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.
This conversation between Debórah Dwork and Dan Stone explores the experiences of American aid workers who undertook rescue efforts abroad during the second world war.
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.
David Feldman explores how memorialization of the Holocaust has changed over time, why it has done so, and the role of Holocaust memorialization today.
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.
Michael Berkowitz reveals the elusive story of Jewish Hollywood’s role in World War II.
Leo Roepert will examine how the concept of racism is represented in two influential strands of social theory: postcolonialism and Marxism and how this is shaped by each strand’s underlying assumptions as well as their respective limitations.
Mareike Riedel offers an approach to antisemitism that is structural and intersectional, shifting focus from individual bias or ideological content toward questions of power and structural injustice, and discusses what this means for how we think about fighting antisemitism.
The Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism explores the pattern of antisemitism both today and in the past. We connect research on antisemitism to the wider study of racialization and intolerance.