The Parkes Institute hosts a diverse selection of seminars, book launches and other events each year, and this year is no exception.
Professor Tony Kushner and his team at Parkes take pleasure in inviting all interested members of the public, staff and students to these free events.
Tuesday 09 October 2012: Prof Daniel Langton (University of Manchester)
‘’Jewish religious thought and Darwinism’
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
Thursday 25 October 2012: Prof Derek J Penslar, FRSC (University of Toronto/Oxford)
‘1948 as a Jewish World War’
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
Tuesday 06 November 2012: Pamela Howard, ( Professor Emeritus University of the Arts London )
Rehearsed reading of her scenario ‘The New Jerusalem : A Sussex Story’ with actors co-ordinated by Stuart Olesker
5.30 pm John Hansard Gallery 1, Highfield Campus
Tuesday 27 November 2012 The Parkes Lecture: Dr Eva Hoffman
‘Eva Hoffman in Conversation with Devorah Baum’
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus
Tuesday 04 December 2012: Dr Lars Fischer (University of Cambridge)
‘Introducing Gertrud Mayer-Jaspers’
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
Tuesday 15 January 2013: Prof Tony Kushner in conversation with Dr Mark Levene
‘The Battle of Britishness – Migrant Journeys’
6.00 pm Waterstones Above Bar Branch
Tuesday 12 February 2013: Dr Gideon Reuveni (University of Sussex)
‘Jewish Consumer Culture’
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
Tuesday 26 February 2012: Prof Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck College)
‘Psychoanalytic Hauntings: The Case of The Dybbuk’
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
Monday 11 March 2013: Montefiore Lecture–Prof Martin Goodman (Oriental Institute/Woolfson College,Oxford) ‘On writing a history of Judaism’
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre B, Avenue Campus
Tuesday 16 April 2013: Dr Emiliano Perra (University of Winchester)
‘The Holocaust as a Palimpsest for Cinematic Representations of Genocide in Armenia, Bosnia, and Rwanda’
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
Tuesday 23rd April 2013: Dr Daniel Wildmann (Queen Mary, University of London)
‘German TV crime series and German Emotions – Jews in “Tatort”
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus – Collaboration with Film
Tuesday 30 April 2013: Prof Steve Mason (University of Aberdeen) (tvl ex Berlin)
‘Did Ancient Jews and Christians think they belonged to ‘Religions’? Why it matters what they thought’
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
Tuesday 21 May 2013: The Karten Lecture: Prof Sarah Pearce (University of Southampton)
‘Out of the house of bondage’? Jewish perspectives on slavery in Egypt’
6.00 pm Lecture Theatre C, Avenue Campus
The Parkes Institute, University of Southampton: Tel 023 8059 2261 Email: [email protected]
Kindly check our website www.parkes.soton.ac.uk for any updates to this programme.