Lovely post by my @liminalwater.bsky.social colleague @raquelcarvalheira.bsky.social

Liminal Waterway Countercultures@liminalwater.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Going to the tide, or Ir à maré in Portuguese, happens cyclically every day.” NEW blogpost by @raquelcarvalheira.bsky.social: liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog...

Peckham evening

An enriching panel on 'Ritual space and Jewish memory in the Mizrahi world' also included Ilana Webster-Kogen @soasuni.bsky.social on 'Religious Pop Songs Shaping North African Pilgrimage' & Agnese Tati on 'Reconstructing the Ritual Spaces of Iraqi Jews' chaired by @evafrommviolet666.bsky.social

A busy final day of great papers! Alex Tepperman @uwinnipeg.bsky.social on Jewish criminality in the 21st century, @ankahajkova.bsky.social on same sex desire in Holocaust history, Martin Orloff on Melillian Jewish cemeteries, & José Alberto R. Silva Tavim on the 'dos Judeus' of 16th c colonial Goa

What a fun workshop! Joanna Spyra and @alephross.bsky.social on ‘Researching Sexuality in (Jewish) Archives: Tools, Ethics, and Practice’ #BIAJS26

Bringing zines to @biajs.bsky.social's 2026 conference — Space and Place in Jewish Studies! You can catch my talk on old and new diasporism at 13.45 tomorrow, Wednesday 14 July

And a couple of great papers on “Jewish urbanism - ghettos, squares and shtetls” with @guesnet.bsky.social on the urban experience of Eastern European Jews and Laura Vaughan on mapping the special character of the ghetto @uclhjs.bsky.social

It's day 2 at #BIAJS2026! We begin with Anne Caldwell on rural cosmopolitanism, Lyman Gamberton on British cultural production, Meitar Tewel on rebuilding Frankfurt am Main, and a roundtable on 'Jewish Heritage Now: Politics, Visibility, Agency' @evafrojmovic0.bsky.social @anoushka-ar.bsky.social

Wonderful day at the 2026 @biajs.bsky.social conference. Grateful to @hannahewence.bsky.social and @bengidley.bsky.social for inviting @eylanezekiel.bsky.social to speak about racism in Jewish life. Learned so much from all especially Daniella Shaw.

Talking about antisemitism and antiracism, you will get lots of comments #biajs26 @toby-kunin.bsky.social @bengidley.bsky.social

Excellent panels on “reconceptualising Jewish American histories of place and space: testimony, Zionism, refugees” & “antisemitism and other racisms” @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @toby-kunin.bsky.social @bjschreier.bsky.social @bengidley.bsky.social @hannahewence.bsky.social

#BIAJS2026 begins at sunny Birkbeck - check out today’s schedule here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - our next session includes panels on borders in ancient Judaism, Israeli culture, Jewish American history, British diversity & gender in religious spaces

Had yet another working Saturday so it was lovely to switch off for a lovely lake swim at Beckenham. Beautiful light and baby moorhens.

This is a lovely piece. (Also mentions @jaydprosser.bsky.social and features Michal Nahman, two great scholars stretching UK Jewish studies. Jay will speak at #BIAJS2026 next week, along with number of interesting Mizrahj and Indian Ocean focused papers.)

British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies@biajs.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our past president Karen Skinazi on the UK’s Sephardic renaissance fathomjournal.org/the-uks-seph...

Yiddishland curator Maria Veits (featured in this article) will be speaking at #BIAJS2026 in London next week. It’s not too late to register to join us! forward.com/culture/8361...

A synagogue will soar above the Venice Biennale's politics, and its lagoon

The art installation 'Nabatele' consists of a shtetl-style synagogue floating above Venice's waters

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Facing up to Racism WITHIN the Jewish community in the UK - a roundtable with @bengidley.bsky.social @hannahewence.bsky.social and (me) @whojewthinkur.bsky.social Monday lunchtime. Thanks to @biajs.bsky.social for inviting me.

Ben Gidley@bengidley.bsky.social · last mo.

The BIAJS conference at Birkbeck is shaping up well. Check out the current version of the programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My blogpost on my work on Claude McKay for the @liminalwater.bsky.social project liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/blog/blog...

The BIAJS conference at Birkbeck is shaping up well. Check out the current version of the programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

BIAJS 2026 conference schedule, Monday 13 July to Wednesday 15 July, Birkbeck, University of London V2

BIAJS 2026 conference schedule, Monday 13 July to Wednesday 15 July, Birkbeck, University of London MONDAY 9 Registration 9:30 Welcome 10-11:30 Papers: Textual spaces in Judaism 1 Eli Yo...

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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies@biajs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 Registration is now open for our 2026 conference, 'Space and Place in Jewish Studies'! 🗺️ 13 - 15th July at Birkbeck, @bengidley.bsky.social www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @bisa-bkk.bsky.social @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social

Absolutely fantastic talk by @ankahajkova.bsky.social at @bisa-bkk.bsky.social tonight, chaired by @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social. Deeply moving AND entertaining AND challenging.

Ralf Ruckus and I discuss the emergence of nation-states, the construction of the 'migrant', the role of left-wing nationalism in the failure of anti-imperialist struggles, and whether the No Borders movement points toward a revolutionary strategy for overcoming working-class divisions.

The Revolution Nationalists Cannot Join • Ill Will

Nandita Sharma argues that supporting people's liberation needn't require endorsing nationalism.

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On the hidden anarchist history of the Stonewall moment, featuring the late, great Ben Morea

CrimethInc. colectivo de ex-trabajadores: Tu boleto gratuito a …@es.crimethinc.com.web.brid.gy · 2mo ago

Some random images from my week in Krakow while I wait for my plane:

Looking at the sociology section in a krakow bookstore. Not too many names I recognise: the great Zygmunt Bauman of course. Edward Said. But depressingly also Frank Furedi.

Le boycott d’Israël ne doit pas devenir le boycott des Juif·ves ! Texte co-signé par le CLARA, les JJR, le RAAR et l’UJRE – 25 juin 2026 leftrenewal.org/fr/statement...

Yesterday — welcoming students to the #EUMUS* summer school at the Middle East Institute in Krakow. *apologies for misnaming my own project in earlier post…

In rainy Krakow yesterday. A landscape soaked also in nationalism

Greetings from Krakow where I’m part of the team for the #EUMES summer school. Here’s the hotel I’m staying in — quite intense right?

Organised by my amazing colleague Jan Etienne: Borders, Havens and Digital Spaces for Resistance: Black feminist lives in autoethnographic research Tuesday 7th July, Birkbeck www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Just arriving at Seven Sisters and very happy to be participating in this lovely event today at Muslim Welfare House, at a time when I feel we need it more than ever

Sending love to everyone feeling under siege in this year of racist street violence. Terrifying knife attack targeting Muslims in Edinburgh: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Five injured in suspected Islamphobic attacks as bare-chested man roams Edinburgh

Two people were injured close to a mosque and a man was later seen battering the door of a pizzeria as members of the public run away.

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