NGG Conference 2026: Voice, Narrative, and (Self-)Representation

Monday 11 May 2026 | UCL | Free to attend

The New Generation Group of the Jewish Historical Society of England invites you to its third annual conference: Voice, Narrative, and (Self-)Representation, held at UCL on Monday 11 May 2026.

This theme confronts a central question in Jewish Studies: who gets to speak, who tells their story, and who listens? This conference explores how Jews and Jewish communities have expressed themselves – and how they have been represented, sympathetically, indifferently, or negatively, by others.The day features four panels:• Local archives and British Jewish communities• Museums, performance, and public memory• Biography, life-writing, and self-fashioning• Text, translation, and religious voiceThe day concludes with a keynote lecture by Paris Chronakis: Merchants, Jews, Greeks: Jewish identities from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek nation-state, 1876–1922, followed by a reception.

The programme can be found here.

Organised by the New Generation Group with the generous support of the Jewish Historical Society of England, in cooperation with UCL.

Please complete this registration form to attend.