Holocaust and Genocides Studies-by Julia Maria Koszewska

27th January

2012-01-27T14:43:00.000+01:00

27th of January was the day when Red Army has liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau.

this day has been also chosen to be the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

For this year a special memory to Abramek Koplowicz - a young jewish boy, who in the ago of 14 was murdered in Auschwitz. He was writing poetry in school notebook and this song is to the lyrics written by him.

Grant for academic programs for 2012/13

2011-08-23T23:35:00.003+02:00

what: application deadline for Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project (LHJSP) (final year of the program)
one-year grants of up to $22,000 to Jewish Studies programs at colleges and universities outside of major metropolitan areas; for the programs to be run in 2012-13 academic year
when: September 15, 2011
where: "applications from institutions in the United States, but Canadian institutions will also be considered"
contact: Natasha Perlis, LHJSP Project Manager
official website>>

official info/invitation:

The application deadline for the third and final year of the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project (LHJSP), a collaboration between the Legacy Heritage Fund and the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), is approaching on September 15, 2011. This initiative aims to promote sustainedJewish Studies programming in small to mid-sized cities, foster relationships between scholars and the wider communities in which they work, encourage innovative and accessible teaching by AJS members, and highlight the nexus of Jewish Studies and the study of world civilizations and cultures. LHJSP is committed to supporting the work of Jewish Studies scholars as public intellectuals, pioneering programmers, and community builders.

The AJS will issue one-year grants of up to $22,000 to Jewish Studies programs at colleges and universities outside of major metropolitan areas that demonstrate scholarly resources, institutional support, a schedule of creative and substantive public events, and a need in the general community for such programming. Priority will be given to applications from institutions in the United States, but Canadian institutions will also be considered. In addition, institutions in the process of building a Jewish Studies program are eligible to apply. Previous applicants are welcome to reapply. Funding for the 2011 competition will support public programming in the 2012-13 academic year.

Support for the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project is generously provided by Legacy Heritage Fund Limited. Please visit the AJS website for additional information, including application materials and a list of past winners. You may direct inquiries to Natasha Perlis, LHJSP Project Manager, at nperlis@ajs.cjh.org or +01 917 606 8249

Holocaust education: summer schools 2011

2011-06-01T17:46:00.002+02:00

and again summer is quickly approaching and it's time to think again about summer offers to study Holocaust.

Harvard Summer School:

The Holocaust in History, Literature, and Film by Kevin Madigan
Theater During the Holocaust: Staging Cabarets and Plays from the Theresienstadt Ghetto - has been canceled

deadline for registration: 30.06.2011

Helsinki University Summer School "Thinking Allowed":

Introduction to Holocaust and Genocide Studies by Malte Gasche

scholarships availabledeadline for registration (without scholarship application): 08.08.2011

Summer School Utrecht

Colloniality, Slavery and the Holocaust: Introducing the Decolonial Option by Walter Mignolo and Rolando Vasquez

scholarships not but discounts are available.deadline for registration: 15.06.2011

Memorial Library Summer Seminar on Holocaust Education in New York City
24 fellowships were available, deadline for scholarship applications passed on 14.01.2011

"Narrations, spaces and pictures of memory - Historical Museums: representation, memory and politics"

2011-06-01T17:19:00.000+02:00

Today in Warsaw:
What: conference "Narrations, spaces and pictures of memory - Historical Museums: representation, memory and politics"
When (conference): 1-2.06.2011
where: Warsaw, Poland
official website >>

1 June: Narrations, spaces and pictures of memor

Working conference (all presentations in English)

Conference venue: Polish Culture Institute, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, room 9

9:00 Opening session: Prof. Leszek Kolankiewicz, Director of Polish Culture Institute UW

Christian Delage (Paris 8/EHESS-IHTP): Writing the Narrative of a Memorial: the Case of Compiègne
Ewa Klekot (UW): Visiting the Warsaw Royal Castle – WWII Destruction and a Question of Authenticity

10:3o

Geneviève Zubrzycki (University of Michigan/Ehess): Memory and Collective Identity in Museum Spaces outside Museums.
Marcin Napiórkowski (IKP UW): Creation and Reconstruction of History from the Perspective of Anthropology of Things. The Case of the Warsaw Rising Museum

