Submit a Proposal

• First connect to the World Union of Jewish Studies website – by clicking on the login tab in the top bar. Clicking will lead to a screen asking for email and password. If this is your first login to the system you should select the option New member?

After entering an email address and choosing a password, click REGISTER.

• Then you will be asked to fill out a personal details form. After clicking submit/confirm, you will be taken to the submissions menu, and you can choose whether you wish to submit a proposal for a single lecture or a proposal for a session.

Important! You can submit a proposal for only one lecture, but you can submit several proposals for sessions.

If the proposal is accepted, the lecture will be included in a session by the academic committee and at its discretion.

The proposal must include the following details:

[1] Lecture title in English

[2] Lecture title in Hebrew

[3] Lecture abstract in English or Hebrew (up to 250 words)

[4] Short biography in English or Hebrew (up to 100 words) – for the session’s chairperson.

• In case of a second speaker, details should be entered in the designated place — the speaker will receive an email and will be asked to register, enter personal details and fill out a short biography in English or Hebrew (up to 100 words).
• Graduate students are required to submit a letter of recommendation when submitting a proposal to Congress. The full details of the recommender should be entered in the designated place – an email message will be sent to the recommender with a request to upload a letter of recommendation in PDF or WORD format. After that, the lecturer will receive a confirmation message about the submission of the recommendation.

At any time, one can save a draft of the proposal and return to it later.

Proposals for posters may be submitted in the “Research Projects and Technology” division only, please choose the sub-division “Poster Exhibition”. 

A proposal for a poster presentation may be submitted in addition to a lecture proposal in one of the other Congress divisions.

If you have already submitted a proposal for a lecture, please use another email address to submit your poster proposal, in order to avoid technical problems. 

All details must be filled in as done when submitting a lecture or session.

Proposals for complete sessions are strongly encouraged. Such proposal may consist of four lectures or of three lectures and a response. In addition, they are to include a chairperson.

If you cannot find four participants, you may apply with three lectures, with the understanding that the academic committee may add a fourth lecturer to the session.

Please note that sessions may not be organized around academic monographs that have already been published.

The proposal should be submitted under the session organizer’s username, and should include the following details:

[1] Session title in English

[2] Session title in Hebrew

[3] Session summary in English or Hebrew (up to 250 words)

[4] Details of the chairperson (title, full name and email)

• Please note, if the session does not have a chairperson yet, temporarily enter the details of the session’s organizer as a chairperson; this can be changed later.

[5] The details of all the session’s participants (title, full name and email)

• In a session that includes a response, it must be marked on the form.

After submitting the session, the organizer will receive a confirmation of the submission, while the participants receive a special link to submit their lecture. A lecture that is not submitted through the link will not be considered as part of the session.

The following details are required for the lecture presented as part of a session:

[1] Lecture title in English

[2] Lecture title in Hebrew

[3] Lecture summary in English or Hebrew (up to 250 words)

[4] Short bio in English or Hebrew (up to 100 words) 

• In case of a second speaker, details should be entered in the designated place — the speaker will receive an email and will be asked to register, enter personal details and fill out a short biography in English or Hebrew (up to 100 words).
• Graduate students are required to submit a letter of recommendation when submitting a proposal to Congress. The full details of the recommender should be entered in the designated place – an email message will be sent to the recommender with a request to upload a letter of recommendation in PDF or WORD format. After that, the lecturer will receive a confirmation message about the submission of the recommendation.

At any time, one can save a draft of the proposal and return to it later.