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The Holocaust and the Contemporary World

28/10/2014
International Interdisciplinary Conference in Krakow, Poland
23rd-24th April 2015
Organizers: Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk (Poland), Zofia Ziemann – Jagiellonian University (Poland), Amanda Chalupa – McGill University (Canada)
Co-organizer: InMind Support

Although Holocaust Studies is a thriving research area, boasting many important recent publications and projects, a truly broad, interdisciplinary perspective is still felt to be lacking. Hence, this conference is meant as an opportunity to look together at the theme of the Shoah in as diverse and wide a context as possible.

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Invitation to EHRI Workshop: The Challenges of Publishing Finding Aids in a Digitally Joined-Up World

21/10/2014
2-3 December 2014, The Hague, The Netherlands

This EHRI workshop will focus on the information policy required in a digitally joined-up world and is intended for people responsible for the information strategy at archives, museums, libraries and other institutions that hold collections. It is not a technical workshop. The objective of the workshop is to improve the collaboration between the collection holding institutions, IT-service providers and Information Customers, such as EHRI.

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CfA: The Sharon Abramson Research Grant for the Study of the Holocaust

15/10/2014

The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University is pleased to announce the 2015 Sharon Abramson Research Grant competition.  

Five grants of up to $4,000 each will be awarded to support research related to the Holocaust of European Jewry. Graduate students in Ph.D. programs who have completed their qualifying exams and university/college faculty who teach about the Holocaust are eligible for this grant.  

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The Holocaust and the Digital

15/10/2014
Online forum discussion
Tuesday 9th December 2014, 12 Noon (GMT)

Abstracts are available here: http://holocaustgenocidepopularculture.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-research-forum/ 

The forum will take place online.

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EHRI Budapest Workshop: Overcoming the Gap: Eastern Perspectives on EHRI

14/10/2014
Holocaust Memorial Center, Budapest
Thu 6 November 2014. Time: 9.30am - 1.00pm

We would like to cordially invite you to the workshop Overcoming the Gap: Eastern Perspectives on EHRI, hosted by the EHRI partner Holocaust Memorial Center. The workshop will offer an overview on EHRI's work and progress, featuring speakers from key areas of the collaboration's development. Besides, the workshop focuses on the Eastern expansion of EHRI, involving colleagues representing leading institutions in the field from Slovakia, Romania and Hungary.

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USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Fellowship, 2015-2016

08/10/2014
University of Southern Califronia, Los Angeles, USA

The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites applications from senior scholars for its 2015-2016 Center Research Fellow. The fellowship provides $30,000 support and will be awarded to an outstanding candidate from any discipline, who will advance genocide research through the use of the Visual History Archive (VHA) of the USC Shoah Foundation and other USC resources.

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Call for Fellows: The 20th Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization

08/10/2014
The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, June 21 to July 3, 2015

The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University is pleased to invite applications for fellowships to participate in the 20th annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, from June 21 to July 3, 2015, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

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Leo Baeck Institute London: John A.S. Grenville Studentship

08/10/2014
Queen Mary University, UCL, London

The Leo Baeck Institute London is pleased to offer a 3-year John A. S. Grenville studentship for an outstanding doctoral candidate wishing to pursue a research project in the field of German Jewish history and culture with a focus on the late 19th and 20th centuries. Applications are invited from current and prospective graduates with an excellent academic track record.

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EHRI Fellow Christine Kausch: 'Fellowships Contribute to Academic Exchange'

07/10/2014

Christine Kausch from Germany was an EHRI fellow at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam in September 2014. She used her fellowship to do research for her PhD-thesis, which deals with Jewish refugees from Germany who came to the Netherlands in the 1930s. Her research focuses especially on aspects of the refugees’ daily life in the years 1933-1945.

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Digital Holocaust Theater Archive Launched

07/10/2014

Today is the official launch of the digital Holocaust Theater Archive, a website containing plays from 1933 to the present that has user specific informative entries and is intended for students, scholars, theater artists, teachers and the general public. This growing catalog of over 550 titles is publicly accessible and housed on line at the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami.

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