Conferences

Check out the conferences we have organised in previous years. You can find information about them at the bottom of this page.

Several women are sitting in a room during a conference. One of them is holding a microphone.
Photo: M. Jaźwiecki / Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Jews in the destroyed city of Sokolniki (Lviv area). Research "The War That Never Ended: Jewish Experiences of World War I in Central and Eastern Europe" Although conventionally marked as a four-year conflict (1914–1918), World War I in Central and Eastern Europe unfolded as a...
From left to right: Avrom Reyzen, Yitschok Leybush Perets, Sholem Asch, Chaim Żyłtowski, Hersh David Nomberg. Research International conference "Jewish Languages and Politics. Ideological Choices of Jews in the Modern Era" The conference will explore the historical, cultural, and political roles of Jewish languages—such as Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino,...
On a green background, white lettering in a frame: Confronting Holocaust Distortion in the digital era. Research International conference "Confronting Holocaust Distortion in the Digital Era" This international conference will convene leading experts and emerging scholars to forge concrete action plans for academic...
Research 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...
Research International Conference "From Shtetl to Post – Jewish Town" The conference will explore how shtetls like Opatów became post-Jewish towns.
Research 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...
Research 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...
Research International conference "East Central Europe at the Crossroads: Jewish Transnational Networks and Identities" This conference brings together the latest scholarship in Jewish history.
Research 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...
Research 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...
Research 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.
Event "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
Research International session: Artistic and Architectural Research in Memory Studies The international session "Artistic and Architectural Research in Memory Studies" accompanies Natalia Romik’s exhibition "...
Research Conference "Jewish Initiative and Agency under Communism" International conference organized within the the Global Education Outreach Program
Research 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...
Research 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...
Research 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...
Research 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...
Research 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?”....
Research 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...
Research March ’68. Fifty Years Later - International Academic Conference Call for papers
Research 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...
Research 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...
Research Museums and Their Publics at Sites of Conflicted History Read more about conference!
Museum 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 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...
Research I. L. Peretz and his Circle - watch online
Research 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 Conference "From Ibrahim ibn Jakub to 6 Anielewicz Street" - watch online
Event Second Congress of Jewish Art in Poland Art in Jewish Society