2024 Australian Association for Jewish Studies Conference ‘Creation – Re-Creation’
Sydney Jewish Museum
11-12 February 2024
Creation – Re-Creation is the theme for the 2024 Australian Association for Jewish Studies Conference. The conference will be held at the Sydney Jewish Museum on 11-12 February 2024, and the conference committee invites submissions of abstracts that address all elements of the themes of Creation and Re-Creation – broadly defined – with reference to Judaism, Jewish History and Culture, and Jews.
Papers may explore, extend or challenge Jewish ideas of the Origin. Creation as an ongoing category of meaning, both divine and secular, has been fundamental to Jewish belief, thought and politics. Creation may hence be investigated through the various forms of human expression that seek to mirror Divine perfection, but also through protagonists of new ideas: material construction, or innovative contributions through scientific, political, artistic, philosophical, legal, and other fields.
Re-Creation indicates a resumption of Creation after a period of stasis or change or may denote reinvention. This includes themes of Jewish Diaspora and phases of migration; or changes both individualised and of the Jewish people, such as during eras post-destruction, including the return of antisemitic tropes and the Holocaust.
We encourage application by academic scholars and professional practitioners that explore the experiences of Jews from diverse backgrounds, and from all areas of Jewish Studies and related fields including (but not limited to):
- Tanakh and Biblical Studies
- Antisemitism, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Memory Studies
- Jewish Cultural Studies, including the Visual Arts and Literature
- Jewish Life and Jewish identity
- Jewish Education
- Gender Studies
- Literary and Film Studies
- Israel and Diaspora Studies
- Museums, Architecture, and Arts Professionals