International Workshop within the Framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), supported by the European Commission.

Jewish Museum in Prague, October 21-23, 2014

EHRI would like to invite you to an international workshop on Early Attempts at the Historical Documentation of the Holocaust, to be held at the Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic on October 21-23, 2014.

In November 2012, EHRI organised a first international workshop on early documentation of the Holocaust which was, to our knowledge, the first comparative research meeting on the topic. The fascinating workshop made it clear that more research and discussion is needed.

Organisers: Hungarian Association of Sociology and John Wesley Theological College 

Date: 17th and 18th of December 2014, Venue: Budapest, VIII, Dankó street 11, Kline room

Workshop held at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide, April 11th 2014.

In April, the Wiener Library for the Study of Holocaust and Genocide held a workshop which outlined the progress made in the EHRI project so far. The workshop was attended by a large number of students, academics and members of the public and successfully promoted the EHRI portal as a resource for Holocaust researchers and institutions. 

 Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) in cooperation with the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

Vienna, December 4th to 6th, 2014

In the late 1970s, the US miniseries Holocaust shook TV audiences in the United States, in Western Europe and in Israel. The series was controversial, its reception remained ambivalent and said a lot about how the murder of the Jews was dealt with, remembered, forgotten or suppressed.

1-2 September 2014, University of Edinburgh

The first conference of the British Association for Holocaust Studies, to be held at the University of Edinburgh, presents an opportunity to shed further light on the developments in the field of Holocaust studies in Britain, review its achievements of the last c.70 years, and suggest ways of development in the future.

9th to 11th April 2015 at Clark University, USA

The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University will host the Third International Graduate Students’ Conference on Genocide Studies on 9 -11 April 2015, in cooperation with the Danish Institute for International Studies, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Copenhagen. The conference will provide a forum for doctoral students to present their research projects to peers and established scholars.

International Network of Genocide Scholars' Fourth Global Conference on Genocide

The International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) was founded in January 2005 in Berlin to provide genocide studies with a non-partisan forum through which to present research and analysis on any aspect of genocide as well as other forms of collective violence.

19-21 May, 2014. Krakow, Poland

'In particular we would like to see the expansion of EHRI's activities and the widening of its partnership in Eastern Europe. All this of course in order to include new material on the Holocaust and enable an integrated approach to the history of the Holocaust as a European phenomenon.'  Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of Research and Innovation, European Commission, at the conference.

9th to 11th October 2014, Universität Hamburg

The field of Holocaust Studies has taken a transnational turn in recent years. Whereas scholarly attention used to focus on specific national memory cultures, it has now, almost seventy years after the onset of the Second World War, increasingly shifted towards comparative, interdisciplinary, and border-crossing perspectives.

Annual conference of the Collegium Carolinum in cooperation with the Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin.

Bad Wiessee, 6-9 November 2014