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Find out about our extensive alumni and supporter events programme that takes place throughout the year – online, on campus, across the UK, and internationally.
Find out about our extensive alumni and supporter events programme that takes place throughout the year – online, on campus, across the UK, and internationally.
Comedian and actor David Schneider is coming to the university to give a guest lecture on Tuesday 19 March 2024 (The Parkes Lecture). Schneider is known for roles including in the Alan Partridge franchise (as BBC commissioning editor Tony Hayers, and as magician Tony le Mesmer), and roles in Horrid Henry: The Movie, ITV drama Whitechapel, and CITV series Uncle Max. He will be ‘in conversation’ with institute members Dr Katie Power and Dr Devorah Baum.
View detailsTo many, it seems that the genocide of the Jews has been forgotten in Poland for most of the post-war period and that it was only in the 1990s and 2000s that a few activists started to commemorate it. This lecture aims to offer a different, more nuanced image of Holocaust memory in Poland. While recognising the challenges and the silences of the post-war era, it charts the attempts to save the Holocaust from oblivion and from political manipulation in the years after 1945. Having reassessed the process of remembering and forgetting the Holocaust under socialist rule, the lecture offers an overview of the most recent memorial projects, including museums such as the one in Schindler’s Factory in Kraków and remembrance days organised annually to mark the Ghetto Uprising anniversary.
View detailsThe University of Southampton is delighted to welcome Shreya Atrey from the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, who will be delivering this year's Stefan Cross Lecture on the topic of "Priority and Gender Equality". This talk argues that an intersectional approach to gender equality in international human rights law is necessarily prioritarian, drawing attention to those most disadvantaged. It unravels the implications of this approach to gender equality in the interpretation and implementation of state obligations in international human rights law.
View detailsSvenja Bethke is Associate Professor of Modern European History and Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Dance of the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos (UTP 2021). For her current book project ‘Between Diaspora and Eretz Israel: Dress in the Time of Nation-Building’, she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship by The European Commission, hosted at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 2019-2021 and an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship (2023-2025).
View detailsThis year we will be welcoming Sir Peng Tee Khaw, a consultant and ophthalmic surgeon specialising in adult and paediatric glaucoma.
View detailsClick on link to view workshops and events hosted by Future Worlds - UoS On Campus Start Up Accelerator Programme
View detailsThe Parkes Lecture 2023 will be a conversation between the Booker-Prize winning novelist, broadcaster and public intellectual, Howard Jacobson and Bryan Cheyette who has been writing on Jacobson since 1984.
View detailsRegister now for the annual Southampton Stonewall Lecture, "LGBTQ in a Time of War: The Queer History of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict", with Professor Dan Healey
View detailsThe University will be celebrating National Inclusion Week from Monday 26 September to Friday 2 October
View detailsThe world’s biggest group ride is here and all you have to do to take part is ride your bike
View detailsInaugural Annual Regius Chair lecture delivered by Professor Dame Muffy Calder.
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