Si vous êtes de passage à Muttersholtz dimanche (improbable mais on ne sait jamais), j'y parlerai de l'Alliance Israélite Universelle et de son secrétaire Jacques Bigart! www.selestat-haut-koenigsbourg.com/fiche-sit/co...

Can I invite you to an evening of "Grief. Fame. Jewishness. Cats. Erotic poetry."?

This was such a good tour! Lots of laughs and a nice way to say goodbye to our visiting fellow, Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum.

Are you interested in applying for our MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage? We're running a webinar in April to share information about the course, scholarships, and to answer your questions. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our Spring 2026 newsletter is now available! Inside: new publications, EHRI-UK updates, an interview with @samsamev.bsky.social, student and alumni highlights, public engagement activity, and upcoming events. Explore the full edition at sway.cloud.microsoft/XByIbTAWL14L...

Please join us for a talk with Noëmie Duhaut @duhaut.bsky.social for the Annual Karten Lecture 🗓️ Tuesday 10 February, 6:00 pm GMT 📍 Avenue Campus & Online 🔗https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-actors-and-the-making-of-jewish-internationalism-tickets-1980464745366?aff=bluesky

What better way to start 2026 than talking to sixth form students about the Dreyfus affair, antisemitism and conspiracy theories?

Ben @bengidley.bsky.social and I have put together this open letter urging Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to rehire Melanie Goldberg. We are proud to have a number of eminent scholars of Holocaust and Jewish studies in the UK as the primary signatories. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter now republished by #LeftRenewal leftrenewal.org/statements-e... and @ukfost.bsky.social ukfost.co.uk/holocaust-st... Cc @edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social @duhaut.bsky.social @evafrojmovic0.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social @clairelefoll.bsky.social @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social

Il s'en passe des choses, dans mon Nancy natal! www.estrepublicain.fr/insolite/202...

📣CfA for a PhD position on Jewish Literary Legacies of Colonialism after Decolonisation, as part of "Ambivalent Pasts: On Jewish Colonial Experiences," a new joint research project of the Institute for Jewish History and Culture, the Institute for European History and the Centre Marc Bloch

📰 The latest Parkes newsletter is out now! Catch up on new research, publications, events, PGR and alumni updates, plus an interview with @duhaut.bsky.social and highlights from our MA trip to Poland.

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🚨 One week left to apply to our Visiting Fellow programme! Don't miss this opportunity to join us in Southampton for up to two months between October 2025 & May 2026. Deadline: Thursday, 10 July 2025 www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...

Our latest newsletter is out now! sway.cloud.microsoft/2gzksRDxJjKP...

🚨 Two weeks left to apply to our Visiting Fellow programme! Don't miss this opportunity to join us in Southampton for up to two months between October 2025 & May 2026. Deadline: Thursday 10 July 2025 www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...

🚨Now out🚨 Very happy to have contributed a chapter to Nick Underwood and Meredith Scott's book and to be in such good company! www.routledge.com/Jewish-Ideas...

🚨Applications are now open for our Visiting Fellow programme🚨 Don't miss this opportunity to join us in Southampton for up to two months between October 2025 & May 2026! Deadline: Thursday 10 July 2025 www.southampton.ac.uk/research/ins...

Interested in getting more involved in #JewishStudies in the UK and beyond? We'd be delighted to welcome you to our team. As an NGG committee member, you'll get to shape our programmes and connect early career scholars with more senior ones. @jewishhistorical.bsky.social

Dr Noemi Duhaut @duhaut.bsky.social from the @unisouthampton.bsky.social has just opened the second panel of our NGG conference, which will explore the notion of memory in Jewish sports history, the history of the Bradford Jewish community and Jewish scribal manuals.

What would you do without historians 😁?

We were pleased to support Jewish Dis/Connections at the University of Warsaw in April 2025 In "Unpacking Jewish Dis/Connections: A Mediterranean Journey of Memory, Identity, and Mobility" co-organiser Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (@rug.nl) reflects upon the event pastandpresent.org.uk/unpacking-je...

In case you haven't heard enough about popes this week... I'll be talking about the Mortara affair!

