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Southampton Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day
31 January 2009:
'Stand Up to Hatred'
Lecture Theatre, Sir James Matthews Building, Above Bar,
Solent University
6.00 - 6.05 Welcome, Revd. Andy Marshall (Senior Chaplain, Southampton Solent University)
6.05 - 6.30 ‘Sounds of Resistance: Music from the Holocaust, Apartheid and Segregation’
Dr Shirli Gilbert (University of Southampton)
6.30 - 6.40 Extract from Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985), introduced by Dr Aimée Bunting
6.40 - 6.55 ‘Stand Up to Hatred’: Readings from refugee activists and contemporary anti-racists (Oasis Academy Lords Hill)
6.55 - 7.00 Reflection and conclusion
Maggie and the Rabbi; Thatcherism and Judaism, 1976-1990.
Tuesday 11 November 2008 - Dr Cliff Williamson (Bath Spa University)
6pm - King Alfred Campus, University of Winchester.
For more details contact Dr Tom Lawson, Lecturer in Modern History, History Department, University of Winchester
Tel: (01962) 827186
Email: Tom.Lawson@winchester.ac.uk
Conference: 'The Sacred and the Secular'
September 19-21 2008
Hosted by the School of Humanities (English), University of Southampton, UK
For further information visit the conference website
Conference: Points of Passage: Jewish Transmigrants from Eastern Europe in Germany, Britain, Scandinavia and other Countries 1860-1929
September 13th to 15th: Dr Tobias Brinkmann jointly organising a conference at the University of Hamburg.
Conveners:
- Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Institut für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden, Hamburg
- Jochen Oltmer, Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS), Universität Osnabrück
- Christhard Hoffmann, Historisk Institutt, Universitetet i Bergen
- Tobias Brinkmann, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton
The conference will take place from 13th -15th September 2008 at the University of Hamburg. For further information contact Tobias Brinkmann (Email tb4 [at] soton.ac.uk)
Fifth Annual Conference of the International Research Center on Russian and East European Jewry
Dr Natan Meir with Professor Alexander Lokshin of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences at the fifth annual conference of the International Research Center on Russian and East European Jewry on the theme of 'The Jewish Press in Russia', held in Moscow in December 2007. Natan's paper, entitled 'On the Margins? Marginal Jews in the Jewish Press of the Russian Empire', will be published later in 2008 as part of a collection of papers from the conference. Read an extract here.
Previous External Events
The following links provide information on conferences in related fields that were held at external institutions. If you would like to post information on a conference that you are organising please email us.
1) Memory & displacement: a seminar on W.G. Sebald (London - 17 June 2005)
2) BAJS Annual Conference (Birmingham - 11-13 July 2005)
Memory & displacement: a seminar on W.G. Sebald
17 June 2005
Ben Barkow, Director, and Katherine Klinger, Education & Outreach Officer, invite you to the following seminar. Please note that the number of places available is strictly limited; please reserve your place as soon as possible.
For further information, please contact:
info@wienerlibrary.co.uk
The Wiener Library
Goldsmiths College, University of London
A one day seminar aimed at focusing on issues of memory and displacement suggested through the writings of W.G. Sebald.
How do we think about the connections between memory, writing and place, and what can we learn from Sebald's writings about the cultural memories of post-war Germany? Did he need to be dis/placed in order to engage in his memory writings? In what sense is he writing auto/biography through the historical narratives he shapes, and what is the significance of writing through post-war Jewish memories to illuminate post-war silences in Germany?
Why does Sebald need to write about his German non-Jewish past through the eyes of Jewish emigrants and people like Austerlitz, who painfully recover connections with a broken past? These are some of the questions we wish to consider through the presentation of a range of papers during an intensive, one day seminar.
