News feedsParkes Institute seminar programme 2009 – 2010
2009
Tuesday October 13th
(Jointly with Music and Transnational Studies)
Professor Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago)
Music and Migration in the context of Jewish history
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre A, Avenue Campus
Tuesday October 20th
The Parkes Lecture,
Ronald Harwood CBE FRSL
Playing History: 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, and reflect on why being a Jew has propelled him into playing history.
6.00 pm Nightingale Building, Highfield, University of Southampton.
Monday October 26th
Parkes Institute one day conference
Towards Jewish Maritime Studies speakers including Rebecca Wolpe (Jerusalem) and Naor Ben Yehoyada (Harvard)
Conference Room, National Oceanography Centre
(to book a place email fmc@soton.ac.uk )
Tuesday November 3rd
Professor Clare Ungerson (Emeritus Professor University of Southampton)
The rescue of Jews by Anglo-Jewish philanthropy: the case of the Kitchener Camp
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus
Monday November 9th
History Research Seminar
Dr Karen Auerbach (Southampton University)
"The Entire Nation Builds its Capital": Post-War Reconstruction of Warsaw and the Jewsih Families of 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue
6.00 pm Room 2115, Avenue Campus
Wednesday November 18th
(English/Film/Parkes special event)
Professor Lester Friedman (New York University) cancelled
A special Screening of the film: His People (Edward Sloman, Universal Pictures, US 1925), followed by a discussion on this film with Lester in light of his work on Jews and cinema. Lester calls this “a wonderful film about Jewish life among immigrants”
We regret that due to urgent family matters Lester Friedman has had to cancel his visit. We will be re-scheduling this event at a later date
Tuesday 24th November
History Research Seminar
Dr Francois Soyer (Southampton University)
Demonic Bodies and Dishonest Acts: Sexuality, Gender and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Iberian World
6.00 pm Room 2115, Avenue Campus
Tuesday December 1st
Dr Devorah Baum (University of Southampton)
Jewish Guilt
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
2010
Tuesday January 19th
The Annual BAJS Lecture
Professor Joachim Schlör (Southampton UNiversity)
Modern Photography in Tel Aviv
6.00 pm Nuffield Theatre Lecture Room C (room 1083) Highfield Campus
Tuesday February 9th
Dr Anna Akasoy (Oxford University)
Between Galut and Hijra. Experiences of Exile among Andalusian Jews and Muslims
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C Avenue Campus
Tuesday March 2nd
Professor Dan Stone (Royal Holloway)
The Historiography of Holocaust Perpetrators
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C Avenue Campus
Tuesday April 27th
Dr Cathy Gelbin (Manchester University)
Jewish Culture in the Age of Globalization
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
Thursday May 13th The Montefiore Lecture
Baroness Neuberger
(photo - derek Tamea)
title tbc
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre A, Avenue Campus
Tuesday May 25th
Dr James Jordan (Southampton University)
The Holocaust and Post-war British Television 1946-1955
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C Avenue Campus
Other events of possible interest:
Monday 26th October
(Law department seminar)
Professor Marc Ellis (Baylor University)
On the Progressives, the Prophetic and the Question of Israel and Palestine: reflections on Law and Ethics in Contemporary Jewish Thinking
Lecture Theatre F, Nuffield Theatre Foyer, Highfield, University of Southampton
Thursday 29 October 2009
(Part of the Film Talk series at the Wiener Library)
Prof Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton)
Exile Actors in Hollywood during World War II: An Introduction
The lecture aims to place migration patterns of Jewish exiles to Hollywood within wider industrial and political contexts, and analyse some distinctive career trajectories, such as those of Felix Bressart and Curt Bois. Film examples to be drawn on include Casablanca (1942) and To Be or Not to Be (1942).
7.00 pm Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London W1W 5BH
Tim Bergfelder is Head of Film Studies at the University of Southampton. His most recent books are The Concise CineGraph (co-edited with Hans-Michael Bock, 2009), Destination London. German-speaking Emigrés and British Cinema 1925-50 (co-edited with Christian Cargnelli, 2008), Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination (co-authored with Sue Harris and Sarah Street, 2007), and International Adventures. Popular German Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s (2005).
Contact: Frances Clarke, The Parkes Institute, University of Southampton
Tel: 023 8059 2261
Email: fmc@soton.ac.uk
(please note that where possible we will make every effort to ensure that late changes to the above arrangements will appear on our website at www.parkes.soton.ac.uk)