Anoushka Alexander-Rose

Very proud to have been part of this wonderful project for the last two years! Please do visit if you're in Manchester to learn about Maimonides in his context…

Some new words from me on collaging the Wandering Jew after taking the exhibition and workshops to the 'Arts and Humanities Day' @unisouthampton.bsky.social:

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🎊 @parkesinstitute.bsky.social at Limmud!

I am organising the PhD engagement programme with 5 post/doctoral researchers presenting on Jewish studies. Participants include @josephfinlay.bsky.social, and @hannahewence.bsky.social as mentor! Also, sessions on heritage, academia & Wandering Jews 🎊

My paper, "Reflections on Translating, Curating and Collaging the Wandering Jew", explores personal and ethnographic insights on working through this thorny legend in textual and visual form, and a workshop hosted at Limmud!

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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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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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CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE

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

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Poster for Simone Gigliotti's talk "A Close yet Distant Suffering: Tracing the Holocaust Survivor Diaspora in New Zealand" taking place at 6 pm on Tuesday 28 October on Avenue Campus and Online. Logos of the University of Southampton and of the Parkes Institute

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...

Extended deadline til 10th September! >>>

Extended deadline til 5th October! 📜

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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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 ➡️

#CfP | EAJS invites propasals for the EAJS Virtual 2025: Translating Maimonides in late autumn | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

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Deadline for abstracts: September 18, 2025

📜 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

🎊 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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📣 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

and a British Jewish Heritage panel organised with Yulia Egorova as part of our ongoing project, with presentations on problematics of representation from Robin Makin, Tony Kushner, Hannah Ewence & @samsamev.bsky.social on Liverpool, Southampton, Chester & Marseille #BIAJS2025 @biajs.bsky.social

A pleasure to be part of a lively and interdisciplinary Liquid Jewish Studies panel with @bengidley.bsky.social Tony Kushner, @ophiragamliel.bsky.social & @samsamev.bsky.social on migration, oceanic perspectives, watermarks & @liminalwater.bsky.social - two pence added from me on the Wandering Jew 🌊

More #BIAJS2025 highlights: a tour of the wonderful Scottish Jewish Archives Centre; keynotes from @gavinschaffer.bsky.social & Tony Kushner on new storytelling perspectives; Yiddish dancing & ceilidh @sgollance.bsky.social; @josephfinlay.bsky.social Anglo-Jewish imperial travel @biajs.bsky.social

Really enjoyed presenting on 21st c regendered/postcolonial depictions of the Wandering Jew alongside Richard I Cohen & @llampertweissig.bsky.social, followed by a great panel on Sephardi studies with @samsamev.bsky.social @eliaou-balouka.bsky.social Karin Skinazi & Ilana Webster-Kogen #BIAJS2025

The Wandering Jew takes Scotland! Exhibition on display at #BIAJS2025 @biajs.bsky.social for all attending…
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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 >>

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

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!

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...

Tomorrow - with my former prof and external examiner (post viva!) - will be excellent >>

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