Tuesday, May 21st, 4 pm
Antisemitism before and after October 7 - Dr. Ben Gidley
(Speaker will be online)
Ben Gidley is a Reader in Sociology and Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a member of the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and of the International Centre on Racism at Edge Hill. He was previously an Associate Professor at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at Oxford. His research has focused on diaspora and diversity in urban Europe, and on antisemitism in relation to other forms of racism. He leads the transnational research project ENCOUNTERS on Muslim-Jewish encounters in the UK, France and Germany. His books include Antisemitism and Islamophobia: A Shared Story? (Palgrave, 2017, edited with James Renton), and Jews and Muslims in Europe. Between Discourse and Experience (Brill, 2022, edited with Sami Everett). His text on the aftermath of October 7, written with Daniel Mang and Daniel Randall, “For a consistently democratic and internationalist left” is online at leftrenewal.net.
Location: Central European University, QS D002 Tiered, Quellenstrasse 51, 1100 Vienna.
*Registration is required by 5 pm on May 20th, Zoom link provided after registration. The teach-in can be followed on-site or online. Registration is required in both cases and limited to CEU affiliates.
In continuation of previous teach-ins, and in an effort to bring academic expertise to open up spaces for collective discussion and learning, we announce a series of events under the title Theorizing Injustice: Conceptual Conversations on Palestine.
The Teach-in Series is hosted by the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at CEU. Following our disciplines’ commitment to critical thinking, located expertise, and conceptual reflection, the series brings together a renowned group of experts with a variety of views, academic traditions, and subjectivities. The views of invited speakers do not necessarily represent those of CEU as an institution.