Symposium on Antisemitism

Brock University | S. Catharines, Ontario 

 

October 14–15, 2026

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Empirical research on contemporary antisemitism is a growing and increasingly consequential field. Scholars across the social sciences, law, public health, and policy are producing rigorous work that is reshaping how antisemitism is understood, measured, and addressed.

 

The Symposium on Antisemitism: Empirical Studies exists to bring this emerging community of researchers into direct dialogue—to learn from one another's work, to identify shared frameworks and complementary findings, and to build a network of scholarship that is greater than the sum of its parts.

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the 2026 symposium is jointly organized by the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, the Gratz College Antisemitism Studies Program, and the Elizabeth and Tony Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the University of Haifa, and will be hosted at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. The format is intentionally intimate: the goal is not breadth of coverage but depth of exchange. Researchers present their work and encounter others working on adjacent questions (methodological, theoretical, and empirical) such that the network of scholarship crystallizes and compounds rather than simply accumulates.