LCSCA Prizes and Awards

Annual Robert Fine Memorial Lecturers:
2023 Howard Jacobson
2024 Karin Stögner

Winners of the £1000 LCSCA Book Prize for the best book on contemporary antisemitism:
2023 Camila Bassi: Outcast: How jews were banished from the anti-racist imagination
2024 Shalom Lappin: The New Antisemitism: the resurgence of an ancient hatred in the modern world

Winners of the Pete Newbon Award for the greatest contribution to the public understanding of antisemitism:
2023 Tracy-Ann Oberman
2024 Heidi Bachram

This document sets out who Pete Newbon was and why we honour him.

The Annual Robert Fine Memorial Lecture

Robert Fine was a Professor of Sociology at Warwick University for many years. He wrote on Marxism, the anti-apartheid movement, Hegel, Marx and Arendt, social theory and cosmopolitanism; and, with Philip Spencer, on antisemitism. He was a key mentor to some of us and is an inspiration to those of us building the London Centre.

The cover image on this page is detail from this work, by Mina Kupfermann, called ‘Witness’. Standing at nearly three metres tall, from a distance it depicts a catastrophic event; a single eruption of antisemitism through time. Upon closer inspection, hidden in the artwork are hundreds of pieces of antisemitic social media material from many different sources.