been a good deal of literature about individual Jews who were real estate developers, there remains a tremendous amount of work to be done on the role of Jews, as Jews, in the planning and building of modern cities, in Europe and in America. We hope that this session will encourage new research into this topic. We will present the session to the organizers of the Business History Association Conference. In the afternoon we would like to hold one or two sessions which open up the theme of the Jew and the City to broader treatments. Issues to be covered might include the urban Jewish experience in literature and film; the impact of urbanization and suburbanization on the role of Jewish women; the impact of urbanization on Jewish cultural and religious life; the nature of the pre-modern ghetto and Jewish quarter; a comparison of the Jewish urbanization experience in different lands; the nature of religious and national concerns on urban planning in Israel; the formation and articulation of sub-communities within urban Jewish contexts; and so on. Topics may touch upon any period and any geographic area. Please send brief abstracts of proposed papers to: The Organizers, "Jews in the City", c/o Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, Woods Hall 0113, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, or, by e-mail to bc40@umail.umd.edu. --------- From: Franklin Littell Subject: 28th Annual Scholars' Conference - University of Washington CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for papers to be presented at the 28th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches University of Washington (Seattle) 1-3 March 1998 "THE PALL OF THE PAST" THE HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE AND THE 21ST CENTURY Major historical themes: - 60 years after the conquest of Austria ("Anschluss") - 60 years after the vian Conference - 60 years after appeasement at Munich, with the betrayal of Czechoslovakia - 60 years after terrorism on German streets ("Kristallnacht") - 50 years after the Genocide Convention * The Holocaust and Contemporary Genocides * Community Education through Holocaust Resource Centers * Teaching the Holocaust at High School Level * "Early Warning:" Identifying Potentially Genocidal Groups and Movements * Gender Studies: "Women in the Holocaust" * Theology After Auschwitz: Telling the Story and Teaching the Lessons of the Holocaust and the Church Struggle in the Christian Churches * Holocaust Education and the Pacific Rim Nations * Answering Denial: Documenting Survivors' Testimonies * The Holocaust and "the Righteous Gentiles" [Reports on recent research on other Holocaust-related topics are also welcome, especially from graduate students and younger teachers.] Send abstracts of no more than 500 words, accompanied by a brief vita, to: Dr. Marcia S. Littell, Executive Director The Annual Scholars' Conference Post Office Box 10 Inquiries: FAX 610/667-0265 Merion Station PA 19066-0010 MSL@VM.TEMPLE.EDU --------- From: Dorothy E. Smith Subject: 1998 Scholars' Conference on American Jewish History 1998 SCHOLARS' CONFERENCE ON AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY The Third Biennial Scholars' Conference on American Jewish history, under the sponsorship of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society, will be held on the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion on June 10-12, 1998. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the American Jewish Archives and to honor the legacy of Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus, this conference will explore such issues as new paradigms in American Jewish history; comparative Jewish experience within the Western Hemisphere; the implication of emerging work on gender, race, multi-culturalism, and ethnicity within the study of American Jewish history; the preservation of Jewish space, documents, and artifacts in archives, museums, and historical sites; and the construction of American Jewish historical memory and culture. One-page paper abstract and panel proposals for the June conference will be due November 30, 1997. Please submit to: Professor Karla Goldman Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion 3101 Clifton Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45220 e-mail: KGoldman@cn.huc.edu FAX 513-221-7812 --------- From: John Lemberger Subject: Changing Needs of the Aging Holocaust Survivor The Second International Conference on working with Holocaust Survivors and their families: Date: November 11-13, 1998: Place: Ramada Renaissance Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel This announcement is to inform you that as a prelude to the World Conference of Jewish Communal Service to be held in Jerusalem, from November 12-16, 1998, AMCHA is organizing a conference on Working with Holocaust Survivors and their Families. The conference will deal with scientific and clinical issues around the care of Holocaust survivors. The format of the conference will consist of invited speakers, paper sessions, and workshops. The conference is open to professionals in the fields of social work, psychology, psychiatry, health care, mental health, nursing, etc., who deal directly with populations of survivors of the Holocaust and their families. We anticipate participation from North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Australia and Israel. The last such conference was held in July, 1994, with participants from 17 different countries. Since then many programs and projects directed at assisting Holocaust survivors have been initiated or are about to become operational. The language of the conference will be English. A formal "call for papers" will be issued shortly. The International