Dr Anastasia Badder has teamed up with academics in Southampton, London & Cambridge to host this year’s virtual conference with the European Association of Jewish Studies. The conference centres around the theme “Translating Maimonides” and the call draws attention to Maimonides’ resonance among diverse religious and non-religious communities.
From the official call for papers
Maimonides has been and continues to be a figure of incredible significance. This is true not only for scholars in and beyond Jewish studies, but equally for Jewish, Muslim, secular philosophical and any number of other communities.
Between 2000 and 2007 alone, more than 243 articles were entered in the Index of Articles of Jewish Studies with Maimonides’ as a keyword. Since then, scholarly interest in Maimonides seems only to have grown.
Acknowledging the ongoing importance and interpretation of Maimonides, his life and his world, this virtual conference is inspired by and centres on Maimonides as a symbol of translation par excellence. It calls up his multiple trajectories, enriched by Mediterranean mobilities, transcultural encounters with Jewish, Islamic, and Hellenic philosophies, and ongoing interreligious, intertextual, and interpersonal dialogues.
It also responds to the many afterlives of both his work and Maimonides himself as an historical figure, to explore processes, politics, and relations of (non)translation in and across the Mediterranean.
For the full call, visit the EAJS website (EuroJewishStudies.org).
Practicalities
The call closes on 18 September.
The conference will be hosted online on a Sunday before the end of 2025.
Participants are required to have current membership of EAJS at the time of the conference.
EAJS virtual 2025 organisers
The organising team includes Anoushka Alexander-Rose (Southampton), Anastasia Badder (Cambridge: Divinity), Eliaou Balouka (Birkbeck UoL), Sami Everett (Cambridge & Southampton), and Melonie Schmierer-Lee (Cambridge: Genizah Research Unit).
This event is co-organised with and funded by the European Association of Jewish Studies. The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit is operational lead at the University of Cambridge.