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Anoushka Alexander-Rose
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Postdoc on the visual representations of the Wandering Jew & other migratory myths @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and Winchester School of Art ‬‬‬| PhD on Vladimir Nabokov @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
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Now the contract is signed, my postdoc project 'Figuring the Wandering Jew: Jewish Artists and the Redrawing of Europe' with Elisabeth Becker-Topkara at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology @uniheidelberg.bsky.social begins! I'll be in Berlin for the next month then based at the Winchester Gallery
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📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more

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November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Join us in London in July!

CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE

#BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck

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Call for Papers: BIAJS Conference 2026 (13-15 July, Birkbeck, University of London)
CALL FOR PAPERS #BIAJS2026 Space and Place in Jewish Studies British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2026 Birkbeck, University of London | July 2026   “there is…
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November 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Our first event of the academic year is taking place in one week!

Join us for a talk from Simone Gigliotti (@rhulholocaustri.bsky.social)

📅 Tuesday 28 October, 6pm GMT
📍Avenue Campus & online via Zoom
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-close-ye...
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Extended deadline til 10th September! >>>
🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks!
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September 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Extended deadline til 5th October! 📜
#CfP | EAJS invites propasals for the EAJS Virtual 2025: Translating Maimonides in late autumn | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

#JewishStudies #Translation #workshops #Maimonides

Deadline for abstracts: September 18, 2025
September 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Now the contract is signed, my postdoc project 'Figuring the Wandering Jew: Jewish Artists and the Redrawing of Europe' with Elisabeth Becker-Topkara at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology @uniheidelberg.bsky.social begins! I'll be in Berlin for the next month then based at the Winchester Gallery
September 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Deadline next week for extremely subsidised places at Limmud this December, along with bespoke training on presenting for public audiences and opportunities for peer-led mentoring! All Jewish studies PGRs and ECRs (within 5 years of submitting, w/o permanent academic positions) invited to apply ➡️
🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks!
lnkd.in/eVtmrHsu
August 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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#CfP | EAJS invites propasals for the EAJS Virtual 2025: Translating Maimonides in late autumn | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

#JewishStudies #Translation #workshops #Maimonides

Deadline for abstracts: September 18, 2025
July 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
📜 Catching up … Having successfully passed my Viva in May, defending my doctoral thesis 'Vladimir Nabokov's Jewish Muse' examined by Leonid Livak (Toronto) and James Jordan (Southampton), supervised by Devorah Baum & @clairelefoll.bsky.social, I graduated yesterday! @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks!
lnkd.in/eVtmrHsu
July 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
📣 CFP for our EAJS Virtual 'Translating Maimonides' on 7th December 2025. We invite cross-disciplinary papers related to linguistics, intercommunal/interreligious dialogue, archives and material heritage, Sephardi identities, creative engagement & more…

Abstracts due 18th September lnkd.in/ey3fie6c
July 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The Wandering Jew takes Scotland! Exhibition on display at #BIAJS2025 @biajs.bsky.social for all attending…
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July 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Today at 6pm - view our newly digitised Wandering Jew exhibition and hear from Lisa Lampert-Weissig about Heinrich Heine’s interest in the legend >>
1 week to go until our 'Wandering Jew: Book Launch and Digital Exhibition Launch' webinar with @llampertweissig.bsky.social & @anoushka-ar.bsky.social

Tuesday 27th May, online, 6pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/instrument...

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May 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
A whirlwind fortnight: exhibition launch with David Rudrum @holocaustnorth.bsky.social, Maimonides workshops in Manchester & Marseille & an afternoon discussing Jewish heritage beyond the UK @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social with @samsamev.bsky.social @clairelefoll.bsky.social @jaydprosser.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Very excited to reveal the online version of my Wandering Jew travelling exhibition, with the amazing digital help of @katiepower.bsky.social, alongside a talk from Lisa whose research was so formative for my own project and curation. Do come!
1 week to go until our 'Wandering Jew: Book Launch and Digital Exhibition Launch' webinar with @llampertweissig.bsky.social & @anoushka-ar.bsky.social

Tuesday 27th May, online, 6pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/instrument...

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May 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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...
May 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Tomorrow - with my former prof and external examiner (post viva!) - will be excellent >>
One week to go until our next event!

Join us for a talk from Leonid Livak (@uoftartsci.bsky.social) on 'Integrating Jewish Studies with Russian Exilic Studies: The Holocaust and the End of Russia Abroad'.

📅 Wednesday 7 May, 6pm (BST)
📍 Avenue Campus & online via Zoom
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Integrating Jewish Studies with Russian Exilic Studies
Integrating Jewish Studies with Russian Exilic Studies: The Holocaust and the End of Russia Abroad. A talk with Leonid Livak.
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May 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Who is the Wandering Jew, and why does this figure still resonate today?
Join us at Holocaust Centre North on May 12th from 5pm for the launch of The Wandering Jew, a travelling exhibition exploring the enduring legacy and reinterpretations of this elusive symbol.

Tickets here: bit.ly/4iuEM8M
April 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Wandering Jew is going up north! The travelling exhibition will be on display at HCN 12th May - 30th June, launched with a conversation on the Holocaust context of the legend and origins of 'Der ewige Jude'
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Join us at Holocaust Centre North for the launch of The Wandering Jew, a travelling exhibition. At once a vessel for antisemitism and a vehicle for tolerance, this exhibition explores how the legend has been reimagined over time and for different purposes.

Reserve your place here: bit.ly/4iuEM8M
April 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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We’re delighted to have played a key role in a major new report into the value and importance of visual arts.

The ‘Framing the Future’ report sets out recommendations to the government on investment to safeguard art for the future.

Read more 👉 tr.ee/Bdqnp0
April 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Framing the Future: The Political Case for Strengthening the Visual Arts Ecosystem

🚀 Launching today at House of Commons and backed by the APPG Visual Arts & Artists, the report sets out a plan for the government to unlock the potential of the UK’s visual arts sector.

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April 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Join us next week for the talk 'Writing Jerusalem, Erasing Jerusalem: on Arabic and Hebrew texts in the streets of modern Jerusalem' by Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social

📅 Tuesday 29 April, 6pm (GMT)
📍 Avenue Campus (Southampton) & online
Register now 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-je...
April 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Wandering Jew goes digital 🌎

Sign up to a double bill — a talk from @llampertweissig.bsky.social on her monograph 'Instrument of Memory' and the launch of the online Wandering Jew exhibition — in our forthcoming @parkesinstitute.bsky.social webinar on 27th May at 6pm, register below!
‘Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew’
Talk and Digital Exhibition Launch with Lisa Lampert-Weissig and Anoushka Alexander-Rose
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April 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🗺️ The Wandering Jew comes to @biajs.bsky.social!

Our panel with Richard Cohen @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social and @llampertweissig.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social rethinks the legend across formal and literal borders, and my travelling exhibition will be on display throughout #BIAJS2025
March 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Excited to be part of this panel! I’ll be talking about the emotional and colonial perspectives of water as both balm and punishment for the Wandering Jew, situating him in wider contexts of forced movement, and literary legacies of power, suffering & yearning #BIAJS2025
Our “Liquid Jews” panel has been accepted for #BIAJS2025 @biajs.bsky.social in Glasgow in July!

Panel:

🏴‍☠️ @anoushka-ar.bsky.social, @samsamev.bsky.social, & Tony Kushner (@parkesinstitute.bsky.social)

🏴‍☠️Ophira Gamliel (Glasgow)

🏴‍☠️ @bengidley.bsky.social (@bisa-bkk.bsky.social)

⚓️🛳️🚢🌊✡️
March 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM