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Innovating the Heritage Research Sector - PARTHENOS Begins Its Work

24/08/2015

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.

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CfP: 21st Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Extermination Sites

06/08/2015
“Between Resistance and Collaboration"
Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France.
May 24th until May 30th 2016
Deadline is October 15, 2015
http://workshopnscampsandexterminationsites.com
workshopnscamps@gmail.com

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CfP: Life in the aftermath – Displaced Persons, Displaced Children and Child Survivors on the move.

06/08/2015
30 May – 1 June 2016
Joint event organised by Max Mannheimer Studienzentrum (MMSZ), Dachau, the International Tracing Service (ITS), Bad Arolsen with consultance by the Holocaust Studies Program of the Western Galilee College, Akko, Israel
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Call for EHRI fellowship programme (2016-2018)

28/07/2015
EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) invites applications for its fellowship programme (2016-2018).

The EHRI fellowships are intended to support and stimulate Holocaust research by facilitating international access to key archives and collections related to the Holocaust as well as archival and digital humanities knowhow. The fellowships intend to support researchers, archivists, curators, and younger scholars, especially PhD candidates with limited resources.

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CfP: The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age

22/07/2015
Call for Papers and Panels
Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust XIV
The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age
November 3-6, 2016, Claremont McKenna, California

The 14th biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University and Claremont McKenna College, will consist of two plenary addresses, roundtables, multiple panels, workshops, and colloquia relating to recent issues and advances in scholarship on all aspects of Holocaust Studies.

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CfP/Convocatoria: Spain, World War II and the Holocaust: A Critical Companion

22/07/2015

The organisers are seeking submissions for an edited volume devoted to the intersections among Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. This collection of essays will be the first comprehensive historical and cultural study of Spain’s unique relationship to the Holocaust and Nazi genocide. The volume seeks to bring together contributions from leading scholars from the fields of history, literary studies, sociology, film, and visual arts in order to provide a long-overdue multi-faceted analysis of a significant piece of Holocaust history that still remains outside the various disciplines that engage with European fascism.

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CfP: New Research on Genocide of Roma in Central Europe

22/07/2015
Stockholm 14th-15th December 2015
Deadline 1st September 2015

The Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University and the project Roma Genocide in Ukraine 1941-1944: history, memory, representations, invites applications for a workshop.

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First IHRA Publication: Killing Sites. Research and Remembrance

22/07/2015

More than 2,000,000 Jews were killed by shooting during the Holocaust in several thousand mass killing sites throughout Europe and yet these killing sites remain relatively unknown. A new publication issued by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) aims to raise awareness of this centrally important aspect of the Holocaust by bringing together organizations and individuals dealing with the subject.

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Call for applications: part time researcher with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)

22/07/2015

IHRA's Committee on the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes against Humanity is currently seeking a researcher to compile a report on (international) organizations working on the Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, their work, their educational and communication programs as well as an overview of the literature in which the Holocaust is related to other genocides and crimes against Humanity.

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Second Phase of EHRI Starts in Brussels

08/07/2015

On 29 June 2015, the second phase of the EHRI project officially started with a kick-off meeting in Brussels. Belgian EHRI partner Cegesoma hosted the event.

EHRI Presentation

On 26 March, the first phase of the project resulted in the Presentation in Berlin, where the EHRI portal, that gives online access to dispersed Holocaust sources, was launched.

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