12:oo

Mirosław Nizio (Nizio Design International): Spaces of Memory. Representing History (presentation of architecture/design works)

13:oo–14:3o lunch time

14:3o

Maud Guichard (EHESS): Between the National and the International: the Non-Space of the Judaica Gallery at the National Museum in Krakow
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Museum of the History of Polish Jews/ NYU): Restoring History to Memory: Museum of the History of Polish Jews

16:oo

Rémy Besson (EHESS): Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, a Memorial?
Agnieszka Pajaczkowska (IKP UW): Memory in Photographs. Identity Photos from the Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau
Iwona Kurz (IKP UW): Life after Life. Usage of Auschwitz Chronicles in the Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau

2 June: Historical Museums: representation, memory and politics

Pannel discussion (Polish/French languages with interpreter)

Conference venue: Dom Spotkań z Historią, ul. Karowa 20

16:oo–19:oo

Isabelle Backouche (Ehess)

Christian Delage (Paris 8/Ehess-IHTP)

Paweł Machcewicz (Second World War Museum)

Dariusz Gawin (Warsaw Uprising Museum)

Jacek Leociak (Museum of History of Polish Jews)

Katarzyna Madoń-Mitzner (Dom Spotkań z Historią)

discussion moderator: Paweł RODAK (Polish Culture Institute UW)

"Phantom-pains of Poland" and "Holocaust in Europe"

2011-05-31T23:39:00.002+02:00

I got the pleasure to inform you that my papers have been accepted to the 10th Conference of European Sociological Association.

When (conference): 7-10.09.2011
where: Geneva, Switzerland
Deadline (for registration): 15.06.2011 (for paper givers),
official website >>

Two of my (two) submited proposals have been accepted in the following form:
- "Phantom-pains of Poland: A Post-traumatic Reaction To The Lost of Jews Caused by Holocaust" as oral presentation, together with Yechiel Weizman of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (HUJI). The presentation will take place in the session of Sociology of Emotions.
- "Holocaust in Europe: Memory and Identity Today" - my second paper would be distributed during the session on European Identity and Cosmopolitanism [UPDATE: today (June 6) I've received an email from session coordinator informing that my presentation has been changed from distributed paper into oral presentation]

So I got a great pleasure to already invite you for these two sessions.
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and thanks goes to my research tutor prof Malgorzata Melchior who helped me to receive conference grant from the University of Warsaw: Institute of Applied Social Sciences (where i'm pursuing my PhD studies), which will enable me to attend the conference in Geneva.

International Symposium „Perceptions of the Holocaust and Contemporary Antisemitism"

2011-05-31T23:20:00.002+02:00

When (conference): Saturday, 4.06.2011 (10:00-19:00)
where: Berlin, Germany
official website >>
contact (registration): mail@iibsa.org

description:

Many countries have implemented annual Holocaust commemoration events and educational programs on the Holocaust. However, antisemitism is on the rise and in fact often voiced with references to the Holocaust. Jews are accused of exploit-ing 'the Holocaust' while perpetrating a Holocaust-like genocide against the Palestinians and Jews and Israelis are inappropriately compared to Nazis. Previous research suggests that such tropes are common in Europe and that many Europeans believe that Jews try to take advantage of their status as victims during the Nazi era. However, no cross-country research has been done to estimate similarities and differences of this problem.

This international symposium explores the relation between specific perceptions of the Holocaust and antisemitism, and presents and discusses upcoming re-search projects on this topic. Several country specific case studies will be presented and discussed in a cross-country perspective: How are Jews and the Holocaust perceived in different countries? What are the notions of the Holocaust and Jews which allow individuals or groups to voice antisemitic resentments with references to the Holocaust? Who is perceived to have perpetrated the Holocaust? How do the relations between antisemitism and the perception of the Holocaust in public and private discourses and at Holocaust commemoration events differ in the countries that were studied?

Workshop for Advanced PhD Candidates from Universities in the United States, Canada and Israel who are working on Holocaust Topics

2011-04-14T02:16:00.000+02:00

"Location: Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, 6-10 November 2011
Submission Deadline: 31 May 2011

The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem and the Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies, University of Southern California wish to announce a joint workshop for advanced PhD candidates working on Holocaust topics.