Organizing Committee consists of: - John Lemberger, Executive Director of AMCHA; (Chair) - Dr. Israel Sela, JDC representative in Hungary; - Judith Hassan, Director of Shalvata Mental Health Center in London; - Neil Newstein, Director of the Jewish Family Services in Florida; Consider this announcement an invitation to discuss issues of mutual concern with professionals in the field of the psychosocial care for Holocaust survivors throughout the world. For further information please contact: John Lemberger, Executive Director, AMCHA, P.O.Box 2930, Jerusalem 91029, ISRAEL, fax: (972-2) 625-0669, E-mail: jlem@amcha.org. --------- From: David Meier Subject: The Holocaust Educational Foundation's 5th Lessons and Legacies Conference The Holocaust Educational Foundation's Fifth Lessons and Legacies Conference will take place at Florida Atlantic University from November 6 thru 9, 1998. (Please Note: The Conference has been extended by a day.) During the coming German Studies Conference in Bethesda, MD, on September 27, 1997, the Planning Committee for Lessons and Legacies V will meet to discuss proposals for sessions, presentations, and various ideas to make Lessons and Legacies V as successful as previous conferences. In preparation for this meeting, please send your ideas and proposals to one of the following people: Theodore Z. Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation 64 Old Orchard Road, Suite 520 Skokie, IL 60077 Fax (847)676-3706 Professor Christopher Browning Department of History Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, Washington 98447 Fax (206)535-8305 See also: http://www.dsu.nodak.edu/~dmeier/hef/hef.html --------- From: Paula David Subject: Working with Aging Holocaust Survivors Conference CALL FOR PAPERS: "The Time to Heal" Working with Aging Holocaust Survivors A Multi-Disciplinary Conference Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Canada October 21-23, 1998 Conference planning is beginning now. The Baycrest Centre recognizes that as the Holocaust survivor ages; professional services, the institutions, community services and caregivers working within the field must continue developing new skills and sensitivities. Baycrest, through its community outreach services, Jewish Home for the Aged, Geriatric Hospital, Day Care services, supportive housing and a range of inpatient and outpatient clinics has provided comprehensive care for the Toronto Jewish elderly for over 75 years. The Conference will bring together social work, medical, nursing, psychology, chaplaincy, therapeutic recreation, research and related health care professionals working in the field to share their expertise and explore new challenges in working with the aging Holocaust survivor. Contact: Paula David, M.S.W. Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care 3560 Bathurst Street Toronto, Ontario. Canada M6A 2E1 e-mail: pdavid@globalserve.net Please check to indicate your interest in the following Conference topics and return as soon as possible. Psycho-Social Issues/Individual Treatment_______________ Cultural Diversity and Aging___________________________ Medical Concerns for Aging Survivors___________________ Psychiatric Services and Developments__________________ Nursing Concerns for Aging Survivors____________________ Chaplaincy and the Aging Survivors______________________ Group Programs and Activities__________________________ The Second Generation; Survivors Families________________ Service Planning for the Years Ahead: Organizational Responses________ Staff Development and Training__________________________ Community Programs for Aging Survivors___________________ Current Research on the Aging Survivor____________________ Other_______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________. I am interested in attending._______ This form must be returned if you wish to receive Conference Registration Information. I (We) wish to present a paper____, workshop____,general session,____ panel____poster display____ Please give a brief summary with title. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ Name:_______________________________________________________ Area of Expertise:______________________________________________ Day Time Phone: _______________________ E-Mail__________________ Organization:__________________________________________________ Address______________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ City, Province/State, Postal/Zip Code________________________________ Complete abstracts must be submitted by November 14, 1997. If possible, please submit on 3.5" floppy disc using IBM Word Perfect or MS Word. --------- From: Penny S. Gold Subject: Midwest Jewish Studies Association Conference The ninth annual conference of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on September 28-29, 1997. All interested scholars and professionals, including graduate students, are invited to attend. Topics of sessions include: Modern Germany, Pedagogy, Holocaust Literature for Children and Adolescents, New Light on the World of Earliest Israel and Its Origins, Computer Technology and Jewish Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature and Art: Images by Jews, The Twentieth Century in American and Europe, Medieval and Early Modern Europe, European Jewish Autobiography before 1900, Images of Jews in Litarature, The Holocaust, Jewish Rhetoric. A block of rooms has been reserved until August 27 at the University Inn in Champaign, (800) 322-8282. Room rates are $56.00 per room per night for a single, $64.00 for a double; mention the Midwest Jewish Studies Association conference in order to receive the conference rate. Conference pre-registration will be $25 ($10 for students); registration at the time of the