The Holocaust Studies Program of Western Galilee College, Yad Vashem and the Ghetto Fighters House announce a third international interdisciplinary conference and workshop on The Future of Holocaust Testimonies to be held on 25-27 March 2013 in Akko.
During this summer, the first two EHRI Summer Schools in Holocaust Studies were held in Paris and in Munich. Both have now been succesfully concluded.
On August 22, 2013, Conny Kristel, Project Director of EHRI, gives a presentation about the EHRI project as part of the course 'Introduction to Holocaust and Genocide Studies' of the Helsinki Summer School. She will speak about what EHRI entails and explain how Holocaust researchers will greatly benefit from this project.
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany is offering fellowships for Ph.D. and post-doctoral candidates conducting research on the Holocaust.
The Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship for Advanced Shoah Studies aims to strengthen Shoah studies and Holocaust memory throughout the world.
EHRI will grant up to 18 fellowships in Holocaust Studies to researchers and young scholars in 2014. An EHRI fellowship means that you can perform your research for four weeks, full expenses paid, at one of five EHRI partner institutions: Jewish Museum Prague, Yad Vashem, Institute for Contemporary History Munich, Shoah Memorial Paris, or NIOD Amsterdam. You can apply now!
Organized by the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, the second EHRI Summer School has started on July 22 in Munich under favourable circumstances. The first two weeks of the course take place at the Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing, an independent institution that conducts – partially in cooperation with other partners – courses, seminars, conferences and workshops on their premises in Tutzing at Lake Starnberg. It may not always be easy to focus on the Holocaust with such a sunny view of the beautiful lake, but the impressive programme will assure the attention of all the participants.
On July 9 EHRI co-organised an international conference on the Public History of the Holocaust, hosted by the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Facilitated by EHRI and two other European infrastructure projects supporting humanities research, DARIAH and TextGrid, and sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research, the conference brought together policy makers, archival and memory institutions, and academics to reflect on the challenges and opportunities the digital age offers for the public history of the Holocaust.
The EHRI Summer School in Paris is in its second week. The summer school has an extensive programme with a mixture of lectures of well-known Holocaust researchers and tours of the Mémorial de la Shoah and several other important archives in Paris.
Open to scholars from a variety of disciplines (historians, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists and other academics who are interested in the Holocaust) as well as to archivists, the first EHRI Summer School is organized by the Mémorial de la Shoah. A week later, a second EHRI Summer School, organized by the Institut für die Zeitgeschichte, will start in Munich.
Read the Programme EHRI Summer School Paris 2013.
For more information on the conference Public History of the Holocaust, please also visit www.ehri-project.eu/public-history-holocaust
Watch a short video with an introduction to the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6vYp56hbCc. This video premiered at the conference.
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