Doctoral Seminar Archives

_{24 October 2019}

_{Burgess Meeting Room (1003), building 65b}

_{Introduction/Planning meeting}

_{5 November 2019 (1-5.30pm)}

_{Confucius Boardroom (2123), building 65}

_{Workshop ‘Shared Spaces: Methodological Approaches to Jewish/non-Jewish Relations,}

_{19 November 2019}

_{Burgess Meeting Room (1003), building 65b}

_{Reading and Discussion Group
Reading: Andrea Hammel, ‘Narrating the Margins and the Center: Kindertransportees' Stories of National and Religious Belonging’
Introduction by Nicola Woodhead}

_{3 December 2019}

_{Burgess Meeting Room (1003), building 65b}

_TBC

_TBC

_{9 January 2020 (6pm)}

_{Lecture Theatre C (1175), building 65}

_{Anastasia Bader, Ben Giordano, Nicola Woodhead}

_{Parkes Doctoral Roundtable}

_{18 February 2020 (4.30)}

_{Room 2099, building 65}

_{Nicola Woodhead}

_{Discussion of work-in-progress}

_{17 March 2020}

_{(postponed to 7 April)}

_{MS Teams}

_{Abaigh McKee}

_{Mock viva}

_{21 April 2020 (4-5pm)}

_(cancelled)

_{Burgess Meeting Room (1003), building 65b}

_{Michael L. Miller}

_{A Conversation with Michael L. Miller (Central European University)}

_{28 April 2020}

_16:15-17:45

_{MS Teams}

_{Anastasia Bader}

_TBC

_{6 May 2020}

_16:15-17:45

_{MS Teams}

_{Joseph Finlay}

_{British Jews and Race Relations since 1945 ’British Jews and Race Relations since 1945’}

_{20 May 2020}

_16:15-17:45

_{MS Teams}

_{Reading Group}

_{Theme : Working with personal documents/sources}

_{Reading :}

_{Shirli Gilbert, 'From Things Lost' (Introduction and Chapter 1)}

_{3 June 2020}

_16:15-17:45

_{MS Teams}

_{Reading Group}

_{Theme : History of Emotions}

_{Reading :}

_{Discussion by Piroska Nagy and Ute Frevert in 'Debating New Approaches to History' (eds. Marek Tamm and Peter Burke)}

_{17 June 2020}

_16:15-17:45

_{MS Teams}

_{Reading Group}

<sub>Theme : ‘Migrant Knowledge’ / Writing research pieces for blogs/websites

Reading :</sub>

_{Tobias Brinkmann, Acquiring Knowledge About Migration: The Jewish Origins of Migration Studies
https://migrantknowledge.org/2019/09/25/acquiring-knowledge-about-migration-the-jewish-origins-of-migration-studies/}

_{Allison Schmidt, Background Knowledge: Interrogating Perceptions of Smugglers with Joseph Roth
https://migrantknowledge.org/2019/10/30/background-knowledge-interrogating-perceptions-of-smugglers-with-joseph-roth/}

_{Maria Alexopoulou, Producing Ignorance: Racial Knowledge and Immigration in Germany
https://historyofknowledge.net/2018/07/25/producing-ignorance-racial-knowledge-and-immigration-in-germany/}

_{H. Glenn Penny, Insights into Loss from the History of Knowledge
https://historyofknowledge.net/2017/10/18/insights-into-loss-from-the-history-of-knowledge/}

^{1 July 2020}

^16:15-17:45

^{MS Teams}

^{Reading Group}

^{Theme : Translation: Perspectives and Approaches in Historical Research}

^{Reading : Laszlo Kontler, ‘Translation and Comparison: Early-Modern and Current Perspectives’, Contributions to the History of Concepts 3 (2007) 71-102.}

^{Optional reading:}

^{- Helen Beer, 'Yiddish without Yiddish’, European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe , 42 (2009) 10-18.}

^{- Magdalena Waligórska and Tara Kohn (eds.), Jewish Translation -- Translating Jewishness, De Gruyter, 2018.}

^{15 July 2020}

^16:15-17:45

^{MS Teams}

^{Reading Group}

^{Theme : Interdisciplinary Approaches to Religion and Culture}

^{Reading : Talal Asad, ‘Introduction: Thinking about Secularism’, in Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity, Stanford UP, 2003.}

^{Optional reading :}

^{- Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam , JHU Press, 1993. Chapters 1 and 2.}

^{- Elizabeth A. Povinelli, The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism , Dule UP, 2002. Introduction.}

^{29 July 2020}

^16:15-17:45

^{MS Teams}

^{Reading Group}

^{Theme : Difficult Histories}

^{Reading : TBC}