Prof. Brian Klug
Honorary Fellow in Social Philosophy, Campion Hall University of OxfordDr Klug is Honorary Fellow in Social Philosophy at Campion Hall, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow of Oxford University’s Faculty of Philosophy; and Fellow of the College of Arts & Sciences at Saint Xavier University, Chicago. He is Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton, and was Visiting Scholar at the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, University of South Australia, Adelaide. He has been a participant in two projects with the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna: ‘The Vienna Conversations’ (on “the missing sense of togetherness in Europe”) and ‘Arab-Jewish Engagement’ (ongoing). He is Associate Editor of Patterns of Prejudice and a member of the Advisory Boards of Islamophobia Studies Yearbook and ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies. He was a consultant with the FRA (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights) on ‘religion and human rights’. He is one of the authors of ‘The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism’ (2021).
Dr Klug has lectured and published extensively on Judaism, antisemitism, Islamophobia and racism. His books include Being Jewish and Doing Justice; Offence: The Jewish Case; Words of Fire (editor); and A Time to Speak Out (co-editor). His essays have appeared in numerous books, including: Racialization and Religion; Antisemitism, Islamophobia and the Politics of Definition; The Arab and Jewish Questions; Instances of Islamophobia; The Medieval Roots of Antisemitism; Neuer Antisemitismus?; Sprachgewalt; The Spirit of Populism; Dynamics of Difference; Do I Belong: Reflections from Europe; and Religious Experience Revisited.