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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🏆 BIAJS PhD Studentship Call! 📜 To support the society and undertake an independent project promoting Jewish studies in the UK and Ireland £1,500 p/a for the duration of the PhD 📅 Deadline 22nd June, interviews during BIAJS 13-15 July or online bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2026/06/09/b...

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BIAJS PhD Studentship Call

BIAJS PhD Studentship Call We invite applications for the BIAJS PhD studentship, which is now vacant. It is intended that interviews for the studentship will take place either online before or in p…

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Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Looking forward to this! Join us in person (with reception) or online on Weds, 4 March, 5.30pm

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StanleyBurtonCentre @uolsbc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last-minute registration is still open for the Online discussion on Recent Books in Holocaust Studies: New Research and Interpretations. Event will be held on 29 January at 5pm UK / 7pm IL time. The discussion will feature @svenjabethke.bsky.social , Prof. Richard Breitman & @waitmanwbeorn.com

Registration
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9IiVFgRz1ND6zbv7EB5MtmFuW1c73Voago1lJie6xSrqQEg/viewform

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

On the pickets tomorrow:

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Caroline Sharples @carolinesharples.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The amazing & incredibly generous @carolinepennock.bsky.social has beaten me to it! My book launch is coming soon @wienerlibrary.bsky.social. All welcome!

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Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I look forward to discussing my book 'Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos' @uoftpress.bsky.social online on 29 Jan, 5pm UK time/7pm IL time alongside other exciting publications - thanks @Western Galilee College- Reg to join us👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden @igdjhh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Reminder! Tomorrow 20 January 2026 18:00 UK-Time, 19:00 CET Register here 👇

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

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The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
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Open for applications
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Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden @igdjhh.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

20.1.2026 19h Online: "What Remains: Personal Objects and the Memory of the Holocaust" together with @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @uolsbc.bsky.social we co-host the annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture 2026. Speakers are @svenjabethke.bsky.social @drhannahw.bsky.social and Deborah Jaffé 👉 t1p.de/ld8ey

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Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

We hope to see you on 20 Jan, 6-7pm, for a Holocaust Memorial Day event on Personal Objects and the Memory of the Holocaust! #HMD2026

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

We are happy to advertise the international Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme 2026/2027 (German academic year October 2026-September 2027). More information and how to apply: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/fellowship @dubnow.bsky.social

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Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme | Leo Baeck Institute London

Applications are now invited for the international Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme 2026/2027 (German academic year October 2026-September 2027).

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

📣 Freelance opportunity! We're seeking to engage an experienced provenance researcher to conduct a detailed provenance and restitution investigation into the St Lambrecht collection, currently held at the FCDO archive. Find out more and apply🔗

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Work With Us - The Wiener Holocaust Library

Find out about our employment opportunities

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Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Excited to welcome Kelsey Akers as a new PhD student to the @uolsbc.bsky.social - looking forward to working with her on an exciting project on clothing made and designed by Holocaust survivors post 1945!

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Holocaust Research Institute @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

We are delighted to share a new call for papers for a one-day symposium on 'The Holocaust across the Mediterranean' that will take place on 24 April 2026 and has been organised by our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Rebecca Glasberg.

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Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Looking forward to this! Do join us in person or online next Tuesday, 2 December, 5.30pm UK time @uolsbc.bsky.social

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester. Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November. All welcome!

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Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

💫 Delighted to welcome Dmitri Abrahams at the Stanley Burton Centre @uolsbc.bsky.social with his exciting project on Holocaust memory in South Africa funded by an M4C doctoral scholarship, supervised by Dr Zoe Groves and myself - welcome Dmitri!!

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Staff and students came together early on a Friday morning to show their support before negotiations. The negotiations did not lift the threat of compulsory redundancies, so we'll be on strike again in the coming week.

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StanleyBurtonCentre @uolsbc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

📣 IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UPCOMING STRIKE at the University of Leicester, Prof. Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social has CANCELLED his talk next week! The strike takes place in response to the threat of staff cuts with History being one of the areas affected: www.uculeicester.org.uk/information-...

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Information for Students: Staff Strike 2025 | University of Leicester UCU

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Pickets in full force on the first day of strike - see you all tomorrow!

