The Parkes Institute is an international hub that attracts experts with a world-renowned reputation and has global reach thanks to the connections its members have around the world.
We have strong research partnerships across the world, including particularly in Australia, Austria, Belarus, Ethiopia, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, South Africa, and the United States.
The Institute regularly hosts and organizes international workshops and conferences.
We have also developed long-standing and fruitful collaboration with a number of high-class institutions, including an ambitious tripartite arrangement with Cape Town and Sydney, which has developed research strands across three continents.
Center ‘Petersburg Judaica' at the European University, St Petersburg
- Successful Memorandum of Understanding
- Contact in Parkes: Dr Claire Le Foll
- Conferences and events:
‘Shades of Jewish Soviet Life’, Southampton, 2016.
‘Heritage and its Communities’, Southampton, 2016.
Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney
- Successful Memorandum of Understanding
- Contact in Parkes: Dr James Jordan.
- Events and conferences co-organised with the DHBJS:
‘The Holocaust and Legacies of Race in the Postcolonial World, 1945 to the present’, Sydney, 2012.
‘The Future of Holocaust Studies’, Southampton and Winchester, 2013.
Jews, Colonialism and Postcolonialism’, Cape Town, 2013.
‘The Holocaust, Race, and Racism in the Postcolonial World’, London, 2014.
‘Old World, New World: Jews in Transition’, Cape Town, 2015.
‘Jews in Racialized Spaces’, Cape Town, 2017.
Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, The University of Cape Town
- Successful Memorandum of Understanding
- Contact in Parkes: Professor Tony Kushner
- Conferences co-organised with the Kaplan Centre and held in Cape Town :
‘Port Jews and Jewish Communities in Cosmopolitan Maritime Trading Centres’ (2003)
‘Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory’ (2005)
‘Jewish Journeys’ (2007)
‘Jewish Migration and the Family’ (2009)
‘The Archive and Jewish Migration: from Antiquity to Present’ (2011)
‘Jews, Colonialism and Postcolonialism’ (2013)
‘Old World, New World: Jews in Transition’ (2015)
‘Jews in Racialized Spaces’ (2017)
Zentrum für Jüdische Kulturgeschichte, University of Salzburg
- Successful Memorandum of Understanding
- Contact in Parkes: Professor Andrea Reiter
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With our international cooperations – The Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town, the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney, or the Jewish University in St. Petersburg – the Parkes Institute contributes to the development of an international network in Jewish Studies.