Issues that matter: Judaism & antisemitism

Continuing our series on "Issues that matter," join us this month as we host Dr. Mo Pareles and Braden Russell to discuss Judaism and antisemitism. 

Registration is required as space is limited. Light refreshments will be served. 

If you have any questions or concerns please email us at info@nvcl.ca

About the presenters

Dr. Pareles (they+) is a medievalist whose interests include Old and Middle English literature, translation, temporalities, critical animal studies and Jewish-Christian relations. Their first book, Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English (University of Toronto Press, 2024) explores how the cultural translation of Jewish law promoted pre-Conquest Christian projects such as the promotion of priestly chastity and ecclesiastial sovereignty over the secular. Their second book, Time's Others: Infant, Animal and Jewish Temporalities in Medieval Christianity, explores the abjected, arrested and pregnant temporalities that make medieval Christian futures possible.

Braden Russell is a 5th-year PhD candidate in Germanic studies in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies. He is writing his dissertation on queer Jewish cultural production in current-day Germany. Before his time at UBC, he received an MA in Holocaust Studies from the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia. Before moving to Canada in 2018, Braden received a BA in Global Studies and an MA in Language and Culture from Texas Tech University. He has written on Holocaust education and human rights pedagogies, worked in Budapest, Hungary, at the Holocaust Memorial Centre, co-taught classes on the representations of the Holocaust, and presented on topics surrounding Holocaust studies, queer Jewish studies, and German Jewish literature.