L’Université de Vancouver et l’organisme de recherche Western Jewish Studies Association Conference (WJSA) lancent l’appel à communication ci-dessous pour la conférence “Jews and Wars”  qui aura lieu à Vancouver en mai 2015.
Les candidatures sont à envoyer avant le 2 novembre 2014.

Call for Paper

Jews and Wars
University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada
Wednesday May 13-Thursday May 14, 2015.

With 2014 the centennial of the beginning of the First World War, and 2015 the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the WJSA has made the theme of this conference “Jews and wars“. The WJSA encourages papers and panels on this theme, as well as on Jews in the North American West(s) and Jewish studies in the public sphere. All scholars of Jewish studies, however, are invited to submit proposals on any topic for presentations, roundtables and/or workshops. We welcome proposals from graduate students.

Proposals
Paper proposals should be no longer than 250 words and should be submitted with a short CV (no more than two pages) and contact information.

Panels
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 individual paper proposals, brief CVs (no more than two pages) and contact information.

The deadline for submission is November 2, 2014. Email proposals for papers and panels, with CVs, to wjsa2015@gmail.com
The notification on the status of paper will be sent by December 1, 2014. Once accepted, you must register for the conference by 8 December 2014 to be put on the program.

The conference
The 2015 conference will be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, Wednesday May 13-Thursday May 14, 2015.
Registration form will be available online at www.wjsa.net/

Hotel Accommodations
The University of British Columbia’ s summer accommodations will open on May 12, 2015. A block of rooms have been reserved for WJSA at a special rate from May 12-14, 2015. For further details, see registration form.