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Parkes Annual Rep 04D.Qxd School of Humanities Annual Report 2004-2005 Contact us: Postgraduate Office School of Humanities The Parkes Institute University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton for the study of Jewish/ Hampshire non-Jewish relations SO17 1BF United Kingdom Tel: + 44 (0) 23 8059 3406 Fax: + 44 (0) 023 8059 5437 [email protected] www.humanities.soton.ac.uk Application forms and instructions available at: http://www.soton.ac.uk/ApplicationForm/ The Parkes Institute Annual Report 2004 – 2005 The Rev. Dr James Parkes (1894- was established within the University Contents 1981) formally created The Parkes in 1964 to house the massive private Library in 1961 with the aim of collection of James Parkes. providing a centre for research by z Report of the Head of the Parkes 1 non-Jewish and Jewish scholars and Since then, the study of Jewish History Institute, Dr Sarah Pearce studentsÖ into the whole field of and Culture has developed enormously relations between Judaism and other at Southampton.This success was z Outreach 1 religions. James Parkes was an marked in the year 2000 when the extraordinary person; a volatile non- Parkes Institute received the largest z Conferences, Lectures and Seminars 1 conformist a creative force and a research grant ever awarded to a in the Parkes Institute person who confronted antisemitism Jewish Studies related Centre in a head-on. He demanded a world in British University. Over £800 000 was z Income 1 which it was safe to be a Jew. In the given to the Centre by The Arts and years leading up to the war he tried Humanities Research Board to fund z Postgraduate Studies in Jewish 1 to warn an unheeding Church of the five research projects. fate facing the Jews of Europe and as History and Culture a ‘righteous gentile’ he actively rescued Today the Parkes Library forms the many Jewish refugees, including the basis of one of the Hartley Library’s z Reports by Parkes Institute 1 “I do not believe that what grandfather of the actress Rachel special collections. It consists of both postgraduate students lies beyond our present Weisz. He was co-founder of The an archive and a printed section and confusion is a New Age of Council of Christians and Jews and is housed in magnificent state of the z Reports by members of the 1 faith. Many generations will devoted his life to combating art quarters in the Hartley Library’s Parkes Institute antisemitism, reaching out in new extension. pass before we achieve reconciliation to the Jews whom he z Parkes Library Report 1 world-wide unity of outlook. believed Christianity had failed. The Parkes Institute is a community of What lies before this scholars, curators, librarians, students, generation is something However Southampton’s links with Friends of Parkes and activists, whose z Special Collections Report by 1 unprecedented. It is a loyal Jewish Studies go back further than this work is based around the rich resource Dr Chris Woolgar co-operation between many even; to the beginning of the last of the library and archive.Through our z Publications and papers by members 1 types of mind and outlook, century when Claude Montefiore, an research, publications teaching and outstanding Jewish scholar of the Bible conservation work we seek to provide many different philosophies of of the Parkes Institute and early Jewish-Christian relations, a world-class centre for the study of life, united in common became president of The University Jewish/non-Jewish relations throughout z Members of the Management 1 recognition of the seriousness College of Southampton which was the ages; to study the experience of Committee of the Parkes Institute of our situation.” later to become the University of minorities and outsiders and to Southampton. Much of Montefiore’s examine the power of prejudice from z Members of the Board of Studies 1 (James Parkes, personal library is housed in antiquity to the contemporary world. Southampton, 1972) Southampton’s Parkes Library for Study of the Parkes Institute of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations which z Fellows of the Parkes Institute 1 z Honorary Fellows of the Parkes 1 Institute z Patrons of the Parkes Institute 1 Report of the Head of the Parkes Institute our scholars a number with very strong international links both publications. In the academic year 2004-5 notable new Outreach Dr Mark Levene with like-minded institutes on the European continent, Israel additions included Tony Kushner’s We Europeans? Mass and North America. But in internationally troubled times, our Observation,‘Race’ and British Identity in the Twentieth This has been a year of new beginnings and significant ends. work would seem to beckon us along other travel routes, too. Century representing a new phase and focus in his ongoing After five years of funding from the Arts and Humanities James Parkes’ aim was always to interrogate the fundamental scrutiny of British polity and society and its ambivalent attitudes Research Council the AHRC Parkes Institute completed its interaction between Jews and non-Jews across historical time to