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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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The Making of “Jew Clubs”: Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Football and Fan Cultures

Seminar | For Scholars

21st January, 2026

The Making of “Jew Clubs”: Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Football and Fan Cultures

Pavel Brunssen, Heidelberg University

Pavel Brunssen traces how both Jewish and non-Jewish actors perform Jewishness, antisemitism, and philosemitism within European football cultures over the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

Mourning, memory and politics: memorialization of the Holocaust in Britain from the 1940s to the present day

Holocaust Memorial Lecture 2026

26th January, 2026

Mourning, memory and politics: memorialization of the Holocaust in Britain from the 1940s to the present day

David Feldman, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism

David Feldman explores how memorialisation of the Holocaust has changed over time, why it has done so, and the role of Holocaust memorialisation today.

When is Violence ‘Ethnic’? On Jews as Victims and Perpetrators

Seminar | For Scholars

11th February, 2026

When is Violence ‘Ethnic’? On Jews as Victims and Perpetrators

Tova Benjamin, Davidson College

Tova Benjamin considers the place of ‘ethnicity’ in new forms of late nineteenth century popular violence and whether we can develop a shared understanding of Roma and Jewish histories of marginalization in the East European borderlands.

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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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