Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies

The association The European Society for History of Law is the publisher of the Journal on European History of Law which is published 2x per year. It is assigned for law-historians and Romanists that want to share with their colleagues the results of their research in this field.

At the same time, reviews of books with historical themes are being published. You can also find there information about the happenings in the field of law-history.

Coinciding with the Centennial of the world War I Armistice, and taking place in an iconic world war heritage site, this conference explores the heritage of romanticism in the war-torn long twentieth century, as well as its persistent echoes in the age of the War on Terror.

Deadline for Abstract Submission: November 10, 2018

Max and Hilde Kochmann Summer School for PhD Students

in European-Jewish History and Culture

Taking the title of Susan Sontag’s seminal work as a starting point, this workshop aims at re-opening an old debate about the potentialities of exhibiting other’s suffering in order to promote a culture of peace, prevent war and/or resolve conflict. Sontag concluded in her book that images of atrocities had led the Global North to a form of exhaustion, also called compassion fatigue, which has been criticised more recently as a myth. Yet, images remain today the main strategy of humanitarian organisations to raise awareness and funds.

Yad Vashem's new and innovative online course Antisemitism: From Its Origins to the Present traces the history of antisemitism - from antiquity until today.

It is currently available for free on the UK based digital education platform FutureLearn, which is partnered with over 100 leading academic institutions worldwide.

The North Carolina Museum of Art and the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at UNC Chapel Hill are pleased to offer a limited number of competitive fellowships for attendance at the conference “Wandering Objects: Collecting and Interpreting Jewish Things” to be held in Raleigh and Chapel Hill on November 11-13, 2018: https://jewishstudies.unc.edu/events/wandering-objects/.

Fellowships will be awarded to help cover travel expenses and lodging.

Doctoral Research Assistant position: Holocaust Ghettos Project: Reintegrating Victims and Perpetrators Through Places and Events (PI Anne Kelly Knowles)