Panel 7 on ‘Jews and the Arts’ here at #IHRParkes2023 with papers from Débora Kantor (@UBARectorado) and Dr Rachel Coombes (@UniofOxford) chaired by Em Baker (@ParkesInstitute)

On International Women's Day, our brilliant colleagues Em Baker, Toby Litt and Kevin Brazil gave a series of public talks in Mayflower Studios.

Each interrogated the role of gender, relationships and collaboration in art, literature and life...

Start the day right with me, Em Baker & Devorah Baum at the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing IDLENESS symposium

☁️Exploring Nabokov's fictive (Lolita, Pnin) and experimental dream writings on the Holocaust as modes for mediating experience of trauma through the subconscious (and squirrels) ☁️

🦥The Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing research day was anything but idle, with papers, performances & participation full of activity. It was especially fruitful to present on Nabokov in a panel on the 'idle imagination in Holocaust dreams' with Em Baker, generously reflected on by Devorah Baum

Tomorrow! 'Horror and the Gothic in Holocaust Representation' one day conference hosted by Parkes Institute, organised by Em Baker

With keynote from Libby Saxton & screening of 'The Deathless Woman' Roz Mortimer

Avenue Campus & online, 9-6.30pm

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~ TODAY ~

the interdisciplinary Horror Studies research group meets this afternoon, 2–3pm

online and in-person at the centenary building (room 3023) on highfield campus

contact our brilliant ECRs Dr Giulia Champion and Em Baker for more info

indicative topics below

Some of our English at Soton colleagues are speaking in the free keynote for #InternationalWomensDay2024 on Friday 8th March at 6.30pm:

‘Love is Blind’ – Kevin Brazil
‘Men Writing Women’ – Toby Litt
‘Feeling Documentary’ – Em Baker

More info below📚

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There's still time to register for this online/in person discussion of the multiple-nominated film 'The Zone of Interest' with emiliano perra Josh Appignanesi Em Baker and Drew Crawford Parkes Institute University of Southampton

Claire Le Foll Josh Appignanesi Em Baker emiliano perra Finally, Drew Crawford offers his expertise on the use of sound design in the film. Glazer wanted to produce the effect of being able to hear but not see the action. It is hyper real by highlighting the background noise however it is not dialogue heavy.

Claire Le Foll Josh Appignanesi Em Baker Our next speaker emiliano perra explores the issue of representation of perpetrators within Holocaust films. Emiliano continues to situate The Zone of Interest in other films about genocide, for example The Act of Killing about Indonesia. What is the role of a 'historical film'?

If you're free tonight come along to this fascinating hybrid talk by Em Baker on Juraj Herz's 'The Cremator'

English at Soton Sarah Hayden Sarah Browne thanks! 🦓🍋📽️

with final conversation from Matt West, Toby Litt Sarah Hayden Em Baker, on practicing and performing idleness, and its potential for radical change

Anoushka Alexander-Rose Parkes Institute English at Soton Em Baker 'Not working' begins with Dr Kristen Schuster Southampton Digital Humanities on 'More than human leisure': men, pigeons and sport' 🐦‍⬛

The first panel begins with Em Baker (@BritishAcademy_ postdoc at Parkes Institute) with a paper on the video installation series “Tonight the World” by Daria Martin, which mediates the Holocaust dream diaries of her Holocaust survivor grandmother, Susi.

Next up is Anoushka Alexander-Rose on Vladimir Nabokov's idle imagination in writing the Holocaust through dream-diaries, Lolita and Pnin (@ParkesInstitute English at Soton), followed by a response and conversation with Em Baker and Devorah Baum.

A conference co-organised by one of our editors, James Jordan, and Em Baker, contributor to the Holocaust Studies journal. Details of the CFP below!

Why is Em Baker profiling a woman who leads an antisemitism-denial organisation with members like this in its ranks?

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Em Baker UT Dallas Parkes Institute University of Southampton Very much looking forward to meeting you and working with you Emily!

Thank you to all those who spoke on our professional development workshop panels including @DrJoannaNewman James Bulgin Dr Rachel Delman Ed Armston-Sheret Dr Maja Hultman Helen Spurling Simon Trafford Neil Gregor Catherine Clarke Dr Emma Gallon Em Baker
They were all so insightful