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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.

Antisemitism, Israel and the limits of anti-discrimination law

SEMINAR SERIES | ANTISEMITISM NOW

11th February, 2025

Antisemitism, Israel and the limits of anti-discrimination law

Matthew Bolton, Queen Mary University of London

Matthew Bolton explores how UK anti-discrimination law has constructed Jewish identity as a mode of ‘ethnicity’ and encouraged the essentialisation or dehistoricisation of Jewish identity.

The Dreyfus Affair, antisemitism, and the transformation of Jewish identity

Public Lecture

11th March, 2025

The Dreyfus Affair, antisemitism, and the transformation of Jewish identity

Maurice Samuels, Yale University

The antisemitism unleashed during the Dreyfus Affair transformed the nature of Jewish identity, changing how Jews saw their place in the world and their relation to other Jews.

The politics of redemptive anti-antisemitism

SEMINAR SERIES | ANTISEMITISM NOW

18th March, 2025

The politics of redemptive anti-antisemitism

Adam Sutcliffe, King’s College London

In this seminar, Adam Sutcliffe will chart the increasing emphasis across the West since the 1990s of ‘redemptive anti-antisemitism’ and consider its problematic role in contemporary politics.

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Pogroms, politics and memory: rethinking anti-Jewish violence from the Harlem Renaissance to October 7th

SEMINAR SERIES | ANTISEMITISM NOW

14th May, 2025

Pogroms, politics and memory: rethinking anti-Jewish violence from the Harlem Renaissance to October 7th

Brendan McGeever, Swarthmore College

Exploring how Black radicals in Harlem began to articulate a new analysis of race and class which drew them, increasingly, to analyse anti-Jewish violence in revolutionary Russia, Brendan McGeever uncovers a multidirectional account of the pogrom; one that envelops both Black and Jewish histories.

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