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@charlieknight.bsky.social

PhD @parkesinstitute.bsky.social‬, Uni of Southampton LBI Fellow 24/25 - German Jewish letter writing in the Holocaust

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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!

www.germanhistorysoc...

04.07.2025 14:49 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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

25.06.2025 21:31 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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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....

16.06.2025 11:05 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
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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.

Read more about our services here:
holocaustresearchconsultancy.org/services/

11.06.2025 11:27 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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! 📣

05.06.2025 09:06 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 2

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 ⬇️

30.05.2025 20:13 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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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

27.05.2025 08:50 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

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 🔽

27.05.2025 08:42 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

23.05.2025 14:41 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

12.05.2025 10:09 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

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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02.04.2025 17:00 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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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… 🦋

12.03.2025 15:26 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 1
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@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

28.02.2025 09:33 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨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

26.02.2025 10:12 — 👍 12    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

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. 👇

13.02.2025 16:07 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to chair this screening on Monday 😊

20.02.2025 13:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
LibGuides@Southampton: Love Data @ Soton: Home LibGuides@Southampton: Love Data @ Soton: Home

📢 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 👇
library.soton.ac.uk/...

06.02.2025 13:20 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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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/...

31.01.2025 14:44 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2
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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
theconversation.com/the-holocaus...

27.01.2025 09:59 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2
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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...

14.01.2025 13:48 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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📣 Holocaust & Memory Seminar 📣

We’ve got an exciting term card for @ox.ac.uk H&M Seminar this term. Hear from leading scholars, translators, and public history professionals about new & innovate research in #HolocaustStudies. I hope you can join us!

13.01.2025 11:31 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Beyond thrilled to share my recent publication in #Film&History 🎉 Click on the link to read about how much I love #InglouriousBasterds & Tarantino’s critique of the Americanization of the Holocaust
muse.jhu.edu/pub/39/artic...

#HolocaustStudies #MediaStudies

07.01.2025 13:22 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The GHS was proud to co-fund this innovative exhibition 'The Wandering Jew: A Travelling Exhibition' showing in January and February at the @ghilondon.bsky.social

Check out more about the exhibition in the 🧵 below...

03.01.2025 15:54 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Go follow the @germanhistsoc.bsky.social for all the latest updates from the society!

03.01.2025 15:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Next up — the Wandering Jew in London, with a special event on the 23rd January where I will be in conversation with Elisabeth Becker-Topkara exploring the exhibition through the lens of understanding Jewish agency in the construction of German, and European, culture and society. Link below!

19.12.2024 09:05 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

The Wandering Jew: A Travelling Exhibition comes to the @ghilondon.bsky.social in the new year!
Find out more below and come along to @anoushka-ar.bsky.social lecture on the 23 Jan!

17.12.2024 17:37 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Southampton Holocaust and Genocide Memorial Day
Monday 27th January 2025, 6–8pm #HMD

🕯️ Our commemorative event includes a conversation with Lvov ghetto survivor Janine Webber, a reading of Vesna Maric's memoir 'Bluebird' and student reflections
🎟️ Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...

13.12.2024 14:12 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Would be amazing to connect with more writers and playwrights here!

I’ve been writing since 2022, most recently the play “An Apology to Lady Gaga”, which this year has been playing in Mexico City in a Spanish-language translation by the fab Elisabetha Gruener for insecta Theatre. ❤️❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

15.11.2024 13:54 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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