CALL FOR PAPERS Date: August 1, 2023 Location: Florida, United States Subject Fields: European History / Studies, German History / Studies, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Human Rights, Law and Legal History Holocaust Pepetrators and the Law International Conference, University of Central Florida, 8-9 April 2024 Over decades, the study of perpetrators of the Holocaust…

Call for Papers Lessons & Legacies 2024: “Languages of the Holocaust” 14 – 17 November 2024 Claremont and Los Angeles, California Submission Deadline: 4 December 2023 The Seventeenth Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, and hosted by Claremont McKenna College and the University of Southern California, invites…

On March 23, 2023, we discussed Hikmet Karčić’s monograph Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System (University of Michigan Press, 2022). Torture, Humiliate, Kill is a thorough and definitive resource for understanding the function and operation of camps during the Bosnian genocide. The discussants were Jessie Barton Hronešová (University of North Carolina, Chapel…

On 9 February we launched The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes (Oxford UP, 2022), edited by Barbora Holá, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, and Maartje Weerdesteijn. The handbook brings together research from across the social sciences and humanities to chart and further develop the evolving field of atrocity crimes studies. The launch included presentations by the editors…

Leipzig, 8–10 June 2023 Leipzig University The workshop “Far-right Memory in Digital Age” addresses the conjunction of far-right and digital media in memory production. For a long time, various disciplines have focused on far-right groups due to their radical ideology, racism, violence, and threat to democracy. Their memory practices, on the other hand, have been…

In the interdisciplinary vocabulary of heritage and memory studies, the concept of diaspora continues to hold a pivotal role. This conference sets out to explore (self)representations of diasporic heritages and identities: how diasporic subjectivities and communities forge means of belonging and connection to nations, (im)material objects or space. Conceptualisations of diasporic heritage and identity can…

Watch the excellent discussion of Alexander L. Hinton’s book Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell UP, 2022)! Anthropological Witness tells the story of Hinton’s encounter with an accused architect of genocide and, more broadly, Hinton’s attempt to navigate the promises and perils of expert testimony. The respondents were Richard Wilson and Sabah…

Application Deadline: February 27, 2023 2023 Institute Dates: June 18 – 30, 2023 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University invites applications for fellowships to participate in the 27th Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. HEFNU will follow all Northwestern University COVID…

Watch the illuminating discussion of Iva Vukušić’s Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia! On 15 December 2022 we launched Iva Vukušić’s Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence (Routledge, 2022). The book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the nature and functions of the Serbian paramilitary units during…

New Series at CEU Press! This new series aims to publish work contributing to the burgeoning field of Perpetrator Studies, but with a focus specifically on the East, Central and Southeast Europe region. Series Editors: Dr Iva Vukušić, Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands Dr Weronika Grzebalska, Assistant Professor in Sociology, Institute of…