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.
In this seminar, Sonali Thakker focuses on the UN and UNESCO’s attempts in the mid-20th century to redefine the scientific and social scientific meaning of race.
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.
We build alliances to promote knowledge and share understanding, making our work ever-more relevant in a world threatened by populisms and conspiracy theories from the political left and right
Professor David Feldman, Director