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BISA at Birkbeck
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The Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London is a centre of innovative research and teaching, and contributes to public policy.

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Join us on 2 December to hear Prof. @dovwaxman.bsky.social on ‘The moral panic in America about antisemitism on college campuses’. Book here: bit.ly/49Bp4Ia
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
@kenanmalik.bsky.social discussing race, identity and antisemitism at BISA this evening.
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Join us online this Wednesday (22 Oct, 13:00 BST) to hear Profs. Devorah Baum and Stephen Frosh discuss the interplay between Jewish Studies and psychoanalysis. Book here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/psycho...
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Check out BISA's autumn 2025 events programme on our website bisa.bbk.ac.uk/whats-on/eve.... We’ll be hearing from Professors Stephen Frosh and Devorah Baum on ‘Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies’ online on 22 October. Sign up here to join us: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/psycho...
October 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
On 10 June, join us online to hear BISA’s Eliana Hadjisavvas discuss Jewish detention and displacement throughout the British Empire in the aftermath of WWII. More information here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/detent...
May 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
There’s still time to register to hear BISA’s @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social discuss ‘Pogroms, politics and memory: rethinking anti-Jewish violence from the Harlem Renaissance to October 7th’ online TODAY at 1pm (BST). More info here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/pogrom...
May 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Join us online on 14 May as BISA’s @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social discusses how we might reframe definitions of the pogrom, drawing on an analysis of race and class developed by Black radicals during the Harlem Renaissance. More info here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/pogrom...
May 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
On 14 May, join us online to hear BISA’s @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social on ‘Pogroms, politics and memory: rethinking anti-Jewish violence from the Harlem Renaissance to October 7th’. More information here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/pogrom...
April 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Join us online tomorrow to hear Prof. Adam Sutcliffe as he charts the increasing emphasis across the West since the 1900s of ‘redemptive anti-antisemitism’ and considers its problematic role in contemporary politics. More information here: bit.ly/3CLwbQp
March 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Join us tomorrow to hear Prof. Maurice Samuels discuss how the antisemitism unleashed during the Dreyfus Affair transformed the nature of Jewish identity, changing how Jews saw their place in the world and their relation to other Jews. Book here: bit.ly/3X3YCQg
March 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
On 18 March, join us online to hear Prof. Adam Sutcliffe on ‘the politics of redemptive anti-antisemitism’. More information here: bit.ly/3CLwbQp
February 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Join us at Birkbeck on 11 March to hear Prof. Maurice Samuels, Yale University on ‘ The Dreyfus Affair, antisemitism, and the transformation of Jewish identity’. Book here: bit.ly/3X3YCQg
February 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Join us on 11 February to hear Matthew Bolton on 'Antisemitism, Israel and the limits of anti-discrimination law'. More information here: bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/antise...
February 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Antisemitism is a stain on UK society. Current responses to tackling the problem are not working, and we urgently need a new approach to both thinking about and combating antisemitism – says a new report out today. Read the report here: ow.ly/LEp550UFjVP. A thread.
January 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Join us on 3 Dec to hear Prof. Douglas Rossinow on how the Zionist movement in the US was shaped after 1948 by the changing position of Jews in American society and by the changing ways of talking about antisemitism bisa.bbk.ac.uk/event/aliya-... #academicsky
November 25, 2024 at 11:21 AM