This workshop intends to bring together graduate students from the United States, Canada, and Israel to exchange ideas and share their research results on the Holocaust, including its antecedents and aftermath. The Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Yad Vashem’s Research Institute encourage PhD candidates to submit their applications for the workshop, which will be held in English from 6 to10 November at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel. All topics on the Holocaust are open for consideration.

The morning sessions of the workshop will consist of presentations by the participants on their particular topics followed by discussion periods. On the last day of the workshop, an afternoon session will be convened and dedicated to an in-depth discussion on a particular topic, thus concluding the workshop.

Workshop participants will be allocated time to utilize the Yad Vashem Archives and Library, the largest central repository of Holocaust documentation in the world. The archives’ more than 130 million pages include personal testimonies, documents from Jewish and non-Jewish institutions, Nazi documentation, copies of records from Eastern European archives, maps, photographs, films, diaries, letters, in addition to the library’s more than 124,000 titles and 4,000 journals that pertain to the Holocaust.

Application Qualifications and Procedures

Applicants must be registered in a university PhD program in the United States, Canada or Israel.
Applicants from the US and Canada must have finished their course work and be in an advanced stage of their research.

All application materials must be submitted electronically in English by 31 May. Selections will be announced by 30 June 2011. An application consists of:

A completed application form (The application form is available on the Yad Vashem website at www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/institute/index.asp
One-page abstract proposal
Recommendation letter from the PhD advisor
List of Yad Vashem archival holdings sources relevant for the project
Short academic biography (15-20 lines)

Applications should be submitted to the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
Email: eliotnidam@yadvashem.org.il
Tel. (972-2-6443480)

The submitted applications will be discussed between the two partner institutions. Final selection of applications for US-American and Canadian participants will be made by the University of Southern California. Israeli applications will be decided upon by Yad Vashem. Additional funding for travel may be available upon request.

****This workshop is a continuation of the international exchange workshop program stated by the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, in 1999.****"

Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project 2011

2011-03-29T00:02:00.000+02:00

The Association for Jewish Studies announces the call for submissions for the third and final year of the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project (LHJSP), a collaboration between the Legacy Heritage Fund and the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS). This initiative aims to promote sustained Jewish studies programming in small to mid-sized cities, foster relationships between scholars and the wider communities in which they work, encourage innovative and accessible teaching by AJS members, and highlight the nexus of Jewish studies and the study of world civilizations and cultures. LHJSP is committed to supporting the work of Jewish studies scholars as public intellectuals, pioneering programmers, and community builders.

The AJS will issue one-year grants of up to $22,000 to Jewish studies programs at colleges and universities outside of major metropolitan areas that demonstrate scholarly resources, institutional support, a schedule of creative and substantive public events, and a need in the general community for such programming. Priority will be given to applications from institutions in the United States, but Canadian institutions will also be considered. In addition, institutions in the process of building a Jewish studies program are eligible to apply. Previous applicants are also welcome to reapply. The application deadline for the 2011 competition, which will support public programming in the 2012-13 academic year, is September 15, 2011.

Support for the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project is generously provided by Legacy Heritage Fund Limited. Please visit the AJS website for additional information, including application materials and a list of past winners. You may direct inquiries to Natasha Perlis, LHJSP Project Manager, at grants@ajs.cjh.org or +1 917.606.8249.

CfP: Women and Holocaust in Central Europe: New Perspectives and Challenges

2011-03-17T19:39:00.001+01:00

call for papers
CfP: Women and Holocaust in Central Europe: New Perspectives and Challenges

Organizer:    Gender Studies Programme of Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Science (Warsaw) in cooperation with Kurt and Ursula Schubert Institute of Jewish Studies (Olomouc), Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Bratislava), and Department of Gender Studies, Central European University (Budapest)

When (conference):    17.11.2011-19.11.2011
where: Warsaw, Poland
Deadline (for submiting papers):    15.03.2011
official website >>
contact: womenandholocaust@gmail.com

Researching Holocaust was gender blind until recently no matter that gender as an analytical category is vital in understanding mechanisms of discrimination. The pioneering works scholars such as Ringelheim, Goldenberg, Weitzman, and Ofer approached the question with theoretical zeal. This conference aims to focus on Jews in Central Europe (excluding Germany and Austria, where these questions have already been discussed extensively) from a comparative interdisciplinary perspective defining common points for further research in the field of arts, history, narrativity, representations and visuality.

