Received: from sprynet.com (mh.sprynet.com [165.121.2.59]) by m1.sprynet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA24172 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca [142.150.96.236]) by sprynet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA07288; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:50:46 -0700 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA07618 for js-network-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:16:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:17:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@OISE.UTORONTO.CA Subject: Jewish Studies Newsletter: Call for Papers, and Notices Message-ID: 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 1 P276B0.CNM THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER positions & events in academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 7.009p4 * September 1998 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: *Call for Papers - Religion and Science: Tension, Accommodation and Engagement [Ohio State] *Notices - International Conference on The First Jewish Revolt: Archaeology, History, and Ideology - NEH Education and Demonstration Grants - Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, International Fellowships in Jewish Studies ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Nikki Bado Subject: Call for Papers, Religion and Science: Tension, Accommodation and Engagement The Division of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University, with support from The John Templeton Foundation, announces a conference entitled "Religion and Science: Tension, Accommodation and Engagement" to be held May 2 - 4, 1999 at OSU. Invited speakers include: John Brooke, Lancaster University; Owen Gingerich, Harvard University; Denis Lamoureux, University of Alberta; Bernard Lightman, York University; Ernan McMullin, University of Notre Dame; Gerald Schroeder, Jerusalem. Special workshops will be held for junior faculty and graduate students on how both to teach science and religion, and how to do research on science and religion. Please submit 1 - 2 page abstracts for papers dealing with any aspect of religion and science to rudavsky.1@osu.edu or bado.1@osu.edu; or, abstracts may be mailed to T.M. Rudavsky, Dept of Philosophy, 350 University Hall, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is December 15, 1998. Pending receipt of funding, some money may be available for travel and hotel stipends, especially for younger scholars. Questions may be addressed to conference organizer Tamar Rudavsky (rudavsky.1@osu.edu). ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrea Berlin Subject: International Conference on The First Jewish Revolt: Archaeology, History, and Ideology When: April 21-23, 1999 This conference focuses on the First Jewish Revolt, also known as the "Great Revolt," an uprising of Palestinian Jews against Roman rule that occurred from A.D. 66 to 70. The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus' eye-witness account of the revolt survives, and his historical reconstruction has largely guided the modern one. Recent and detailed archaeological work at several of the sites that Josephus discussed, along with new historical analyses that account for both the Roman reaction and the disparate Jewish responses, will allow us to view the Revolt informed by new discoveries and with a broader perspective. We have invited an international panel of distinguished scholars who are currently working on various aspects of the history and/or archaeology of the Revolt and its larger historical circumstances. All will give papers that have been circulated well in advance; much of the conference will therefore be turned over to detailed discussion. We hope to quickly edit the papers for a single volume, which will comprise the most up-to-date research on the archaeology, history, and ideology of the Revolt. Program outline *Wednesday, 21 April Afternoon: THE REVOLT IN JEWISH HISTORY Martin Goodman (Oxford U.): Recent Scholarship on the First Revolt Tessa Rajak (U. of Reading): Moderates in Josephus: A Reappraisal Anthony Saldarini (Boston College): The Revolt in Rabbinic Literature Evening: PUBLIC LECTURE (Humphrey Institute, U of Minn.) Erich Gruen (U. of California at Berkeley): Roman Perceptions of the Jews *Thursday, 22 April Morning: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE REVOLT: THE JEWS Mordechai Aviam (Israel Antiquities Authority): The Results of Excavations at Yodefat-Jotapata: The First Battle Danny Syon (Israel Antiquities Authority): Gamla: City of Refuge Hanan Eshel (Bar-Ilan U.): A New Discovery from the Judean Desert Afternoon: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE REVOLT: THE ROMANS Andrea M. Berlin (U. of Minnesota): Romanization in pre-Revolt Galilee Jodi Magness (Tufts U.): The Roman Army in the Field Eric Meyers (Duke U.): Sepphoris: Role and Response Evening: PUBLIC LECTURE (Macalester College, St. Paul) Neil Asher Silberman (Archaeology Magazine): The Revolt and its Afterlife *Friday, 23 April Morning: THE REVOLT IN ROMAN HISTORY J. Andrew Overman (Macalester College): Flavian Foreign Policy and the Revolt Richard Horsley (Boston U.): Social Structure and Rebellion in Galilee Sean Freyne (Trinity College, Dublin): TBA The registration fee is $50.00. This includes admittance to all sessions and the two evening lectures, a reception Wednesday evening (immediately following Professor Gruen's lecture), and a buffet lunch on Thursday between the morning and afternoon sessions. Coffee, tea, and rolls will be available before the Thursday and Friday morning sessions. For further information please contact J. Andrew Overman at (651) 696-6375/76 or via e-mail at overman@macalester.edu or Andrea Berlin at (612) 626-7371 or via e-mail at aberlin@tc.umn.edu. Andrea M. Berlin Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies 330 Folwell Hall PH: 612-626-7371 9 Pleasant St. SE FAX:612-624-4894 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455-0125 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Arieh Lebowitz Subject: NEH Education and Demonstration Grants The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and college faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen the teaching and learning of history, literature, foreign languages and cultures, and other areas of the humanities. The Education Development and Demonstration Program offers the following programs: *National Education Projects* Includes materials development projects, curricular development and demonstration projects, and dissemination projects of national scope and significance Application deadline: October 15, 1998 and October 15, 1999. Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years *Humanities Focus Grants* Propose a study of a humanities topic during the summer or academic year with colleagues from your school building, school district, college or university. Work with humanities scholars. Application deadlines: April 15, 1999 and April 15, 2000. Funding available: up to $25,000 For more information about these grant opportunities, or if you have ideas about developing a project, please write or call: Education Development and Demonstration Division of Research and Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 318 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 Phone: 202/606-8380 FAX: 202/606-8394 e-mail: education@neh.gov TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282 Guidelines and application forms may be retrieved from the NEH World Wide Web site: http://www.neh.gov (under Applying for a Grant, Application Forms) ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Arieh Lebowitz Subject: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, International Fellowships in Jewish Studies The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture offers International Fellowships in Jewish Studies to assist individuals and institutions in carrying out independent scholarly, literary, or artistic projects which will make a significant contribution to the understanding, preservation, enhancement, or transmission of Jewish culture. Any scholar, researcher, or artist who has the knowledge and experience to formulate and implement a project in a field of Jewish specialization is eligible to apply. Being connected to an academic institution and/or having oversight from an individual within the world of academia is virtually essential for grant requests to be taken seriously. There is a variety of grant categories, for individuals as well as institutions, and the nature of how the grants are administered is ... distinctive within the world of academic grantsmanship. Be sure to ask for information on ALL of the different types of grants available when you contact the MFJC. Grants range from $1,000 to $5,000 for one academic year, depending on the cost of living in the country where the recipient lives. The deadline for applications is OCTOBER 31. Applications can be obtained on individual written request, although you can call as well: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture 15 East 26th Street New York, NY 10010 (212) 679-4074 President, Rabbi Alexander Schindler Executive Vice-President, Jerry Hochbaum ____________________________________________________________ Managing Editor: Avi Jacob Hyman Review Editor: Henry Abramson Chair: Jonathan Sarna Newsletter Editor: Lorenzo DiTommaso 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 Goodblatt, 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