The first international conference on British Jewish Contemporary Cultures, it explored British Jewish contemporary cultures in global and comparative settings, as well as in terms of imperial, postcolonial and transnational narratives. The aim of the conference was to tease out the tension between a transcultural British Jewish Studies and the specificity of the Jewish experience in Britain with increasing theoretical and methodological complexity. Topics included: writing British Jewishness, images of British Jewishness in film and television, gender, sexuality, visual images (art, graphic novels), music, performing Jewishness, theatre and drama, poetry, Wales and Scotland, the Holocaust, Israel, and experiences of immigration and emigration.