Special emphasis is given to questions:

- What are the new fields in Holocaust study where gender is used as an analytical category?
- What are the intersections of national and transnational frames of researching gender and Holocaust?
- What can we learn from the intersectional analysis of religion, gender and sexuality?
- How to avoid essentialising gender categories in research?
- How opening up archives in former communist countries influenced the research on gender and Holocaust?
- What was the impact of communist historiography on forming the memory of Holocaust and gender?
- How do new media (internet and social networks) open up new possibilities for feminist pedagogy in the field of teaching Holocaust?
- What kind of methodological and theoretical innovations are useful in giving new insights in researching gender and Holocaust?
- The gendered nature of ego-documents from the Holocaust
- The gendered representation of Holocaust-stories from Central Europe in post WW II societies

Deadline for submitting 300 word proposals and a 100 word resume is 15th March, 2011 to the address:womenandholocaust@gmail.com. Presenters will be notified by 1st June, 2011.

Space and Memory - secret conference in Warsaw

2011-03-17T11:16:00.001+01:00

Soon in Warsaw, Poland the conference "Space and Memory: Warsaw - Berlin - Tel Aviv" will take place.
Surprisingly and interesting conference with a respected selection of presentation, although from one milieu, seems to be internal event. The information has been spread by poster campaign in halls of a few institutes of University of Warsaw. The conference has no website. And if you'd google it the main information is at the grant donor's website and it's shortly state that the grant was received for this project.

However after deepened research in Internet, one may arrive to uploaded poster which includes program of conference.

Poster >>
Conference program >>

date: 21-23.03.2011
what: conference
title: "Space and Memory: Warsaw - Berlin - Tel Aviv"
where: BUW (Library of University of Warsaw), ul. Dobra 56/66 (room 316), Warsaw, Poland

"Are you in or out?"

2011-03-08T01:51:00.000+01:00

On January 27, 2011 Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site inaugurated a campaign (pledge signed by the director of museum, prof. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, and presidents of Poland and Germany) for the intervention and help to rescue the remainings of the former German Nazi concentration and death camp. The memorial site needs money to secure the conservation process of all the items (including buildings, personal objects, space, even the barb wires).

show your support on facebook, but mostly show your support by offering financial support to preserve the memory by preserving the objects who witnessed it.

Blog of the project "Memory and commemoration in the era of web 2.0"

2011-03-08T01:38:00.001+01:00

some time ago i've been posting here a call for participants for the seminar "Memory and commemoration in the era of Web 2.0".
the first part of the project took part in Harmeze, Poland in end of January 2011, the second part is in 2 weeks only and is to take part in Buchenwald, Germany.
In the mid-time participants and organizers are posting on the project's blog the materials: published and premiered at that blog. You may find there also photos and audio and video materials produced by the project participants.
blog: Memory and commemoration in the era of Web 2.0 >>

youth seminar: call for participants from Israel

2011-01-13T14:17:00.003+01:00

Memory and commemoration in the era of Web 2.0

International Meeting in Oświęcim (23-28.01.2011) and Weimar-Buchenwald (23-27.03.2011)

Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk, in cooperation with Club of Catholic Intelligentsia (KIK) and the Center for Prayer and Dialogue in Oswiecim, Pax Christi Germany invite young people to participate in the International Meeting, which will take place in January (in Oswiecim) and March (in Buchenwald) of 2011.

What?

After the huge success of the last year's seminar „65 years after Auschwitz” - meeting of young people and the witnesses of the history (former prisoners of concentration camps and ghettos), the organizers have decided to build on this good practices and organize further such meetings.

In the spirit of the work of the Association Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk, this meeting aims to:

bring together young participants of various European countries, as well as the former prisoners of the concentration camps and ghettos;
commemorate and pay the respect to the victims of Nazi regime;
start an open dialogue;
put the solid basis for the dialogue among the nations and the reconciliation.

Objectives:

The key point of the seminar: direct contact between the wintesses of the history and the representatives of young generation. Thanks to this meeting, the young people would gain the authentic and very personal vision on the structure as well as the results of the Nazi crimes.
The participants would discuss how the active commemoration shall look like in the future, as well as how the new media can contribute to this case.
encouraging young people to act creatively and to actively commemorate the past events, in order not to forget the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship.
During the 2 parts of the Seminar the concrete projects shall be created:
- portraits of the witnesses of the history – prepared with the facilities of the various media techniques as well as the Web 2.0 applications.
- creative way of presenting the testimonies given by the witnesses.

