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01 December 2010
Forgotten letters give new insights on Jewish migration
A chance discovery of forgotten letters in a garage in South Africa has led to a fascinating research project for historian Dr Shirli Gilbert.
26 January 2010
Finalist in National Jewish Book Award
The Jewish Book Council has announced that out of its many submissions: "Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory: Zakor V'makor" by David Cesarani, Tony Kushner, Milton Shain, eds., has been selected as a finalist in the annual National Jewish Book Award in the category of Anthologies and Collections.
30 January 2010
Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day
The Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day will take place on the 30th of January 2010.
12 April 2010
Montefiore Lecture 2010. Baroness Neuberger DBE
The 2010 Montefiore Lecture will be given by Baroness Neuberger DBE. 'Dying Well and Grieving Well'. Thursday 13th May, 2010.
21 December 2009
Watch this video: The fabric of my being - Simcha Jacobovici at the Parkes Institute
Emmy award winning documentary filmmaker, Simcha Jacobovici was filmed when he visited the Parkes Institute.
30 Jun'10 updated
Conference of the British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS)
The theme of this year’s BAJS Conference is: ‘The Image and the Prohibition of the Image in Judaism’.
20 October 2009
Playing History: Ronald Harwood CBE FRSL
The eminent Bafta and Oscar-winning author, playwright and screenwriter will examine the validity of historical plays and films, particularly those dealing with events leading up to World War 2 and the Holocaust.
14 August 2009
Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War
An international two-day symposium is to be held at the University of Southampton on 21 and 22 March 2010 focusing on the various governments-in-exile established in Britain during the war.
22 January 2009
Brazilian Novelist visits Southampton
Novelist Adriana Armony from the Centre for Jewish Studies, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, visits Southampton.
15 January 2009
Book launch for Southampton university history lecturer at the Wiener Library
Dr Neil Gregor, Reader in Modern German History in the School of Humanities, introduced his new book, Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past after 1945 (Yale University Press, 2008) at a packed book launch held at the Wiener Library in London.
19 August 2010
The Archive and Jewish Migration: from Antiquity to the Present
Conference and Call for papers. International Conference organised by the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town, and the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton.
21 June 2011
Parkes Institute 2012 Conference: Call for Papers
Call for papers: Sydney Conference 2012
21 June 2011
Ian Karten MBE, born Vienna December 14 1920, died Ripley 8 May 2011
Ian Karten, an obituary
2008
The Moss Prize 2008
The winners of the 2008 Moss Prizes received their awards at a presentation given just before the Annual Parkes Lecture.
27 November 2008
The Virtual Magic Bowl Archive –an Exciting new research tool from the Parkes Institute
The Virtual Magic Bowl Archive is the creation of Dr Dan Levene and has been made possible courtesy of the University of Southampton's EdShare project
31 July 2008
Parkes Institute to host the Annual BAJS Conference in 2010
The British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) holds its annual conference at a different university every year and in 2010 Southampton has been chosen to host this prestigious event.
01 July 2008
Whatever Happened To British Jewish Studies?
Whatever Happened To British Jewish Studies?
January 2008
NEW for all undergraduate students in Humanities: JHC Pathways
An exciting new way to enable Humanities students to broaden their studies to include aspects of Jewish History and Culture as part of their degrees.
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'.
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.
2007
New publication: Sarah Pearce
Sarah Pearce, from the Parkes Institute, has a new publication entitled 'The Land of the Body: Studies in Philo's Representation of Egypt'
November 2007
New Publication: Dan Levene
Dan Levene, from the Parkes Institute, has a new publication entitled 'A Metallurgical Gemara: Metals in the Jewish Sources'
June 2007
The Moss Prize 2007
The Parkes Institute is delighted to announce an exciting development through an endowment made by the Moss family in memory of Stephen Moss and his mother Daphne Moss.
June 2007
Israel Boycott
Teaching members of the Parkes Institute regret the decision of the UCU to promote an academic boycott of Israeli universities.
July 2006
Honorary doctorate 2006-07
Ben Helfgott receives the honorary degree of Doctor of the University
2005
Dan Levene in Israel
Dan Levene was invited to be one of a small group of hand picked scholars who would be guests of The Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . The main objective of the Institute for Advanced Studies is to serve as a catalyst for outstanding scholarly work in a wide variety of fields such as Jewish studies, history, philosophy, Islamic studies, literature, life sciences, mathematics, and physics. The project of the group that he was a part of was entitled: ‘Occult Powers and Officiants in Near Eastern Cultures'.
2005
AHRC Holocaust and its Legacy Project
This research project will explore and explain key issues in the historiography and representations of the Holocaust, the emergence of the Holocaust as a cultural subject post-1945, and the eruption of Holocaust-era issues into politics since the 1980s.
July 2005
AHRC “Race”, Ethnicity, Identity and Memory in Twentieth-Century Britain Project
The project will analyse the experience and representation of Jews in the 20th century in comparison with other ethnic minorities in British society.
2002
AHRC Jews and Literary Representation in Britain Project
The aim of this project is to focus on the discursive construction of Jewish identity in cultural texts by Jewish and non-Jewish writers in order to establish the particular historical contexts in which representations of Jews were produced. This interdisciplinary approach will analyse the ways a number of widespread and shifting political, social and cultural anxieties or aspirations were focused around the figure of the 'Jew', and it will account for the complex and dynamic nature of 'semitic discourse' in modern Britain.
2001
AHRC Port Jews Project
The project aims to evaluate the relations between Jews and non-Jews in port cities where Jews settled between 1650 and 1914.
October 2001
AHRC Greek Bible Project
This project will provide a re-evaluation of the Greek Bible as a source for Jews' interpretation of the political, social and intellectual culture of their hellenistic world (defined as continuing into the period of the early Roman Empire).
October 2000
The AHRC Parkes Centre
We are delighted to announce the establishment of the AHRC Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/ non-Jewish Relations, a new research centre within the existing Parkes Centre structure.