Dr. Charlie Knight

CFP: Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents

CFP
Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives of Life-Writing and Ego-Documents (April 2026)
Deadline: 31 December 2025
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CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026

We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton!

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The next episode of Series 2 of 'Glimpses of German History' is OUT NOW!

In this episode, Anne Buckley (Leeds) takes us to a field in Skipton, North Yorkshire which housed a German prisoner of war camp during the First World War.

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In the first episode of Glimpses of German History Season 2, Sandra Lipner shows us how denazification questionnaires help us explore the shift from dictatorship to democracy in postwar Germany. The questionnaire was intended by the occupying Allies to categorise people in terms of their previous in Glimpses of German History S2E1: Denazification Questionnaire

Episode 1 of Series 2 of our documentary series 'Glimpses of German History' is now available on YouTube!

In this episode @sandralipner.bsky.social shows us how denazification questionnaires help us explore the shift from dictatorship to democracy in post-war Germany.

YouTube video by German History Society Glimpses of German History Season 2: Trailer

📽️ Season 2 of 'Glimpses of German History', coming soon...

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Charlie Knight Charlie Knight is the 2025-26 Bithell Visiting Fellow at the ILCS.

I'm very pleased to be joining the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London next month as the 2025-26 Bithell Visiting Fellow in German Studies!

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About We are a team of scholars who have come together to deliver assistance to individuals, families, students, academics, and organizations for Holocaust research, education, and public engagement. We …

The HRC is a team of scholars who work in a variety of disciplines across the field of Holocaust Studies. We have expertise that ranges across histories, theories, & languages.

Read more about the HRC & our services here: holocaustresearchconsultancy.org/about/

The deadline for the German History Society's Undergraduate Essay Prize is NEXT WEEK!

Do you have an outstanding dissertation to submit?

Check out our website for more details!

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Fascinating talk at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social this evening on Tony Kushner’s @parkesinstitute.bsky.social new book ‘The Jewish Pedlar’ with @manchesterup.bsky.social

Last week I submitted my PhD thesis on German-Jewish letters sent during the Holocaust.
Thank you to my fantastic supervisors Joachim and Tony at the @parkesinstitute.bsky.social - and to everyone who has shared their stories and knowledge with me over the last four years - now the viva....

Services The Holocaust Research Consultancy is a team of scholars who have come together to deliver assistance to individuals, families, students, academics, and organizations in Holocaust research, educati…

Our team of experts offer a wide range of services to support families, scholars, independent researchers, & educators in #Holocaust research & education.

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A major thank you to everyone who attended and supported the #HolocaustStudies networking event at the #IWM last week… What a fantastic day fostering community and supporting young researchers.

We hope to make this an annual event so look out for future calls for participants! 📣

Very excited to be a part of this new adventure with @caileedavis.bsky.social @barnabasbalint.bsky.social @niamh-hanrahan.bsky.social keep an eye out for more updates coming soon - give us a follow too ⬇️

Fantastic conference at the Indiana University Gateway in Berlin on the place of German Jewish History in the Holocaust. Fascinating papers all round.
Thanks to @mmzpotsdam.bsky.social @ghiwashington.bsky.social for organising

This event is TONIGHT at 6pm!

It was a pleasure to help @anoushka-ar.bsky.social with this project and I'm happy to now chair the launch of the digital exhibition.
Details below 🔽

My fab supervisor Tony Kushner has a new book out - The Jewish Pedlar - with @manchesterup.bsky.social.
There's a book launch in Southampton on 4 June @octoberbooks.bsky.social and also a talk at the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social on 25 June

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...

The GHS has numerous funding opportunities and awards available throughout the year for PGRs and ECRs. The deadline for some of them is fast approaching!

Check out the following 🧵 for more details:

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Last week I submitted my PhD thesis 'Vladimir Nabokov's Jewish Muse!' - hugely privileged to be supervised by Professors Devorah Baum and @clairelefoll.bsky.social and to have the wonderful @parkesinstitute.bsky.social as my academic home! Thanks to many others who supported along the way… 🦋

@parkesinstitute.bsky.social hosted a screening of Jessie Eisenberg’s #ARealPain — it’s a lovely example of 3rd Gen #Holocaust representation. Go see it if you haven’t!

Really enjoyed the fantastic discussion w/ EmilyRose Baker, Tony Kushner, & Janek Gryta, moderated by @charlieknight.bsky.social

🚨CFP: GHS Annual Conference🚨

The GHS are proud to share the call for papers for our upcoming conference at the University of Loughborough on the 4-6 September 2025
The deadline for applications is 19 April 2025.

For more info see: www.germanhistorysoc...

#GermanHistSoc2025

We're very pleased to announce that Anoushka Alexander-Rose's (@anoushka-ar.bsky.social) exhibition will stay with us at the GHIL for a while longer!

It reframes the Wandering Jew from its origins in medieval Christian myth and presents how the legend has evolved across time and cultures. 👇

Excited to chair this screening on Monday 😊

📢 Next week, Parkes Outreach Fellow @charlieknight.bsky.social will give a talk at #LoveData25 on his work with the Theodor Hirschberg papers @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social

The event is hybrid & open to all.

📅 Feb 12, 2:30pm (GMT)
📍 Highfield Campus & online

More info 👇
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🎥 On Monday 24th February, we are holding a screening and roundtable event on Jesse Eisenberg’s 2025 film ’A Real Pain’ at Harbour Lights Picturehouse cinema in Southampton.

🔗 Book your tickets here: www.southampton.ac.uk/parkes/news/...

The Holocaust: how ‘rescue archaeology’ is tackling the impending loss of surviving witnesses Forms of ‘rescue archaeology’ are working to save the testimony of survivors before it is too late.

Tony Kushner's latest piece on the Holocaust, survivors' testimonies and rescue archaeology for @uk.theconversation.com
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Very happy to be giving a keynote lecture at Reading Council Chamber for HMD this year - I’ll be tracking a handful of German-Jewish refugee narratives alongside the ones of those they were forced to leave behind
Book here: www.reading.gov.uk/leisure/thin...