In order to achieve these objectives the participants would be divided for the following working groups: video, audio, text and creative work, Internet and web 2.0.

Languages of the seminar:

English, German, Polish, Russian.

Costs:

The Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk Association covers the costs of accommodation and food.

The organizers have applied for the grant to reimburse the travel costs of the Israeli participants; however the decision about the grant would be taken after the deadline of applications for participation in the seminar. In the case of not being granted, the participants would be responsible for covering the travel costs by themselves.

The estimated maximum cost (plane ticket and local transportation in Poland to the conference centre) is of around $850 per person, but once again this some might be partially covered by the organizers, should their grant application be approved.

In any case: participants would be responsible for covering the cost of the transport from their place of living to the Ben Gurion International Airport.

When and where?

The first part of the International Meeting would take place from 23^rd till 28^th of January 2011 in Oświęcim-Harmęże, Poland in the saint Maximilian Kolbe Center, which is situated in close distance from the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

The second part of the seminar would take place from 23^rd till 27^th of March 2011 in the Memorial Site and Museum of Buchenwald in Weimar/Germany.

It is highly recommended that the participants would attend both parts of the Seminar, since they are tightly linked by the subject.

Who?

The seminar organizers invite the young adults (in the age group: 18-28 year old) from the countries of the Central and Eastern Europe, to actively participate as well as to intensively and creatively get involved in the given subject. The organizers expect the participants to actively participate in the working groups during the seminar, as well as to contribute afterwards, especially in the maintenance of the website and blog.

The group of expected participants is limited to the 20 people of the countries of Central-Eastern Europe and 2 participants from the State of Israel.

More...

The deadline for applications: 10^th January 2011.

Additional information are available at the Seminar's website:

www.maximilian-kolbe-werk.blogspot.com as well as directly from the seminar organizers.

Contact person:

Ms Julia Maria Koszewska

Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej

email: julia.koszewska(at)kik.waw.pl

CfP in Falstad: Painful Heritage symposium - Cultural Landscapes of the Second World War

2010-10-14T22:21:00.001+02:00

Invitation to the Painful Heritage symposium - Cultural Landscapes of the Second World War

Date: 11th - 12th November 2010

Symposium's themes:
* Landscapes of memory
* The landscapes of the prisoners of war
* The archaeology of nazi camps

preliminary programme, practical information and further details: http://painfulheritage.no/
Registrations by 28th October 2010.

From the invitation:
Painful Heritage is an interdisciplinary research project of NTNU Vitanskapsmuseet and Falstad Center, financed by The Research Council of Norway.

About The Falstad Centre:
Falstad Memorial and Human Rights Centre in Levanger, Norway were established in 2000 as a national research and educational centre on the history of prisoners of Second World War. The main activities of the centre are education, research and remembrance on the history of the Nazi Camps in Norway during WW II and education on Modern Human Rights Issues.
The Centre is located on the grounds of the former SS-Lager Falstad, the second largest Prison Camp established in Occupied Norway between 1940 and 1945. More information on The Falstad Centre's website.

call for participants: seminar for Polish educators

2010-08-05T01:12:00.001+02:00

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum through its International Center of Education on Auschwitz and Holocaust has opened call for the participants for the seminar "Jewish Culture and History".
Profile of participants: educators from Poland, active in projects/teaching Jewish culture, tolerance etc.
seminar: organized by Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Poland) and hosted by Institute Yad Vashem (Israel).
seminar's language: English.
venue: Jerusalem, Israel.

application form (in Polish): available here

holocaust summer schools 2010

2010-05-26T13:37:00.007+02:00

Summer is approaching and so thus the summer schools.
Below is an attemt to collect information on summer schools in the research area of Holocaust/Holocaust education/Jewish Studies/ Genocide studies and alike.
but also on the museum-related themes.
If you know of anything else that is not yet listed below. Please write it in comments.
the list is presented in a format:
- what? (title)
- where?
- who: target group.

