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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.

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Migration hysteria: the deep historical roots of ‘replacement theory’

Public Lecture

12th October, 2023

Migration hysteria: the deep historical roots of ‘replacement theory’

Leo Lucassen, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam and Leiden University

Refugees in Britain and elsewhere evoke fearful and harsh responses from governments and broad sections of the population. Leo Lucassen argues that this antipathy has deep roots in nineteenth and early twentieth century racial thought in the Atlantic world. And that far from being a new phenomenon, ‘replacement theory’ amounts to an old set of ideas in a new package.

How illiberal memory politics is hijacking the discourse on antisemitism

SEMINAR SERIES | ANTISEMITISM NOW

17th October, 2023

How illiberal memory politics is hijacking the discourse on antisemitism

Andrea Pető, Central European University

In this seminar, Andrea Pető considers how different illiberal governments and political parties are hijacking the memory politics of the Holocaust.

The politics of definition: does defining racism help overcome it?

SEMINAR SERIES | ANTISEMITISM NOW

15th November, 2023

The politics of definition: does defining racism help overcome it?

Rebecca Ruth Gould, SOAS and Marc Volovici, University of Haifa

In this seminar Marc Volovici and Rebecca Ruth Gould will consider the value and limits of definitions in confronting antisemitism and Islamophobia and the potential merits of alternative approaches.

Contemporary Jewish identities and experiences of racism: what can we learn from ‘big data’?

Public Lecture

21st November, 2023

Contemporary Jewish identities and experiences of racism: what can we learn from ‘big data’?

Nissa Finney, University of St Andrews

In a world awash with information, Nisa Finney asks, how do we untangle what Jewish identity means today? What can ‘big data’ tell us about Jewish experiences of discrimination? And what might (or might not) be distinctive about contemporary Jewish experiences of racism?

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The Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism is the only centre in the UK, and one of only two centres in Europe, whose mission is to promote understanding of antisemitism.

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