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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.

Israel: what went wrong?

Public Lecture

14th January, 2025

Israel: what went wrong?

Omer Bartov, Brown University

In this talk, Omer Bartov will explore the transformation of Zionism from a movement of Jewish emancipation and liberation into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism, exclusion and violent domination of Palestinians.

Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity

Public Event

20th January, 2025

Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity

David Feldman, Ben Gidley and Brendan McGeever, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London, co-authors of the report; Maya Goodfellow, City, University of London; Rachel Shabi, journalist and author. Chair: Shabna Begum, Runnymede Trust

The publication of a new report, commissioned by the Runnymede Trust and written by David Feldman, Ben Gidley and Brendan McGeever, forms the basis of this panel discussion.
The report argues that we urgently need a new approach to both thinking about and combating antisemitism. Click the link for full details and to access the report.

The making of child Holocaust survivors

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL LECTURE 2025

29th January, 2025

The making of child Holocaust survivors

Rebecca Clifford, Durham University

Rebecca Clifford explores the individual and collective journeys of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust: from ‘lucky’ children who managed to live through genocide, to ‘child Holocaust survivors’ with a profound new understanding of their own pasts.

Restitution, Repair and the Memory Wars

Public Lecture

4th February, 2025

Restitution, Repair and the Memory Wars

Michael Rothberg, University of California, Los Angeles

Renowned Memory Studies scholar Michael Rothberg explores what it means to live with histories of colonial and Nazi violence, and questions of remembrance and responsibility.

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.

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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.

Professor David Feldman, Director – 2

In an age of populism and nationalism it is more important than ever to understand the connections between antisemitism and other forms of racialization.

Professor David Feldman, Director

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