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26 October 2009
Towards Jewish Maritime Studies
A Parkes one day conference on October 26th 2009. Speakers include Rebecca Wolpe (Jerusalem) and Naor Ben Yehoyada (Harvard).
Deadline: May 08
Call for papers: Jewish Migration and the Family
Jewish Migration and the Family, Cape Town, 5 – 7 January 2009. Please send proposals of 250 words by 31 May 2008.
Deadline: July 08
Win £200: Important news for students
Two prizes of £200 are awarded annually for the best Postgraduate and the best Undergraduate essays on the theme of the year's BAJS conference. The theme of this year's conference is: 'Normative Judaism'.
26 February 2008
Phenomenology of Music in the Concentration Camps
Parkes talk in conjunction with Music
5 February 2008
Tricks of Memory: Auschwitz, Palestinian Terrorism and Moral Philosophy
An event organised jointly between Parkes and the Philosophy department.
26 January 2008
Southampton’s Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day 2008: ‘Remember, Reflect, React’
Holocaust Memorial Day is a national event dedicated to the remembrance of victims who perished as a result of the genocide of the Second World War. The chosen date is the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
9 October 2007
Sir Arnold Wesker: Parkes Lecture
Sir Arnold Wesker giving the Parkes Lecture in the Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton October 9th 2007
March 2007
Prelude to the Holocaust?
Prelude to the Holocaust?: The Mass Dynamics of Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern and East-Central Europe
January 2007
Jewish Journeys
Jewish Journeys: International conference organised by the Isaac and Jesse Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town, and the Parkes Institute, University of Southampton.
December 2006
Journeys Through the Holocaust
Journeys Through the Holocaust: a one day symposium organised by the University of Southampton.
May 2005
Ethnicity and Religion
Ethnicity and Religion: A Colloquium of the Classics Department, University of Reading and the AHRC Parkes Centre’s Greek Bible project.
January 2005
Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory
Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory – Zakor v’Makor: An international and interdisciplinary conference organised and hosted by Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research University of Cape Town, in association with the AHRC Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/ non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton
January 2004
Children of the Holocaust
Children of the Holocaust: A one-day conference bringing together (art)historians and literature scholars working on various aspects of Children of the Holocaust to celebrate the first-ever showing in Britain of the pictorial autobiography of the Buchenwald-survivor Thomas Gev.
1996 - 2005
More past Parkes Conferences
Further details of past conferences by the Parkes Institute