Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project 2011

The Association for Jewish Studies announces the call for submissions for the third and final year of the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project (LHJSP), a collaboration between the Legacy Heritage Fund and the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS).  This initiative aims to promote sustained Jewish studies programming in small to mid-sized cities, foster relationships between scholars and the wider communities in which they work, encourage innovative and accessible teaching by AJS members, and highlight the nexus of Jewish studies and the study of world civilizations and cultures.  LHJSP is committed to supporting the work of Jewish studies scholars as public intellectuals, pioneering programmers, and community builders.

The AJS will issue one-year grants of up to $22,000 to Jewish studies programs at colleges and universities outside of major metropolitan areas that demonstrate scholarly resources, institutional support, a schedule of creative and substantive public events, and a need in the general community for such programming.  Priority will be given to applications from institutions in the United States, but Canadian institutions will also be considered. In addition, institutions in the process of building a Jewish studies program are eligible to apply.  Previous applicants are also welcome to reapply.  The application deadline for the 2011 competition, which will support public programming in the 2012-13 academic year, is September 15, 2011.

Support for the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project is generously provided by Legacy Heritage Fund Limited. Please visit the AJS website for additional information, including application materials and a list of past winners.  You may direct inquiries to Natasha Perlis, LHJSP Project Manager, at grants@ajs.cjh.org or +1 917.606.8249.

CfP: Women and Holocaust in Central Europe: New Perspectives and Challenges

call for papers
CfP: Women and Holocaust in Central Europe: New Perspectives and Challenges

Organizer:    Gender Studies Programme of Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Science (Warsaw) in cooperation with Kurt and Ursula Schubert Institute of Jewish Studies (Olomouc), Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Bratislava), and Department of Gender Studies, Central European University (Budapest)

When (conference):    17.11.2011-19.11.2011
where: Warsaw, Poland
Deadline (for submiting papers):         15.03.2011
official website >>
contact: womenandholocaust@gmail.com 

Researching Holocaust was gender blind until recently no matter that gender as an analytical category is vital in understanding mechanisms of discrimination. The pioneering works scholars such as Ringelheim, Goldenberg, Weitzman, and Ofer approached the question with theoretical zeal. This conference aims to focus on Jews in Central Europe (excluding Germany and Austria, where these questions have already been discussed extensively) from a comparative interdisciplinary perspective defining common points for further research in the field of arts, history, narrativity, representations and visuality.

Special emphasis is given to questions: 

• - What are the new fields in Holocaust study where gender is used as an analytical category?
• - What are the intersections of national and transnational frames of researching gender and Holocaust?
• - What can we learn from the intersectional analysis of religion, gender and sexuality?
• - How to avoid essentialising gender categories in research?
• - How opening up archives in former communist countries influenced the research on gender and Holocaust?
• - What was the impact of communist historiography on forming the memory of Holocaust and gender?
• - How do new media (internet and social networks) open up new possibilities for feminist pedagogy in the field of teaching Holocaust?
• - What kind of methodological and theoretical innovations are useful in giving new insights in researching gender and Holocaust?
• - The gendered nature of ego-documents from the Holocaust
• - The gendered representation of Holocaust-stories from Central Europe in post WW II societies

Deadline for submitting 300 word proposals and a 100 word resume is 15th March, 2011 to the address:womenandholocaust@gmail.com. Presenters will be notified by 1st June, 2011.

Space and Memory - secret conference in Warsaw

Soon in Warsaw, Poland the conference "Space and Memory: Warsaw - Berlin - Tel Aviv" will take place.
Surprisingly and interesting conference with a respected selection of presentation, although from one milieu, seems to be internal event. The information has been spread by poster campaign in halls of a few institutes of University of Warsaw. The conference has no website. And if you'd google it the main information is at the grant donor's website and it's shortly state that the grant was received for this project.

However after deepened research in Internet, one may arrive to uploaded poster which includes program of conference.

Poster >>
Conference program >>

date: 21-23.03.2011
what: conference
title: "Space and Memory: Warsaw - Berlin - Tel Aviv"
where: BUW (Library of University of Warsaw), ul. Dobra 56/66 (room 316), Warsaw, Poland

"Are you in or out?"

On January 27, 2011 Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site inaugurated a campaign (pledge signed by the director of museum, prof. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, and presidents of Poland and Germany) for the intervention and help to rescue the remainings of the former German Nazi concentration and death camp. The memorial site needs money to secure the conservation process of all the items (including buildings, personal objects, space, even the barb wires).

show your support on facebook, but mostly show your support by offering financial support to preserve the memory by preserving the objects who witnessed it.

• official site of the campaign
• official FB site of the campaign
• take the pledge:

Blog of the project "Memory and commemoration in the era of web 2.0"

some time ago i've been posting here a call for participants for the seminar "Memory and commemoration in the era of Web 2.0".
the first part of the project took part in Harmeze, Poland in end of January 2011, the second part is in 2 weeks only and is to take part in Buchenwald, Germany.
In the mid-time participants and organizers are posting on the project's blog the materials: published and premiered at that blog. You may find there also photos and audio and video materials produced by the project participants.
blog: Memory and commemoration in the era of Web 2.0 >>