Lecture by Laura Fontana from Mémorial de la Shoah, at the Instituto Italiano Cultura in Amsterdam, 27 January 2017

On the occassion of Holocaust Memorial Day, Laura Fontana will give a lecture at the Instituto Italiano Cultura in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Laura Fontana is the Head of the Italian Department of EHRI partner Mémorial de la Shoah since 2009. Since 2013, she has been the Scientific Coordinator of the Mémorial de la Shoah for EHRI, coordinated by NIOD Amsterdam.

POLIN Museum’s Global Educational Outreach Program, supported by the William K. Bowes Jr Foundation and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture, is offering up to six doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships for from three to five consecutive months in residence at POLIN Museum and EHRI partner, the Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH). The fellowship stipend is $2,000 per month (payable in Polish zlotys).

Sixth international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Library.

Fri 31 Mar 2017 Time: 9am-5pm

In memory of David Cesarani

This conference is planned as a follow-up to the five successful conferences, which took place at Imperial War Museum London in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated, and also open up new fields of academic enquiry.

Jennifer Edmond and Frank Fischer will succeed Conny Kristel and Tobias Blanke as DARIAH Directors. In its latest meeting the consortium's General Assembly (GA) approved the nomination proposed by a selection committee earlier this month. The Chair of the GA, Jacques Dubucs, who was also part of the committee, described the selection process as inspiring and said, "we had many applications, and they were all ranging from very good to outstanding. Finally two exceptionally good candidates were picked", Jacques concluded.