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| Division | For scholars of | Description |
|---|---|---|
Bible, Rabbinics, Antiquity | • Biblical History • Rabbinic Literature • Bible as Literature • Biblical Interpretation; Biblical Reception • Jewish History in Antiquity • Jewish Material Culture in Antiquity | Welcomes submissions that: • Engage with the material and literary cultures of ancient Israelites/Judeans/Jews and their neighbors in antiquity; • Consider aspects of philology, history, redaction, textual formation, material culture, reception history, or imperial and geographical contexts; • Employ historical-critical methodologies and/or methodological reflection or engagement in area studies (such as women’s studies, Queer and LGBTQ+ studies, disability studies, and ethnicity/race studies). |
Cross-Divisional and Methodological Approaches | • Gender and Sexuality Studies • Queer Studies • Disability Studies • Critical Race Theory • Memory Studies • Emerging/New Fields of Study | Welcomes submissions that: • Open conversations with other fields of research and cut across multiple divisions • Engage in innovative methodological and theoretical approaches; • Study the intersections between disability, gender, sexuality, class, religion, ethnicity, race, and nationalism; • Engage in methodological and theoretical work that explores the complexities of gender, sexuality, and disability and their implications for other fields of Jewish Studies; • Explore lived experiences of individuals or groups, as well as written, visual, audio, and kinesthetic representations of identity; • Are grounded in women’s studies, feminist studies, Queer and LGBTQ+ studies, disability studies, ethnicity/race studies, posthumanism; • Consider all aspects of the social formations, class dynamics, racial configurations, religious practices, and diverse expressions of gender, sexuality, and disability. |
Medieval and Early Modern Jewries | • Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History • Medieval and Early Modern Literature • Jewish Languages and Linguistics (Medieval to Early Modern) • Medieval and Early Modern Yiddish Languages and Linguistics • Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Arts and Culture • Medieval and early modern Sephardi histories and cultures | Welcomes submissions that • Explore Jewish history, literature, thought, art, languages, and culture in the medieval and early modern period; • Study the Jewish experience and its interaction with other cultures, as well as the reception of medieval and early modern Jewish culture; • Consider the breadth of the medieval and early modern Jewish world from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, drawing from written, material, and visual sources; • Emphasize innovative methodological approaches • Highlight the reception of the ancient world in the medieval or early modern world, lay the groundwork for the modern Jewish experience; • Investigate the conjunctions and disjunctions between Jewish life and its surrounding cultures. |
Medieval through Modern Thought, Theology, and Philosophy | • Modern Jewish Thought and Theology • Medieval Jewish Philosophy • Jewish Mysticism • Religious movements • Religion using theological or philosophical approach • Interdisciplinary approaches to the above topics | Welcomes submissions that: • Offer novel theoretical perspectives on canonical materials; • Explore forgotten or neglected figures in Jewish thought, theology, philosophy, and mysticism; • Address the work of figures from less-studied areas such as Eastern Europe and the Middle East; • Reflect on the relationship between scholar and material; • Incorporate approaches and materials from other subfields of Jewish studies, such as biblical studies, rabbinics, history, and anthropology; • Engage with the literature, history, and phenomenology of Jewish mysticism in all periods. • Explore interdisciplinary perspectives on topics such as • Philosophy and mysticism; • Zionism and/as Jewish thought; • Queer theory and Jewish thought; • The “Other” in Jewish thought • Jewish philosophy and literature; • Philosophy in social context; • Philosophy, psychology, and medical theory; • Ethics and politics; • Metaphysics, epistemology, and logic; • Aesthetics; • Philosophy of religion; • Reception theory; • Religion and Economics • Science and medicine through the lens of Jewish philosophy and thought • Kabbalah and book history; • Kabbalah and Gender and Sexuality, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, and/or Race; • Mythopoetic Approaches to Kabbalah; • Psychoanalysis and Kabbalah; • Sociological Approaches to Jewish Mysticism; • Kabbalah and Christianity; • Manuscript Studies and Kabbalistic Sources; • Prayer and Ritual in Jewish Mysticism |
Modern and Contemporary Jewish History | • Modern (19th c onwards) Jewish history in Europe, Asia, Africa, Israel, the Americas, and other communities; • Interdisciplinary approaches to modern history; • Religion through Modern historical lens • Holocaust history; • Migration history; • History of Israel/Palestine; • History of gender/sexuality; • Modern Sephardi/Mizrahi history | Welcomes submissions that: • Use historical methodologies (broadly construed), to study the Jewish experience in the modern and contemporary eras, in multiple geographies, including Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East (including Israel/Palestine), the Americas, and Oceania; • Engage with cultural history, religious history, social history, political history, material culture, and/or memory studies; • Use comparative, transnational, and/or interdisciplinary perspectives |
Modern Arts, Cultures, Languages, and Literatures | • Modern Hebrew Literature • Modern Jewish Literature (could include Holocaust Literature) • Modern Jewish Languages and Linguistics • Modern Yiddish (language/linguistics) • Modern Jewish Media and the Performing Arts • Interdisciplinary approaches to modern literature, culture, and the arts • Modern Sephardi/Mizrahi Literature and Languages (including Ladino, Haketia, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian) | Welcomes submissions that: • Explore modern Jewish languages and linguistics; Jewish arts, culture, literature, and performance in the modern era; film and new media; and the study of the previous as they relate to the Holocaust; • Study interdisciplinary approaches to Jewish literature, languages, linguistics, media, and the performing arts; • Utilize approaches such as literary analysis, performance studies, memory studies, reception history, comparative studies, or translation/multilingualism studies; • Employ methodologies such as archival research, ethnography, oral history, or media analysis; • Highlight arts, cultures, languages, and literature across geographical contexts. |
Professional Practice: Pedagogy, Professional Development, Public Scholarship, Digital Methods | • Pedagogy • Professional Development • Digital Humanities | Welcomes submissions that: • Share skills, resources, approaches, and experiences for effective scholarship, teaching, and administration • Discuss the design and implementation of syllabi, lesson-plans, curriculum, and digital scholarship for university teaching • Expand scholars’ roles in the world today, including responses to current events as scholar-activists, public scholarship, and recent trends in academic classrooms • Share digital scholarship methods and collaboratively address technical challenges • Invite participants to learn new skills in digital scholarship and to experience new digital projects • Present finished/launched digital humanities projects, spreading knowledge about digital humanities initiatives and access to research and classroom resources |
Social Sciences | • Social Science (Economics, political science, psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography, communication sciences) • Social Science perspectives on Israel Studies and Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies • Jewish Politics through a Social Science lens | Welcomes submissions that • Explore or study Jews, Judaism, and Jewish life from any singular or interdisciplinary social scientific perspective; • Explore or study Jews, Judaism, and Jewish life from any geographic location; • Utilize social scientific methodological approaches including quantitative, qualitative, social historical, archival, and demographic; • Employ innovative methodological and conceptual perspectives to the study of Jews, Judaism and Jewish life, including but not limited to understudied populations. |
