Return-Path: Received: from tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca ([142.150.96.236]) by osgood.mail.mindspring.net (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id sb30od.ivk.30ahi43 Mon, 21 Feb 2000 13:25:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06872 for js-network-outgoing; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:24:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:22:50 -0500 (EST) From: Lorenzo DiTommaso To: js-network@OISE.UTORONTO.CA Subject: JSN: Jewish Studies Newsletter [9.008p3] 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 THE * JEWISH * STUDIES * NEWSLETTER Positions & Events in Academic Jewish Studies Published by H-Judaic: The Jewish Studies Network ____________________________________________________________ Issue 9.008p3 * February 2000 * Readership = 6200+ for additional information: http://h-net.msu.edu/~judaic ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents: * Calls for Papers and Conferences - Proposals Invited for World War I Panel [AJS 2000] - Possible Session "Visibility/Eye" [AJS 2000] * Notices - Notice of New Web Publication [McGill] - Gerson D. Cohen Memorial Lecture [JTS] - B-Hebrew Has Moved ------------------------------------------------------------ CALLS FOR PAPERS AND CONFERENCES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Olga Litvak Subject: Proposals Invited for World War I Panel at AJS 2000 A panel on "World War I in Jewish Culture and History" will be proposed to the AJS programming committee for the December 2000 conference in Boston. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: WWI and American Jewish history, WWI and the Yishuv, Jews and revolution in Eastern Europe, the war as experienced by Jews in the Ottoman Empire, the Jewish soldier. Please note that this panel, if approved by the AJS, will have a slightly different format. Discussants will be expected to submit their papers to all the panelists in advance so that the panel can better include dialogue and commentary. 300-500 word abstracts or proposals by March 5, 2000, to: Olga Litvak Dept. of History Princeton University ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Rivka B. Kern Ulmer Subject: Possible Session "Visibility/Eye" at the AJS Conference At the AAR/SBL 1999 Annual Meeting I participated in a very stimulating session entitled "Seeing and Being Seen: Constructions of Vision and Visibility." Presently, I am trying to organize a session "Visibility, Vision and the Concept of the Eye in Rabbinic Judaism" for the next AJS-Conference in Boston (December 2000). I would look forward to receiving some additional proposals (500 words) by e-mail. Of course, there is no guarantee that the AJS will accept this session. Rivka B. Kern Ulmer (rulmer@sas.upenn.edu, rivkaulmer@earthlink.net) ------------------------------------------------------------ NOTICES ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Gershon David Hundert Subject: Notice of New Web Publication The Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University is pleased to announce a new web-publication: "At the Cutting Edge of Jewish Studies: the Most Recent Developments in The Field." The volume consists of papers delivered in the context of a lecture series and conference celebrating the 30th anniversary of Jewish Studies at McGill. The volume includes papers by Gary Rendsburg (Biblical Studies); Robert Goldenberg and Ira Robinson (Early Judaism); Robert Seltzer (Jewish History); Derek Penslar (Israel Studies); Esther Frank (Women's Studies/Literature); Joseph Reimer (Jewish Education); Deborah Dash Moore (North American Jewish Studies) and others. It is available at: http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/jewish/ All welcome! Gershon David Hundert Chair, Dept. Jewish Studies (398-)6542 FAX: (398-)5158 ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Karina Hogan Subject: Gerson D. Cohen Memorial Lecture The Friends of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary invite you to the Eighth Annual Gerson D. Cohen Memorial Lecture Dr. Michael Fishbane of the University of Chicago will speak on "The Song of Songs and the Jewish Religious Mentality" Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 8:00 pm The Jewish Theological Seminary 3080 Broadway at 122nd Street New York, NY 10027 RSVP 212-678-8962 or riweiner@jtsa.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Jayne Ashworth Subject: B-Hebrew Has Moved The b-hebrew mailing list at the University of Virginia (U.Va.) has been moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). 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