Extended deadline til 10th September! >>>

Extended deadline til 5th October! 📜

Now the contract is signed, my postdoc project 'Figuring the Wandering Jew: Jewish Artists and the Redrawing of Europe' with Elisabeth Becker-Topkara at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology @uniheidelberg.bsky.social begins! I'll be in Berlin for the next month then based at the Winchester Gallery

Deadline next week for extremely subsidised places at Limmud this December, along with bespoke training on presenting for public audiences and opportunities for peer-led mentoring! All Jewish studies PGRs and ECRs (within 5 years of submitting, w/o permanent academic positions) invited to apply ➡️

#CfP | EAJS invites propasals for the EAJS Virtual 2025: Translating Maimonides in late autumn | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #JewishStudies #Translation #workshops #Maimonides Deadline for abstracts: September 18, 2025

📜 Catching up … Having successfully passed my Viva in May, defending my doctoral thesis 'Vladimir Nabokov's Jewish Muse' examined by Leonid Livak (Toronto) and James Jordan (Southampton), supervised by Devorah Baum & @clairelefoll.bsky.social, I graduated yesterday! @parkesinstitute.bsky.social

🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks! lnkd.in/eVtmrHsu

📣 CFP for our EAJS Virtual 'Translating Maimonides' on 7th December 2025. We invite cross-disciplinary papers related to linguistics, intercommunal/interreligious dialogue, archives and material heritage, Sephardi identities, creative engagement & more… Abstracts due 18th September lnkd.in/ey3fie6c

The Wandering Jew takes Scotland! Exhibition on display at #BIAJS2025 @biajs.bsky.social for all attending… @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🕯️

Today at 6pm - view our newly digitised Wandering Jew exhibition and hear from Lisa Lampert-Weissig about Heinrich Heine’s interest in the legend >>

A whirlwind fortnight: exhibition launch with David Rudrum @holocaustnorth.bsky.social, Maimonides workshops in Manchester & Marseille & an afternoon discussing Jewish heritage beyond the UK @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social with @samsamev.bsky.social @clairelefoll.bsky.social @jaydprosser.bsky.social

Very excited to reveal the online version of my Wandering Jew travelling exhibition, with the amazing digital help of @katiepower.bsky.social, alongside a talk from Lisa whose research was so formative for my own project and curation. Do come!

Our final event of the year is a double bill with @llampertweissig.bsky.social talking about her recent 'Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew' & @anoushka-ar.bsky.social launching her digital travelling exhibition 🎟️ May 27th 6pm, online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/instrument...

Tomorrow - with my former prof and external examiner (post viva!) - will be excellent >>

Who is the Wandering Jew, and why does this figure still resonate today? Join us at Holocaust Centre North on May 12th from 5pm for the launch of The Wandering Jew, a travelling exhibition exploring the enduring legacy and reinterpretations of this elusive symbol. Tickets here: bit.ly/4iuEM8M

The Wandering Jew is going up north! The travelling exhibition will be on display at HCN 12th May - 30th June, launched with a conversation on the Holocaust context of the legend and origins of 'Der ewige Jude' @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social

We’re delighted to have played a key role in a major new report into the value and importance of visual arts. The ‘Framing the Future’ report sets out recommendations to the government on investment to safeguard art for the future. Read more 👉 tr.ee/Bdqnp0

Framing the Future: The Political Case for Strengthening the Visual Arts Ecosystem 🚀 Launching today at House of Commons and backed by the APPG Visual Arts & Artists, the report sets out a plan for the government to unlock the potential of the UK’s visual arts sector. >>> cvan.art/work-campaig...

Join us next week for the talk 'Writing Jerusalem, Erasing Jerusalem: on Arabic and Hebrew texts in the streets of modern Jerusalem' by Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social 📅 Tuesday 29 April, 6pm (GMT) 📍 Avenue Campus (Southampton) & online Register now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-je...

The Wandering Jew goes digital 🌎 Sign up to a double bill — a talk from @llampertweissig.bsky.social on her monograph 'Instrument of Memory' and the launch of the online Wandering Jew exhibition — in our forthcoming @parkesinstitute.bsky.social webinar on 27th May at 6pm, register below!

🗺️ The Wandering Jew comes to @biajs.bsky.social! Our panel with Richard Cohen @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social and @llampertweissig.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social rethinks the legend across formal and literal borders, and my travelling exhibition will be on display throughout #BIAJS2025

Excited to be part of this panel! I’ll be talking about the emotional and colonial perspectives of water as both balm and punishment for the Wandering Jew, situating him in wider contexts of forced movement, and literary legacies of power, suffering & yearning #BIAJS2025

Last week I submitted my PhD thesis 'Vladimir Nabokov's Jewish Muse!' - hugely privileged to be supervised by Professors Devorah Baum and @clairelefoll.bsky.social and to have the wonderful @parkesinstitute.bsky.social as my academic home! Thanks to many others who supported along the way… 🦋

A timely, stimulating and lively Parkes Lecture: @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social in conversation with Devorah Baum and Jonathan Leader on Hannah Arendt, love, disobedience, justice, judgement and more. Thanks to all for joining us, and VP Pascal Matthias for such sensitive chairing.

