Wednesday 27 July
09:00 - 09:10 Introduction by Tony Kushner
Director of the AHRB Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/ non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton
09:15 - 10:15 David Feldman
The British Empire and the Jews c.1900
10:15 - 10:30 Refreshments
10.30-12.00 Session 1:
A - The Jew Bill and After
Dana Rabin: Jews and Gypsies in 1753: A Case Study
Cora Kaplan: Prejudice theorized. Antisemitism and Racism in Maria Edgeworth's: Harrington and The Grateful Negro
Michael Scrivener: Philosemitism, Physiological Determinism and Romantic Aporias in Edgeworth, Coleridge, and M. W.
Shelley
B - ‘Jews in Space’: i. The Jewish Atlantic
Jessica Roitman: ’Life on the Margins’: Sephardic Colonists and
Colonization in the Portuguese Atlantic Colonies, 1580-1654
Tobias Brinkmann: From Space to Time: Reinterpreting the Jewish
Mass Migration from Eastern Europe to America
John Klier: The Atlantic Economy and Jewish Emigration (19th-
20th centuries): A Preliminary Topology
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.30 Session 2
A - Masculinity, Race and Nation in Victorian culture
Ruti Ungar: ‘One of the most elegant... in the whole race of Boxers’:
Jewish and Black pugilists in England, 1780-1820
Daniel Christianson: ‘The Powerful Physique of the Nation’: Racial and National Discourse in Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus and George Du Maurier’s Trilby
Jo Carruthers: ‘Swaying the Sceptre of Empire’: Masculine Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century Christian Writings on the Book of Esther
B - ‘Jews in Space’: ii. On the borders of Identity
Wieke Vink: Interior frontiers and colonial categories: the Surinam
Jewish experience
Brigitta Eszter Gantner: Between the Cultures: Jewry in the border territories of the “Habsburg” Hungary 1867-1896
Maite Ojeda-Mata: The ‘Spanish Jews’: three´contexts of ‘(re)encounter’
14:30 - 15:00 Refreshments
15.00 - 16.30 Session 3
A - Palestine and Victorian Christianity
Alison Dingle: “The Israelites who have become believers in Christianity, form the congregation”: The messianic chronotope in Stirring Times
Heidi Kaufman: Empire, Race, and the Jewish Homeland in
Charlotte Tonna’s Judah’s Lion
Nadia Valman: The Fall of Jerusalem in Victorian Fiction
B - ‘Jews in Space’: iii. Global networks
Abigail Green: A common cause? International Jewish relief
and British imperialism in the 19th century.
Adam Mendelsohn: To the “extreme side of the habitable globe”: the
emergence of the Englishlanguage diaspora in the mid-nineteenth century
Karine Walther: Barbarity and Civilization: the United States and the
Jews and Muslims of Morocco, 1880-1920
19:00 - 20:15 Evening Lecture by Bryan Cheyette
Postcolonial Literature and the Jews
Thursday 28 July
09:30 - 11:00 Session 4
A - Empire and the Edwardians
Stephanie Chasin: Imperial Icons: From Models of Assimilation to Self- Determination
Rachel Shulman: English/Jewish: Colonizing Palestine, 1871-1895
Eitan Bar-Yosef: In Deronda’s Shadow: The Zionist Plot in Popular
Edwardian Fiction: Jews and Ethnography
B - Jews and Ethnography
Leo Riegert: ‘One Foot in the Ghetto and One Foot in the West’: The
Ethnographic Writing of Karl Emil Franzos
Michael Yellin: Diasporic Blues: Dixie Zionism in Waldo Frank’s Holiday
Veronika Lipphardt: Transferable Elements of Knowledge? Concepts of Race and the Emigration of German-Jewish anthropologists after 1933
11:00 - 11:30 Refreshments
11:30 - 13:00 Session 5
A - South Africa, Jews and Empire
Milton Shain: The Racialisation of ‘The Jew’ in South Africa, C. 1870
– 1930
Adrienne Munich: Jews and Jewels on the Nineteenth-Century South
African Diamond Fields
Richard Mendelsohn: Fighting for the Empire: Anglo-Jewry and the South African War (1899-1902) in comparative perspective
