• The Popes and the Jews in 16th Italy: a convoluted encounter - Piet van Boxel, Bodleian Library Oxford
• Brothers-in-arms with Nazi Germans: Jews in Finland during World War II - Simo Muir, University of Leeds
• The future of the past: Reflecting on Jewish history under the signs of shadow and hope - Rainer Kampling, Free University Berlin
• The 'Jewish Indian Theory': The Problem of the Origin of the American Populations - Nathan Wachtel
• The first Sephardim in the Atlantic - David Abulafia