The Karten Lecture | Legal actors and the making of Jewish internationalism Event

Time:: 6pm (GMT)
Date:: 2026-02-10 18:00:00
Venue:: Avenue Campus and online via Zoom

Event details

The Parkes Institute is pleased to present the 2026 Karten Lecture.

This lecture explores nineteenth-century Jewish internationalism through the role of legal actors, focusing on Adolphe Crémieux. It shows how lawyers’ expertise, mobility, and networks enabled them to advocate for Jewish rights on the international stage. Courtrooms, legal texts, and the press became arenas for political action, while legal knowledge underpinned campaigns for emancipation and reform. By tracing Crémieux’s career, the lecture highlights how law, empire, and international activism intersected, revealing the legal foundations of international Jewish advocacy.

Speaker profile

Noëmie Duhaut is a lecturer in Modern European Jewish History at the University of Southampton and a member of the Parkes Institute. She specialises in the history of modern Jewish politics. You can find out more via her University profile .