Antisemitism in Contemporary Culture

As part of the International Medieval Congress 2011, Eva Frojmovic will chair a Roundtable on "Displaying / Musealising the Medieval in the Postcolonial Present". The starting point of the roundtable is the current display of the medieval Synagoga panel in York minster, and its educational aspects. Certain aspects of the medieval period can constitute an...

Has anything of the concentrationary universe seeped into and been disseminated through contemporary culture? Going beyond the work of Agamben and Virilio who suggest that the camp and war are now the matrices of modern society, we want to enquire into cultural forms and subjectivities. Is there now a concentrationary imaginary?

In this talk addressed to Ph.D. students in the School, Professor Griselda Pollock spoke about George Didi-Huberman’s research on photographs taken by members of the resistance in Auschwitz. Images in Sspite of All by George Didi-Huberman Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of...

Jacob de Haan, Yitzhak Rabin and the Assassin’s Creed Jonathan Wilson (Tufts University) Chair: Claudia Sternberg

A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of anti-Semitism in England, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century. Anthony Julius identifies four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism, which he then investigates in detail. The first is the anti-Semitism of medieval England, a radical...