Anoushka Alexander-Rose
@anoushka-ar.bsky.social
Postdoc on the visual representations of the Wandering Jew & other migratory myths @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and Winchester School of Art | PhD on Vladimir Nabokov @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
For our final session of #BIAJS26, Jay Prosser on 'The Jewish Mahallah of Singapore as a Site of Transcultural Memory' @lahri.bsky.social & a great panel on 'Memory, ethics and ecology in literature and poetry' w/ Anat Koplowitz-Breier, Emma Trott & Dan Misheiker chaired by @anoushka-ar.bsky.social
A couple of weeks left to apply for this great opportunity for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in UK Jewish studies!
Anoushka Alexander-Rose@anoushka-ar.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣 all UK-based PhDs and ECRs in jewish studies: apply to attend Limmud festival 2026 at a 90% discount, receive invaluable mentoring and become part of an emerging cohort! Deadline: 31st July Email phdprogramme@limmud.org for questions More info & apply here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...
#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
Great to be part of a roundtable discussing what jewish heritage is, who it is for, how to pluralise, and navigate policy with Yulia Egorova as part of our @durhamanthropology.bsky.social ESRC project with @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social
British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies@biajs.bsky.social · 4w agoIt'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
Looking forward to joining a panel on 'Jewish Heritage Now: Politics, Visibility, Agency' with Anne Caldwell, Yulia Egorova, Eva Frojmovic & Jay Prosser (representing Leeds & Durham initiatives!)
British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies@biajs.bsky.social · 2mo agoDelighted to share our full, finalised programme for the BIAJS 2026 Conference 'Space and place in Jewish Studies'! 13 - 15 July @ Birkbeck, London: register below >>> bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2024-confere...
📣 all UK-based PhDs and ECRs in jewish studies: apply to attend Limmud festival 2026 at a 90% discount, receive invaluable mentoring and become part of an emerging cohort! Deadline: 31st July Email phdprogramme@limmud.org for questions More info & apply here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...
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📣 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
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Deadline this Friday 12th June for proposals for our CFP on the Wandering Jew! Especially looking for explorations of this figure and its legacy in other contexts…
Anoushka Alexander-Rose@anoushka-ar.bsky.social · 5mo agoCFP: 'The Wandering Jew and other myths' special issue for Patterns of Prejudice, guest-edited by me and Elisabeth Becker Topkara, as part of our @volkswagenstiftung.de project & exhibition See details below! 1-page proposals due 12 June 2026 @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
🦋 A few days at lovely @princeton.edu for the (De)Stabilizing Nabokov conference - talking about changing how we read his treatment of the Holocaust in Lolita & Pnin, alongside other great papers challenging all sorts of assumptions, and an exhibit of artist books
From @samsamev.bsky.social @anoushka-ar.bsky.social @eliaou-balouka.bsky.social & more — get up to Manchester to have a look!!
Manchester Jewish Museum@mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social · 6mo ago📣Coming up this week: "Maimonides from Scratch", a showcase exhibition which brings to life the trajectory and texts of Maimonides as a rabbi and doctor and as part of the historical and contemporary Sephardi world. On display from Wednesday, 11 February. Book your visit: bit.ly/3MsNvye
CFP: 'The Wandering Jew and other myths' special issue for Patterns of Prejudice, guest-edited by me and Elisabeth Becker Topkara, as part of our @volkswagenstiftung.de project & exhibition See details below! 1-page proposals due 12 June 2026 @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
Very proud to have been part of this wonderful project for the last two years! Please do visit if you're in Manchester to learn about Maimonides in his context…
Manchester Jewish Museum@mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social · 6mo ago📣Coming up this week: "Maimonides from Scratch", a showcase exhibition which brings to life the trajectory and texts of Maimonides as a rabbi and doctor and as part of the historical and contemporary Sephardi world. On display from Wednesday, 11 February. Book your visit: bit.ly/3MsNvye
Some new words from me on collaging the Wandering Jew after taking the exhibition and workshops to the 'Arts and Humanities Day' @unisouthampton.bsky.social: thewanderingjewexhibition.co.uk/reflections/...
🎊 @parkesinstitute.bsky.social at Limmud! I am organising the PhD engagement programme with 5 post/doctoral researchers presenting on Jewish studies. Participants include @josephfinlay.bsky.social, and @hannahewence.bsky.social as mentor! Also, sessions on heritage, academia & Wandering Jews 🎊
My paper, "Reflections on Translating, Curating and Collaging the Wandering Jew", explores personal and ethnographic insights on working through this thorny legend in textual and visual form, and a workshop hosted at Limmud! journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts...
Reflections on Translating, Curating, and Collaging the Wandering Jew | Ethnoscripts
Reflections on Translating, Curating, and Collaging the Wandering Jew
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British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies@biajs.bsky.social · 8mo ago⚖️ NEW special issue 'Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State' in EthnoScripts: Contemporary Anthropology with BIAJS highlights from co-editors and contributors @samsamev.bsky.social and Yulia Egorova, and also by @anoushka-ar.bsky.social journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts...
