@parkesinstitute.bsky.social
We research, teach and raise awareness of relations between Jews and non-Jews, from antiquity to the present day. Based at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
@parkesinstitute.bsky.socialOur 2024–25 Annual Review is now available.
Read about recent activities of the Parkes Institute, from research & partnerships to public engagement, events & activities across our community.
Cover Image: David Hochhauser, ‘Flight’, linocut on paper (2024).
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social🎥 Now online: in April, @samsamev.bsky.social joined Karima Dirèche, Cléo Cohen, Zoé Cottin (@pressepapiers.bsky.social) and @yorammelloul.bsky.social for a roundtable on Jews and Muslims in postcolonial Marseille.
▶️ Watch (in French with English subtitles): www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkuS...
@parkesinstitute.bsky.socialParkes PGR @toby-kunin.bsky.social, supervised by Tony Kushner, Sami Everett and Noëmie Duhaut, speaks at @gsrl.bsky.social on the emergence of an international Romani politics in post-Shoah France 🗓 14 Oct, 3pm CEST/2pm BST 📍 Campus Condorcet & Zoom 💻 Zoom link: [email protected]
@parkesinstitute.bsky.socialPatterns of Prejudice (@pop-jrnl.bsky.social), one of our three journals, turns 60 this year!
The symposium "Entangled Others" marks the occasion at @humboldtuni.bsky.social on 16-17 October, with Parkes colleagues Tony Kushner, Joachim Schlör and @anoushka-ar.bsky.social among the speakers.
@parkesinstitute.bsky.socialNext Tuesday, 13 Oct, 6pm: the annual Howard Rein Lecture.
Dr Jane Brooks (@manchester.ac.uk) on the refugee women who fled Nazi Europe and became nurses in Britain, despite hospital resistance and antisemitism.
Avenue Campus & Zoom. Register 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jewish-ref...
@ehri-uk.bsky.socialReposted by @parkesinstitute.bsky.socialCongratulations to our Regional Placement student Lucy Marx on her recent @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social blog exploring the letters of Gerhard and Fritz Kaufmann. tinyurl.com/mryrwjuf Our thanks to Karen Robson and her team for supporting the placement scheme and welcoming Lucy into the archive!
@ehri-uk.bsky.socialReposted by @parkesinstitute.bsky.social⏲️ 🔊 We are extending the call for applications to the 2026-27 EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships until Sunday 11 October (23:59 UK time)! ⏳ Visit our website for more details www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell... Our thanks if you can share this post within your research networks. #HolocaustResearch
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social1956 seen through the eyes of an exile: free screening of Robert Vas's My Homeland (BBC, 1976) at the Liszt Institute London, 3 Nov, 6.30pm. Parkes Director James Jordan joins the panel with poet György Gömöri. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hungar...
@duhaut.bsky.socialReposted by @parkesinstitute.bsky.social⏰ Last call: CfP closes Friday 9 Oct!
@parkesinstitute.bsky.socialomorrow! Our 26/27 seminar series opens with @brunssen.bsky.social on 'The Making of "Jew Clubs": Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Football and Fan Cultures'.
📅 Tues 29 September, 6pm BST
📍 Online via Zoom
🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...
@hartleyspecialc.bsky.socialReposted by @parkesinstitute.bsky.socialLucy Marx shares her reflections on her time as on the @EHRI placement at Southampton this summer working on letters of German Jewish internees during the Second World War. @Parkes @exploreyourarchive
@hartleyspecialc.bsky.socialReposted by @parkesinstitute.bsky.socialYom Kippur was observed last Sunday and Monday, so we share the cover of a Yom Kippur sermon given by Rabbi Raymond Apple in 1972, from the archives of Rabbi Abraham Levy buff.ly/AlW9WER @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social @biajs.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @cjewishhistory.bsky.social
@ehri-uk.bsky.socialReposted by @parkesinstitute.bsky.social⏳You still have until 2 October to apply for a EHRI-UK National Research Fellowship! 📢 Find out more and apply here www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell...
@liminalwater.bsky.socialReposted by @parkesinstitute.bsky.socialJoin us online next Friday to hear about Sami’s research. 1 pm FR/AT/HR, 12 noon UK/PT. liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/events/li...
@ehri-uk.bsky.socialReposted by @parkesinstitute.bsky.socialListen to our Director, Dr Rachel Pistol, talk to BBC's The History Hour about acts of resistance across Europe during the Second World War, including the work of Emanuel Ringelblum & the Oyneg Shabes Archive which preserved witness testimony in the Warsaw Ghetto. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct99lq
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social📢 Our Semester 1 lecture & seminar programme is here! Talks this term cover football fandom and antisemitism, Jewish refugee nurses in Britain, Jewish-Black anti-racist activism, and more. All hybrid and open to everyone. Full programme & booking on our Eventbrite 👇
www.eventbrite.ie/o/the-parkes...
@duhaut.bsky.socialReposted by @parkesinstitute.bsky.socialThree weeks left to apply!
@parkesinstitute.bsky.socialRegister now for the first talk of our 26/27 seminar series, @brunssen.bsky.social on 'The Making of “Jew Clubs”: Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Football and Fan Cultures'.
📅 29 September, 6pm
📍 Online via Zoom
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...
@ehri-uk.bsky.socialReposted by @parkesinstitute.bsky.socialWe are pleased to announce the launch of the 2026-27 EHRI-UK National Research Fellowships! ⏳ Applications close on 2 October 2026. Further information, including details on how to apply, are available here www.ehri-uk.org/ehri-uk-fell.... Please share widely within your research networks.
@biajs.bsky.socialReposted by @parkesinstitute.bsky.social🚨CFP: BIAJS Annual Conference at @universityofleeds.bsky.social, 28-30 June 2027
Submit proposals on the theme "Rethinking Pluralism and Peripheries in Jewish Studies” by 1 December!