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Subject: Final CfP: Survivors of Nazi Persecution
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 08:51 +0000 (GMT)
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline 15 March 2005
BEYOND CAMPS AND FORCED LABOUR - 60 YEARS ON
Second international multidisciplinary conference,
to be held at the Imperial War Museum, London, on
11-13 January 2006
The aim of the conference is to bring together
scholars from a variety of disciplines who are
engaged in research on all groups of survivors of
Nazi persecution. These will include - but are not
limited to - Jews, Gypsies and Slavonic people,
Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners
of war, political dissidents, members of
underground movements, the disabled, the so-called
racially impure, and forced labourers. For the
purpose of the conference, a "survivor" is defined
as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by
the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis'
racial, political, ideological or ethnic policies
from 1933 to 1945, and who survived the Second
World War.
The organisers welcome proposals which focus on
topics and themes of the 'life after', ranging from
the experience of liberation to the
transgenerational impact of persecution, individual
and collective memory and consciousness, and
questions of theory and methodology.
Specific conference themes anticipated are:
- DPs in postwar Europe
- Reception and Resettlement
- Survivors in Eastern Europe
- Trials and Justice
- Testimonies
- Memory and Identity
- Construction of Memory in Literature
- Intergenerational Transmission
- Psychological Approaches
- Child Survivors
- Women Survivors and Gender Issues
In response to recent debate, papers in the
following two areas of research are also invited:
- Comparative papers that discuss the construction
of memory of other victims of the war in literature
and historiography.
- Papers on educational issues (Survivors of Nazi
persecution as a topic in educational institutions,
museums, the media, etc.).
The Advisory Board consists of: Suzanne Bardgett
(Imperial War Museum, London), Dan Bar-On (Ben
Gurion University of the Negev), Wolfgang Benz
(Technical University Berlin), Gerhard Botz
(University of Vienna), David Cesarani (Royal
Holloway, University of London), Evelyn Friedlander
(Hidden Legacy Foundation, London), Wolfgang
Jacobmeyer (University of Muenster), Wolf Schmidt
(Koerber-Stiftung, Hamburg), Hanna Ulatowska
(University of Texas at Dallas).
Please send an abstract of 200-250 words together
with biographical background of about 50 words by
15 March 2005 to: Dr Johannes-Dieter Steinert,
email: [log in to unmask]
All proposals are subject to a review process.
Fees: GBP 115 for speakers. This includes admission
to all panels and evening events, lunches, coffees
and teas. Further information and registration
details will be made available in 2005.
It is intended to publish the conference
proceedings. The proceedings of the first
conference will be published in spring 2005 by
Secolo Verlag, Osnabrueck.
The conference is being organised by
Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of
Wolverhampton, History and Governance Research
Institute (HAGRI)
Inge Weber-Newth, London Metropolitan University,
Institute for the Study of European Transformations
(ISET)
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