Director of @HorizonsLeeds, a pan-University platform for interdisciplinary research. My own research: German, Jewish, and Holocaust Studies.

Joined April 2012
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So delighted to introduce our three new Horizons Institute challenge networks! Looking forward to lots of interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Some reflections on where the Horizons Institute is, two years in.
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Fascinating conversations about new directions in the study of HolocAust literature—connections to world literature, comparative genocide studies, and postcolonial studies. Planning for The Cambridge History of Holocaust Literature, with over 40 scholars from around the world.
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Prof. Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds, UK retweeted
BREAKING: a Holocaust survivor just confronted Suella Braverman to say: your hateful language has consequences
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Such interesting and important work on decolonising health systems and everything that this means from @drldmorris and @doreen_kaura at @HorizonsLeeds
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Such an interesting thread and comments on houses of Germans expelled from what became Western Poland after 1945.
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At the ⁦@JHGCentre⁩ in Johannesburg, listening to Judge Richard Goldstone, former justice of SA constitutional court, speaking about legal foundations of international action against Genocide.
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Delighted to promote this latest event by our PRAXIS team, on cultural heritage, climate change and disasters. Also COP…
Do you want to know more about PRAXIS' report on #culturalheritage, #climatechange and #disasters, and our experience at #COP27? Join us for a webinar on Wednesday, 30th November, 1-3pm GMT. Info 👉bit.ly/3EDw4TA Registration 👉 bit.ly/3F0vaC1 @Changing_Story_
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If you happen to be in Leeds this Thursday—what promises to be a fascinating event on Holocaust history: the search for missing loved ones after the genocide. I’ll be chairing Prof Dan Stone and Dr Christine Schmidt (@wienerlibrary) leedsinspired.co.uk/events/f…

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Absolutely delighted that this has just appeared from our PRAXIS project, looking at @ahrcpress Arts and Humanities Research and its contribution to global development.
How can cultural #heritage be effectively mobilised to respond to current and expected climate environmental changes? Read our new report prepared by PRAXIS @Changing_Story_ in partnership with the CRITICAL project @EdinburghUni. 👉eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/1931…
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Prof. Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds, UK retweeted
Gave a lecture today on the philosophy of science and afterwards a student said “so if I put a vase on a stool, does that make it a table?”. I’ve thought about literally nothing since
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I’m really excited to be taking part at this public event at @leedslibraries with @wienerlibrary and @RHUL_HRI, on rediscovering lost Holocaust stories
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Thanks Gehen!
Heartfelt congratulations, Stuart.
This is such brilliant news! Very many congratulations!
Finishing the week on a good note. I have been promoted to Head of Researcher Development and Culture, at Uni of Leeds. Big shout out to my team @ResDevLeeds for being great to work with. Purdey is more concerned about dinner 😂
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Prof. Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds, UK retweeted
#OTD Vor 80 Jahren, 11.-12. August 1942 erschossen dt. Sonderkommandos etwa 15 Tausend Juden im südrussischen Rostov am Don. Unter ihnen befand sich Psychoanalytikerin Sabine Spielrein - Schülerin von Carl Jung und Sigmund Freud. Man verschleppt sie mit ihren beiden Töchtern..1/7
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