The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/ non-Jewish Relations Annual Review 2018 - 2019 Cover image: Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, courtesy of Corey Kai Nelson Schultz IN THIS ISSUE Professor Shirli Gilbert and Professor Joachim Schlör 04 22 35 Report of the Director Special Collections Publications, Papers and of the Parkes Institute and Library Report Talks by Members of the Dr Helen Spurling by Karen Robson and Parkes Institute Jenny Ruthven 08 CONTENTS Outreach report Report of the Director of the Parkes Institute 4 Tribute to Clinton Silver 6 and Diana Bailey Outreach 8 Conferences, Workshops, Lectures and Seminars 12 Journals of the Parkes Institute 14 Development 15 Internationalisation 16 Moss Memorial Prizes and David Cesarani Prize 17 23 MA and PhD Report 18 14 Reports by Parkes students 20 FEATURE: Journals of the Special Collections and Parkes Institute Library Report 22 Reports by Reports by Academic Members Academic Members of the Parkes Institute 23 Publications, Papers and Talks by of the Parkes Institute Members of the Parkes Institute 35 Members of the Parkes Institute 38 The Parkes Institute and Library Friends Membership Programme 39 3 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE PARKES INSTITUTE Dr Helen Spurling James Parkes exhibition funded by the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC), including archival materials from the Special Collections at the University of Southampton The purpose of the Parkes Institute is to explore relations between Jews and others throughout history, address major questions around inter-cultural relations, and combat racism and intolerance. Through research, teaching and public engagement, this mission reflects the goals of James Parkes, but also the ambitions and commitments of all our members. It has been an important year for the Parkes First World War and on the modern Jewish anti-Jewish prejudice in precolonial and colonial Institute, as we have seen growth in terms of six experience, and co-founder of the Crisis Forum Morocco, and, while sorry to lose her, we are new members, and made substantial plans for which was the first UK HE body to deal with the pleased that she has a new position as Lecturer in future new directions. We are delighted to ecological disasters facing the world today. the Department of Sociology and Social welcome Dan Brown, Mark Cornwall, Neil Gregor, Anthropology at the University of Valencia. Shirli Gilbert is leaving for a new position at UCL George Gilbert, Corey Schultz and Kati Straner as Congratulations are also due to Dominic after over a decade at the Parkes Institute. Shirli’s members, and you can read about their interests Williams, our London Teaching Fellow, who has contributions in this time have been substantial and research in the reports from academic been offered a Senior Lectureship at the and invaluable, including outstanding dedication members in this Annual Review. They have University of Northumbria. We are hugely as Director of the Parkes Institute. Shirli has already made a huge impact on the Institute in grateful to Dominic for all his work to make our offered creative contributions to research in terms of ideas and contributions to our different MA programme in London a success. modern Jewish history and Holocaust Studies, activities over the year. The whole Parkes team such as with her books Music in the Holocaust: We also had the devastating news in the Autumn spent considerable time, energy and enthusiasm confronting life in the Nazi ghettos and camps of 2018 of the loss of a wonderful colleague and this year reflecting on the work that we do as an and From Things Lost: Forgotten Letters and the friend in Andrea Reiter (1957-2018). Andrea was a Institute and how we might build on existing Legacy of the Holocaust. She also received wide committed researcher in the areas of Holocaust good practice as well as develop new directions. recognition as a much-loved and committed and Exile literature and Post-War Austrian Aspects of our new strategy have already teacher. We will all miss Shirli’s optimistic literature, and a long-standing member of the manifested, especially in terms of developing an presence and look forward to collaborating Parkes Institute. We were able to include an arts and culture programme, and we look in new ways. obituary about Andrea in last year’s Annual forward to sharing more of our innovations in Review, which you might like to read at www. the coming years. Corey Schultz joined the Institute and southampton.ac.uk/parkes/about/reviews/ contributed so much this year, but from But there have also been some departures. Mark index.page. In this year’s Annual Review, we also September will start a new position at the Levene retired this year after nearly twenty years have tributes to Clinton Silver (1929-2019), one of University of Nottingham’s campus in China. We of highly distinguished service. He is the world’s our longstanding supporters, and Diana Bailey are very sad to see him go, but Corey will become leading expert on the history of genocide, having (1925-2019), one of the last people to work with an Honorary Fellow and we are delighted that we written the definitive multi-volume study The James Parkes, and lastly Mag Kushner who for will be able to continue to work together in the Crisis of Genocide (winner of the history of the over three decades was host to many members future. Maite Ojeda-Mata, our Marie Sklodowska- Institute for the Study of Genocide Lemkin Book of the Parkes Institute and our international Curie European Fellow, was working on Award 2015). He is also a world authority on the visitors. 