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Karten Studentships in Jewish History and Culture

The Parkes Institute is pleased to offer at least four studentships for students from any country to study for an MA in Jewish History and Culture at the University of Southampton, UK. The studentships will assist towards the cost of tuition fees (min. £1000 – max. £2500). Continue reading →

PhD Studentship in Holocaust Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton

Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship as part of the Music and the Holocaust website project (http://holocaustmusic.ort.org). The Music and the Holocaust website is a widely-used educational resource created under the auspices of the international organisation World ORT, and was featured at a United Nations presentation in 2014. Continue reading →

The Ian and Mildred Karten Memorial Lecture 2015: ‘Hocus Pocus? – Ethnology of the magical text, Babylonia to Ethiopia’

Whatever you think of magic one thing is clear, it is a very long lived tradition that has left in its wake a huge wealth of written evidence. What can this evidence tell us about those who made use of magical knowledge and managed its transmission over time? We will examine two case studies, the Jewish and other magical text of late antique Mesopotamia, and the Christian and Jewish equivalents of medieval to current day Ethiopia. Continue reading →

Parkes Public Statement regarding the Conference ‘International Law and the State of Israel’

The conference ‘International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism’, organised by a member of the Southampton Law School, will take place from 17-19 April 2015. Members of the public, including friends and supporters of the Parkes Institute, have voiced their concern about the fact that a conference that invites the questioning of the legitimacy of the State of Israel should be hosted by one of the UK’s leading universities. Continue reading →

‘Music in the Holocaust’ at the United Nations

The Parkes Institute was recently represented at a United Nations programme on the Holocaust, organised for Yom Hashoah. Dr Shirli Gilbert, author of Music in the Holocaust, spoke at a United Nations forum on ‘Learning about the Holocaust through the Arts’ at the UN headquarters in New York last month. Continue reading →

Meet our PhD Students: Jen Arnold

In the latest in our series exploring the work of the Parkes Institute’s thriving postgraduate research community, we meet Jen Arnold. Jen began her PhD this academic year, and is working under Professor Tony Kushner, head of the Parkes Institute and an internationally recognised historian of British Jewry. Continue reading →

Call for papers – Refugees and Migrants: Unaccompanied Children in Britain 1914-2014

Against the backdrop of intense contemporary debate on immigration, the University of Southampton’s Parkes Institute and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary and international conference on unaccompanied child migration both in and out of the UK over the past century. Continue reading →

The Ian and Mildred Karten Memorial Lecture 2014

You are cordially invited to the 2014 Ian and Mildred Karten Memorial Lecture which will be given by Dr James Jordan. ‘Reviewing the Extermination: Dr Who, Daleks and the Changing Face of Jewish Identity’ The lecture will be chaired by Malcolm Ace, Chief Operating Officer at the University of Southampton. Continue reading →

MA Jewish History and Culture now recruiting

The Parkes Institute is now recruiting for its MA in Jewish History and Culture. The Programme The Parkes MA programme offers a rich encounter with the main currents in Jewish history and culture from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Reflecting the heritage of James Parkes’ scholarship, the programme places an emphasis on the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. Continue reading →

The 2014 Montefiore Lecture

The Parkes Institute cordially invites you to attend this year’s Montefiore Lecture: Between Two Worlds: A Reflection on Assimilation This year’s lecture will be delivered by Reverend Dr Giles Fraser who is a priest of the Church of England and a journalist for The Guardian newspaper. He is currently a parish priest at St Marys in London and writes a weekly Saturday column as well as frequently appears on BBC Radio 4. Continue reading →

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