incomers, immigrants and refugees in contemporary times. In critical role as a dedicated AHRC-funded research centre. It and place. Our commitment to creating a new post in fact, it was only one of several new Kushner works (the others would be literally too time-consuming a recitation to repeat Muslim-Jewish relations, one incidentally, strongly supported by co-written or co-edited) this year. After many years in (and indeed extol) its enormous range and quality of projects our dedicated research centre’s AHRC advisory panel, fully preparation, Mark Levene’s first two volumes of his projected and publications. In its final year, however, two events were dovetails with this agenda. Signalling that purpose we were multi-volume magnum opus Genocide in the Age of the particularly notable moments of culmination.The first, in January delighted to have Dr Mona Siddiqui, director of the Centre for Nation-State were also published. So, too, were Nils Roemer’s 2005, was the Cape Town conference on ‘Place and the Study of Islam at the University of Glasgow, to deliver the latest study, Jewish Scholarship and Culture in 19th century Displacement’ co-organised with the Kaplan Centre for Jewish 2005 Ian Karten lecture in March. Dr Siddiqui, a well-known Germany and Andrea Reiter’s Narrating the Holocaust.This Studies, at the University of Cape Town. So successful, indeed, scholar and broadcaster, not least in the latter case in BBC handful of monographs represents simply a small window into − was this, not least thanks to warm collaboration from Prof. radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’, slot, spoke on ‘Judaism and the many other publications articles, chapters and online − Milton Shain, at Kaplan, that a formal relationship now exists Islam’.We have been very fortunate and grateful to receive contributions published by each of our scholars in 2004-5, as Caption needed between the Parkes Institute and the Kaplan Centre. And long School funding for an ensuing seminar programme dedicated detailed in this report. may it prosper.Then, in July, with just a few months of the AHRC specifically to Muslim-Jewish-Christian interactions which will be In June the Parkes Institute, with the Council of Christians and remit to run, the Research Institute organised another major more fully developed in the academic year 2005-6. Frances As our Outreach section shows, Parkesian contact with a broader Jews, jointly held a book launch in Notting Hill to mark the international conference.With Nadia Valman this time firmly at Clarke, our Parkes administrator, remains a stalwart and public also remains vital and indeed is essential to the work of the occasion of the publication of the first biography of the Rev. the helm, ably co-supported on this occasion by Dr Eitan creative lynchpin in supporting and helping to develop this and Institute. Parkes scholars are involved, in many public advisory Dr James Parkes. Sister Margaret Shepherd, Director of The Bar-Yosef, from Ben-Gurion University in Israel,‘Jews, Empire and other aspects of our seminar series. capacities, in museums and other public bodies, and often as Council of Christians and Jews, introduced the event which also Race,’ considered just that, in all its diverse historical, literary, broadcasters, expert media commentators, and columnists. Our included a short talk by Professor Tony Kushner and a reading conceptual and representational complexities, and with over Another key area of potential development is our work on engagement with other civic and educational organisations such by author Colin Richmond, emeritus professor of History, 100 delegates to discuss and debate some fifty papers. modern Jewish migration, its relationship particularly to port as The Three Faiths Forum is something we particularly wish to Keele.The book: Campaigner Against Antisemitism,The cities and metropoli, and the cultural, literary, religious and build on, in addition, for instance, to the ongoing lecture series we Reverend James Parkes 1896-1981 (Vallentine Mitchell June With the AHRC Parkes work in mind, very special thanks are representational issues which are part of its legacy.These sometimes provide, such as that organised this last year with the 2005) was eagerly bought by members of the large crowd due to Dr Steve Taverner who as the Research Centre’s Project interests run in parallel not only to the development of Bournemouth Jewish Congregation. who attended the launch, held at the Sion Centre for Dialogue Manager ably, unceasingly, and always cheerfully steered the Transnational Studies within the School of Humanities but also and Encounter in Notting Hill. It was good to see so many Institute through its not always easy final two years, not to say with an AHRC major funding programme entitled ‘Diasporas, That said, it is doubtful that any of this could be achieved Friends of Parkes at the event as well as academics and provided many other skills − academic and of a fundamental IT Migrations and Identities.’ An early bid to the programme was without the support over the years of key patrons.
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