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Sanctioned Laughter: Humour, War and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Europe
In Partnership with The Wiener Library
| Speakers Include: | Professor Orlando Figes, Birkbeck, University of London; Professor Stephen Gundle, University of Warwick; Dr Patrick Merziger, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Date: | 10th May 2013 |
| Time: | 12:00pm — 5:30pm |
| Venue: | The Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DP |
| Free event for postgraduate students and scholars: | Limited places - book your ticket sanctionedlaughter.eventbrite.co.uk |
Symposium on Integration, Disadvantage and Extremism
In partnership with the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford and the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism
| Speakers Include: | Rob Berkeley, Runnymede Trust; Anthony Heath, University of Oxford; Maleiha Malik, King's College London; John Mann MP; Nasar Meer, University of Northumbria; Baroness Sayeda Warsi |
| Date: | 8th May 2013 |
| Venue: | Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, House of Commons, SW1A 2LW |
| By invitation only : | Event Full |
The Recurrence of Genocide Since the Holocaust CANCELLED
Unfortunately this event has had to be cancelled - we hope to reschedule it for later in 2013
| Speaker: | Professor Philip Spencer, Kingston University |
| Date: | 16th April 2013 |
| Venue: | Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7JL |
| Free event open to all: | Please register your interest: genocidesincetheholocaust.eventbrite.co.uk |
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Writing Auschwitz: Testimony, Representation and Prose in the Work of Charlotte Delbo, Primo Levi and Holocaust Writers
In collaboration with the Group for War and Culture Studies, University of Westminster and with the support of the French Institute
| Speakers to include: | Professor Susan Derwin, University of California; Professor Robert Gordon, University of Cambridge; Dr Paul Gradvohl, University of Warsaw |
| Date: | 18th March 2013 |
| Time: | 10:00am — 5:00pm |
| Venue: | French Institute, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT |
| Free - ticket required: | Please email pearsinstitute@bbk.ac.uk to register your interest |
Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act
| Round-table discussion: | Professor David Glover, University of Southampton; Professor Sonya Rose, Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck Institute of Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London; Professor Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary, University of London |
| Date: | 12th February 2013 |
| Time: | 6:30pm |
| Venue: | Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX. Room 421, Torrington Square main entrance |
| Free event open to all: | Please register your interest: aliensact.eventbrite.co.uk |
| Book: |
David Glover, Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act, Cambridge University Press, 2012 |
Backlash Against Multiculturalism in Europe: Struggling Over the Mode of Incorporation
In partnership with Department of Politics, Birkbeck, University of London
| Speaker: | Professor Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University |
| Date: | 11th February 2013 |
| Time: | 6:30pm |
| Venue: | Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX. Room B33, Torrington Square main entrance |
| Free event open to all: | Please register your interest: multiculturalismeurope.eventbrite.co.uk |
Rescue: Memory, Myth and Morality
Holocaust Memorial Day event - Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in partnership with the Institute of Historical Research
| Round-table discussion: | John Dobai, Holocaust survivor; Professor Tony Kushner, University of Southampton; Professor Bob Moore, University of Sheffield. Chair: Dr Ludivine Broch, Research Fellow, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism |
| Date: | 23rd January 2013 |
| Time: | 6:00pm |
| Venue: | Macmillan Hall, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU |
| Free event open to all: | Please register your interest: rescue.eventbrite.co.uk |
A Small Town near Auschwitz – Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust
Mary Fulbrook in conversation with Jane Caplan
| Discussion: | Professor Mary Fulbrook, University College London and Professor Jane Caplan, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London |
| Date: | 12th December 2012 |
| Time: | 6:30pm — 8:00pm |
| Venue: | Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7JL |
| Free event open to all: | Register your interest smalltownnearauschwitz.eventbrite.com/ |
| Book: |
Mary Fulbrook, A Small Town near Auschwitz , Oxford University Press, September 2012 |
Does Your Rabbi Know You’re Here? The Story of English Football’s Forgotten Tribe
| Speaker: | Anthony Clavane, sports writer and author |
| Date: | 15th November 2012 |
| Time: | 6:30pm — 8:00pm |
| Venue: | University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, Woburn Suite |