Final (bittersweet? exhilarating?) visit to the BL today to check some references before I submit on Friday! Through 4 hour monitored slots during lockdown, a cyber attack, and getting to first name basis with many an Origin coffee barista, this place has been a rather important part of my PhD…

Come along for this discussion of Lyndsey Stonebridge's new book 'We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience' (truly timely!)

We're very pleased to announce that Anoushka Alexander-Rose's (@anoushka-ar.bsky.social) exhibition will stay with us at the GHIL for a while longer! It reframes the Wandering Jew from its origins in medieval Christian myth and presents how the legend has evolved across time and cultures. 👇

On Monday, we hosted Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day on behalf of @unisouthampton.bsky.social and the city. We were honoured to have Janine Webber BEM, a survivor of the Lvov ghetto, give her testimony in conversation with doctoral researcher and Parkes Outreach fellow, @anoushka-ar.bsky.social.

A privilege to get to know Janine and facilitate her testimony this evening, a story which so acutely overlaps with the gaps in my family’s past, and which offers a new perspective on what it means to be a “survivor” — listen to our YouTube recording of tonight’s event! #HMD2025

Some thoughts on unknown stories, names and renaming, and a duty to remember, inspired by @philippesands.bsky.social and Diana Matar (who I heard speak about the words and photographs of City of Lions last year at Jewish Book), ahead of tonight’s #HMD2025 with Janine

Was very fun to play librarian! Check out some reading list highlights from the @ghilondon.bsky.social collection (with some more on display in person) ahead of next week's launch event 📚

Arrived in New Orleans! A full day of exploring and now at #MLA25 with the International Vladimir Nabokov Society as part of their panel on “Nabokov, Whiteness and Blackness” ♟️ 🌙 and making the most of a rich selection of panels on Jewish literature…

We're back from the holidays and excited to announce our upcoming programme of events, including our second annual lecture with the Royal Historical Society, an event to mark a new exhibition, our GHIL lecture series and a special event as part of @@maxweberstiftung.bsky.social's series on 1/2

The Wandering Jew: a travelling exhibition is now at the @ghilondon.bsky.social! There are limited tickets left for the 23rd January where I will be in conversation with Elisabeth Becker-Topkara exploring the legend in German culture past & present. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-wander...

This year for Southampton's Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day, we are honoured to be hosting Janine Webber BEM. Born in Lvov in 1932, Janine was the only member of her family who survived the ghetto and was placed in hiding, working as a maid until liberation when she moved to Paris and the UK

🕎Did you wonder who was the shamash on our #PetsofParkes hanukkiah? It was @anoushka-ar.bsky.social's late Misha, who was the inspiration and lobbyist-in-chief for this series 💔

A brilliant opportunity to bring the Wandering Jew exhibition to Limmud Festival and run a session on rethinking the legend alongside a collage workshop!

Who’s going to #Limmud? Some academic Jewish representation! 1/2 From @parkesinstitute.bsky.social: @anoushka-ar.bsky.social’s Wandering Jew exhibition & a session on 'Rethinking the legend'

Next up — the Wandering Jew in London, with a special event on the 23rd January where I will be in conversation with Elisabeth Becker-Topkara exploring the exhibition through the lens of understanding Jewish agency in the construction of German, and European, culture and society. Link below!

Find the Wandering Jew exhibition outside Red 1 throughout Festival, and come along on Sunday 5.25pm…

Southampton Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day Monday 27th January 2025, 6–8pm #HMD 🕯️ Our commemorative event includes a conversation with Lvov ghetto survivor Janine Webber, a reading of Vesna Maric's memoir 'Bluebird' and student reflections 🎟️ Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...

There's just over 24 hours left to register for our final event of 2024, a talk from Gennady Estraikh on 'Jewish Life after Stalin'. 📅 Tuesday 10 December, 6pm GMT 📍 Avenue Campus & online via Zoom www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Russian history hive-mind: I've encountered the inevitable, an untraceable reference. Can anyone help out with a point about a ban on hiring private Jewish tutors in Tsarist Russia?

It was a pleasure to host the Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation and The Council of Christians and Jews yesterday! On top of a special visit to the Special Collections, members of our academic community presented on new research and outreach activities including exhibitions and archive projects

#ProofOfCat and 1 month until PhD submission… soliciting any and all nuggets of wisdom! (Yes, that is a post-it with my thesis plan, with a nod to all great tv storylines that came before me)

First post under bluer skies! It's been a privilege to support this project over the past year. @anoushka-ar.bsky.social's exhibition 'The Wandering Jew: A Travelling Exhibition' was launched last night in Southampton for #interfaith week You can catch it in London and Birmingham soon too...

A triumphant launch of The Wandering Jew: a travelling exhibition showcasing the legend’s evolution over time. Watch this space! #InterFaithWeek Funded by Jewish Historical Society of England and German History Society, supported by @parkesinstitute.bsky.social & @charlieknight.bsky.social

THE WANDERING JEW: a travelling exhibition launch reception, 13th November 6–7pm, Southampton book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-wander... @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

And a bonus morning traipsing around Ithaca finding some Nabokov spots 🐿️

Final day of #NabokovWithoutBorders @Cornell highlights included: @MattRoth70 superbly on teaching Lolita through critical theory, @msabine900 on audible dread, and @HannaGMiles on souvenirs and trauma; a farewell sunset & festive conference dinner! 🎃 🎁🫀