4 Sharing our research with the wider community, of Teacher Education at Lucerne, Switzerland, Our outreach programme this year was led by whether locally or internationally, is an which raises important questions about Chad McDonald, Katie Power and Nicola underpinning motivation of the Parkes Institute, conservation and memory. Mark Cornwall is Woodhead, our Karten Doctoral Fellows, who and our members have exemplified this goal in currently the holder of a major Leverhulme did an outstanding job of organising a series of diverse ways. We have continued to organise and Fellowship and has given talks on his work at significant events throughout the year, including contribute to significant international events and institutions in Cambridge, Norwich, Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day, our projects, reflecting our expertise from antiquity Southampton, Dublin, Vienna, Boston, New York annual summer school, as well as ‘Rediscovering to the present. Sarah Pearce was a respondent and Budapest. We particularly want to the King of Lampedusa’. Chad, Katie and Nicola and panel member at an international emphasise our support of CEU, given its are also responsible for our social media, which, conference in Oxford on ‘Protestant Bible embattled status under the Orbán regime; both alongside Twitter and Facebook, includes a blog Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philo-Semitism, and Mark Cornwall and Kati Straner gave talks there with some fascinating articles, including pieces Anti-Judaism’. Research into Jewish identity is a this year, and we look forward to welcoming from our new members. You can read our blog at major focus of our work, and James Jordan gave Michael Miller from CEU as our speaker for the https://parkesinstituteblog.wordpress.com/ or a paper on David Kossoff for the British Parkes Lecture next year. follow us on Twitter @ParkesInstitute. You can Association for Holocaust Studies annual read more about our activities in the Outreach Closer to home, we have already begun to conference, while Shirli Gilbert organised an report, but a huge thank you goes to everyone on develop our arts and culture programme. international conference on ‘Jewish Identity, the the Parkes team for contributing to and Joachim Schlör and Kati Straner were in Holocaust, and Anti-Racist Struggles since 1945’. delivering such meaningful occasions for conversation with artist Anja Lewin about her Claire Le Foll collaborated with the State Vitebsk learning and reflection, and to the Ian Karten exhibition in Southampton’s John Hansard University, the Marc Chagall Museum, the Charitable Trust for making such work possible. Gallery, which focused on the subjects of Museum of contemporary art, and the Centre migration and memory. The John Hansard I would like to offer a huge thank you to all d’études franco-russe in Moscow to hold an Gallery was also the venue for one of Devorah members of Parkes, including Jenny Ruthven at important workshop in Belarus on the Vitebsk Baum’s many engaging talks when she spoke with the Parkes Library, Karen Robson from Special art school in the context of Jewish history and Carole Burns as ‘Writers in Conversation’. Our Collections, Joanna Watts at the Office for identity. This year we also held our second big summer public event was ‘Rediscovering the Development and Alumni Relations and Tracy international conference on Jewish heritage led King of Lampedusa’ at the Nuffield Studio Storey, for all the dedicated efforts they have by Tony Kushner in collaboration with Kathrin Theatre, which was organised by our doctoral made throughout the year to make the Parkes Pieren at the London Jewish Museum. Heritage is students Katie Power and Abaigh McKee with Institute a success – it is a privilege to work with a key interest of members of the Parkes Institute, help from Claire Le Foll. George Gilbert, Tony such a creative and thoughtful team. Our varied and is, for example, the theme of Corey Schultz’s Kushner, Claire Le Foll and Helen Spurling audiences deserve thanks and praise for all their research on the Jewish ‘other’ in Chinese contributed talks (and even acting!) alongside a insightful engagement with our activities.