Petición de propuestas para la conferencia:Call for paper and panel proposals on all areas of Jewish Studies regardless of discipline, geographical focus, or time period. The WJSA encourages papers and panels on the Intersection of Social History and Religion in Second Temple and Rabbinic period Judaism; Germanic Jewish Philosophy and Literature; Sephardic Literature; Italian Jewish History; and History of Jewish Art. Panels devoted to contemporary events and issues in Israel as well as anniversaries of events in recent Jewish history such as the ordination of the first American woman rabbi,Sally Priesand (1972), the release of Bob Dylan's first album (1962); the installation of the Chagall Windows at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem (1962); and the mass exodus of Algerian Jews to France after Algerian independence (1962) or any others that fall on century or half century marks are particularly welcome.Paper proposals should be no longer than one double-spaced typed page and should be submitted with a short CV that contains contact information. Organizers of panels should submit a cover sheet with the title of the panel and the titles of each of the papers and contact information for each presenter, followed by the individual paper proposals and brief CVs. All interested scholars of Jewish Studies, including advanced graduate students, are invited to submit proposals for papers/ presentations/workshops. A limited number of modest travel stipends are available for graduate students and overseas scholars presenting papers at the conference.Although there is no WJSA membership requirement for participation in the conference, there is a higher registration fee for non-members. Fecha límite para el envío de propuestas: noviembre 14 de 2011. Las propuestas deben enviarse a Deborah Green: dagreen@ uoregon.edu
