Background
The Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invite applications for an interdisciplinary regional conference on the Holocaust in Southeastern Europe. The conference will be held May 25–26, 2015 in Bucharest.
This two-day conference will bring together scholars from all disciplines working on the Holocaust in the Southeastern tier of Europe to share their research with each other and the public. The conference seeks to stimulate discussion and debate on current research on the Holocaust, and to foster interdisciplinary and transnational cooperation among scholars of the topic in the region. It will highlight new research in such areas as atrocities, mass killing, and mass graves; the radicalization of local politics during Nazi occupation; forced and slave labor; the dynamics of complicity and collaboration; everyday life on the front and under occupation; plunder, robbery, and expropriation; refugees and displaced persons; understudied victims; gender; the cultural politics of representation and commemoration in the aftermath; contemporary Holocaust revisionism and denial, and manifestations of antisemitic and anti-Romani prejudice; and communities and identities forged around the experiences of war and genocide. The organizers particularly encourage proposals that address Romania and Ukraine in comparative perspective, as well as applications that consider the specificities of the Bulgarian and Hungarian cases. Proposals from scholars working on these topics who reside in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine are especially welcome.
Applicants interested in presenting a paper should be currently researching or completing projects exploring the subject matter described above, broadly understood. Proposals on new, previously unpublished research are welcome from scholars in all relevant academic disciplines, including doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy. While full-length papers may be prepared in any language, successful applicants will be required to submit a copy of the conference version of their paper in English in advance of the program for circulation among commentators, other panelists, and conference participants.
The conference will be conducted in English and Romanian. Romanian-English language translation services will be provided for the audience.
Proposal submission
The deadline for receipt of proposals is November 28, 2014. To propose a paper for this conference, please send (1) a cover letter addressing your specific interests in the study and teaching of the Holocaust in Southeastern Europe; (2) your curriculum vitae; and (3) an abstract of no more than 500 words for your proposed paper in a single Word document to Krista Hegburg, Ph.D., Program Officer, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, at khegburg@ushmm.org.
Deadline: 28 November 2014
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