Conferences

"The Jewish Music Renaissance in Poland and Germany" International conference devoted to the music of Jewish composers and the influence of Jewish culture in music
Second Congress of Jewish Art in Poland Art in Jewish Society
Research Conference "From Ibrahim ibn Jakub to 6 Anielewicz Street" - watch online
Conference "Pogroms: Collective Anti-Jewish Violence in the Polish Lands in the 19th and 20th Centuries" The Institute of History of the University of Warsaw and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews had the pleasure to...
Research I. L. Peretz and his Circle - watch online
Remembering the Shoah. Chronology, media and narratives in Poland and France Mirosław Bałka's work "I Knew It Had 4 In It" (2008) from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw / Institute of...
Conference: Jews and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) There were over 7,000 Jews among the 50,000 foreign volunteers who took part in the defence of the Spanish Republic in the...
Research Museums and Their Publics at Sites of Conflicted History Read more about conference!
Chone Shmeruk In memoriam – a conference The conference is aimed at recalling the life and work of Chone Shmeruk, one of the leading scholars of Yiddish language and...
A syposium (Auto)Biographical experience versus Identity. Literary accounts on the March '68 generation Scholars of literature analyzed tens of literary texts pertaining to the subject of March ’68. They sought ways in which a...
March ’68. Fifty Years Later - International Academic Conference Call for papers
International academic conference "November Hopes. Jews and the Independence of Poland in 1918" The conference filled in the void in the historical awareness concerning the history of Polish Jews and in the study of their...
Who is Europe? - international conference POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and Newcastle University are organizing a conference on the topic “Who is Europe?”....
Return of the Repressed? Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of Totalitarianism in the 21st Century III Conference of an International Research Project on the History of Psychoanalysis in the Polish-German-Jewish Cultural...
Jews Against Nazi Germany During World War II "Jews in the fight against Nazi Germany during World War II," an international conference on the occasion of the 80th...
Biographies and Politics: The Involvement of Jews and People of Jewish Origin in Leftist Movements in 19th and 20th Century Poland The aim of the conference is to outline the actual involvement of Jews and activists of Jewish origin in the leftist movements...
International conference "What’s New, What’s Next?" - online registration We invite scholars working in Jewish Studies to propose panels for the international interdisciplinary, online conference. The...
Conference "Jewish Initiative and Agency under Communism" International conference organized within the the Global Education Outreach Program
International session: Artistic and Architectural Research in Memory Studies The international session "Artistic and Architectural Research in Memory Studies" accompanies Natalia Romik’s exhibition "...
International Conference: Operation "Reinhardt" and the Destruction of Polish Jews The conference about Operation Reinhardt seeks to present the newest research on the Holocaust in Poland.
Academic session: The Studies on Hunger Disease in the Warsaw Ghetto The session will be complemented by a lecture addressed to the general public, delivered by Martín Caparrós, author of the...
International Conference "European Jews Facing the Imminence of the Holocaust" The conference’s aim is to identify and describe the Jewish experience of life amidst the imminent threat of destruction during...
International conference "East Central Europe at the Crossroads: Jewish Transnational Networks and Identities" This conference brings together the latest scholarship in Jewish history.
Jewish or Common Heritage? (Dis-)appropriation of Synagogue Architecture in East-Central Europe since 1945 POLIN Museum and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw are hosting the international conference that aims at tracing the...
International Conference "The Accidental Metropolis? Jewish Łódź from 1800 to present" The event will feature the newest research from an interdisciplinary perspective on the history of the Jewish community in Łódź...
International Conference "From Shtetl to Post – Jewish Town" The conference will explore how shtetls like Opatów became post-Jewish towns.
Lecture International conference "Not the End, Not the Beginning. Reconstructing Jewish Life in Poland and Central Europe after the Second World War" This conference will focus on the phenomenon of revived Jewish life in Poland, comparing developments in other countries of the...