Jewish Topographies
5th International Congress on Jewish Architecture
Braunschweig, Technische Universität, September 21–23, 2020

Call for Posters
From September 21 to 23, 2020, Bet Tfila – Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe will organize the conference “Jewish Topographies – 5th International Congress on Jewish Architecture” at the Technische Universität Braunschweig.
The conference will discuss the term “Jewish topography” and its socially and culturally phenomena based on historical case studies. Jewish topographies stand in a spatial and social context with corresponding places of the non-Jewish population, in which different cultural, religious or ethnic groups find their own spaces. Conflicts and cooperations, exclusions and limitations emerge in the spatial relationships between these locations and their respective urban and architectural design reflect the possibilities and expectations of the respective and related groups.
The conference aims to explore different levels of Jewish topographies that are reflected in its program and panels:
– Jewish Places. Micro-Studies (2 panels)
– Jewish Townscapes. North America
– Jewish Townscapes. Europe
– Jewish Landscapes
– Jewish Topographies in Non-Christian Surroundings
– Jewish Art and its Topographies
– Jewish Places and NS-Terror. The Case of Breslau (Wrocław)
– Jewish Topographies. Remembrances and Re-Animations

The conference will take place at the TU Braunschweig (Germany); more than 30 speakers and chairs from Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine, and the USA will participate. The conference will be held in English.
To enable young scientists to present their recent research activities and to search for new research partners, the conference will include poster presentations (max. size A0, upright format). A limited number of travel grants of max. 150 Euro will be available for young scientists. Grantees will be encouraged to give a short oral presentation (ca. 10 minutes) to introduce and discuss their contributions.
Please send your poster abstract (max. 1,600 characters incl. blanks) by August 15, 2020, to Dipl.-Ing. Mirko Przystawik (m.przystawik@tu-bs.de).
The organizers will decide on acceptance by August 30, 2020. The organizers reserve the right to postpone the conference depending on the current corona pandemic.

For any questions, please contact
Dipl.-Ing. Mirko Przystawik, m.przystawik@tu-bs.de
Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Knufinke, u-j.knufinke@tu-bs.de