• Antisemitism & Islamophobia research consortium

    ICR Director, Professor James Renton, and Steering Group members, Dr Abubakar Bello and Dr Anna Bussu, have won an Edge Hill Research Investment Fund (RIF) Networks grant. The grant supports the development of a consortium for their research project on antisemitism and Islamophobia as interconnected issues in the context of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Connecting Artificial…

  • Antiracism Film Club

    ICR member, Dr Heather Marshall, has won a grant from Edge Hill University’s EDI Innovation Fund to support her initiative of an Antiracism Film Club. The Club will be based in the Faculty of Education, and aims to establish a space for dialogue and learning among students and staff regarding urgent antiracism questions.

  • #BIAJS23 Programme

    #BIAJS23 Programme

    ‘Race in Jewish Worlds: Antiquity to the Present.’ 10-12 July 2023 Sponsored by the Department of History, Geography and Social Sciences, Edge Hill University & the European Association for Jewish Studies. The 2023 British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies conference (#BIAJS23) will explore how race has affected, and been a part of, Jewish lives and beliefs…

  • Social media & antisemitism conference report

    Social media & antisemitism conference report

    Organisers MONITOR Global Intelligence on Racism, RSCAS, European University Institute, Italy. International Centre on Racism (ICR), Edge Hill University, UK (CONFERENCE HOST). Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung (ZfA), Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Funded by Aims Social media is impacting in significant ways on anti-Jewish racism- but what is novel about this relationship? Focused on this question, Edge Hill…

  • European Association for Jewish Studies

    European Association for Jewish Studies

    The ICR conference on social media and antisemitism has been awarded a grant by the European Association for Jewish Studies. The conference takes places on 5-6 November 2019, and includes a civil society workshop for those who work to combat antisemitism. “The political controversy over antisemitism continues to escalate internationally. The social media revolution is…