CALL FOR PAPERS: Lessons and Legacies Conference
Boca Raton, Florida, Oct. 30 – Nov. 2, 2014
The Thirteenth Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University and by Florida Atlantic University, will consist of two plenary addresses, three roundtables, multiple panels, workshops, and colloquia relating to recent issues and advances in scholarship on all aspects of Holocaust Studies. Interested scholars are invited to present proposals for individual papers, entire panels, or workshop sessions by December 16, 2013.
Panels will consist of three papers and a commentator/moderator, although other formats are possible. Proposals for individual papers will also be considered. Panel proposals should include a title and brief description of the session as a whole (300 words or less), along with paper titles and abstracts (300 words or less) of all panelists. Short-form CVs (1-2 pages,
including institutional affiliation and contact information) should also be attached.
Interactive workshop sessions will focus on particular topics, approaches or sources. Workshop proposals should include a brief description of the aim of the session, along with the names, affiliations and contact information of the workshop leaders.
All proposals should be sent by email to BOTH of the Program Co-Chairs for the conference: Prof. Alexandra Garbarini, Williams College (Alexandra.Garbarini@williams.edu) and Prof. Paul B. Jaskot, DePaul University (pjaskot@depaul.edu). Applicants will be informed regarding inclusion on the conference program by January 31, 2014.
Participants in Lessons and Legacies XIII will be required to register and pay a small fee in advance of the conference. To the extent possible, financial assistance for presenters at the conference will be provided, with priority given to graduate students, faculty at teaching-oriented colleges that do not provide research support, and foreign scholars who have unusually high travel costs. Please direct all inquiries about financial assistance to the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University: <hef<at>northwestern.edu>
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CALL FOR APPLICANTS: Holocaust Exchange Scholar
Institut für Zeitgeschichte/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center
for Advanced Holocaust Studies Exchange Scholar
http://www.ushmm.org/research/competitive-academic-programs/scholar-exchange
The Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien am Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute of Contemporary History Munich) and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) are pleased to announce support for an exchange of scholars-in-residence. This exchange is designed for Ph.D. candidates, early postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty members for the purpose of furthering German-American partnership and commitment to cutting-edge Holocaust-related research.
The Center/Institute of Contemporary History and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invite applications from (1) U.S. citizens (or green card holders) based at U.S. institutions/universities and working on a Holocaust-related subject who wish to spend up to four months at the Center/Institute of Contemporary
History (in Munich and/or in Berlin) during the calendar year 2014; and (2) German scholars based at German institutions/universities and working on a Holocaust-related subject who wish to spend up to up to four months at the
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies during the calendar year 2014.
Proposals are welcomed from scholars in all relevant disciplines, including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, psychology, comparative genocide studies, law, and others. Applications are limited to Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty who received their Ph.D. in 2009 or after. Applicants must be enrolled in or
faculty or staff of a degree-granting academic or advanced research institution. Applicants in transition between appointments must provide a detailed explanation.
U.S. applicants should demonstrate a need to utilize the extensive holdings of the Institute of Contemporary History and other important archives in Berlin and/or Munich. Successful applicants will be expected to participate in research and discussion groups and to deliver a lecture on their research at the Center for Holocaust Studies. German applicants should demonstrate a need to utilize the extensive holdings of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Successful applicants will be expected to participate in the scholarly life of the CAHS and to deliver a lecture on their research to CAHS staff and fellows.
Each institution will provide work space and access to a computer, telephone, and photocopier. Stipends range up to $3,100 (for American scholars the equivalent amount in Euro) per month for the purpose of defraying local housing and other miscellaneous living expenses. Awards include a one-time stipend of $1,200 to offset the cost of direct travel to and from Germany/Washington. Successful applicants are responsible for securing their own housing accommodations and health insurance. The award does not include support allowances for accompanying family members.
*APPLICATION PROCESS*
Applications and supporting materials must be received by *January 1, 2014*. Decisions will be announced in late February 2014. Applications may be submitted in English or German and should include:
- A project proposal not to exceed five single-spaced pages. The project proposal should demonstrate the need to use the resources available at the IfZ/USHMM.
- A curriculum vitae (CV). The CV should include a full list of publications to date.
- Two signed letters of recommendation that speak to the significance of the proposed project and the applicant’s ability to carry it out.
*CONTACT*
Please direct inquiries and applications to:
(German Applicants)
Jo-Ellyn Decker
Program Coordinator
Visiting Scholar Programs
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
202.314.7829 or cahsifzexchange@ushmm.org
(US Applicants)
Dr. Andrea Löw
Stellvertretende Leiterin
Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien am
Institut für Zeitgeschichte
Leonrodstrasse 46 b
80636 München
Germany
Loew@ifz-muenchen.de
0049-89-552790710
*Funding for German scholars has been made possible by the Curt C. and Else
Silberman Foundation (U.S.A.).
