"What's New, What's Next?" – video recordings
fot. Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich
See video recordings of the international online conference "What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies", hosted by POLIN Museum on 3-7 October 2021.
We looked for answers to these (and many other) questions at the conference: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field?
Below you can find footage from keynotes, roundtables and sessions held during conference.
Keynotes >>
- The Beauty of Small Differences: About Jewish Studies and Jewish Area Studies
- Exploring Jewish History in the Digital Age
- Beyond Traditional Methods: What is New and What is Next in Jewish Studies – Five Thoughts
- What's Next in Jewish Studies: Prospects and Challenges
Roundtables >>
- Creating a Legacy: The Impact of Philanthropy on Jewish Studies in Poland
- The Future of Museum Architecture
Sessions >>
- 1. Narratives of Conversion and Belonging in Jewish and Polish History
- 2. New Paradigms, Methodologies, and Sources for the History of Hasidism
- 3. Historians of Societies in Turmoil: Cultural Memory and Politics of Memory
- 4. Between Memory and Education: Challenging Holocaust Transmission and the Fight against Antisemitism
- 5. Exhibiting Loss: Discovering New Museum Possibilities
- 6. Inside the Eruv: Inclusive Approaches to Haredi Language, Religion, and Culture
- 7. The Corporeal Turn: Cookbooks, Food, and Embodied Memory
- 8. Reconsidering the Spatial Turn in Jewish Studies: A Relational Approach
- 9. Multilingual Jewish Popular Culture from the end of the 19th Century until 1939: Routes to Modernity
- 10. Focusing on Families: What Does Polish Jewish History Have to Gain?
- 11. New Interactive Internet Approaches to Studying Eastern European Jewish Music
- 12. Approaches to Jewish Architecture: From Nationalism to Post-Modernism
- 13. City, School, and Family: Exploring New Sources for the History of Galician Jews
- 14. Ilanot: Kabbalistic Iconotexts and New Frontiers of Digital Humanities
- 15. Looking At, Looking Away: The Testimonial Agency of Holocaust Photography
- 16. Fin-de-Siècle Łódź: Jews, Patrons, and the Art of Samuel Hirszenberg
- 17. Transregionalism, Local Identities, and Jewish Geography in Early Modern Ashkenaz
- 18. Jews and Conversion in Eastern Europe: New Approaches, Methodologies, Sources
- 19. Polish Jews: Towards a New Past
- 20. The Network of Inns in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 18th century: A Spatial Humanities Approach to Jewish Socio-Economic Activities in Early Modern History
- 21. Mobility and Migration in German-Jewish Photography during the National Socialist Era