| Free event open to all: | Register your interest footballforgottentribe.eventbrite.com |
| Book: |
Anthony Clavane, Does Your Rabbi Know You’re Here? The Story of English Football’s Forgotten Tribe, Quercus, October 2012 |
Constructing the Memory of the Nazi Persecutions in Post-War Western Europe
Seminar supported by Imperial War Museums, Royal Holloway, University of London and Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London
| Speakers: | Suzanne Bardgett; Dr Ludivine Broch; Professor David Cesarani; Dr Rebecca Clifford; Emily Fuggle; Professor Robert Gordon; Dr Toby Haggith; Dr Jeremy Hicks; Tina Kelly and Cavaliere Signor Gianfranco Moscati |
| Date: | 9th November 2012 |
| Time: | 10:00am — 3:30pm |
| Venue: | Imperial War Museum (Upper Boardroom), Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ |
| Ticket required: | To book a place please email: research@iwm.org.uk |
The Witness and the Holocaust - Oral Testimonies and Historical Knowledge
Making History: Archives, Artefacts and Interpreting the Past - lecture series in partnership with the Wiener Library
| Speaker: | Professor Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University, Berlin. |
| Date: | 24th October 2012 |
| Time: | 6:30pm — 8:00pm |
| Venue: | Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU |
| Free event open to all: | Register your interest witnessandholocaust.eventbrite.com |
Defining and Conceptualising Antisemitism
Institutions and the Law
| Speakers: | Jonathan Boyd, Institute for Jewish Policy Research; Sir Terence Etherton, Lord Justice of Appeal; Dr David Hirsh, Goldsmiths, University of London; Dr Paul Iganski, Lancaster University; Antony Lerman, Honorary Fellow, University of Southampton; and Dave Rich, Community Security Trust |
| Date: | 28th September 2012 |
| Time: | All Day |
| Venue: | Central London location |
| By invitation only: | Please e-mail Jan Davison for more information: j.davison@bbk.ac.uk |
Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism
The Institute of Psychoanalysis, supported by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex
| Speakers include: | Sally Alexander, David Armstrong, David Bell, Ronald Britton, José Brunner, Matt Ffytche, John Forrester, Stephen Frosh, Peter Mandler, Knuth Müller, Daniel Pick, Michael Roper, Michael Rustin, Michal Shapira, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Eli Zaretsky |
| Date: | Sep. 21 - 22, 2012 |
| Time: | All Day |
| Venue: | Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE |
| Ticket required: | £95 (£65 for students and unwaged). For more information please email: marjory.goodall@iopa.org.uk |
Norman Cohn: A Colloquium
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in collaboration with Yale University Press
| Speakers: | Sham Ambiavaga, Frank Chalk, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David Feldman, John Gray, William Lamont, Paul Lay, Dame Jinty Nelson, Sir Michael Pepper, Daniel Pick, Marina Voikhanskaya |
| Date: | 7th July 2012 |
| Time: | All Day |
| Venue: | Central London location |
| By invitation only : | For more information please e-mail robert.baldock@yaleup.co.uk |
Proust Among the Nations - from Dreyfus to the Middle East
In partnership with Birkbeck Institute of Humanities
| Round-table: | Professor Jacqueline Rose, Queen Mary, University of London; Professor Bryan Cheyette, University of Reading; Professor David Feldman, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London; and Dr Ingrid Wassenaar, author of ‘Proustian Passions’. Chair: Dr Anthony Bale, Birkbeck, University of London |
| Date: | 19th June 2012 |
| Time: | 6:30pm — 8:00pm |
| Venue: | Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX. Room 421, Torrington Square main entrance |
| Free event open to all: | Register your interest proustamongnations.eventbrite.com |
| Book: |
Jacqueline Rose, Proust Among the Nations, The University of Chicago Press, October 2011 |
Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Jewish Antisemitism and the Fate of Western Civilization
Inaugural lecture
| Speaker: | Professor Eric Kaufmann, Birkbeck, University of London |
| Date: | 13th June 2012 |
| Time: | 6:00pm — 7:30pm |
| Venue: | Birkbeck, University of London, Clore Lecture Theatre, Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7JL |
| Free event open to all: | To register please go to erickaufmann.eventbrite.com/ |
| Book: |
Wagner – Antisemitism in Music
Making History: Archives, Artefacts and Interpreting the Past - lecture series in partnership with the Wiener Library
| Speaker: | Paul Lawrence Rose, Mitrani Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of European History, The Pennsylvania State University |
| Date: | 22nd May 2012 |
| Time: | 6:30pm — 8:00pm |
| Venue: | Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX. Room B36, Torrington Square main entrance |
| Free event open to all: | To register please go to wagnerantisemitism.eventbrite.co.uk |
Homelands
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in partnership with Birkbeck School of Arts Arts Week 2012
| Speaker: | Professor George Steiner, Churchill College, Cambridge |
