Last week, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) held its bi-annual plenary meeting, the first under the current Romanian chairmanship. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is an intergovernmental body which aims to place political and social leaders’ support behind the need for Holocaust education, remembrance and research. IHRA currently has 31 member countries, ten observer countries and seven Permanent International Partners. It works with an annually rotating Chairmanship.

19-29 July 2016, Universität Leipzig

This workshop is offered by the European Summer University in Digital Humanities, that takes place from 19-29 July 2016 in Leipzig.

Call for Papers: International colloquium. Paris, March 23 and 24, 2017

The magnitude of the looting due to the Nazi forces during World War II was revealed at the Liberation. Operations aiming at localization, return, and restitution of looted cultural goods were begun, notably in Western Europe, while the Soviet victors - more often than others - reckoned that such goods were legitimate "war trophies" because of the suffering endured.

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.

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.

London, UK, 19 - 21 July 2016

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.

4-13 July 2016, Royal Holloway campus, Egham, Surrey, UK

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.

Workshop, organised by the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, in cooperation with the Jewish Museum in Prague l Vienna, 16-17 June 2016

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.

Exhibition / films and discussions

27 January - 30 October 2016

EHRI partner Mémorial de la Shoah (Shoah Memorial), based in Paris, currently hosts a new exhibition, titled After the Holocaust. Survivors and Refugees. 1944-1947.

It is a bilingual exhibition featuring many archival documents, films and nearly 250 photographs on the period immediately after the catastrophe. Around the exhibition, Mémorial de la Shoah organizes a series of screenings and panel discussions with many historians, specialists, witnesses and filmmakers.