19–21 August 2024, Workshop

19 February 2024

Photo: UHH/MCAS

Maimonides Mentoring and Networking Workshop

Academic and Professional Support for Early Career Women* in Jewish Studies and Philosophy

19–21 August 2024, Hamburg, Germany

Application Deadline: 31 January 2024

Topic and Purpose

 This workshop aims to support early career women* at both the doctoral and postdoctoral levels by providing academic and professional mentoring over the course of three days. In addition to providing practical professional and career advice, we will hold sessions in which young scholars will present works in progress and receive constructive feedback from established academics. To these ends, participants will be expected to submit pre-circulated works in progress (e.g., dissertation or book chapters, unpublished articles) before arriving in Hamburg.

Mentoring Team

This workshop will be convened by Sarah Wobick-Segev and Maria Wazinski and supported by the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. Our team of academic mentors will include Christine Hayes (Yale University), Svetlana Natkovich (University of Haifa), Julie Klein (Villanova University), and Anna Schriefl (Universität Düsseldorf).

Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at Universität Hamburg

The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies is a Humanities Research Institute at Universität Hamburg funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). Its central aim is to explore and research scepticism in Judaism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a more general expression of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field.

Target Group

This workshop is intended for PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows in Jewish studies and philosophy.

Application

Funding to cover accommodation as well as travel expenses is available, as is funding for childcare (please note in the application whether childcare is required). Applicants are requested to submit the following documents [in one PDF file]:

• a CV
• a personal statement outlining their motivation and academic background
• an abstract of a chapter or article (in progress) that will be pre-circulated and discussed at the workshop
• a letter of recommendation
• a copy of their academic degree(s) or transcript of records 

Applications may be submitted via email until 31 January 2024 to sarah.wobick@uni-hamburg.de(sarah.wobick-centre"AT"uni-hamburg.de).

Acceptance letters will be sent out by the end of February/beginning of March 2024.

For further information and questions, please email Dr Sarah Wobick-Segev.

Download the call for Application as a PDF-file.

* This workshop warmly encourages applications from CIS and trans-women as well as from non-binary individuals.