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EHRI at IHRA Conference in Canada

07/10/2013

EHRI is well represented at the conference and meetings of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in Toronto, Canada, that take place from 6-10 October. On Wednesday 9, Haim Gertner from Yad Vashem and Karel Berkhoff from NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, who both also work for EHRI, will give an update to the Plenary Meeting about two of the latest achievements of EHRI, the conference in Berlin, Public History of the Holocaust, and the EHRI Summer Schools.

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Call for Articles: Dapim - Studies on the Holocaust

07/10/2013

Dapim - Studies on the Shoah, the journal of the University of Haifa and the Ghetto Fighters House Museum in Israel, is now being published by Routledge, as part of the Taylor and Francis Group.

The Journal, supported by the David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation, is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the inter-disciplinary study of the Holocaust, the Second World War, and anti-Semitism and will be produced in both English and Hebrew.

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CfP: The Holocaust in Hungary, 70 Years On: New Perspectives

24/09/2013
Florida Gulf Coast University
Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies
March 17-18, 2014

On March 19, 1944, the Nazis marched into and occupied Hungary, precipitating one of the most intense periods of genocidal destruction of the Holocaust. By the time the deportations of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz and other locations had been brought to an end four months later, no fewer than 500,000 Jews had been murdered.

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CfP: The Future of Holocaust Testimonies III

12/09/2013
An International Conference and Workshop
25-27 March 2014, Akko, Israel
Call for Papers

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.

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EHRI Summer School Munich Succesfully Concluded

22/08/2013

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.

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Project Director EHRI Speaks at Helsinki Summer School

22/08/2013

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.

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Saul Kagan Fellowship for Advanced Shoah Studies

09/08/2013

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.

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Call EHRI Fellowships in Holocaust Studies 2014

31/07/2013

EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) invites applications for its fellowship programme for 2014.

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!

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Berlin Conference: Support for Holocaust Research Infrastructures

30/07/2013

International Conference Public History of the Holocaust: Historical Research in the Digital Age

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.

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EHRI Summer School Munich: Holocaust Studies at Lake Starnberg

30/07/2013

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.

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