More past Parkes Conferences

The Parkes Institute has hosted many successful conferences, including a two-day conference on Disraeli in 1995, a one-day event on 'The Ethnic Question in the Census' in 1998 and a conference on Medieval Jewry in 2000. The Parkes Institute places a great emphasis on dissemination of research and the proceedings of many events have been subsequently published.

'Jews, Empire and Race'
International Conference: 27-29 July 2005

Port Jews Cape Town, 2003, a conference organised by the AHRC Parkes Centre and the Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town.

British Association of Jewish Studies Conference, organised by the Parkes Institute (under Professor Tony Kushner's Presidency) with BAJS, July 2002.

Amy Levy: A Colloquium 3-4 July 2002 - organised by the AHRC Parkes Centre this conference is a part of the 'Jews and Literary Representation' project led by Dr Nadia Valman.

After Eichmann: Collective Memory and the Holocaust Since 1961, organised by the AHRC Parkes Centre, Tel Aviv University and the Imperial War Museum, London, April 2002.

Port Jews, two-day symposium, 28/29 June 2001, organised by the AHRC Parkes Centre.

Multi-Ethnic Britain and the Memories of Genocide, A one-day symposium, 21 June 2001, organised by the AHRC Parkes Centre with the help of the Home Office.

Jews in Medieval England, one-day conference, 19 December 2000 (postponed from 19 November), published as special issue of the journal Jewish Culture and History (Frank Cass, 2001, forthcoming)

Bystanders to the Holocaust, a conference organised by the AHRC Parkes Centre in cooperation with Uppsala University, Sweden and the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, which was published as a special issue of the Journal of Holocaust Education (Frank Cass, Autumn/Winter 2000)

The Memory of Catastrophe, three-day conference, organised by the History discipline with the cooperation of the Parkes Centre, April 2000

The Image of the Jew in Europe, 1789-1914, a two-day symposium organised by the Parkes Centre with English, University of Southampton, 12/13 January 2000, to be published as a collection of essay edited by Bryan Cheyette and Nadia Valman (forthcoming)

Jewish Local Patriotism in the Graeco-Roman Period, a one-day conference, organised by the Parkes Centre, that produced a volume of essays by the same title published by Sheffield Academic Press (1998).

Righteous Gentiles: Christians and the Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, organised with the Wiener Library in association with the Parkes Centre, January 1998.

The Ethnic Question in the Census, a one day symposium organised by the Parkes Centre and the Wiener Library, July 1997, published as a special issue of the journal Patterns of Prejudice in 1998.

Tolerance and Intolerance, Parkes Centre international centenary conference, 1996.