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.
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.
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.
Kenan Malik explores the erosion of the barrier between far-right and mainstream ideas, the resurgence of racism and what our response should be.
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.
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.
The Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism is a respected source of independent advice and comment on antisemitism, contributing to policy formation and public debate.