| Date: | 17th May 2012 |
| Time: | 6:00pm — 7:20pm |
| Venue: | Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX Room B34, Torrington Square main entrance |
| Free event open to all: | To register please go to georgesteinerhomelands.eventbrite.co.uk |
Finding Humanity in a World of Technology
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in partnership with the Anne Frank Trust
| Speaker: | Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE, University of Oxford |
| Date: | 1st May 2012 |
| Time: | 6:30pm — 7:45pm |
| Venue: | Kennedy Lecture Theatre, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH |
| Ticket required: | Tickets £15.00 available from: www.annefrank.org.uk |
Bringing the Dark to Light: Memory of the Holocaust in Post-Communist Europe
Seminar
| Speaker: | Dr Joanna Michlic, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University, Boston |
| Date: | 20th March 2012 |
| Time: | 5:00pm |
| Venue: | Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX Council Room, Torrington Square main entrance |
| Open to all: | Register your interest: http://bringingdarktolight.eventbrite.co.uk/ |
Muslims and Jews: Citizenship, Identity and Prejudice in Europe, the US and Israel - Workshop
| Speakers include: | Humayan Ansari, Royal Holloway, University of London; David Feldman, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London; Chris Flood, University of Surrey; Ben Gidley,University of Oxford; Keith Kahn-Harris, Birkbeck, University of London; David Hirsh, Goldsmiths, University of London; David Kaposi, University of East London; Maleiha Malik, Kings College London; Nasar Meer, Northumbria University |
| Date: | Feb. 23 - 24, 2012 |
| Time: | All Day |
| Venue: | Central London |
| By invitation only: | Please email j.davison@bbk.ac.uk to register your interest |
A Spiral of Silence? How Germans Talked About the Murder of the Jews During the Second World War
Making History: Archives, Artefacts and Interpreting the Past - lecture series in partnership with the Wiener Library
| Speaker: | Professor Nicholas Stargardt, University of Oxford |
| Date: | 15th February 2012 |
| Time: | 6:30pm — 8:00pm |
| Venue: | Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX. Room B33, Torrington Square main entrance |
| Free event open to all: | To register please go to: spiralofsilence.eventbrite.co.uk/ |
The Memoirs and Memory of Jan Karski
Holocaust Memorial Day event - Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in partnership with the Institute of Historical Research
| Round-table discussion: | Professor Michael Berkowitz, University College London; Professor Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University, Massachusetts; Professeur Annette Wieviorka, CNRS, Paris. Chair; Dr Ludivine Broch, University of Bristol |
| Date: | 1st February 2012 |
| Time: | 6:00pm — 7:45pm |
| Venue: | Beveridge Hall, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU |
| Free event open to all: | Register on-line at jankarski.eventbrite.co.uk/ |
| Book: |
Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State. My Report to the World, (first published 1944) Penguin Classics, 2011 |
Defending the Indefensible: Reflections on the Anglo-Jewish Reaction to Domestic Antisemitism, 1931 – 1940
Making History: Archives, Artefacts and Interpreting the Past - lecture series in partnership with the Wiener Library
| Speaker: | Professor Geoffrey Alderman, The University of Buckingham |
| Date: | 6th December 2011 |
| Time: | 6:30pm — 8:00pm |
| Venue: | The Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP |
| Free event open to all: | Register online at defendingtheindefensible.eventbrite.com |
After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence
Disciplining Antisemitism Series
| Round-table discussion: | Professor David Cesarani, Royal Holloway, University of London; Professor Mary Fulbrook, University College London; Dr Eva Hoffman, Kingston University |
| Date: | 7th November 2011 |
| Time: | 7:00pm — 8:30pm |
| Venue: | Birkbeck College, University of London, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX. Room 421, Torrington Square main entrance |
| Free event open to all: | Register online at aftertheholocaust.eventbrite.com |
| Book: |
David Cesarani and Eric J Sundquist (ed) , After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence, Routledge, September 2011 |
Fighting Together for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in partnership with the Jewish Museum and Wiener Library
| Round-table discussion: | Professor Tony Kushner, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton; Dr Nadia Valman, Queen Mary, University of London; David Rosenberg, teacher, writer and guide. |
| Date: | 10th October 2011 |
| Time: | 7:00pm |
| Venue: | Jewish Museum, Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert Street, London NW1 7NB |
| Free with museum entry. Adults £7.50, concessions £6.50: | Please email admin@jewishmuseum.org.uk to register your interest |
Antisemitism Workshop
