On November 17, 2015, EHRI invited representatives of various institutions who are responsible for managing a collection to DANS' offices in The Hague for a workshop on cataloguing workflows. The attendees represented the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the International Institute of Social History, the Jewish Historical Museum (all based in Amsterdam), the University of Sussex (Brighton, UK), Kazerne Dossin (Mechelen, Belgium) and ITS in Bad Arolsen (Germany). DANS led the workshop on behalf of EHRI.

August 1–12, 2016

Applications due February 14

The Mandel Center of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for a workshop focused on the use of testimony in the study of the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union. It will bring together scholars whose work relies heavily upon oral and written testimonies of perpetrators, bystanders, and victims of the Holocaust on the territory of the former Soviet Union. Participants from North America and the states of the former Soviet Union will discuss research strategies and some of the central issues surrounding the use of testimonies in their work.

Institute of Jewish Studies - University of Antwerp

Tuesday 10 May 2016

The Institute of Jewish Studies organizes for the ninth time an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Antwerp concerning Jewish Studies on the Low Countries. The purpose of the conference is to facilitate contacts between researchers working within this area of study.

3-4 March, 2016 Lund University, Sweden 

Together with their partners the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Peace & Conflict Studies at Lund University, Sweden, the Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts (CRIC) is organising a three-part exploratory workshop series “Virtual Zones of Peace and Conflict” which is intended to foster and enhance collaboration between international peace scholars located in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Potential attendess are invited to submit paper proposals for presentation at this workshop. The third workshop in this series will focus on memory, conflict and the politics of memory in digital contexts.

Poland and Portugal have officially joined DARIAH. DARIAH’s General Assembly voted unanimously to accept the applications of the two countries. "We are delighted to see Poland and Portugal finally become part of DARIAH", said Laurent Romary, the President of the Bord of Directors of DARIAH-EU. 

The applications were prepared during the last two years with the help of DARIAH-EU. "Poland and Portugal have worked hard and we are very happy they will contribute to our vision of advancing digitally enabled reaserch in the arts and humanities in Europe and beyond", said Romary.

You are cordially invited to an EHRI workshop at DANS, in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 17 November 2015 on the topic of workflows that archives use to catalogue and publish information about their holdings. The workshop aims to get input from people who are part of the cataloguing workflow.