The Jews in the Americas
Hybrid Interdisciplinary Conference
“The Jews in the Americas“
The University of Kansas
18-19 April 2024
The Center of Global and International Studies and the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Kansas are pleased to announce a call for papers for the “Jews in the Americas” Conference, to be held on 18-19 April 2024 at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars from a variety of fields, including history, religion, sociology, politics, anthropology, literature, and the arts, to explore the rich and diverse experiences of Jews in the Americas.
The event will be hybrid, with most sessions online, while we welcome participants to visit us on our KU campus in Lawrence, Kansas, where we will have an in-person audience.
We invite proposals for papers that address any aspect of Jewish life in the Americas, in one or more countries or regions, from the colonial era to the present day. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Jewish migration and settlement in the Americas
- Jewish religious and cultural life in the Americas
- Jewish contributions to the arts, sciences, and professions in the Americas
- Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim relations in the Americas and ways in which Jews have shaped and been shaped by the societies in which they live
- Jewish responses to racism, antisemitism, and other forms of discrimination in the Americas
- Jewish identity and community formation in the Americas and intersections of Jewish identity with other categories of identity
- Jewish communities’ relations to Israel
- The transnational dimensions of Jewish life in the Americas
- The Jewish relationship to Spanish, French, Dutch, and English colonialism
- The Jewish relationship to indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Jews of the Caribbean