📜 Our 2025 bulletin is live! Read a message from our incoming president @bengidley.bsky.social, a report from this year's conference, details of our book prize, the CFP for our 2026 conference @bisa-bkk.bsky.social, reports from institutions & more ➡️ bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/wp-content/u...
Join us in London in July! CALL FOR PAPERS NOW LIVE #BIAJS2026 “Space and place in Jewish studies” 13-15 July Birkbeck bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com/2025/11/03/c...
Call for Papers: BIAJS Conference 2026 (13-15 July, Birkbeck, University of London)
CALL FOR PAPERS #BIAJS2026 Space and Place in Jewish Studies British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference 2026 Birkbeck, University of London | July 2026 “there is…
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Our first event of the academic year is taking place in one week! Join us for a talk from Simone Gigliotti (@rhulholocaustri.bsky.social) 📅 Tuesday 28 October, 6pm GMT 📍Avenue Campus & online via Zoom 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-close-ye...
Extended deadline til 10th September! >>>
Anoushka Alexander-Rose@anoushka-ar.bsky.social · last yr.🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks! lnkd.in/eVtmrHsu
Extended deadline til 5th October! 📜
Jüdische Studien@juedstudien.bsky.social · last yr.#CfP | EAJS invites propasals for the EAJS Virtual 2025: Translating Maimonides in late autumn | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #JewishStudies #Translation #workshops #Maimonides Deadline for abstracts: September 18, 2025
Now the contract is signed, my postdoc project 'Figuring the Wandering Jew: Jewish Artists and the Redrawing of Europe' with Elisabeth Becker-Topkara at the Max Weber Institute for Sociology @uniheidelberg.bsky.social begins! I'll be in Berlin for the next month then based at the Winchester Gallery
Deadline next week for extremely subsidised places at Limmud this December, along with bespoke training on presenting for public audiences and opportunities for peer-led mentoring! All Jewish studies PGRs and ECRs (within 5 years of submitting, w/o permanent academic positions) invited to apply ➡️
Anoushka Alexander-Rose@anoushka-ar.bsky.social · last yr.🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks! lnkd.in/eVtmrHsu
#CfP | EAJS invites propasals for the EAJS Virtual 2025: Translating Maimonides in late autumn | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #JewishStudies #Translation #workshops #Maimonides Deadline for abstracts: September 18, 2025
📜 Catching up … Having successfully passed my Viva in May, defending my doctoral thesis 'Vladimir Nabokov's Jewish Muse' examined by Leonid Livak (Toronto) and James Jordan (Southampton), supervised by Devorah Baum & @clairelefoll.bsky.social, I graduated yesterday! @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
🎊 Calling all current PGRs and ECRs - be a part of Limmud Festival’s PhD engagement programme, created to build a cohort of emerging academics in the field of Jewish studies across the UK. Apply below by 15th August for a place at 90% discount, and please do share in your networks! lnkd.in/eVtmrHsu
📣 CFP for our EAJS Virtual 'Translating Maimonides' on 7th December 2025. We invite cross-disciplinary papers related to linguistics, intercommunal/interreligious dialogue, archives and material heritage, Sephardi identities, creative engagement & more… Abstracts due 18th September lnkd.in/ey3fie6c
The Wandering Jew takes Scotland! Exhibition on display at #BIAJS2025 @biajs.bsky.social for all attending… @parkesinstitute.bsky.social @jewishhistorical.bsky.social 🏴 🕯️
Today at 6pm - view our newly digitised Wandering Jew exhibition and hear from Lisa Lampert-Weissig about Heinrich Heine’s interest in the legend >>
Parkes Institute@parkesinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.1 week to go until our 'Wandering Jew: Book Launch and Digital Exhibition Launch' webinar with @llampertweissig.bsky.social & @anoushka-ar.bsky.social Tuesday 27th May, online, 6pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/instrument... @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social
A whirlwind fortnight: exhibition launch with David Rudrum @holocaustnorth.bsky.social, Maimonides workshops in Manchester & Marseille & an afternoon discussing Jewish heritage beyond the UK @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social with @samsamev.bsky.social @clairelefoll.bsky.social @jaydprosser.bsky.social
Very excited to reveal the online version of my Wandering Jew travelling exhibition, with the amazing digital help of @katiepower.bsky.social, alongside a talk from Lisa whose research was so formative for my own project and curation. Do come!
Parkes Institute@parkesinstitute.bsky.social · last yr.1 week to go until our 'Wandering Jew: Book Launch and Digital Exhibition Launch' webinar with @llampertweissig.bsky.social & @anoushka-ar.bsky.social Tuesday 27th May, online, 6pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/instrument... @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social