The Ghetto Fighters' House invites you to a
Special "Talking Memory" Program
with
Prof. Jan Grabowski
and
Prof. Natalia Aleksiun
Defending Holocaust Scholarship
Thursday, March 4, 2021
11 AM PST
1 PM CST
2 PM EST
7 PM GMT
9 PM IL
The global developments around mass forced labour in China, including as a component of the Uyghur genocide, continue to arrive, blow by blow: Here is a quick, incomplete update.
Dear H-CivWar Subscribers,
Today we feature the first part of a roundtable discussion on the complexities of life for African American families in the Civil War era. Joining me for this discussion are Hilary N. Green (University of Alabama), Kelly D. Mezurek (Walsh University), and Amy Murrell Taylor (University of Kentucky). Each scholar touches on many vital issues that argue analyzing African American families provide us with a more profound and personal way of understanding the war and its aftermath.
The Australian Association for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce that the latest issue of the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies is now online. The journal is fully accessible here.
Table of Contents
Jennifer Creese and Jan Láníček
Introduction
Levi Cooper
Pandemics in the Promised Land: The Hasidic Experience
Dvir Abramovich
Holocaust Representations in Early Hebrew Poetry: Uri Zvi Greenberg
The University of Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce the 2021 Bogdanow Lecture in Holocaust Studies will be delivered by Oscar-winning film director László Nemes. The globally acclaimed filmmaker, whose 2015 film ‘Son of Saul’ won numerous international prizes including an Academy Award, the Grand Prix, the Golden Globe and BAFTA, will speak on the topic of Holocaust portrayals in fiction film. The opening address for the event will be given by Chancellor of the University of Manchester Lemn Sissay.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invites proposals from individuals and institutions to co-organize research workshops in conjunction with the Mandel Center in 2022.
Dear colleagues
Following on from the academic roundtable Playing the Holocaust I in November 2020, clips from which you can watch here:
https://digitalholocaustmemory.wordpress.com/2020/11/24/playing-the-holocaust-part-1/
