University of Southampton Faith and Reflection Centre

10/12/2025

Merry Christmas!

02/12/2025

Don't forget to register for our last event of the semester, a talk with Antoinette Moses on "Success or failure: The Evian Conference of 1938"

📍 Avenue Campus (LTC) & online via Zoom
🗓️ Tuesday 2 December, 6 PM GMT
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/success-or-failure-the-evian-conference-of-1938-tickets-1754122590889?aff=fb

13/11/2025

Please join us for a talk with Geoffrey Levin

This talk will explore the hidden history of American Jewish debates over Palestinian rights during Israel’s early decades (1948-1978). Rather than being a recent phenomenon, this lecture will show that American Jews have engaged with both Palestinian rights issues and Palestinians themselves since Israel’s creation. The debates were both fueled and constrained by contact with Israelis and Palestinians but also shaped in part by American Jews’ relationships with Christians and other Americans.

🗓️ Thursday 20 November, 6pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus & Online
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/our-palestine-question-a-history-of-american-jews-and-palestinian-rights-tickets-1754138408199?aff=fb

04/11/2025

First Wednesday Worship is this week - hope you can make it! 🙏

04/11/2025

Please join us for the Annual EHRI-UK Lecture with speakers Michal Frankl, Vanden Daelen Veerle, Michal Brandl and Rachel Pistol!

This year's lecture will be a roundtable discussion between senior members of EHRI European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, covering topics including the significance and changing character of Holocaust research in a digital age and how EHRI works to bring people, sources and resources together through a state-of-the-art digital infrastructure.

It is a wonderful opportunity to hear from some of the leading researchers, archivists and cultural heritage specialists from the 11 EHRI member countries on their first joint visit to Southampton, and we hope you will join us for an intellectually stimulating discussion.

🗓️ Tuesday 4 November, 5:30 pm GMT

📍 Avenue Campus

🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ehri-uk-annual-lecture-transnational-holocaust-research-in-a-digital-age-tickets-1801367902889?aff=fb

29/10/2025

Welcome to the Parkes Institute newsletter.

28/10/2025

Our first event of the academic year is taking place in one week!

Join us for a talk from Simone Gigliotti (The Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London) on 'A Close yet Distant Suffering: The Holocaust Survivor Diaspora in Aotearoa/New Zealand and trajectories of visibility'

📅 Tuesday 28 October, 6pm GMT
📍 Avenue Campus & online via Zoom
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-close-yet-distant-suffering-tickets-1754013925869?aff=fb

20/09/2025

Great news! We’ve climbed to 17th in The Times Good University Guide 2026 🎉

We’re delighted to see our research excellence, rising student satisfaction scores, strong graduate prospects and investment in new facilities highlighted.

Professor Mark E. Smith, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton, said: "Rising to 17th position in the Times Good University Guide 2026 is excellent news, especially following our rises in the Daily Mail and Guardian rankings in recent weeks.

“League tables are an important indicator for students and their parents when choosing a university, and it is therefore good to see our position in the UK top 20 clearly consolidated in these three widely-used rankings.”

For more 👉 https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings

02/06/2025

30/05/2025

23/05/2025

1 week to go until our Wandering Jew: Book Launch and Digital Exhibition Launch webinar!

Sign up to hear Professor Lisa Lampert-Weissig UC San Diego discuss Heinrich Heine's poetic interpretation of the legend from her 2024 monograph (University of Michigan Press) alongside Dr Anoushka Alexander-Rose (University of Southampton) launch the online version of her travelling exhibition, digitised by Dr Katie Power. This double bill highlights how the legend can be reimagined, showcasing Jewish creative efforts to reframe its antisemitic historic roots.

Tuesday 27th May, 6pm, online: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/instrument-of-memory-encounters-with-the-wandering-jew-tickets-1316053564639?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&fbclid=IwY2xjawKZdy9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETB0eDh0MWRhZFQzVkloMFN6AR63HAMCGmQqL_nx50ZkpEq21oQCm35LdOC3uMXEW2XmhF-UkBgWtp7Vyh66VQ_aem_FbshHH49S2dvixPb_ECGww

17/05/2025

Our final Parkes event of the year is an exciting 'Wandering Jew' double bill!

Sign up to our webinar on 27th May at 6pm to hear Professor Lisa Lampert-Weissig (English Literature and Comparative Medieval Studies at the University of California, San Diego) talk about her recent 'Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew' with Dr Anoushka Alexander-Rose (English at the University of Southampton) to launch the digital version of her travelling exhibition! Together, they bring together new approaches to understanding this historic and troublesome legend, considering how it can be reclaimed by Jewish thinkers, writers and artists.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/instrument-of-memory-encounters-with-the-wandering-jew-tickets-1316053564639?aff=ebdsoporgprofile