The Media, Arts and Humanities Research Institute

The Austrian Cultural Forum invites you to the fourth event in the Hella Pick Lecture series in cooperation with the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies.

The evening, entitled Charting a Landscape of Antisemitism and Radicalisation Online and Offline, will feature Dr Julia Ebner from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and Professor Gerald Lamprecht from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. They will present their research on radicalisation and antisemitism, examining how our digital societies and media landscape affect the prevention, emergence and spread of extremism and disinformation. Their presentations will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by the director of the Weidenfeld Institute, Professor Gideon Reuveni.

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The Hella Pick Lecture Series reflects on topics that influenced Hella Pick’s life and work and issues she shaped or influenced.

The career of Austrian-born British journalist Hella Pick, as foreign correspondent for The Guardian, spanned more than 30 years. For over 25 years, she served on the Advisory Board of the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies (formerly named the Centre for German-Jewish Studies) and was instrumental in raising considerable funds for the Centre’s development. She worked with the Club of Three and worked at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), among many other roles.

The Club of Three was founded in 1996 by Austrian-born George Weidenfeld as a Franco–German–British leadership initiative primarily focusing on France, the UK and Germany. From 1998, Hella Pick worked as a senior consultant for the Club of Three. In 2007, she took on the role of Director of the Arts and Culture Programme at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which emerged in 2006 from the Club of Three. For 20 years, the ISD has delivered field-leading threat detection, analysis and real-world strategies to combat terrorism, extremism and authoritarianism in all their ideological forms.

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Dr Julia Ebner is an international expert on extremism, radicalisation and conflict. She leads the Violent Extremism Lab at the University of Oxford and is Co-Executive Director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, where she oversees research, policy and action programmes on extremism prevention. She has given evidence to the Home Office, advised the intelligence community, and worked with the UN, Europol and NATO. Julia is the award-winning author of The Rage, Going Dark and Going Mainstream and has led projects addressing youth radicalisation, online subcultures and tech-fuelled extremist mobilisation. She writes regularly for The Guardian, The Times, Financial Times and Süddeutsche Zeitung; contributes to broadcast media and delivers guest lectures and public talks at universities and schools in the UK and abroad. Julia holds a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford and has over a decade of experience working at the intersection of research, policy and practice.

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Professor Gerald Lamprecht is Professor of Jewish History and Contemporary History and Head of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz. Since 2024, he has also been the coordinator of the antisemitism research group at the Institute of Culture Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on European Jewish history, Holocaust studies, the history of antisemitism and memory studies.

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The Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies, launched in 2019, is an interdisciplinary research hub that places the Jewish experience in a broader context. Aimed to act as an agent of change, their work is focussed on the present and making past experiences relevant in a world increasingly divided by disinformation and prejudice.

The Institute is home to the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, which for over two decades has been at the forefront of academic enquiry into the history, culture and thought of Jewish refugees from German-speaking lands. The Institute also works with Digital Holocaust Memory and Education Projects and sponsors prestigious Fellowship programmes.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 17 June 2026