Sent: Sun 11/22/2009 3:05 PM
Subject: CFP Bar Ilan-Brandeis

The Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Center for the Study of Women in Judaism
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
The Ruth and Emmanuel Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women
Invite proposals for lectures at a conference on:

Gender and Jewish Identity: An International Conference
June 2-3, 2010 at Bar-Ilan University

This Conference on Gender and Jewish Identity seeks to bring together
scholars from diverse fields to discuss research related to gender and
Jewish identity. The past decade has seen a tremendous growth of many types
of identity research from a variety of perspectives, examining the contours
of identity related to location, practice, heritage, culture and language.
The production of new identities in different cultural contexts, as well as
identity conflicts, has been central to scholarly discussions.

In Gender Studies as well as in Jewish Studies, within traditional
disciplinary boundaries, these discussions have taken place in the past;
however, these topics have rarely been examined in an inter-disciplinary
context. For this interdisciplinary conference, we invite proposals for
papers that focus on aspects of Gender and Jewish Identity from a variety of
fields - sociology, history, literature, anthropology, law, education and
philosophy from all historical periods and locations. Paper topics can
include academic explorations and theoretical questions related to gender
and Jewish identity as well as specific case studies.

The conference will take place at Bar Ilan University, June 2-3, 2010.
Keynote address will be given by Prof. Sylvia Barrack Fishman of Brandeis
University

Please complete the attached form and send a short (one page) abstract and
CV by January 3, 2010 to jwmn@mail.biu.ac.il.We will provide hotel
accommodations for those traveling from abroad, and will consider
applicants' requests for funding for travel.

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