Deadline extension: CfP The Kindertransport 80 Years On: Critical Approaches to Kindertransport Research and Historiography

The Kindertransport 80 Years On:
Critical Approaches to Kindertransport Research and Historiography
CALL FOR PAPERS
Date: 23-24 January 2019
Venue: UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London, UK
The eightieth anniversary of the scheme that permitted over 10,000 unaccompanied, mostly Jewish, children to enter the UK in 1938-39 seems a fitting time to approach a new, critical assessment of the Kindertransport and its origins, rationales, enactment and outcomes. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes papers that examine the Kindertransport with critical scholarly rigor, exploring less well-known aspects of the scheme as well as fresh perspectives on the more familiar Kindertransport themes. Presentations are anticipated to be 20-25 minutes grouped into panels, with questions to follow each segment. Participants will be invited to submit their papers after the symposium for a collected edition on the Critical Approaches to Kindertransport Research, Historiography and Representation.
This conference is being organised by Professor Michael Berkowitz, Dr. Jennifer Craig-Norton, Anita Grosz, Dr. Andrea Hammel and Lesley Urbach. We are inviting contributions from a variety of academic disciplines. Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Critical Approaches to Kindertransport Research, Historiography and Representation
• Individuals and refugee organisations
• Kindertransport carers -- their motivations & roles
• The parents -- their perspectives, feelings and fates
• Issues of gender, age and identity
• Memory, representation and testimony
• The challenges of Kindertransport archival research
• Language, education, work and cultural adaptation
• Individual communities and the Kindertransport
• Kindertransport sub-groups i.e. national, religious, Youth Aliyah, etc.
• The Kindertransport and religion
• Evacuation and the Kindertransport
• Kindertransport and the media, film and literature
• Journey narratives
• Artistic representations, memory and material objects
• Kindertransport memorials and museum representation
• Comparative studies with other countries

Abstracts (250 words) and a short biography (100 words), in digital form, should be sent to: KT80Symposium@gmail.com by

1 October 2018.

Sponsored by:

University College London Institute of Advanced Studies

Parkes Institute, University of Southampton

Aberystwyth University

Wiener Library

Second Generation Network

The Kindertransport Association