B - The Austro-Hungarian Empire and its aftermath
Lisa Silverman: Jews, Non-Jews and the Legacy of Empire in Gregor
von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an anti-Semite
Kati Tonkin: The ‘Wandering Jew’ as Ideal: Joseph Roth’s Juden
auf Wanderschaft
Elana Shapira: The Kaiser and the Jewish Art Lovers – Jewish
Assimilation and Modern Architecture and Design in Vienna
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Session 6
A - Regulating the Russian Jew
Natan Meir: ‘Empire and Community: Russian Imperial Policy on
the Jewish Community’
Eugene Avrutin: Invisible Jews: Movement, Perceptions, and the
Problem of Recognition in Late Tsarist Russia
B - Anglo-Jewry and Empire between the Wars
Gavin Schaffer: Louis Golding and the Question of ‘Race’
Susan Cohen: Eleanor Rathbone, Imperialism and race
15:00 - 15:30 Refreshments
15.30 - 17.00 Session 7
A - Immigration and London’s East End
Frances Ross: A study of Jewish migrant experiences in the London
tailoring ‘Sweatshops’ of 1888-1930
David Glover: Jews and Others in Darkest London
Nils Roemer: ‘Doing the Town’: London and the East End as Spaces
of Urban Tourism
B - Postcolonialism and Jewish history in contemporary literature
Jennifer Glaser: Translating the Post- Holocaust through the Post-
Colonial: The Mouthpiece of Identity in Cynthia Ozick’s A Mercenary
Ruth Gilbert: Impersonations: Constructing (Post)Colonial
Identities in Linda Grant’s When I Lived in Modern Times
Phyllis Lassner: ‘No Decolonization for the Jew’: Diane Samuels'
Kindertransport and Julia Pascal's Holocaust Trilogy
17:30 - 20:00 Conference Dinner
Friday 29 July
09:30 - 11:00 Session 8
A - Theorising ‘the Jew’ in the context of Empire
Santiago Slabodsky: Hybridizing the Barbaric Hebrew. Postcolonial
Theory, Jewish Radicalism, and Subaltern Otherness in the Americas
Jessica Dubow: Theoretical Spaces: Judaism, Mobility and Anti-
Imperial Thought
Cathy Gelbin: Configuring the Uncanny: The Golem and the anti-Semitic Imagination
B - Chosen Peoples?
Tudor Parfitt: The Western colonial enterprise and the
construction of Judaism
Eric Reisenauer: Chosen Races: Britons and Jews in Imperial Thought,
1857-1918
David Lieberman: Racialism revived: reconstructing Jewish biological difference in the 21st Century
11:00 - 11:30 Refreshments
11:30 - 12:30 Session 9
A - The State and ‘the Jew’
Nick Evans: Quayside Racialisation. The Role of States in Ethnic Labelling: Britain, the United States and Canada, 1793-1923
Didi Herman: ”An Unfortunate Coincidence”: Jews and Jewishness in English Judicial Discourse
B - Fascism and colonialism
Daniel Walther: ‘Dr Gurland wants to go to Africa’: a study in Nazi racial policy, bureaucracy and colonialism before WWII
Isabelle Rohr: ‘Good Sephardim and Bad Ashkenazim’: How Franco’s
Spain tried to reconcile antisemitism with imperialism, 1939-1945
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Session 10
A - Black, White and Jew in twentieth-century America
Klaus Hoedl: The Medical View of Jews and African-Americans
around the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Aviva Taubenfield: The Role of Israel: Zangwill’s Drama within Early 20th- Century Trans-Atlantic Debates over the Race Science and Heredity
Clive Webb: ‘Jewlatto’: The Contested Racial Identity of Jews in
the American South
B - Ethnicity, Diaspora, Identity in contemporary art and writing
Rachel Garfield: Jewish Invisibility and Black Visual Art: cultural
positioning in contemporary visual art
Keren Omry: Composing Identities: Passing and Jazz in Roth’s The Human Stain and Jackie Kay’s Trumpet
Zoe Trodd: Stories of the Self: Jewish American Autobiography
and the Ethnic- Autobiographical Tradition
15:15 - 16:00 Closing Comments
16:00 - 17:00 Tour of Southampton’s Jewish and Migration Heritage