26-27 January 2015 at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom

The University of Leeds is pleased to announce that an international conference entitled Transnational Holocaust Memory will take place on 26-27 January 2015 at the University of Leeds. Recognising that Holocaust ‘memory’ (in the broadest sense) is increasingly shaped by transnational forces such as mass migration, global travel and tourism, economic globalization, digital media and the internet, this conference will explore the future of Holocaust memory in shifting international contexts.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Professor Marianne Hirsch (The Generation of Postmemory, Ghosts of Home, Family Frames)
• Professor Leo Spitzer (Ghosts of Home, Hotel Bolivia)
• Eva Hoffman (After Such Knowledge, Lost in Translation)
• Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (A Human Being Died That Night)
• Professor Stef Craps (Postcolonial Witnessing)

The conference will feature a number of public engagement events, including a play produced with a local theatre company and the launch of a public exhibition developed with the South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation about Germany’s confrontation with its past. It will also include a masterclass on ‘Engaging with non-academic partners’ for postgraduates.

Alongside the conference, the focus will be on establishing an informal network of scholars and professionals with an interest in transnational Holocaust memory. If you would like to be a member of this network with your interests and expertise listed on this website, please send a short biographical note and photograph to Dr Matthew Boswell (m.boswell@leeds.ac.uk).

Read the Call for Papers.

For updates on the conference and the discussion of Holocaust memory more broadly, please follow on Twitter at @TransHoloMemory.

This event is kindly supported by the Worldwide Universities Network and the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities.