Winter Newsletter 2019 CFP: British Association for Holocaust Studies
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Winter Newsletter 2019 CFP: British Association for Holocaust Studies Seventh Annual Conference The Holocaust after 75 years: History, Memory, Legacies University of Northumbria, 22-24 July 2020. We welcome paper and panel proposals on the broad theme of ‘The Holocaust after 75 years: History, Memory, Legacies’. We are interested in papers on all aspects of Holocaust studies and from all of its disciplines. We are particularly interested in papers that consider: - The history of the perpetration of mass violence in the Nazi era - Cultural histories of violence and the communities that produced it - The experience and witnessing of Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Nazi violence - The relationship between the Holocaust and other genocides (including those perpetrated by the Nazis) - The memory and representation of that violence, in all settings - Geographies of Nazi violence - Digital approaches to studying the Holocaust - The Holocaust in (new) Social Media - Object and material histories of the Holocaust - Languages and the Holocaust Paper proposals should be 200 words in length; while panel proposals should either consist of 3 papers, and should outline clearly the approach that they plan to take. We are open to proposals of other forms of presentation too. All proposals should be sent to [email protected] by 30th January 2020 and should include a biography of the speaker. As ever, BAHS encourages applications from scholars at every stage of an academic career, and is also keen to receive proposals from practitioners working in the education and museum sector. CFP: British Association for Holocaust Studies Postgraduate Conference The Holocaust, Memory and Society University of Exeter, 6 March 2020. The British Association for Holocaust Studies welcomes paper proposals for its annual postgraduate conference. This year’s theme is ‘The Holocaust, Memory and Society,’ which we hope will enable postgraduate scholars working in Holocaust Studies from any discipline to make a submission. To submit a paper proposal, please send a 300-word abstract and 150-word biography to [email protected] by 10th January 2020. Please note, we will only accept paper proposals from those currently working at postgraduate level. All are welcome to attend. Information about registration to follow. The conference will be free to attend and we will provide lunch and refreshments. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Isabelle Mutton and Issy Sawkins at [email protected] Obituary, Paul Levine It is with great sadness that the British Association for Holocaust Studies announces the death of Paul Levine. The following obituary was written by Peter Carrier. On Monday 28 October 2019 the Holocaust historian and teacher Paul Levine passed away. He was not only loved by his students and the adored father of three children, but also an outstanding thinker and educator. Levine, a long time associate professor of Holocaust history and genocide studies, spent the last six years in his favourite town, Berlin, as a freelance historian. Among his many publications is the award-winning "Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest. Myth, History and Holocaust" (2010) and, together with Stéphane Bruchfeld, “Tell Ye Your Children. A Book about Holocaust in Europe 1933-1945” (1998). He was currently working on a teachers’ guide about how to think and teach about the Holocaust and genocide in a progressive and humanistic manner. Conferences and Events ñ Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti, The Wiener Library exhibition, 30 October 2019 – 11 March 2020 Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti draws upon the Library’s collections of material on the genocide to uncover the story of this little-known aspect of Nazi persecution. The genocide carried out against the Roma and Sinti communities of Europe by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War - the persecution and murder of as many as 500,000 people - has been referred to as 'the forgotten Holocaust'. After the war, survivors and relatives of victims struggled to get recognition and compensation for the persecution and losses they had suffered. In Britain and Europe today, prejudice and discrimination against Roma and Sinti is still common. ñ No to Hate Conference, National Holocaust Museum, 14 January 2020 This conference is conducted by the National Holocaust Museum in Laxton, UK to provide training to those wishing to learn more about hate crimes and their victims. Find out more information and book your free place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-to-hate-conference-tickets- 63326160250?aff=ebdssbdestsearch ñ CFP: Between Individual and Collective Trauma, Estonian Literary Museum, March 12-13 2020 The theory of cultural trauma has recently developed into a true humanitarian scientific paradigm aimed at studying chaotic and catastrophic moments of the history with far-reaching social and cultural consequences. Big and important events for the cultural history of the West concerning overcoming of cultural traumas and axiological crisis, alongside with the processes of changing into modern culture and forming new systems need to be considered. The Colloquium will give particular attention to the problems of collective memory and representation that are essential in discussing traumatic experience, as well as symbolic meditation processes in cultural topology and topography. The focus is on problematic issues of memory, identity, cultural topos and the process of trauma where its importance is being formed in the context of "forgetting / remembering" in different discourses such as religion, aesthetics, jurisdiction, bureaucracy, etc. http://www.folklore.ee/rl/fo/konve/2020/trauma/?fbclid=IwAR37tn8mqTbCD5ATi7_90_f0FFtHgodXsqR03-wajdpxC-8KxxKQL6E-l5g# ñ CFP: World in Crisis: Reflections and Responses from Antiquity to the Present British Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, University of Southampton and the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, 13-15 July 2020 The annual conference of the British Association for Jewish Studies 2020 will explore Jewish perspectives on a world in crisis, whether real or imagined, in different spaces from antiquity to the present. Crisis can be found or understood in a variety of arenas of life from the political to the existential, and can be traumatic and yet, in some instances, lead to innovation. The conference aims to bring together scholars from diverse academic disciplines to explore Jewish perspectives of dramatic or perceived social, political, historical, ideological or religious change, originating from within Jewish worlds and without. The conference will assess Jewish engagement with change and crisis throughout history from the local to the transnational, including within the context of relationships with non-Jews. Analysis of the varied spectrum of reactions to and representation of times of crisis can do much to shed light on diversity within the Jewish experience in different contexts, whether impacting an individual or a community. Furthermore, challenges to the significance of the concept of crisis in Jewish history and culture, and emphasis on long-term trends are an important facet of this discussion. Papers will highlight the multiplicity of Jewish approaches to a world in crisis from resistance to rationalisation, whether literary or visual, and with an interdisciplinary perspective that characterises Jewish Studies. The conference is intended to provide a forum for reflection and critical contributions to significant, long-standing or contemporary issues of crisis and response, and the place of Jews, Judaism and Jewish Studies within this. https://britishjewishstudies.org/about/conference-2018/ ñ CFP: Beyond Camps and Forced Labour, 6-8 January 2021 This conference is planned as a follow-up to the six successful conferences, which took place at Imperial War Museum London in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and at Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library in 2018. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated, and also open up new fields of academic enquiry. Please send an abstract of 200-250 words together with a biography of 50-100 words by 31 March 2020 to Dieter Steinert [email protected]. For full details, visit this link: https://wienerlibrary.co.uk/Blog?item=421&returnoffset=0 Studentships and Career Opportunities ñ AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship for Landscape, Memory, and Trauma: Cinematic Depictions of the Holocaust Applications are invited for an AHRC CDA doctoral studentship offered by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, to start in the October or January of the 2020-21 academic year. The studentship will be based in the Department of Geography. The successful applicant, will work on a collaborative project co-led by Professor Matthew Gandy ([email protected]), Department of Geography and co-supervisor from the British Film Institute and Larysa Michalska, the Galicia Jewish Museum. The studentship will involve exploring how cinematic depictions might function to sustain the memory of the Holocaust for those who did not live through it, forming mnemonic frameworks that resonate with public culture. It is thus an examination of the potential memorial role of cinema and possible post-cinematic media developments like virtual reality, the nature of contemporary memory and mediation, and practical pedagogical approaches to commemoration. The