Dear Fellow Genealogists,
The Program Committee for the 44th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy is pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals is now open. The 2024 Conference will be held in Philadelphia from Sunday, August 18 through Thursday, August 22, 2024 at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel in Center City Philadelphia.
The deadline for submissions is 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time on Sunday, January 28, 2024.
We expect to notify proposal submitters of acceptance of their proposals before March 15, 2024.
Conference Themes
Tools and Technology
Shoah Rescuers and Holocaust Research
Disappearing Empires of the 19th and 20th Centuries
The Sephardi, Mizrahi and Persian Experience
Building Blocks of Genealogy
Genealogical Research in Philadelphia and Eastern US
Speaker Compensation
Speakers may submit up to four (4) unique proposals for regular sessions, panel discussions and computer labs. SIG (Special Interest Group), Research Division and BOF (Birds-of-a-Feather) meetings are not included in this limit.
Financial compensation for speakers is based on the number of accepted sessions. Speaker compensation is provided only to the primary speaker of a session.
All primary speakers will receive one free Conference Registration. Only one free registration is allowed per session. Speaking or coordinating a SIG or Research Division meeting or luncheon or a BOF session does not qualify the person for compensation from IAJGS.
Speaker compensation is summarized below:
Session: $150 honorarium and $150 travel allowance
Sessions: $300 honorarium, $200 travel allowance and 1 hotel night
Sessions: $450 honorarium, $250 travel allowance and 2 hotel nights
Sessions: $600 honorarium, $300 travel allowance and 3 hotel nights
The compensation in this table only applies to the primary speaker. Hotel nights will be provided and paid for by IAJGS at the Conference hotel. The one exception to this remuneration table is the travel allowance for speakers living within 25 miles of the Conference Hotel. For those speakers, no hotel nights will be provided and the travel allowance will be $50 and is not increased if the speaker has more than one session.
How to Submit
To begin the process of submitting your proposal, click here: Call for Proposals, then scroll down and click on the blue “Start Application“ bar. All of the proposals, subsequent processing of proposals and accepted sessions will be handled on the PheedLoop conference software platform.
Thank you for your interest in the IAJGS 2024 International Conference on Jewish Genealogy and your proposals.