The Bergen-Belsen International Summer School is aimed at international undergraduate students from different disciplines interested in the challenges of commemorative culture in a global, digital and medial context.
The summer school offers lectures, guided tours, workshops and discussions held in English. Its aim is to develop visions for the future of educational work at museums and memorials.
From 3-4 April 2017 the Holocaust Research Centre, Royal Holloway University of London will hold a conference to celebrate the work of Professor David Cesarani.
Call for Applications for Reference Services Seminar
13-17 November 2016 I Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
This seminar is organized in the framework of EHRI
We would like to invite those working in Reference Services with Holocaust documentation to submit their application for the international seminar Reference Services: Best Practices and Innovative Use of Materials to be held at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 13-17 November 2016.
The seminar is organized in the framework of EHRI by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, both part of the EHRI Consortium.
We would like to invite you to participate in the international workshop on Holocaust archival film footage to be held at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem on 19-21 September, 2016.
DARIAH-EU funds initiatives exploring the topic "Public Humanities“, which is its thematic priority for this year. The consortium invites proposals to organise events related to this topic.
"Our Public Humanities call builds on last year's call (Open Humanities), because it does not only promote better access to data and other digital resources but also to arts and humanities knowledge as a whole", DARIAH-EU's director Tobias Blanke describes the motivation for choosing "Public Humanities" as DARIAH Theme this year.
The UCL Centre for Holocaust Education is delighted to announce it is hosting the annual British Association of Holocaust Studies (BAHS) Conference this summer. The Conference will be held in Bloomsbury, Central London, from 19th - 21 July 2016.
The Conference will focus on "The Presence of the Holocaust in Society, Politics, & Culture, c.1970-2015". For more information on the Conference themes and the Call for Papers, click here. Confirmed keynotes include Professor Dan Stone (Royal Holloway University of London) and Professor Wulf Kansteiner (Binghamtown University). Further keynote speakers will be announced shortly here.
The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, USA, and the Holocaust Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London, with the support of the Pears Foundation, are pleased to invite applications for Fellowships to participate in the third European Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilisation. The Institute will take place from Monday 4 – Wednesday 13 July 2016 at the Royal Holloway campus, Egham, Surrey, in England.
We would like to invite those working in the field of Holocaust documentation to submit their application for the international EHRI Seminar: Languages, Cultures and Perspectives – How to Read Holocaust Sources, to be held at Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, Vilnius, June 26 – July 1, 2016 in cooperation with the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, Germany.
Especially over the past few decades, the refugee policies of Western states in the interwar period have been the subject of thorough examination by historians who have mostly highlighted the restrictive policies of closed borders, or ‘paper walls’, especially vis a vis Jewish refugees fleeing exclusion and mass murder.