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Applications: Summer Research Workshops for Scholars
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invites proposals from Workshop Coordinator(s) to conduct two-week research workshops at the Museum during July and August 2014. Proposals are welcome in all relevant disciplines, including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, anthropology, comparative genocide studies, and law.
Summer Research Workshops provide an environment in which groups of six to ten scholars working in closely related areas of study-but with limited previous face-to-face interaction-can gather to discuss a central research question or issue; their research methodologies and findings; the major challenges facing their work; and potential future collaborative scholarly
ventures.
Participants will also have the opportunity to refer to more than 70 million physical pages of Holocaust-related archival documentation; the Museum’s extensive library; oral history, film, photo, art, artifacts, and memoir collections; and a Holocaust survivor database. Participants also have access to more than 100 million digitized pages from the holdings of the
International Tracing Service (ITS), a collection that holds information on the fates of 17.5 million people who were subject to incarceration, forced labor, and displacement as a result of World War II. Many of these sources have not been examined by scholars, offering unprecedented opportunities to advance the field of Holocaust studies.
The Summer Research Workshop program has a two-stage application process. Stage One is a Preliminary Application, consisting of a one-page single-spaced description of the proposed workshop that details the research project’s focus, significance, scope, methods, objectives, and expertise required from potential participants. Applications should include CVs for no more than two workshop coordinators. Stage One applications are due October 11, 2013. Proposals will be evaluated according to their (1) potential contribution to scholarship in Holocaust studies; (2) potential to stimulate work in a new direction or productive area of research; (3) relationship to larger themes or issues in Holocaust studies; and (4) potential for new publications, collaborative research, or research endeavors directly resulting from the workshop.
Applicants will be notified at the end of October whether they will be invited to submit a Full Proposal in the second round of the competition, with the assistance of Center staff. The deadline for the full proposal is February 7, 2014. Applicants will be notified of the Center’s decision in March 2014.
Please address applications to Krista Hegburg, Ph.D., Program Officer, University Programs, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at 202.488.0459 or khegburg@ushmm.org. For further information about this program, please visit ushmm.org/research/competitive-academic-programs/workshops.
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USHMM International Tracing Service
The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and the International Tracing Service invite applications for an international conference designed to illustrate the broad academic research potential of the ITS collections. The conference, The International Tracing Service (ITS) Collections and Holocaust Scholarship, will be held May 12-14, 2014, in Washington, DC, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Participants will present their papers in sessions open to the public and also will have the opportunity for discussion of their experiences using the ITS archives.
The International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, was, until November 2007, the largest closed archive in the world related to the Holocaust, forced labor, and Nazi persecution. Recently inscribed into the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of the World Register, the ITS collections have opened important new potential for understanding the Holocaust and other Nazi-era crimes. While used for decades principally for tracing purposes, the documents provide opportunities for a better understanding of a broad range of topics related to persecution, incarceration, forced labor, mass murder, displacement, resettlement, and the legacies of these experiences as a result of World War II. Five years ago, in a workshop jointly organized by ITS and the Center, an international group of 15 scholars identified significant topical areas for which the ITS documents have great potential, including but not limited to: social histories of camps and sites of forced labor spanning the entire 1933-1945 period; changing patterns of behavior, violence, and obedience to orders over time from the perspectives of perpetrators, prisoners, laborers, witnesses, and labor users; studies of prisoner categorization practices; medical practices and abuses; and studies of labor utilization, in particular that of towns, regions, camps, or institutions.
This conference will bring together scholars who have conducted significant new and original research using ITS collections in the above and other areas. Proposals to present new research findings are welcome from scholars in all relevant academic disciplines, including advanced doctoral students and immediate postdoctoral scholars. Applicants must be affiliated with an academic and/or research institution. Applicants interested in presenting a paper should be currently researching or completing projects that involve substantial research in ITS collections. Successful applicants will be required to submit a copy of their presentation four weeks in advance of the conference for circulation among commentators, other panelists, and conference participants.
The conference will be conducted in English. The deadline for receipt of proposals is December 15, 2013. Participants will be selected and notified no later than January 31, 2014.
To propose a paper for this conference, please send: (1) a cover letter addressing in detail your current research in the ITS collections; (2) your curriculum vitae; and (3) an abstract of no more than 500 words of your proposed paper to Elizabeth Anthony, Curt C. and Else Silberman ITS scholar at the Center, at eanthony@ushmm.org, and to Professor Rebecca Boehling, director, International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, at directorate@its-arolsen.org.
Conference organizers will provide economy-class, direct round-trip airfare from the participant’s home institution; four nights of lodging for the duration of the conference; and a modest stipend to help defray the cost of meals and ground transportation.
This conference is made possible by the generosity of the Harris Family Foundation.
UB Graduate Group for German & Austrian Studies 