Revitalising the study of antisemitism
An international research consortium to promote the study of antisemitism is launched today (Tuesday 8 November, 2011)...
Revitalising the study of antisemitism
An international research consortium to promote the study of antisemitism is launched today (Tuesday 8 November, 2011). Co-convened by David Feldman, Director, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London and Scott Ury, Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University, the International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism (ICRAR) involves leading scholars from across Europe, Israel and the US, who share a goal of revitalising and reshaping the study of antisemitism.
The Consortium will promote rigorous, independent research that looks to related fields and disciplines for insight and embraces new theoretical and methodological approaches. To foster new thinking on antisemitism, the Consortium will hold annual workshops and summer schools and produce publications of the outcomes. Its first workshop will be Boycotts: Past and Present, to be held in London in 2012, hosted by the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism.
David Feldman explains: “Antisemitism is an important and contentious problem. Yet our understanding of it remains under-developed. The study of antisemitism too often stands in isolation from related fields of inquiry and has failed to benefit from contemporary intellectual currents that encourage new thinking and approaches. Scholarly work has also suffered from the politicisation of the field, being corralled by immediate political concerns. This has foreshortened our understanding of antisemitism, both in the past and critically, in the present, and undermines the contribution academics can make to overcome it.”
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Issued: 08 November 2011