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The Centre for Jewish Studies is a transdisciplinary research centre based in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. It was set up in 1995 to continue the Jewish Studies legacy of the Department of Semitic Studies, and to build bridges with a number of Arts disciplines by means of the interdisciplinary Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies.
The Centre houses two main branches: a research centre for Jewish visual and cultural studies, and the project Antisemitism in Contemporary Culture (supported by the Stanley and Audrey Burton Trust).
Events
Erasures in an Imagined Geography
Please join us for a presentation by visual artist and writer Leslie Hakim-Dowek, to be followed by a conversation with Griselda Pollock, Professor emerita of Social and Cultural Histories of Art.
Queer Experiences in the Holocaust
Organised by the Centre for Jewish Studies, this workshop seeks to explore the ways in which victims of Nazi persecution have testified to and have left traces of queer experience.
Author Talk: Jon Silverman and Robert Sherwood
The authors of Safe Haven will introduce their research on why there was only one conviction out of hundreds of cases against the Eastern European Nazi collaborators given refuge in Britain after 1945.
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Queer Experiences in the Holocaust — call for workshop contributions
Contributions are welcome for Queer Experiences in the Holocaust, a workshop taking place on 16 April 2024 at the University of Leeds with keynote speaker Dr Anna Hájková (University of Warwick).
BAJS conference 2020
The Centre for Jewish Studies is organising a panel about "Jewish heritage and crisis" at the BAJS annual conference in...
Sadler Seminar Series
Eva Frojmovic and Jay Prosser were awarded by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute a small grant for the...