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The Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism holds seminars, workshops and conferences for scholars, and lectures, discussions and film screenings that are open to everyone.

Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies

Seminar | For Scholars

22nd October, 2025

Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies

Devorah Baum, University of Southampton; and Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck, University of London

Stephen Frosh and Devorah Baum draw on their recent experience of editing the ‘Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies’ to explore the interplay between these two disciplines, engaging with: Histories; Judaism and the Bible; Antisemitism and the Holocaust; and Jewish culture.

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Antisemitism and the postwar remaking of race

Seminar | For Scholars

12th November, 2025

Antisemitism and the postwar remaking of race

Sonali Thakkar, New York University

The period after 1945 saw the formal delegitimization of antisemitism and racism, as well as the emergence of antiracism as a new moral and political universal. In this seminar, Sonali Thakker focuses on the UN and UNESCO’s attempts in the mid-twentieth century to redefine the scientific and social scientific meaning of race.

How racism reclaimed its identity

Public Lecture

18th November, 2025

How racism reclaimed its identity

Kenan Malik, writer, lecturer and broadcaster

Kenan Malik explores the erosion of the barrier between far-right and mainstream ideas, the resurgence of racism and what our response should be.

Antisemitism in America: the problem and politics of antisemitism on campus

Public Lecture

2nd December, 2025

Antisemitism in America: the problem and politics of antisemitism on campus

Dov Waxman, University of California, Los Angeles

In this lecture, Professor Dov Waxman will consider not only the problem of antisemitism on US campuses but also how it has become a subject for political intervention and controversy.

Jewish refugee artists in Britain: an untold story of visual resistance to fascism, 1930s–40s

9th December, 2025

Jewish refugee artists in Britain: an untold story of visual resistance to fascism, 1930s–40s

Diana Popescu, Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London and Gerda Henkel Research Fellow

Diana Popescu uncovers an overlooked chapter in British and Jewish cultural histories: the role of Jewish refugee artists in shaping visual opposition to Nazism during the 1930s and 1940s.

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