1. what: summer seminar: The Holocaust in History, Literature, and Film

where: Harvard
who: Secondary School Program juniors and seniors, and to college undergraduates

2. what: summer school course: Slavery, Holocaust and the Challenges of Global Justice: Exploring Critical and Decolonial Approaches.

where: Middelburg, The Netherlands
who: graduate and undergraduate academic students

3. what: The Holocaust & Present-day Jewish Life in Germany

where: Berlin, Germany
who: U.S. public secondary school teachers

4. what: The 2010 Memorial Library Summer Seminar on Holocaust Education in New York City

where: New York, New York, USA
who: NWP teacher-consultants in the Rural Sites Network and other teachers across the NWP who can show critical needs.

5. what: Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies

where: Berlin, Germany
who: advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students from the United States, Canada, Germany, Israel, and Eastern European countries

Is it too late to apply to these programs this year? don't worry, many of them are organized annualy.

Summer Research Assistantship Applications at USHMM

2010-01-30T15:05:00.002+01:00

Graduate students enrolled to US colleges or universities can apply now for the Summer Program of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
"Recipients will participate with the Center's staff scholars in cutting-edge research and publication projects relating to key areas of Holocaust scholarship. Sample projects may include writing and editing for the Museum's Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945; research and translating for the Center's archival source series on Documenting Life and Destruction; and preparing in-depth studies and reports about the archival collections of the International Tracing Service, among others. " (from call for applications).
deadline: March 31, 2010

more on the program and application procedures>>

Annual statistics of this blog

2010-01-26T15:11:00.000+01:00

On January 26th, 2010 the statistics of visits of my blog has been archived. In the previous year this blog received 266 visits from all over the world (see the map on the left)

Thank you very much and I hope you'll find this blog interesting to visit again in the upcoming year.

CfP: Post-Communism and the New European Identity

2009-08-11T23:49:00.003+02:00

International Conference: Post-Communism and the New European Identity

This conference comes in relevance to the theme of research as European identity. Call for participants, together with the call for papers for this an event is copied below:

The Research Centre on Identity and Migration Issues within the Faculty of Political Science and Communication, University of Oradea is organizing the International Conference “Post-Communism and the New European Identity”, that will be held on November 5th -7th, 2009, in Oradea, Romania. The main topics of the conference are:
Identity and mobility in Europe
The image of the New Europe in the mass-media
Institutional changes and democratic reforms after the fall of communism
Proposal submission: Proposals (including a paper title and a 200-250 words abstract of the proposed paper) should be submitted by email as MS Word attachment to contact@e-migration.ro, before September 1st, 2009. The papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference volume. Several selected papers could be published in the Journal of Identity and Migration Studies (see www.jims.e-migration.ro).

Fees: There is no conference fee. The organizers will provide conference materials and the publication of the selected papers. The travel, accommodation and meals costs are to be paid by the participants. The organizers will assist you with information concerning different types of accommodation. The registration form and the preliminary program of the conference are available on the RCIMI’s 2009 Conference webpage.

More information: www.e-migration.ro

OSCE and Poland's Educational Ministry launches new teaching materials on combasing anti-Semitism

2009-03-05T23:14:00.002+01:00

WARSAW, 5 March 2009 -- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and Poland's Education Ministry today launched teaching materials on combating anti-Semitism, designed for use in Polish secondary schools. a

"The commitment to confront anti-Semitism in a country is an important barometer for the general level of tolerance and openness towards diversity in society," said Ambassador Janez Lenarcic, Director of ODIHR.

"Education about anti-Semitism means education against prejudice. It means education to promote the conditions necessary for a democratic and open-minded society. We therefore welcome the initiative of Poland, which is among the first countries in the OSCE region to develop materials to be used in schools to teach young people about the dangers of anti-Semitism."

The Polish-language materials were developed by ODIHR, together with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and Polish experts from the Polish-German Centre in Krakow, the Pedagogical University of Krakow and the International Centre for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim.

They have been approved for use in secondary schools by the Polish Education Ministry, which also financially supported their publication.

The Polish teaching tools form part of an international project on combating anti-Semitism by educational means. ODIHR currently assists 10 OSCE participating States with developing customized country versions of the teaching materials.

Each country version covers the history and contemporary manifestations of anti-Semitism, and addresses anti-Semitism as a form of discrimination.

