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PhD Position in Jewish Studies to be announced at Lund University

On January 15, the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University will announce PhD positions and this time Jewish Studies will be a prioritized area. A PhD position at Lund University means a salary for four years and the possibility of having a co-advisor from another university. The deadline for application is February 15, 2024. Below is the link where the call will appear and another one for more information about the application process:

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/vacancies

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/admissions/doctoral-studies

Flykten över Öresund

Välkomna till seminarium och jazzkonsert med anledning av 80-årsminnet av de danska judarnas flykt över Öresund, 5 oktober 13:15–16:30 LUX Helgonavägen 3, sal B152.

Judaism and Trajectories of Religious Interaction: From the New Testament to the Qur’an, International Symposium at Lund University Sept. 11–13, 2023

On 11-13 September 2023 Lund University will host an International Symposium on “Judaism and Trajectories of Religious Interaction: From the New Testament to the Qur’an.”

The symposium traces the development of Judaism from the first century CE when adherence to Jesus was an orientation within Judaism through the emergence and formation of rabbinic Judaism in the second–sixth centuries to the rise of Islam in the sixth–seventh centuries with a particular focus on transition periods and shifting boundaries. It is divided into four sessions:

Beginnings: Jesus-orientation as an Expression of Judaism

Transitions: Jesus-Oriented Groups and the Formation of Rabbinic Judaism

Interaction between Jews and Christians

Transformations: Jewish and Christian Legacy in the Qur’an

The presenters come from University of Heidelberg, University of Wales, University of Cambridge, Université Laval, Lund University, University of Oslo, Bradley University, University of Tübingen and Stockholm School of Theology.

For more information, please contact Wally Cirafesi (wally.cirafesi@ctr.lu.se) or Karin Hedner Zetterholm (Karin.Zetterholm@ctr.lu.se). The organisers note that this event will be in-person only, without an online option.

The Nordic Network for Jewish Studies was founded and is run by Dr Katharina Keim and Dr Karin Zetterholm at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University.

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New Issue of Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies

We are happy to announce the publication of Vol 34/1 of Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies, which is the special issue based on the conference “Jewish–Christian Contacts, Past and Present. Sweden and Germany Compared”

The issue has been edited by Guest Editors Prof. Lena Roos and Prof. Olaf Glöckner and includes research articles by Cordelia Heβ, Julius Schoeps, Jens Carlesson Magalhães, Olof Bortz, Irene Nawrocka and Hanna Liljefors, review articles by Carl Henrik Carlsson and Samuel Wenell, as well as book reviews by Sofia Sjö and Tage Kurtén.

You find the journal at https://journal.fi/nj/issue/view/9627

Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies aims at promoting Jewish studies in Scandinavia by publishing scholarly articles, surveys and documents, essays and conversations as well as by reviewing recent literature. The contributions are published in one of the Scandinavian languages, or in English, German or French, with an abstract in English. The journal is strictly academic and does not pursue any special religious, political or cultural policy.

NJ is published open access online.

Thank you for the continuing interest in our work and happy holidays,

Svante Lundgren & Ruth Illman

Editors of Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies

Symposium: Memory and Otherness. Jewish-Christian Relations in the Age of ReconciliationSymposium, 2 June 2023, Lund University.

The symposium will take place in LUX building, room B:152, 10:00-18:15.

The symposium organisers have shared the below information about the event:

Inspired by Levinasian’s ethic of responsibility in encounters with the Other, the main idea of the symposium is to bring together scholars from the field of theology, religious studies, memory studies and Jewish studies to discuss various aspects of memory in relation to Otherness.

How does the memory affect our own identity and relations with the Other? How does it function in collective and individual memory? How does it translate into prejudice and politics? These are some of the questions that can be posed in relation to the main theme of the symposium.

Through scholarly debate, this academic venture aims at exploring new paths in the meeting between religious and cultural traditions, and in accommodating otherness in interreligious and intercultural encounters. The contributions will approach the questions related to memory and otherness in intergroup encounters from historical, textual and qualitative perspectives, which will enrich the discussion and the exchange of the ideas.

The Symposium will have a compact form and will include 4 key note lectures and one panel session. Among confirmed presenters are:

Prof. Manuela Consonni (Pela and Adam Starkopf Chair in Holocaust Studies at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University).
Dr. Mercédesz Czimbalmos (The Inez and Julius Polin Institute For Theological Research, Åbo Akademi),
Prof. Michał Galas (the head of the Department of History of Judaism and Jewish Literatures, Director of the Marcell and Maria Roth Center for the Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jewry and Polish-Jewish Relations at the Institute of Jewish Studies of the Jagiellonian University),
Prof. Šarūnas Liekis (Professor of Politics and Dean of the Faculty of Politics and Diplomacy at the Vytautas Magnus University).

The full programme with times and further details will be published shortly. In the meantime, please contact organiser Magdalena Dziaczkowska for more information.

The Nordic Network for Jewish Studies was founded and is run by Dr Katharina Keim and Dr Karin Zetterholm at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University.

Posdoc position at Umeå University’s Faculty of History, deadline 15 August 2023

Umea University is advertising a 2-year postdoctoral research position based in its Faculty of History. The deadline is 15 August 2023.

For more information, see the job advert.

The Nordic Network for Jewish Studies was founded and is run by Dr Katharina Keim and Dr Karin Zetterholm at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University.

Applications open for four PhD positions at Oslo University, deadline 2 June 2023

Applications are open for four PhD positions at Oslo University in two research units: the unit for biblical studies and church history; and the unit for contemporary theology, religious studies, interreligious studies, and practical theology.

The deadline for applications is 2 June 2023 with a start date of 1 February 2024.

For more information, see the job announcement.

The Nordic Network for Jewish Studies was founded and is run by Dr Katharina Keim and Dr Karin Zetterholm at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University.

Event: Honorary Doctor at Lund University

Christine Hayes, Sterling Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica, Yale University, will be appointed honorary doctor at Lund University on May 26 2023. On May 25 at 10:15 she will give a public lecture: “Radical Rabbis and Other Serendipities” at the Centre of Theology and Religious Studies, LUX C:121.

The Nordic Network for Jewish Studies was founded and is run by Dr Katharina Keim and Dr Karin Zetterholm at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University.

Public Lecture: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Conversation over Scripture

Miriam Lindgren Hjälm, Sankt Ignatios College and Uppsala University, Joshua Sabih, University of Copenhagen, Samuel Rubenson and Oliver Scharbrodt, Lund University

May 10 at 17:15, Lund University, CTR, LUX B366

The Nordic Network for Jewish Studies was founded and is run by Dr Katharina Keim and Dr Karin Zetterholm at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University.

The Nun in the Synagogue: A Conversation about Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel

April 25 at 15.00 (sharp) at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies in Lund, LUX B336

A book review panel will discuss Emma O’Donnell Polyakov’s new book The Nun in the Synagogue: Judeocentric Catholicism in Israel, a project she worked on as a postdoctor at Lund University. Panelists: Emma O’Donnell Polyakov, Merrimack College, Tord Fornberg, Uppsala University, Maria Småberg, Lund University and Magdalena Dziaczkowska.

The Nordic Network for Jewish Studies was founded and is run by Dr Katharina Keim and Dr Karin Zetterholm at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University.