OUR RESEARCH AT THE CONFERENCE IN SZCZECIN
8-9 May we are in Szczecin, where we are going to talk about our research at the Committee of Women's History Conference History of Health and Body from the Gender Perspective from the Middle Ages till Now.
More info: https://40.usz.edu.pl/konferencja-pt-historia-zdrowia-i-ciala-w-perspektywie-plci-od-sredniowiecza-do-wspolczesnosci/
WANTED! NEW TEAM MEMBER!
- has a PhD in humanities (history, cultural studies, literary studies) no longer than 7 years (since 2018)
- specializes in history and culture of the Jews in the Russian Empire (1880-1917)
- uses gender perspective in their research
- is interested in anthropology of body
- knows: Russian, Yiddish and Hebrew
Submission deadline: 5 May 2025
More info:
Assistant professor (post doc) at the Taube Department of Jewish Studies
BODY RESEARCH NETWORK
We are excited to announce that on 15 November 2024 our Body Research Network was launched.
The network is supposed to connect people researching bodies, not necessarily Jewish in various contexts and disciplines of Humanities.
The meeting of our Research Network is on 30 January at 3:00 PM (CET).
Dr. Sarah Wobick-Segev from the Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften will talk on:
The Praying Body: The Jewish Woman’s Body in 19th-century Prayer Books.
Interested? Contact us!
WE HAVE A NEW TEAM MEMBER!
Karol Jóźwiak, PhD, who is an art historian, and a cultural anthropologist will analyze visual materials in our project.
Stay tuned!
OUR PAPER AT THE 16th FRIEDMAN'S SEMINAR
On 1 December in Warsaw Anna Kałużna and Zuzanna Kołodziejska-Smagała are going to present their paper:
Is it possible to appear in the discourse without a swelling belly? Jewish discourse on a woman's body
at the 16th Friedman's Seminar on transgression in the Jewish culture