In the second phase of EHRI, that started in May this year, the EHRI Fellowships Programme has undergone considerable changes, all concerned with more flexibility. In the new programme, the call is not once a year, but has an open character, with cut-off dates to allow for evaluation. Fellows can request to stay between one to six weeks at the institution of their choice. This time no less than fifteen EHRI partner institutions offer fellowships. Although the EHRI fellowships programme especially would like to support PhD candidates with limited resources, fellowships are also available for researchers, archivists, and curators. Disciplines include historians, archivists, curators, digital humanists, conservationists, sociologists, musicologists, art historians, employees of memorial sites, and many more.

The EHRI Fellowships Call for 2016-2018 is already online.

Simon Wiesenthal Conference 2015

Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

Vienna, 30 November 2015 – 2 December 2015

Call for Papers

Studies of modern antisemitism have focused primarily on Germany, as both the country where the phenomenon is seen to have originated and where it reached its genocidal culmination in the Holocaust.

Accepting applications for the 2016–2017 fellowship competition: September 1, 2015–November 30, 2015.

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies awards fellowships on a competitive basis to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. The Mandel Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all academic disciplines, including but not limited to history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, sociology, anthropology, comparative genocide studies, and law.

The PARTHENOS project has been awarded €12 million over four years by the EU to support and build on the efforts of a range of EU projects in the domain of cultural heritage, digital humanities, linguistics, history and archaeology. EHRI is one of the projects that, led by its coordinator NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, takes part in PARTHENOS. Within PARTHENOS, EHRI will be involved in communication, standardization of requirements and trans-national access.