Programme
9.30 - 10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.00 - 10.10 Introduction, Katherine Klinger, Wiener Library
10.10 - 11.30 Memories / Objects
Mona Korte, Technische University Berlin:
'Un petit sac.' Objects as reports of loss within the works of WG Sebald
Vic Seidler, Goldsmiths College:
The Holocaust in Sebald's work
11.30 - 11.50 Coffee
11.50 - 1.10 Images
Richard Crownshaw, Manchester Metropolitan University:
Foreshadowing the Holocaust: WG Sebald's Austerlitz and Theories of Memory and Photography
Christopher Gregory-Guider, University of Sussex:
WG Sebald's Memorial Sights/Sites
1.10 - 2.30 Lunch
2.30 - 3.50 Journies
Philip Schlesinger, University of Stirling:
Exiles and Ethnographers
Howard Caygill, Goldsmiths College:
Sebald and the problem of orientation
3.50-4.00 Conclusion
Speakers:
Howard Caygill is Professor of Cultural History in the Department of History at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Richard Crownshaw is a lecturer in the Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Chris Gregory-Guider teaches Modernist literature at the University of Sussex, where he is nearing completion of his thesis on the use of the peripatetic as a memorialisation strategy.
Mona Koerte is Assistant Professor at the Technische University of Berlin.
Philip Schlesinger is Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland, where he is also Director of Stirling Media Research Institute.
Victor Jeleniewski Seidler is Professor of Social Theory in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Venue:
The Wiener Library,
4 Devonshire Street,
London W1W 5BH
t + 44 (0) 7636 7247
f + 44 20 7436 6428
e info@wienerlibrary.co.uk
www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
Cost:
£7.50/£5 concs. to include sandwich lunch and refreshments.
Please register for places as numbers are limited.
To book:
To book a place at the W.G. Sebald seminar send a cheque for the appropriate amount made out to "The Wiener Library Ltd", and addressed to:
The Administrator
Sebald Seminar
The Wiener Library
4 Devonshire St
London W1W 5BH
When booking, please provide us with your surface mail address for our records as to who is attending and for the despatch of any materials relating to the seminar.
Please contact info@wienerlibrary.co.uk if you require further information.
Birmingham (11-13 July 2005)
The Association's summer conference will be held at Woodbrooke College, Birmingham (www.woodbrooke.org.uk), beginning with lunch on Monday 11 July and ending with lunch on Wednesday 13 July 2005. The title of the conference is 'Women in the Jewish World: Myth and Reality, Yesterday and Today'.
The aim is to approach the subject from a variety of perspectives (e.g. cultural, historical, theological) and to include material from all periods (ancient, medieval and modern) so that the conference will provide a forum for debate between people with different specialist interests in this topic. Theoretical contributions are also welcome, for example, how unified a vision can one have of the subject of women in the Jewish world? Is it in fact essential in a scholarly approach to insist on a gendered view of Jewish society?
Members of the Association are invited to submit proposals of papers relating to any aspect of the conference theme. We would particularly like to encourage research students to submit proposals. Presentations will be allocated a slot of 30 minutes (a paper of 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Titles of proposed papers, a 250 word synopsis of the contents and a brief CV (a paragraph will suffice) should be mailed to:
BAJS Conference Abstracts,
Department of Theology,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham B15 2TT
or emailed to I.L.Wollaston@bham.ac.uk by 31 March 2005.
Those who would like to attend the conference should complete a registration form as soon as possible (you can download and print off the forms in PDF or WORD format). Some bursaries will be available to help towards the cost of the conference. Registration forms will be available on the BAJS website, or can be obtained by contacting the conference convenor (I.L.Wollaston@bham.ac.uk). Isabel Wollaston, President for 2005
Simon-Dubnow-Institute colloquium: "Jewish Diplomacy, Minority Rights and Human Rights - The Exertion of Jewish Influence and the Formation of International Law 1919-1948"
The summer semester's Simon-Dubnow-Institute colloquium will stand under the headline "Jewish Diplomacy, Minority Rights and Human Rights - The Exertion of Jewish Influence and the Formation of International Law 1919-1948." The colloquium is aimed primarily at postgraduate students, and the Institute would be very keen to hear from doctoral students who wish to promote their work in this new and exciting area. In order to broaden the horizon we are not limiting the themes to purely Jewish aspects.
The colloquium is supposed to take part on Thursdays during the next semester. Of course we would take care of the costs for travel and shelter.
For further information, contact:
Philipp Graf, M.A.
Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur
an der Universität Leipzig
Goldschmidtstraße 28
04103 Leipzig
Tel.: 0341-217 35 50
Mail: graf@dubnow.de