| Co-chairs: | David Feldman, Director, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London; Scott Ury, Head, Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University |
| Date: | Sep. 19 - 20, 2011 |
| Time: | 9:30am — 5:30pm |
| Venue: | Council Room, Birkbeck College, University of London, Torrington Square main entrance, London WC1E 7HX |
| By invitation only: | Please email j.davison@bbk.ac.uk to register your interest |
The Politics of Demonization - Symposium
| Symposium: | Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, University of London; Robert Fine, University of Warwick; Jeremy Krikler, University of Essex; Keith McClelland, University College London; Colin Shindler, SOAS, University of London; Robert Singh, Birkbeck, University of London. |
| Date: | 21st June 2011 |
| Time: | 1:30pm — 6:30pm |
| Venue: | Council Room, Birkbeck College, University of London, Torrington Square main entrance, Bloomsbury, London WC1 |
| By invitation only: | Please email j.davison@bbk.ac.uk to register your interest |
The Killing Fields – Cambodia and Genocide
Genocide in Film – Occasional Series
| Hosted by: | Dr Ludivine Broch, Birkbeck, University of London |
| Date: | 10th June 2011 |
| Time: | 6:00pm — 8:00pm |
| Venue: | Room B20, Birkbeck College, University of London, Torrington Square main entrance, Bloomsbury, London WC1 |
| Free event open to all: | |
| Film: |
Bismarck, Antisemitism and the Tragedy of German Jewry
Making History: Archives, Artefacts and Interpreting the Past - Lecture Series in partnership with the Wiener Library
| Speaker: | Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History, University of Pennsylvania |
| Date: | 26th May 2011 |
| Time: | 6:00pm — 7:30pm |
| Venue: | Room B04, 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, London WC1 |
| Free event open to all: | Please email pearsinstitute@bbk.ac.uk to register your interest |
| Book: |
Ararat – The Armenian Genocide
Genocide in Film – Occasional Series
| Hosted by: | Dr Ludivine Broch, Birkbeck, University of London |
| Date: | 13th May 2011 |
| Time: | 6:00pm — 8:00pm |
| Venue: | Room B18, Birkbeck College, University of London, Torrington Square main entrance, Bloomsbury, London WC1 |
| Free event open to all: | |
| Film: |
Antisemitism and the Law
Disciplining Antisemitism Series
| Round-table discussion: | Professor Didi Herman, University of Kent; Professor Maleiha Malik, Kings College London; Dr David Seymour, University of Lancaster |
| Date: | 11th May 2011 |
| Time: | 6:30pm — 8:00pm |
| Venue: | Birkbeck, University of London, School of Arts Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H OPD |
| Free event open to all: | Please email pearsinstitute@bbk.ac.uk to register your interest |
| Book: |
Didi Herman, An Unfortunate Coincidence Jews, Jewishness, and English Law, Oxford University Press, January 2011 |
Subjectivity as a Site of Struggle: Experiences of Antisemitism in the Israeli Diaspora
Seminar hosted by Pears Institute and Institute for Social Research
| Speaker: | Professor Tim McNamara, The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Date: | 10th May 2011 |
| Time: | 5:00pm — 6:00pm |
| Venue: | Council Room, Birkbeck College, University of London, Torrington Square main entrance, Bloomsbury, London WC1 |
| Free event open to all: | Please email pearsinstitute@bbk.ac.uk to register your interest |
Interpreting Imaginary Jews
Disciplining Antisemitism Series
| Round-table discussion: | Dr Anthony Bale and Professor John Arnold, Birkbeck, University of London and Dr Nadia Valman, Queen Mary, University of London. |
| Date: | 17th February 2011 |
| Time: | 7:00pm — 8:30pm |
| Free event open to all: | |
| Book: |
Anthony Bale, Feeling Persecuted Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages, Reaktion, 2010 |
In Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Rudolf Hess & his Doctors 1941-1946
Making History: Archives, Artefacts and Interpreting the Past - Lecture Series
| Speaker: | Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, University of London |
| Date: | 16th February 2011 |
| Time: | 7:00pm — 8:30pm |
| Free event open to all: |
Survival, Memory and Testimony: Personal Perspectives on the Holocaust
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in association with the Institute of Historical Research
| Speakers: | Freddie Knoller, survivor of Auschwitz and Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Holocaust Historian, University of Manchester |
| Date: | 1st February 2011 |
| Time: | 6:00pm — 8:30pm |
| Free event open to all: |
The Idea of Toleration and its Fate in Modernity
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism in partnership with the Anne Frank Trust
| Speaker: | Simon Schama, University Professor of Art History and History, Columbia University |
| Date: | 25th January 2011 |
| Time: | 6:30pm — 7:45pm |
| Ticket Price £15.00: | www.annefrank.org.uk |
Equality, Race and the Jewish Problem
Inaugural lecture
| Speaker: | Professor David Feldman, Pears Institute Director |
| Date: | 10th November 2010 |
| Time: | 5:00pm — 6:00pm |
| Free event open to all: | Please email pearsinstitute@bbk.ac.uk to register your interest |