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StanleyBurtonCentre @uolsbc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Last week we had our Advisory Board Meeting. We also had the privilege of hearing from Emeritus Professor Aubrey Newman, founder of the Stanley Burton Centre, who reflected on the mandate of SBC since 1990. Find out more le.ac.uk/stanley-burton

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Christine Schmidt @ceschmidt.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Thank you very much to @uolsbc.bsky.social @svenjabethke.bsky.social, Paul Moore, Bright Chimezda, and Jaspreet Singh for being such wonderful hosts and to all who came out to see the exhibition last week. First time in Leicester! And hope to return @hgrporg.bsky.social @rhulholocaustri.bsky.social

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Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

It was wonderful to have our friends from @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway open their exhibition on the International Tracing Service hosted at the Centre for Regional and Local History and the Stanley Burton Centre @uolsbc.bsky.social last week!

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StanleyBurtonCentre @uolsbc.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We recently hosted @ceschmidt.bsky.social from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and Prof. Dan Stone from Royal Holloway, University of London, for an exhibition sharing heartbreaking cases from the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social International Tracing Service, used to locate missing Holocaust victims

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.

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Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Very much looking forward to speaking at the Stanley Burton Centre on 1 October - do come along and support the brilliant work of our colleagues in the Department of History at the University of Leicester.

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Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany : Thoughts from the Concert Hall

Stanley Burton Centre hosts Prof. Neil Gregor on Nazi Germany, music & society. Free talk, open to historians, students & the public.

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Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We at the Stanley Burton Centre @uolsbc.bsky.social are now on Bluesky, follow us for more 😀

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Caren Frosch @froschlein.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Very successful EGM and rally today. “Angst macht keinen Lärm “ Well we are not afraid and are going to continue to make a lot of noise! No redundancies at Leicester!

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Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I had hoped to become more active here for better reasons - but welcome to UK academia!

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Philipp Osten @osten.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Am 8. April im Abaton mit @kim-todzi.de !

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Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

‪Considering doing a PhD in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and/or Jewish history? Check out the PhD UK fee waiver of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Deadline 30 April, any questions, get in touch! le.ac.uk/study/resear...

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PhD with UK Fee Waiver in the field of holocaust and genocide studies and/or Jewish history | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester

History PhD Scholarship (Fee-Waiver) in "Holocaust and Genocide Studies" The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Leicester, UK.

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Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

💃 As part of my current AHRC-funded project on 'Jewish Dress Migration and Belonging' we also held a number of engagement events that look more broadly at dress and migration in history and contemporary times. Have a closer look at our blog entry and photos ✨ www.leicestermuseums.org/news/migrant...

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Migrant Dress Archive Project – Leicester Museums

Read about a project run by the University of Leicester, at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery.

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German History Society @germanhistsoc.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🚨ENTRIES OPEN!🚨 Entries are open for the 2025 GHS Postgraduate Essay Prize! 📅 Deadline: 20 July 2025 🏆 The winner will receive £500 prize money and will be considered for publication in 'German History' 🖥️ Check out our website for further details! www.germanhistorysociety.org/postgraduate...

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Postgraduate Essay Prize – German History Society | Promoting the Study of German History Worldwide

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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Prof. Miriam Rürup, Direktorin des Potsdamer Moses Mendelssohn Zentrums für europäisch-jüdische Studien: „Wie soll denn Antisemitismus mit einer Resolution bekämpft werden, der die AfD zustimmen kann?“ Sehr hörenswerte Bundespressekonferenz: 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmIq...

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Massive Kritik an Resolution zu "Antisemitismus an Hochschulen" des Bundestags | BPK 30. Januar 2025

YouTube video by Jung & Naiv

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Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The Leo Baeck Institute London proudly presents its 2025 Lecture Series: Belonging and Exclusion. This series explores German-Jewish experiences over four lectures throughout 2025. Join us in-person at Senate House London, or online on Zoom! Details: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/LS-2025

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Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden @igdjhh.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Today 30 Jan, 19.00 german time/6pm UK time virtual event for Holocaust Memorial Day 2025. “Where is my grandfather?” A Family History of the Holocaust in Hungary, organized jointly by @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and @svenjabethke.bsky.social -Stanley Burton Centre. Details: t1p.de/e87s0

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Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Off to new shores, physically and virtually! I am excited to be spending the coming six months at the Center for Jewish Studies @harvard.edu to work on my monograph 'Between Diaspora and the "Land of Israel": Jewish Dress in the Time of Nation Building'. Do reach out if in the area!

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Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de · 23/01/2025

Happy to see, a very good friend of mine joining this plattform. Welcome @svenjabethke.bsky.social ! Give her a follow, if you're interested in modern Jewish history and the history and politics of fashion and clothing.

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