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VWI Workshop: The Forensic Turn in Holocaust Studies?

15/06/2015
(Re-)Thinking the Past Through Materiality
A workshop organised by the Wiener Wiesenthal Institute für Holocaust-Studien (VWI)
From Thursday, 25. June 2015-12:00 To Friday, 26. June 2015-19:30
Bruno Kreisky Forum für internationalen Dialog, Armbrustergasse 15, 1190 Wien

In Holocaust Studies, a new turn seems to advance: after the era of classical written source based historiography and ‘the era of the witness’ characterised by the paradigmatic role of survivor testimony in Holocaust research and remembrance, a forensic approach comes to the foreground nowadays.

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CfP: Children and War: Past and Present (July 2016)

12/06/2015
Third international multidisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Salzburg, Austria, on 13-15 July 2016.
Organized by the University of Salzburg and the University of Wolverhampton, in association with the UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.
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EHRI presented as a case study on Symposium Metadata Exchange in Mechelen

03/06/2015
New EHRI Fellowship Programme also invites archivists and curators

On Thursday 30 April 2015, the Vlaamse Vereniging voor Bibliotheek, Archief en Documentatie (VVBAD, the Flemish library and archives association), organised a symposium on Metadata Exchange. The VVBAD, founded in 1921 and representing approximately 3,500 information professionals, is a non-profit organization for professionals working in libraries, archives and documentation centres in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium.

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CALL TRAME Fellowship in Digital Humanities Funded by the Karl Zeno Schindler Foundation

13/05/2015

The ZKS-TRAME Fellowship in Digital Humanities is funded by the Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation to foster advancement in humanities research and provide emerging digital scholars with an opportunity for growth - strongly based on their Humanities background - toward a professional development or pursuing careers in the academic and research sector within the DH field. The ZKS-TRAME Fellowship supports graduate students and PhDs in doing innovative work in the digital humanities at the SISMEL Digital and Multimedia Lab., in Florence.

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JDC Archives Expands Its Digital Reach through Collaboration with EHRI

28/04/2015

The JDC (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) Archives is now one of EHRI’s cooperating institutions, joining other repositories such as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the State Archives of Belgium, the Hungarian Jewish Archives, and the German Bundesarchiv (read more).

The EHRI portal includes key information about all JDC Archives Holocaust-era collections, among them the Cyprus, Geneva, Istanbul, New York, Stockholm, and Warsaw collections.

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UK Holocaust Foundation Appeals for Survivor Stories

28/04/2015
The UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation urgently wants to hear from survivors and those affected by Nazi persecution who have never told their story but would like the opportunity to do so before it’s too late.

Sir Peter Bazalgette, the chair of the new UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation set up to deliver the recommendations of the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission, is appealing to individuals to come forward if they know of survivors who have never told their stories.

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​CfP: Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust

22/04/2015
​Call for Papers and Panels
Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust XIV
The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age
November 3-6, 2016, Claremont McKenna, California

The 14th biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University and Claremont McKenna College, will consist of two plenary addresses, roundtables, multiple panels, workshops, and colloquia relating to recent issues and advances in scholarship on all aspects of Holocaust Studies.

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4th International Summer School Prague – Szczecin 2015: Jews in East Central Europe: History and Commemoration

22/04/2015

“Jews in East Central Europe: History and Commemoration” is the 4th International Summer School organized jointly by the University of Szczecin and Charles University Prague. The sum­mer school is supported by the “Go East” Program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and by the Czech-German Future Fund and will be held in cooperation with the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).

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Conference: ‘Another time, Another place? Challenges in Commemorating, Teaching and Researching the Holocaust 70 Years On’

22/04/2015
Second Annual Conference of the British Association for Holocaust Studies
21-22 July 2015, University of Birmingham

2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the death marches, the liberation of Auschwitz and concentration camps in western Europe, the end of World War II, and early postwar trials including the First Bergen-Belsen Trial and the opening of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. This sequence of anniversaries is an appropriate time to reflect on 70 years of research, education, public commemoration, musealization and cultural production, paying particular attention to the British and European contexts.

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The Holocaust in Southeastern Europe

16/04/2015
Date: May 25–26, 2015
Location: Athénée Palace Hilton, Episcopiei 1-3, Bucharest, Romania 010292
Cost: Free

This international conference brings together scholars to share emerging research on the Holocaust in the southeastern tier of Europe.

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