Jacques Bigart à son bureau de l'Alliance Israélite Universelle
Si vous êtes de passage à Muttersholtz dimanche (improbable mais on ne sait jamais), j'y parlerai de l'Alliance Israélite Universelle et de son secrétaire Jacques Bigart!
www.selestat-haut-koenigsbourg.com/fiche-sit/co...
Can I invite you to an evening of "Grief. Fame. Jewishness. Cats. Erotic poetry."?
This was such a good tour! Lots of laughs and a nice way to say goodbye to our visiting fellow, Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum.
Are you interested in applying for our MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage?
We're running a webinar in April to share information about the course, scholarships, and to answer your questions.
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
and it was all amazing!
Our Spring 2026 newsletter is now available!
Inside: new publications, EHRI-UK updates, an interview with @samsamev.bsky.social, student and alumni highlights, public engagement activity, and upcoming events.
Explore the full edition at sway.cloud.microsoft/XByIbTAWL14L...
Abstract picture reading "The Karten Lecture 2026, Legal actors and the making of Jewish internationalism, Noëmie Duhaut, Tuesday 10 February, 6 pm, Avenue Campus and online", with the logos of the University of Southampton and the Parkes Institute
Please join us for a talk with Noëmie Duhaut @duhaut.bsky.social for the Annual Karten Lecture
🗓️ Tuesday 10 February, 6:00 pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus & Online
🔗www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-actors-and-the-m...
C'est attristant et insupportable. Courage et soutien!
What better way to start 2026 than talking to sixth form students about the Dreyfus affair, antisemitism and conspiracy theories?
Ben @bengidley.bsky.social and I have put together this open letter urging Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to rehire Melanie Goldberg. We are proud to have a number of eminent scholars of Holocaust and Jewish studies in the UK as the primary signatories.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Letter now republished by #LeftRenewal leftrenewal.org/statements-e... and @ukfost.bsky.social ukfost.co.uk/holocaust-st...
Cc @edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social @duhaut.bsky.social @evafrojmovic0.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social @clairelefoll.bsky.social @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social
Post text: Interested in starting a PhD at the Parkes Institute in 2026-27? Join a hybrid panel and Q&A session on Wednesday 3 December, 16.00-17.30 (Avenue Campus and Teams). A panel of PhD students and staff will share advice and answer all your questions on the application process, available funding, the joys and challenges of doing a PhD, and things to consider when applying. To receive the link/detail, contact Claire Le Foll c.le-foll@soton.ac.uk. Logo of the Parkes Institute at the bottom of the picture.
📣CfA for a PhD position on Jewish Literary Legacies of Colonialism after Decolonisation, as part of "Ambivalent Pasts: On Jewish Colonial Experiences," a new joint research project of the Institute for Jewish History and Culture, the Institute for European History and the Centre Marc Bloch
📰 The latest Parkes newsletter is out now!
Catch up on new research, publications, events, PGR and alumni updates, plus an interview with @duhaut.bsky.social and highlights from our MA trip to Poland.
Packing an important loyalty card
🚨 One week left to apply to our Visiting Fellow programme!
Don't miss this opportunity to join us in Southampton for up to two months between October 2025 & May 2026.
Deadline: Thursday, 10 July 2025
www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...
🚨 Two weeks left to apply to our Visiting Fellow programme!
Don't miss this opportunity to join us in Southampton for up to two months between October 2025 & May 2026.
Deadline: Thursday 10 July 2025
www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...
Author Noëmie Duhaut holding her copy of the book Jewish Ideas of France
Table of contents of Jewish Ideas of France
First page of Noëmie Duhaut's chapter "Les angles morts de l'universalisme: Whiteness and Jewishness in Adolphe Crémieux's Legal Writings"
🚨Now out🚨
Very happy to have contributed a chapter to Nick Underwood and Meredith Scott's book and to be in such good company!
www.routledge.com/Jewish-Ideas...
Call for applications for the Parkes Institute Visiting Fellowship for the 2025/26 academic year
🚨Applications are now open for our Visiting Fellow programme🚨
Don't miss this opportunity to join us in Southampton for up to two months between October 2025 & May 2026!
Deadline: Thursday 10 July 2025
www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...
Interested in getting more involved in #JewishStudies in the UK and beyond? We'd be delighted to welcome you to our team. As an NGG committee member, you'll get to shape our programmes and connect early career scholars with more senior ones. @jewishhistorical.bsky.social
Dr Noemi Duhaut @duhaut.bsky.social from the @unisouthampton.bsky.social has just opened the second panel of our NGG conference, which will explore the notion of memory in Jewish sports history, the history of the Bradford Jewish community and Jewish scribal manuals.
What would you do without historians 😁?
We were pleased to support Jewish Dis/Connections at the University of Warsaw in April 2025
In "Unpacking Jewish Dis/Connections: A Mediterranean Journey of Memory, Identity, and Mobility" co-organiser Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (@rug.nl) reflects upon the event
pastandpresent.org.uk/unpacking-je...
In case you haven't heard enough about popes this week... I'll be talking about the Mortara affair!
Third day of the workshop is about to start and it’s already been such a rich, rewarding experience. Brilliant conversations, generous minds and more to come! #ModernMediterranean @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social #EAJS @ncn.gov.pl @unigroningen.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social #UniversityofWarsaw
Second day of the workshop kicking off: ready for rich discussions, sharp insights, and good coffee. Let’s go! #modermediterranean #EAJS @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @ncn.gov.pl @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social #UniversityofWarsaw
Our workshop Jewish Dis/Connections across and beyond the Modern Mediterranean just kicked off at the University of Warsaw!
We opened with a brilliant keynote by Matthias B. Lehmann: deeply thought-provoking. What a way to start! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social #EAJS
Our workshop Jewish Dis/Connections across and beyond the Modern Mediterranean starts tomorrow at University of Warsaw!
Huge thanks to our supporters: EAJS, @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social, @ncn.gov.pl, NWO, @parkesinstitute.bsky.social, @unigroningen.bsky.social, Polin
Join us for the public keynote!
