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Public History in a Digital World: The Revolution Reconsidered

16/01/2014
Conference International Federation for Public History
Amsterdam, Thursday 23 October 2014 - Sat 25 October 2014 

Historical sources and narratives about the past infiltrate every corner of the web, from home-made digital media to online exhibitions, across social networks and in virtual museums. Digital tools have become essential for publics who preserve, present, discuss, and dispute history, and they will play a major role in the commemoration of the anniversary of WWI beginning in 2014.

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Fellowships 2014/2015 at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

06/01/2014

EHRI partner, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) invites applications for its fellowships for the academic year 2014/2015, beginning October 1, 2014.

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Special issue BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review on Digital History

19/12/2013

Is the digital revolution causing a complete transformation of historical research? Are new search methods changing the way we do history? The latest issue of the BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review, the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries, focuses on Digital History.

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CfP: 7th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries

19/12/2013
Call for Papers
University of Antwerp
Monday 26 May 2014

The Institute of Jewish Studies organizes for the seventh time an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Antwerp concerning Jewish Studies on the Low Countries.

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Call for Papers: The Holocaust and the European Societies. Social Process and Social Dynamics.

16/12/2013
30 September – 2 October 2014, Munich

International Conference of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute of Contemporary History, Munich, welcomes papers discussing the social and societal processes surrounding the Holocaust.

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CfA: Two European Research Council funded PHD Scholarships, King's College London.

09/12/2013

The Departments of English and German at King's College London are seeking well-qualified applicants for two fully-funded PhD scholarships attached to the European Research Council project "Beyond Enemy Lines:Literature and Film in the British and American Zones of Occupied Germany, 1945-1949". 

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CfA: EHRI Summer Schools in Holocaust Studies 2014

09/12/2013

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure invites applications to its two summer schools on Holocaust studies in 2014.

The summer schools are being funded by the European Union. The first EHRI summer school will be organised by Yad Vashem and the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem, Israel and will be between 24 April and 15 May 2014.

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Rethinking and Teaching Nazism

03/12/2013
Advanced Teacher Seminar for Italian speaking teachers and educators, 4-8 December 2013

EHRI partner Mémorial de la Shoah organises an advanced seminar for Italian teachers and educators. Today 25 participants will arrive in Berlin where they will take part in a 5-day intensive course. Subjects range from developments of perpetrator images, German resistance, the Wannsee Conference, dealing with the History of Nazism in Germany and the deportation from Italy.

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Follow EHRI on Twitter @EHRIproject

21/11/2013

Please follow us on Twitter @EHRIproject and stay updated as the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project enters its final year and we start to countdown towards the launch of the online portal and research environment, that will provide you access to dispersed Holocaust related sources.

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EHRI Fellow Katja Happe researched the persecution of Dutch Jews

19/11/2013

Since May 2012, Katja Happe has been a research associate at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Freiburg, Germany, for the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) project "The history of the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands 1940-1945". She was an EHRI fellow for four weeks in September 2013 at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. During her fellowship she did research for her project that will result in a book. She has specialized in Dutch-German history and had visited the NIOD before. 

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