Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies

Exhibiting Contemporary History is a one-year part-time postgraduate certificate programme offered by Friedrich Schiller University Jena in cooperation with the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation. It is a part of the Europäisches Kolleg Jena: Representing the 20th Century.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invites proposals from Workshop Coordinator(s) to conduct two-week research workshops at the Museum during the month of July in 2019. We welcome proposals from scholars in all relevant disciplines, including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, Romani studies, philosophy, religion, anthropology, comparative genocide studies, and law.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS

What: Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC)

Where: Birmingham Conference and Events Centre

Museums as Agents of Memory and Change

Call for Papers:

The Kindertransport 80 Years On:  

Guest Editors: Laura Limonic, Assistant Professor of Sociology, SUNY Old Westbury; Tahneer Oksman, Assistant Professor of Academic Writing, Marymount Manhattan College

Journal Editors: Eugene Avrutin, University of Illinois; Ranen Omer-Sherman, University of Louisville

Dear H-Net,

I would like to draw your attention to a special screening of this groundbreaking documentary, "Hunger for Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story" by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Andrew Tkach.

The film profiles Canadian reporter Rhea Clyman, the first Western journalist to witness and expose Stalin's state-sponsored famine-genocide in Ukraine (1932-1933).

Call for Papers and Contributions
Dealing with Difficult Research
One-day interdisciplinary workshop on conducting research
on sensitive, controversial, challenging and emotionally difficult topics

University of Warwick, Friday 13 July 1018
#DifficultResearch2018

May 19-22, 2019
Conference at GHI West and The MAGNES Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, Berkeley 
Conveners: Wolf Gruner (USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Los Angeles), Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington/GHI West, UC Berkeley), Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes, UC Berkeley), Swen Steinberg (University of Dresden)