Michaelmas Term 2024
Thursdays, 2.15pm to 4pm
Room 207, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG
Convenors: Zoë Waxman and Nicolas Garraud
Week 1, October 17
Julie Fitzpatrick (Royal Holloway, University of London), ‘In Cuba I began my career as a Cook’ the intersection between Food, Class and the German Jewish female experience of pre-war migration
Week 3, October 31
Nicolas Garraud (University of Oxford), The language of humour and laughter during the Holocaust: A new cultural history of the Warsaw ghetto (1939-1943)
Week 5, November 14
Clara Djikistra (University of Cambridge), The experience of internment in French camps: Jews and “nomades” in Drancy, Poitiers and Montreuil-Bellay
Week 7, November 28
Karen Skinazi (University of Bristol), Literary Representations of Sephardic Holocaust Memory
ALL WELCOME