Third day of the workshop is about to start and it’s already been such a rich, rewarding experience. Brilliant conversations, generous minds and more to come! #ModernMediterranean @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social #EAJS @ncn.gov.pl @unigroningen.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social #UniversityofWarsaw

Second day of the workshop kicking off: ready for rich discussions, sharp insights, and good coffee. Let’s go! #modermediterranean #EAJS @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @ncn.gov.pl @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social #UniversityofWarsaw

Our workshop Jewish Dis/Connections across and beyond the Modern Mediterranean just kicked off at the University of Warsaw! We opened with a brilliant keynote by Matthias B. Lehmann: deeply thought-provoking. What a way to start! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social #EAJS

Our workshop Jewish Dis/Connections across and beyond the Modern Mediterranean starts tomorrow at University of Warsaw! Huge thanks to our supporters: EAJS, @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social, @ncn.gov.pl, NWO, @parkesinstitute.bsky.social, @unigroningen.bsky.social, Polin Join us for the public keynote!

We are pleased to be supporting the "Jewish Dis/Connections across and beyond the modern Mediterranean" conference At the University of Warsaw on 6 - 8 April 2025 For programme details and how to attend, see the link below: pastandpresent.org.uk/conference-p...

And if you're in Warsaw on April 6, the keynote by Matthias Lehmann is open to the public. @magdalenakozlowska.bsky.social

Our conference programme is hot of the press! "Jewish Dis/Connections across and beyond the Modern Mediterranean," organised by Magdalena Kozłowska, Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah and myself is happening in less than three weeks. @magdalenakozlowska.bsky.social

Next week in person at the Centre for Global Jewish Studies @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and online! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

🚨Coming soon🚨 Very happy to have contributed a chapter (on whiteness and Jewishness in Adolphe Crémieux’s legal writings) to Nick Underwood and Meredith Scott's book and to be in such good company! www.routledge.com/Jewish-Ideas...

Register now for the 2025 Karten Lecture! This year we will hear from Parkes Visiting Fellow Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah on 'Multiple Paths to Modernity? Jewish Networks in the Age of Empire'. 📅 Tuesday 18 Feb, 6pm GMT 📍 Avenue Campus & online www.eventbrite.co.uk...

Join this Holocaust Memorial Day webinar on 27 Jan🕯️ Led by Professor of Holocaust Studies, Zoe Waxman & introduced by UCU General Secretary, Jo Grady. Register here 👉 bit.ly/3WBIKo7

Job posting International Research Training Group (IRTG), Leipzig University: 5 doctoral researchers (f/m/d/x) The IRTG seeks to fill the above positions from 1 August 2025. The deadline for submission of all application materials is 14 March 2025. uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/7...

Thank you @clairelefoll.bsky.social for organising this !

UCL is hiring a Jewish Collections Project Cataloguer Fixed-term/full-time Closing Date 24 Jan www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

A bit late notice, but: I'm giving a talk "at" my alma mater @uclhjs.bsky.social tonight! 🔗 to book your ticket: www.tickettailor.com/events/uclin...

Starter pack "Jewish History & Culture" - please join! go.bsky.app/PGXHjoJ

Call for submissions now open for the EAJS conference grant programme Apply for up to £ 9,500 for your conference/workshop/summerschool on a topic from the whole range of Jewish Studies Deadline 20 March 2025 www.eurojewishstudies.org/homepage-ann...

For more on James Parkes, do have a look at our online exhibition, curated and digitised by, respectively, Chad McDonald and @katiepower.bsky.social as our then PhD students and outreach fellows 🔗https://parkesinstitute.wixsite.com/jamesparkes"

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️Did you notice that cats are rather popular among members of our institute? Maybe here's the reason why... A happy new year from all of us at the Parkes Institute! #PetsofParkes

Hag sameah!

🚨PhD funding🚨at the University of Southampton 🚨 The Leverhulme Programme for Interdisciplinary Resilience Studies is now open for applicants to propose their own projects More information here: pirs.soton.ac.uk/apply/ Deadline: 31st January 2025

We're excited to be hosting the 2025 @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social 2025 conference here in Southampton in May. This year's conference focuses on 'Archives, Heritage and Memory'. See the #CallForPapers below, and please share with your networks. Deadline: January 15 2025

Academic Journals - History #starterpack. Please let me know if I've missed any journals that are currently on BluSky. More journal starter packs to come...

Just one week to go until our next event. Join us either online via Zoom or in-person at Avenue Campus for what is sure to be a fascinating lecture 👇

Not a work in progress anymore since I've reached the limit of accounts I can add (and I'm too lazy to create #2).

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics