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CfP: Third International Graduate Students’ Conference on Genocide Studies

20/05/2014

9th to 11th April 2015 at Clark University, USA

The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University will host the Third International Graduate Students’ Conference on Genocide Studies on 9 -11 April 2015, in cooperation with the Danish Institute for International Studies, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Copenhagen. The conference will provide a forum for doctoral students to present their research projects to peers and established scholars.

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CfP: Genocide and Mass Trauma: Rising to the Challenges of Comprehension, Intervention, Prevention and Restitution

20/05/2014

International Network of Genocide Scholars' Fourth Global Conference on Genocide

The International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS) was founded in January 2005 in Berlin to provide genocide studies with a non-partisan forum through which to present research and analysis on any aspect of genocide as well as other forms of collective violence.

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International EHRI Conference: Holocaust Documentation in Eastern Europe

08/05/2014
19-21 May, 2014. Krakow, Poland

'In particular we would like to see the expansion of EHRI's activities and the widening of its partnership in Eastern Europe. All this of course in order to include new material on the Holocaust and enable an integrated approach to the history of the Holocaust as a European phenomenon.'  Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of Research and Innovation, European Commission, at the conference.

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Call For Papers: Entangled Memories - Remembering the Holocaust in a Global Age

07/05/2014

9th to 11th October 2014, Universität Hamburg

The field of Holocaust Studies has taken a transnational turn in recent years. Whereas scholarly attention used to focus on specific national memory cultures, it has now, almost seventy years after the onset of the Second World War, increasingly shifted towards comparative, interdisciplinary, and border-crossing perspectives.

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Call for Papers: Partisan and Insurgency Movements during the Second World War – The Slovak National Uprising in a Comparative Perspective

07/05/2014

Annual conference of the Collegium Carolinum in cooperation with the Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin.

Bad Wiessee, 6-9 November 2014
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EHRI Workshop: From Dispersed and Fragmented Holocaust Sources to an Integrated European Research Infrastructure

06/05/2014

We would like to invite you to a workshop about the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) at Le Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris on Monday 2 June, 2014. Le Mémorial de la Shoah is a partner of EHRI.

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Third EHRI Summer School Starts in Jerusalem

24/04/2014

Yad Vashem Welcomes Students

After succesfull editions in 2013 at Munich and Paris, today the third EHRI Summer School in Holocaust Studies begins in Jerusalem. EHRI partner Yad Vashem is the organiser of the three week event.

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EHRI Partners and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

10/04/2014

Between April 7 and mid-July 1994, close to one million individuals were assassinated in Rwanda: in less than three months, three quarters of the Tutsi population perished during this genocide.

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, several EHRI partners organise special events.

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CfP: EHRI Workshop at Yad Vashem: Heritage and Memory

08/04/2014

Workshop at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

8-10 September, 2014

EHRI would like to invite you to participate in the international workshop on Revising the Scope and Means of Physical and Digital Preservation of Holocaust Documentation to be held at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, September, 8-10, 2014.

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The Holocaust in Europe's Research Landscape: an Interview with Robert-Jan Smits

07/04/2014

Robert-Jan Smits is the Director-General of the European Commission's (EC) Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. He is responsible for the EC's Framework Programme 7 (FP7) that funds the EHRI project, and for FP7's successor programme, Horizon 2020. He is a long-standing supporter of EHRI and has kindly agreed to be interviewed for the EHRI Newsletter.

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