conference will be $35 ($20 for students). To obtain a conference program and registration form, contact Professor David Williams, MJSA Secretary-Treasure, Department of Religion, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-1625; e- mail: dwillliam@uga.cc.uga.edu --------- Subject: Notre Dame Holocaust Conference Humanity at the Limit: The Impact of the Holocaust Experience on Christians and Jews Sunday, April 26, 1998 - Tuesday, April 28, 1998 Themes of the Humanity at the Limit Conference: * Global Focus * Jewish-Christian Relations * Ethics and Racism * Artistic Representation Other Conference Objectives: * Technology and Outreach Global Focus: The conference will develop universal themes arising from the Holocaust experience. Rather than focus on the guilt of a single nation or ethnic group, the discussion will deal with the universality of either collaboration with or resistance to Nazi genocidal or racial policies. Toward that end, speakers from Western and Eastern Europe and Israel are invited to participate, making this a truly international and interdisciplinary conference. Jewish-Christian Relations: The Notre Dame Conference will push to the foreground the question of religion and society. To what extent did religious ideas poison the minds of European Christians toward the Jews who had been living in their midst for over one thousand years? In what ways did anti-Jewish themes in Christian religious literature form the background for the rise of modern "scientific" racism and anti-Semitism? Since the setting for "Humanity at the Limit" is at a Catholic university, special attention will be paid to the role of the Catholic Church as well as other Christian groups before, during and after the Nazi period. Another major focus of the conference is the significant changes in Jewish-Christian relations which took place as a result of the Shoah. Since Vatican II Coucil in 1965, there has been a virtual sea-change in Jewish-Catholic collaboration and cooperation. Speakers from Western and Eastern Europe as well as Israel will narrate their efforts to work on reconciliation with Jews and Judaism. Ethics and Racism: In the post-Holocaust world two of the most significant areas for further exploration are ethics and racism. The foundations of Nazi policy were not exclusively the products of Hitler and Goebbels. American anthropologists and their racial theories had a direct influence on scholars and propagandists in Europe from the end of the nineteenth century until the Nazi takeover. Artistic Representation: Film, literature, theatre and visual arts have been affected by the Holocaust and have influenced many artists today. Hitler's suggestion that degenerate art reflects a degenerate society continues to resonate in contemporary discussions. The conference will provide a forum to discuss the nature of art, literature and public policy. It will raise questions such as what constitutes appropriate ways to represent mass murder in our society. What role do the visual media play in generating "culture or death," and violence? To what extent do the visual testimonies collected by the Shoah Foundation augment the existing literary works by writers such as Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi and memorial monuments by George Segal? A photographic exhibit of Jeffrey Wolin's work, "Written in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust," will be shown at the Snite Museum of Notre Dame from April 19 - May 10, 1998 (See events, for more information). Also, please see the art section for information about the art on this web site. Other Conference Objectives: Technology and Outreach: The Notre Dame Conference on the Holocaust will be held in the University's Center for Continuing Education (CCE) and at the newly constructed DeBartolo Hall on the campus of the university. This facility is one of the most technologically advanced classroom buildings in the country. It has the capacity of simultaneous translation, uplink capability and state of the art audio-visual. To expand our audience, Channel One Television will show a condensed video of the project events and conference for educational purposes to high school and university classes throughout the country. In addition, our web site will serve as an educational tool listing bibliography, teaching resources and other related links. The web will be used to communicate with participants of the conference. Finally, materials will be created for post-conference reference, including a book of transcripts and a video compendium for use in academic institutions and material for teaching the Holocaust to high school students. ------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________ Newsletter Editor: Susan Casper Discussion Group: Avi Jacob Hyman, Review Editor: Henry Abramson, Chair: Jonathan Sarna Jewish Studies On-Line Editorial Board: Henry Abramson, Josh Backon, Lewis Barth, Judith Baskin, Herb Basser, Bernard Cooperman, Alan Crown, Nathan Ehrlich, Yossi Galron, Penny Schine Gold, Avrum Goodblat, Joseph Haberer, Guy Haskell, Howard Joseph, Yitzchak Kerem, Richard Menkis, Jim Mott, Leslie Train, Tzvee Zahavy, Belarie Zatzman, Reena Zeidman ------------------------------------------------------------ Jewish Studies Network Homepage: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ------------------------------------------------------------ This newsletter is published & distributed for members of H-Judaic@h-net.msu.edu - The Jewish Studies Network an affiliate of H-Net: Humanities On-Line and Shamash.Org and aims to publish bi-monthly. Submissions should be received two weeks prior to publication to ensure inclusion. ___________________________end part 1_______________________