Parkes Institute seminar programme 2005 – 06

Tuesday 11 October - The Parkes Lecture
Professor Greg Walker
(University of Leicester)
And Here is Your Host! Jews and Others in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament

Tuesday 25 October
John Rose
(Author of Myths of Zionism)
Middle Eastern Voices over the Millenia: a non-Zionist Perspective

Tuesday 8 November
Dr Mark Levene
(Director of the Parkes Institute)
The Work of the Parkes Institute
(N.B. this will be held in the Hartley Library Conference Room)

Tuesday 29 November
Ven. Dr Michael Ipgrave
(Secretary of the Churches' Commission for Interfaith Relations and Archdeacon of Southwark)
Building a Bridge Between Islam and Christianity

Tuesday 13 December
Dr Harry Hagopian
(Coordinator, Holy Land Ecumenical Foundation)
Multi-Faith Dialogue and the Middle East

Tuesday 31 January
Rev. Canon Dr David Marshall
(Ridley Hall, Cambridge)
Heavenly Religion or Unbelief: Muslim Perspectives on Christianity

Tuesday 14 February - In association with English
Professor James Shapiro
(Columbia University N.Y.)
The Jew's Daughter
Lecture Theatre B Avenue Campus

Monday 20 February (this is a postgraduate student seminar)
Professor Derek Penslar
(Zacks Professor of History, Director, Jewish Studies Programme, University of Toronto)
Is Israel a Colonial State?

Tuesday 21 February - The Montefiore Lecture
Mehri Niknam MBE
(Maimonides Foundation)
Jewish/Muslim Relations in the Medieval Period
Lecture Theatre C Avenue Campus

Monday 27 February
Haim Chertok (Ben Gurion University) and Colin Richmond (Emeritus professor, History, University of Keele)
A Celebration of the Life of James Parkes
Both speakers have recently published biographies of Parkes
Lecture Theatre B Avenue Campus

Tuesday 7 March - The Karten Lecture
Dr Raphael Gross
(Leo Baeck Institute)
Nazism and Moral Feelings
Lecture Theatre C Avenue Campus

Thursday 9 March jointly with WUN

Professor Michael Rothberg (Department of English University of Illinois, Urnbana Champaign)
Between Auchwitz and Algeria: Multidirectional Memory and the Counterpublic Witness
Via Live Video Link!
3.50 - 5.3- pm Nuffield Lecture Theatre A.
Everyone welcome

Tuesday 21 March
Dr William Kenefick
(University of Dundee)
An Examination of Oral Testimonies of the Immigrant Experience in Glasgow
Room 1177 Avenue Campus

Please note: unless otherwise stated, all seminars will be held at 5.30pm in Avenue Campus, room 1163

All welcome :: All venues are fully accessible

For more information, please contact Frances Clarke, Tel. 023 8059 4795, Email fmc@soton.ac.uk