University of Oslo PhD student Johanna Bokedahl presents “Diachronic Perspectives on Christian Heritage Discourse through Ancient Synagogues,” Johanna
Bokedal presents her project. Joint seminar with Church History.
We met 6th of March 2025 at 13-15 (NB the time!) in LUX B353.
Image courtesy of Sefaria, pictured: Dura Europos synagogue, ca 3rd century.
The popular Talmud seminar series with Dr. Yonathan Adler (Associate Professor in Archaeology at Ariel University, Israel and former rabbi) is back, and this term we meet twice online. We study a text under the guidance of Dr. Adler, for access to this and the zoom link, contact Karin Zetterholm.
We meet 20th of March and 3rd of April on Zoom, please contact Karin Zetterholm karin.zetterholm@ctr.lu.se if you have any questions.
This is a reminder that there is an event this afternoon in Lund: please click here to go to the original post.
Dr. Karin Zetterholm (Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor in Jewish Studies at CTR) and Dr. Oren Roman Cohen (Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor in Yiddish at SOL) present “The Binding of Isaac (Aqedah) and Jewish–Christian Relations: The Aqedah in Text and Art from Antiquity through the Early Modern Period.”
We meet the 13th of February 2025 at 15–17, in LUX B:212. Please note that there is no Zoom option.
Image courtesy of Sefaria, original artwork by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669).
PhD student Jordan Jacobs presents a part of his thesis, “On mystery and (not) knowing in the encounter: an exploration parting from Abraham Joshua Heschel.” Jointly with the seminar on Philosophy and Ethics.
We meet 6th of February at 16–18 (NB the time!) in LUX B:417 in Lund and on Zoom.
Please contact Jordan Jacobs (jordansp@ucm.es) to get the material in advance and preregister for Zoom.
Vänlig påminnelse om att sista anmälningsdagen för Doktoranddagen 5/12 i Stockholm är imorgon, torsdag 21/11. Läs mer på denna föregående post: STOCKHOLM: Doktoranddag
Välkommen till Södertörns högskola den 5 december för en dag för doktorander som sysslar med judendomsrelaterade ämnen!
Huvuddelen av dagen består i att alla som vill får tillfälle att presentera något från sitt pågående avhandlingsprojekt. För nyantagna kan det vara att presentera själva projektet; för doktorander som kommit längre kan det vara något av resultaten eller någon fråga man särskilt vill få feedback på. Räkna med att din presentation ska vara ca 15 minuter.
Dagen kommer att se ut som följer:
10-11.30 Presentationer av pågående forskning
11.30-12.30 Lunch
12.30-14.30 Presentationer av pågående forskning
14.30-15 Kaffe
15-16.30 Seminarium om filosofen Hermann Cohen. Dana Hollander, associate professor, Religious studies, McMaster University, kommer att inleda seminariet. Hon har bland annat publicerat boken Ethics Out of Law: Hermann Cohen and the “Neighbor” (University of Toronto Press, 2021). Under seminariet kommer vi att gemensamt diskutera någon av Cohens texter.
Cohen är en av de centrala tänkarna för det nystartade projektet Experimenting With Traditions: The Life and Afterlife of 20th Century Jewish Intellectual Culture in the Baltic Sea Region. Projektet bedrivs i samverkan mellan filosofi och religionsvetenskap. Nytt projekt undersöker mötet mellan traditionellt judiskt tänkande och västerländsk upplysningsfilosofi – Södertörns högskola
Om Dana Hollanders bok:
Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) was a leading figure in the Neo-Kantian philosophical movement that dominated European thought before 1918. He is also the inaugural figure for what is meant by “modern Jewish philosophy” in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores Cohen’s striking claim that ethics is rooted in law – a claim developed in both his philosophical ethics and his philosophy of Judaism, in particular in his writings on “love-of-neighbor,” up to and including his well-known Religion of Reason.
Dana Hollander proposes that neither Cohen’s systematic philosophy nor his “Jewish” philosophy should be seen as the dominant framework for his oeuvre as a whole, but that his understanding of key philosophical questions takes shape in the passages between both corpuses, a trait that could be seen as paradigmatic for modern Jewish philosophy. Ethics Out of Law taps into one of the prime topics of current interest in the field of Jewish philosophy: the nature of Jewish political existence and the changing configurations of “law” that this entails.
Anmäl dig till doktoranddagen på denna länk, klicka här för att komma dit eller copy-paste https://axacoair.se/go?q9AyfAWU. Ange där om du vill delta med eller utan presentation. Deadline för anmälan: Torsdag 21 november.
Ansvarig för event: Lena Roos Professor i Religionsvetenskap på Södertörns Högskola vid Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier. Email för kontakt: lena.roos@sh.se
A few weeks back, a Post Graduate Conference was arranged in Lund – see this post for previous information. Here’s the summary from the organisers, including the message from us.
UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Scandinavian Studies & Lund University Centre for Theology and Religious Studies have had the pleasure to host a postgraduate conference on Jewish Studies in the Nordics, in beautiful Lund with significant hybrid participation, this 16-17 September 2024.
The conference has received generous funding from the CEMES (Centre for Modern European Studies, University of Copenhagen) as well as Oscar och Signe Krooks stiftelse and Birgit och Sven Håkan Ohlssons fond.
We have gathered 14 postgraduate presenters and a total of 20 speakers from 7 countries, including various disciplines, levels of study, backgrounds and expertise – to share their work and foster an academic environment in our diverse, and fast-developing field.
On the first day, we had the pleasure to welcome Prof Lily Kahn, Head of Department at UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies & Dr Riitta Valjärvi, Associate professor at UCL SSEES and Uppsala University, as keynote speakers. Lily and Riitta introduced language use among Jews in Finland.
On the second day, we had the pleasure to welcome Dr Jon Reitan, Associate professor at NTNU as keynote speaker. Jon presented his ongoing project on Jewish migration history from the Baltic shtetls to Norway in the late 19th century.
We have had a variety of sessions on studying, teaching, and publishing Jewish Studies in the Nordics, with an introduction to the journal Nordisk Judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies and the existing Nordic Jewish Studies Network.
We are positive about the way forward, and hope that the meaningful connections made over the last 2 days will result in exciting collaborations.
What happens next?
Nordic Jewish Studies network: we encourage you to check out the Nordic Jewish Studies Network website, where you can make a contribution by posting short blogs about your research journey, and advertise calls for papers: https://nordicnetworkforjewishstudies.com. Contact Desirée Lind for more information (de1304li-s@student.lu.se), and find her original message in the end of this email.
We plan to keep our community in the loop and update on similar initiatives, like conferences and publications in the future. When you are doing or coming across something relevant, do not hesitate to share with us.
At this stage, we are excited to bring to your attention a virtual seminar for researchers of Jewish Studies in the Nordic region, which is planned to take place in mid-November 2024. A seperate message with description will follow, please contact Paula.caceres@socwork.gu.se for more information.
Output: We are looking into the possibility of publishing papers from the conference in the journal Nordisk Judaistik. At this stage we can encourage you to think of this prospect for your work and keep your eyes open for possibilities.
Particularly, the topic of teaching Jewish Studies in the Nordic region has caught good interest during the conference. Those who wish may check with Matthew Johnson, Joanna Spyra and Maja Hultman regarding the possibility of producing an output for this topic.
We wish you all the best going forward!
Shabbat Shalom and god helg,
Noa and Magdalena.
—
Desirée Lind’s message regarding the Nordic Jewish Studies Network:
“The Nordic Network for Jewish Studies is a research network for Jewish and Jewish adjacent studies in the Nordic region and/or regarding the Nordic milieu. We do this, primarily, through our website. The idea is to build a hub with short abstracts on the current research and create a network for researchers: the aim is to shine a light on what Jewish and Jewish-adjacent studies do in the Nordic region and to foster contact across institutional borders. Here is a link to the website (which is currently under redesign so please, mind the sparsity of it): https://nordicnetworkforjewishstudies.com/
So, I’d like to 1. do a shameless plug, i.e., please feel free to check it out and sign up for the network – it’s free! and 2: shamelessly use this platform to call for papers. The concept is fairly simple: the goal is to, once a week, publish an abstract of about 500 words. The form is fairly free, as long as it includes a title, contact information for the intellectual owner of the abstract (i.e., you as its creator), and said abstract. It serves mostly as a catalogue for current research to showcase and strengthen our research areas. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions!
We also make “ads” for events, so if you have information about a seminar, course, event, etc. that you’d like to get advertised, please feel free to reach out! In that case, I need a where (zoom events are of course also welcome), when (date and time), a short description of how and why (a few sentences on what it entails), and contact information for the one organising it. A picture is also appreciated, but not a must. This is, of course, completely free.
If I’ve missed anyone on this list or you have someone else in mind that you think would like to partake in this, please feel free to send this on to them: regardless if it’s a student or a professor, we welcome all contributions to showcase how diverse our field is. Of course, we take precautions to keep our Jewish fellows safe, which includes but is not limited to not publishing the exact places for events, not freely giving out contact information that is not consented to, and manually filtering through comments and other forms of contact.
Introducing Nordic Network for Jewish Studies – this time on Facebook!
Right now you’re on our website but now, we have a Facebook page! This website will still be our main platform, however, the aim is to show up in your feed, thus increasing our visibility and your access to the material.
The Nordic Network for Jewish Studies is a research network for Jewish and Jewish-adjacent studies, aiming to connect scholars, create discussion, and increase the value of our fields in the current research climate. The aim is to create a hub for the latest research, teaching, events, courses, and other related objectives and, of course, through that show off what we as researchers do.
Find us by clicking on this link, or by searching for “Nordic Network for Jewish Studies”. Please drop by and give us a follow to always have access to our material in your feed.
Nordic Network for Jewish Studies