CFP Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives of Life-Writing and Ego-Documents (April 2026) Deadline: 31 December 2025 ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026 We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton! Please share!!

The next episode of Series 2 of 'Glimpses of German History' is OUT NOW! In this episode, Anne Buckley (Leeds) takes us to a field in Skipton, North Yorkshire which housed a German prisoner of war camp during the First World War. youtu.be/WDqGQw7TY5w 1/2

Episode 1 of Series 2 of our documentary series 'Glimpses of German History' is now available on YouTube! In this episode @sandralipner.bsky.social shows us how denazification questionnaires help us explore the shift from dictatorship to democracy in post-war Germany.

📽️ Season 2 of 'Glimpses of German History', coming soon... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFin...

I'm very pleased to be joining the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London next month as the 2025-26 Bithell Visiting Fellow in German Studies! ilcs.sas.ac.uk/people/charl...

The HRC is a team of scholars who work in a variety of disciplines across the field of Holocaust Studies. We have expertise that ranges across histories, theories, & languages. Read more about the HRC & our services here: holocaustresearchconsultancy.org/about/

The deadline for the German History Society's Undergraduate Essay Prize is NEXT WEEK! Do you have an outstanding dissertation to submit? Check out our website for more details! www.germanhistorysoc...

Fascinating talk at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social this evening on Tony Kushner’s @parkesinstitute.bsky.social new book ‘The Jewish Pedlar’ with @manchesterup.bsky.social

Last week I submitted my PhD thesis on German-Jewish letters sent during the Holocaust. Thank you to my fantastic supervisors Joachim and Tony at the @parkesinstitute.bsky.social - and to everyone who has shared their stories and knowledge with me over the last four years - now the viva....

Our team of experts offer a wide range of services to support families, scholars, independent researchers, & educators in #Holocaust research & education. Read more about our services here: holocaustresearchconsultancy.org/services/

A major thank you to everyone who attended and supported the #HolocaustStudies networking event at the #IWM last week… What a fantastic day fostering community and supporting young researchers. We hope to make this an annual event so look out for future calls for participants! 📣

Very excited to be a part of this new adventure with @caileedavis.bsky.social @barnabasbalint.bsky.social @niamh-hanrahan.bsky.social keep an eye out for more updates coming soon - give us a follow too ⬇️

Fantastic conference at the Indiana University Gateway in Berlin on the place of German Jewish History in the Holocaust. Fascinating papers all round. Thanks to @mmzpotsdam.bsky.social @ghiwashington.bsky.social for organising

This event is TONIGHT at 6pm! It was a pleasure to help @anoushka-ar.bsky.social with this project and I'm happy to now chair the launch of the digital exhibition. Details below 🔽

My fab supervisor Tony Kushner has a new book out - The Jewish Pedlar - with @manchesterup.bsky.social. There's a book launch in Southampton on 4 June @octoberbooks.bsky.social and also a talk at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social on 25 June

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...

The GHS has numerous funding opportunities and awards available throughout the year for PGRs and ECRs. The deadline for some of them is fast approaching! Check out the following 🧵 for more details: 1/6

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… 🦋

@parkesinstitute.bsky.social hosted a screening of Jessie Eisenberg’s #ARealPain — it’s a lovely example of 3rd Gen #Holocaust representation. Go see it if you haven’t! Really enjoyed the fantastic discussion w/ EmilyRose Baker, Tony Kushner, & Janek Gryta, moderated by @charlieknight.bsky.social

🚨CFP: GHS Annual Conference🚨 The GHS are proud to share the call for papers for our upcoming conference at the University of Loughborough on the 4-6 September 2025 The deadline for applications is 19 April 2025. For more info see: www.germanhistorysoc... #GermanHistSoc2025

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. 👇

Excited to chair this screening on Monday 😊

📢 Next week, Parkes Outreach Fellow @charlieknight.bsky.social will give a talk at #LoveData25 on his work with the Theodor Hirschberg papers @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social The event is hybrid & open to all. 📅 Feb 12, 2:30pm (GMT) 📍 Highfield Campus & online More info 👇 library.soton.ac.uk/...

🎥 On Monday 24th February, we are holding a screening and roundtable event on Jesse Eisenberg’s 2025 film ’A Real Pain’ at Harbour Lights Picturehouse cinema in Southampton. 🔗 Book your tickets here: www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...

Tony Kushner's latest piece on the Holocaust, survivors' testimonies and rescue archaeology for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-holocaus...

Very happy to be giving a keynote lecture at Reading Council Chamber for HMD this year - I’ll be tracking a handful of German-Jewish refugee narratives alongside the ones of those they were forced to leave behind Book here: www.reading.gov.uk/leisure/thin...

📣 Holocaust & Memory Seminar 📣 We’ve got an exciting term card for @ox.ac.uk H&M Seminar this term. Hear from leading scholars, translators, and public history professionals about new & innovate research in #HolocaustStudies. I hope you can join us!

Beyond thrilled to share my recent publication in #Film&History 🎉 Click on the link to read about how much I love #InglouriousBasterds & Tarantino’s critique of the Americanization of the Holocaust muse.jhu.edu/pub/39/artic... • #HolocaustStudies #MediaStudies

The GHS was proud to co-fund this innovative exhibition 'The Wandering Jew: A Travelling Exhibition' showing in January and February at the @ghilondon.bsky.social Check out more about the exhibition in the 🧵 below...

Go follow the @germanhistsoc.bsky.social for all the latest updates from the society!

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!

The Wandering Jew: A Travelling Exhibition comes to the @ghilondon.bsky.social in the new year! Find out more below and come along to @anoushka-ar.bsky.social lecture on the 23 Jan!

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...

Would be amazing to connect with more writers and playwrights here! I’ve been writing since 2022, most recently the play “An Apology to Lady Gaga”, which this year has been playing in Mexico City in a Spanish-language translation by the fab Elisabetha Gruener for insecta Theatre. ❤️❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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

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 👇

Hello BlueSky! I’m Ed, an actor and writer from Bradford now in London. I am rather accident-prone, love a good meme and have brand loyalty to Pokémon against my best judgment. Here’s hoping we make this a new kind of social media site I guess! ❤️✨🦑🤖💅🏻✌🏻

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...