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Job postings at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd as part of the project “Representing Jewish Heritage with(out) Jews? Positionalities, Diversity and Participatory Approaches,” application deadline: 17 July 2026
An der Pädagogischen Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd sind am Institut der Künste in der Abteilung Musik zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt zwei Stellen ausgeschrieben.
Die Ausschreibung erfolgt im Rahmen des Schwerpunktprogrammes 2357 Jüdisches Kulturerbe (Laufzeit 2026-2029, siehe https://spp-juedisches kulturerbe.de). Die Stelle ist dem DFG-Teilprojekt „Vermittlung jüdischen Erbes als Repräsentationsarbeit. Positionierungen, Vielfalt und partizipative Ansätze“ der Professur für Musik und ihre Didaktik zugeordnet.
Book announcement: Queering Jewish Cultural Heritage in Europe: Iridescently Yours – Sacha Kagan and Miranda Crowdus (eds.), release on June 22, 2026, Routledge
This book moves towards the development of more inclusive practices in the handling, management, and debate of Jewish cultural heritage in Europe. The volume presents dynamic explorations of current Jewish subjects across a range of positionalities. It uses diverse methodologies such as ethnographic and sociological fieldwork, research creation, and artistic response.
Deploying “queer” in relation to Jewish heritage in the double sense of “queering” as a critical and reparative process and of a “queer” spectrum of minority positionalities, this volume demonstrates their multifaceted and polydimensional resonances in the contemporary European context. The contributions offer in-depth explorations highlighting a diversity of marginalised Jewish positionalities and initiatives to develop inclusive, polyvalent, and ultimately iridescent approaches to Jewish heritage in Europe. It explores more inclusive conceptualisations and applications of cultural heritage and associated policies, shedding light on how Queer Jewish subjects make heritage as they create and recreate cultural and historical meanings across a wide spectrum of identity, belonging, and artistic engagement.
PhD Seminar: Between Settlement and Passage – Rethinking Jewish Heritage in Transitional Spaces, June 16-19, 2026, Mallorca
The seminar explores Jewish heritage through the conceptual lens of transitional spaces, focusing on the dynamic tension between settlement and passage. Rather than approaching Jewish heritage solely through stable communities or fixed sites of memory, the seminar invites participants to rethink Jewish presence as shaped by mobility, displacement, temporary residence, and moments of transition.
Ports, trade routes, islands, border zones, and sites of forced or voluntary movement emerge as key spaces where Jewish cultural, social, and religious practices were negotiated and transformed.
Held in Mallorca, the seminar places particular emphasis on the island as a paradigmatic transitional space in the Mediterranean. Mallorca’s Jewish heritage – from medieval communities and urban quarters to the complex history of conversion, persecution, and the legacy of the Xuetes – offers a compelling case study for examining how Jewish life persisted, adapted, and was remembered under conditions of rupture and continuity.