• 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…

  • #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, and organised by Professor James Renton. The 2023 British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies conference (#BIAJS23) will explore how race has affected, and been a…

  • Witch Hunts: Race & the Persecution of Women, Antiquity to the 21st Century

    Witch Hunts: Race & the Persecution of Women, Antiquity to the 21st Century

    14-15 February 2023, annual ICR conference, in partnership with the Università degli Studi di Firenze (UniFI) & MONITORacism magazine. Hosted by the Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo (SAGAS), UniFI. Venue: Aula Magna, Via San Gallo, Firenze. Supported by SAGAS, UniFI, the Institute for Social Responsibility and the Department of History, Geography &…

  • CFP: ‘Witch Hunts- Race & the persecution of women, antiquity to the 21st century’

    Aula Magna, Via San Gallo, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE, Italy 14-15 February 2023 PARTNERS: MONITORacism magazine; SAGAS, University of Florence; International Centre on Racism (ICR), Edge Hill University, UK. CALL FOR PAPERS Scholarship on the early modern ‘witch hunts’ is extensive, and has demonstrated their transformational consequences for women and patriarchal societies in the West. In…

  • Islamophobia and the media

    31 March 2022, Edge Hill University, UK. Location: Business School, B002 & B003, & online. 17.15-19.00 BST Organised in collaboration with the Edge Hill Islamic Society and the ICR, by final year History & English Literature student, Sadiya Mansur. This event features an exhibition on Islamophobia in the UK, a panel discussion and Q &…