CONFERENCES
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Upcoming
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Annual
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Past
UPCOMING:
18-22 august 2008:
100th Anniversary International Yiddish Language Conference.
- location: Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
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deadline for abstracts of papers: 30 april 2008.
- for more details see the
conference website.
22-24 september 2008:
XI. Symposium für Jiddische Studien in Deutschland.
- location: Heinrich Heine Universität - Düsseldorf.
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deadline for abstracts of papers: 1 april 2008.
- for more details see the
website.
1-3 december 2008:
First Heidelberg International Conference in Modern Yiddish Studies:
Yiddish Poets and the Soviet Union, 1917-1948.
- location: Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg.
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deadline for abstracts of papers: 31 may 2008.
- for more information see the
call for papers or contact
Daniela Mantovan.
ANNUAL:
Symposium für Jiddische Studien in Deutschland.
Organised by the
Abteilung für Jiddische Kultur, Sprache und Literatur
at the Heinrich Heine Universität - Düsseldorf.
Annual Berkeley Yiddish Conference.
Organised by the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of California at Berkeley
with support from the Departments of Comparative Literature, German, and History.
International Mandelbaum Conference on Yiddish Studies.
Organised by the
Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies of the University of Sydney.
PAST:
13-14 april 2008:
Conference
Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective.
- location: York University in Toronto.
- for more details see the
conference website.
6-9 december 2007:
Session
Moving Beyond the Contradictory Discourses on Yiddish at:
KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies 2007.
- location: Reed Congress Center, Vienna.
- for more details click
here.
2-3 december 2007:
Conference
Jewish Languages and Locales in a Globalized World.
- location: Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland.
- for more details click
here or email
Miriam Isaacs.
25-26 november 2007:
3rd International Mandelbaum Conference on Yiddish Studies (theme: "Kehiles/Communities")
- location: Mandelbaum House, University of Sydney.
- for more information click
here or contact
dr. Jennifer Dowling.
28-30 october 2007:
Paläographie Workshop "Judendeutsch".
- location: Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt.
- for more information click
here or email
Melanie Aspey at the Rothschild Archive London.
24-26 december 2006:
Conference
The Cultural Geography of Modern Yiddish.
- location: University of Haifa, Israel.
- for more details click
here.
6-8 november 2006:
International Conference:
Yiddish Culture in the Postwar Era in Communist Countries.
- location: Department of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow.
- for more information email
dr Magdalena Ruta or
Noemi Bazanowska.
11-14 september 2006:
Sixth International Conference
JEWS IN A CHANGING WORLD: Latvian and Baltic Jews at the Crossroads of European History.
- location: University of Latvia , Riga.
- for more information email the
Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia.
23-27 july 2006:
VIIIth Congress European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS) in Moscow.
- for more details click
here.
27-29 june 2006:
International Conference:
Yiddish Language and Culture in the Soviet Union.
- location: Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow.
- for more information email
Mark Kupovetsky or
dr. Maria Kaspina.
23-26 march 2006:
Seminar on Yiddish Literature at ACLA 2006: "The Perennial Other: Yiddish Literature in Comparative Contexts".
- location: Princeton University.
- for more information send an email to seminar organizer
Marc Caplan or look at the ACLA 2006
website (look under 'tentative seminars' and scroll down in the list).
26-27 february 2006:
Graduate student conference in Yiddish Studies:
Yiddish / Jewish Cultures: Literature, History, Thought in Eastern European Diasporas
- location: Dept. of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, New York City.
- more information click
here or send an email to
yiddishconference@gmail.com.
6-7 november 2005:
Conference in Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies:
"Looking Backward--Looking Forward: A Conference Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Dr. Shlomo Noble."
- location: Ohio State University.
- for more information email
Neil G. Jacobs or
David Neal Miller (Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies Program, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University).
26-27 june 2005:
2nd International Conference on Yiddish:
'Yidishe dertsiung'/Yiddish Education.
- location: Mandelbaum House, University of Sydney
- more information: email
dr. Jennifer Dowling (lecturer in Yiddish, Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies,
University of Sydney).
17-19 march 2001:
International conference
Between two worlds. S. Ansky at the turn of the century.
- location: Stanford University.
- for more information click
here.