Following the launch, 20 professional teacher-trainers will attend a two-day training seminar, delivered by the Polish experts involved in developing the material. The seminar will be supported by the Polish Education Ministry and the National In-Service Teacher Training Centre.

/OSCE Press release/http://www.osce.org/item/36600.html /

"It's much more than just an annual report" - Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site and Museum's report publication

2009-02-11T01:59:00.005+01:00

"It’s much more than just an annual report. We have tried to create the broadest possible picture of what was Auschwitz Memorial in 2008. We published a document which is our voice in a global debate on the condition and the future of remembrance", said Piotr M.A. Cywiński, PhD, the Museum director (quote after http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=580&Itemid=7).
The publication contains 70 colour pages and is bilingual: Polish and English and covers the most important events at the Memorial Site and Museum in the year 2008. Its .pdf format version is available for download.
[Click the picture if you wish to see/download the .pdf form of report]

New Exhibition at USHMM: The Power of Nazi Propaganda

2009-02-11T01:44:00.008+01:00

"Can words and images inspire people to commit acts of genocide? The Nazis were skilled propagandists, but they were hardly the first or the last Disseminators of intolerance and hate in this age of instant electronic communication have many tools.
The Museum's new exhibition State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda examines what propaganda is, how it was used, and what its implications are for our world today.

The exhibition will run for three years as part of a major Museum initiative on propaganda, supported by the Marcus Foundation. The initiative includes a companion website, book, public programs, and a traveling exhibition, as well as educational programming for media and government officials. " - from the official exhibit info.

Patterns of prejudice (Jan 2009)

2009-02-05T00:31:00.004+01:00

PATTERNS OF PREJUDICE Volume 43, issue 1 (January 2009)

Table of Contents (links redirect to abstracts only):

Samuel Moyn: Antisemitism, philosemitism and the rise of Holocaust memory
Peter Kuryla: Parties down at the square amid courtroom melodramas: a reconsideration of the modern civil rights movement demonstration
Derek McGhee: The paths to citizenship: a critical examination of immigration policy in Britain since 2001
Amelia H. Lyons: Social welfare, French Muslims and decolonization in France: the case of the Fonds d'action sociale
David D. Roberts: Review Article: Fascism, modernism and the quest for an alternative modernity

"Patterns of Prejudice provides a forum for exploring the historical roots and contemporary varieties of social exclusion and the demonization or stigmatisation of the Other. It probes the language and construction of 'race', nation, colour, and ethnicity, as well as the linkages between these categories. It encourages discussion of issues at the top of the public policy agenda, such as asylum, immigration, hate crimes and citizenship. As none of these issues are confined to any one region, Patterns of Prejudice maintains a global optic, at the same time as scrutinizing intensely the history and development of intolerance and chauvinism in the United States and Europe, both East and West".

more: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0031322X.asp

seminar: Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior

2009-01-29T23:42:00.005+01:00

Facing History and Ourselves offers an online seminar for educators from all over the world. The seminar, "Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior," starts on 19 March, 2009 and ends on 13 May, 2009 and will explore Facing History's content, methodology, and unique approach to teaching history. This eight-week seminar requires a commitment of approximately 4 hours of work per week. There are no "live" events, so seminar participants find the time to do the weekly assignments and participate in the online discussions at their convenience.

This seminar is free to educators who are committed to using Facing History content and methods.

For more information and to apply online, go to:
http://www.facinghistory.org/InternationalSeminar

For more information, please contact Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka by email or skype (skype id: TanyaFacingHistory).

If you cannot attend this seminar online, but are interested in it, please check the list of this seminar taking place „offline” in different states of USA (click here).

Cfp: Genocide: A Public Health Disaster

2009-01-29T01:51:00.003+01:00

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of University of Minnesota invites for a workshop Genocide: A Public Health Disaster.
Interesting topic, workshop is open for non-university audience.
Participating demands registration (to register click here). However there are two different information on the costs. According to International Association of Genocide Scholars this is a free-entry event. However on the website of organizers we can read: "To complete your registration you must send a security deposit of $25".

Also, I'd encourage organizers to be more language sensitive. At the moment we can read at their website: "Register for Genocide: A Public Health Disaster".

Anyway, I hope someone would find this event interested.