{"id":487,"date":"2017-05-29T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T14:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishmigrationtoscotland.is.ed.ac.uk\/?p=487"},"modified":"2017-05-29T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T14:46:33","slug":"4th-meeting-of-the-advisory-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishmigrationtoscotland.is.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/29\/4th-meeting-of-the-advisory-board\/","title":{"rendered":"4th meeting of the Advisory Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishmigrationtoscotland.is.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/project-team\/advisory-board\/\">Advisory Board<\/a> provided a wonderful opportunity to reflect back on the second year of the project, which is currently drawing to a close. We have many positives to report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>data gathering for our research is well-advanced;<\/li>\n<li>we ran a very successful two day conference in April on <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishmigrationtoscotland.is.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/2017\/04\/25\/narrative-spaces-colloquium-at-glasgow-university\/\"><em>Narrative Spaces in Scottish Jewish Culture<\/em><\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Mia and Hannah have been speaking at academic conferences and local events about our work;<\/li>\n<li>we appointed Philip Alexander as RA, who adds a whole new area of expertise to the project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>we have\u00a0piloted digitisation and produced a guidance document;<\/li>\n<li>SJAC has chosen documents and images suitable for digitisation.\n<ul>\n<li>We should see a representative glimpse of the SJAC&#8217;s collections online due course and thus\u00a0fulfil one of our project goals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>JLSS will represented with a panel at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jewishstudies.div.ed.ac.uk\/british-association-for-jewish-studies-annual-conference-2017-edinburgh-10-12-july-2017-jews-on-the-move-exploring-the-movement-of-jews-objects-texts-and-ideas-in-space-and-time\/\">2017 Conference of the British Association for Jewish Studies in Edinburgh<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>further conference participation is planned for the later this year and in early 2018.<\/li>\n<li>plans for communicating our research to a wider, non-academic audience are under way:\n<ul>\n<li>during the Fringe Festival JLSS and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ejls.org\/\">Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society<\/a>\u00a0will be conducting two tours in Edinburgh: &#8216;Jewish Edinburgh on Foot&#8217;;<\/li>\n<li>in collaboration with other projects at the University of Edinburgh, the walking tours will be prepared for\u00a0use inside an app, so anyone visiting Edinburgh can\u00a0construct their own walks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is good to have a time to take stock and look back. With renewed energy and drive we are looking forward to the next year of the project! Watch this space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month&#8217;s meeting of the Advisory Board provided a wonderful opportunity to reflect back on the second year of the project, which is currently drawing to a close. 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