About
The Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism was launched in November 2010.
Our founding principle is that the study of antisemitism is vital to understanding all forms of racism, prejudice and xenophobia.
We are a centre of innovative research and teaching and contribute to discussion and public policy formation on antisemitism and racial intolerance.
Based at Birkbeck, University of London, and established by the Pears Foundation, the Institute is both independent and inclusive.
More About Us »Projects
Secularism, Racism and the Politics of Belonging,
Runnymede Trust, April 2012
With an essay by the Institute's Director: Conservative Pluralism and the Politics of Multiculturalism
Research Fellowships
The Rothschild Foundation has awarded the Pears Institute two Research Fellowships for 2011-2012.
The Wellcome Trust is to fund a three year Research Fellowship from September 2012.
See Our Research »Study
The Institute is located within Birkbeck College, a world-class research and teaching institution. We have unrivalled expertise in the teaching of religious and racial intolerance and multiculturalism across a wide range of disciplines. At Birkbeck you can study:
Antisemitism, ethnicity, holocaust, immigration, intolerance and identity, multiculturalism, racism, xenophobia.
Doctoral Research
Study for your PhD with the Pears Institute
Study with us »Events
Wagner – Antisemitism in Music
- Speaker:
- Paul Lawrence Rose, Mitrani Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of European History, The Pennsylvania State University
- Date:
- 22nd May 2012
Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Jewish Antisemitism and the Fate of Western Civilization
- Speaker:
- Professor Eric Kaufmann
- Date:
- 13th June 2012