This FRIDAY is the deadline to apply to @niamh-hanrahan.bsky.social and my workshop on "Tracing the Holocaust" at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social

Apply today!

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We've got a busy programme of events this term. First up, Barnabas Balint @barnabasbalint.bsky.social (research fellow at @ushmm.bsky.social) is speaking on 'Writing a History of Animals During the Holocaust'. Tues 21 Jan, 16.30-17.30 in Amory 239C. Abstract here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/holocaustand...

📣 Holocaust & Memory Seminar 📣

We’ve got an exciting term card for @ox.ac.uk H&M Seminar this term. Hear from leading scholars, translators, and public history professionals about new & innovate research in #HolocaustStudies. I hope you can join us!

For the first time in its history, the Auschwitz museum jas banned all speeches from politicians at its event on 27 January to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"The work of an overlooked German-Jewish artist who created the UK’s first memorial to victims of Nazi persecution is to be the focus of an exhibition that shines light on the unreported aspects of his life" @theguardian.com

Only on display until 6 February!

🎥 In case you missed it!

Last week we welcomed Professor Dan Stone @rhulhistory.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social for a keynote lecture - When the nineteenth century ended for Jews: The elderly and the Holocaust

Catch up now via YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrDn...

Navigating Austrian Holocaust memory against the backdrop of contemporary politics. Read Prof Chloe Paver's @exetercihgs.bsky.social report on Holocaust Narratives in the European Capital of Culture 2024: sites.exeter.ac.uk/holocaustand...

We have just started an Interdisciplinary Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, funded by Leverhulme at the University of Stirling. With Prof John Sutton as director and me as Deputy with academics from philosophy, psychology, heritage, anthropology, arts etc. we can’t wait to get stuck in!

Recently co-authored by @exetercihgs.bsky.social member Klejda Mulaj: 'The International Criminal Court and Responsibility for Mass Atrocities: Can JCE Enhance Capacity to Hold Masterminds Accountable?’, Contemporary Justice Review, 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Recently co-edited by @exetercihgs.bsky.social member Caroline Fournet: Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions, Studies in International Criminal Law (Leiden: Brill / Nijhoff Publishers, 2024) brill.com/display/titl...

That's it! We're officially launched - did you miss the event on Monday? Find out what happened in our latest blog post: www.digitalmemorylab.com/building-the...
#LDML_24

Here's my open-access @holocauststudies.bsky.social article from earlier in 2024: ‘"Never right to make comparisons"? Holocaust memory, climate crisis, and the debate over appropriate discourse': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We launched back in July 2024, during the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies conference hosted by the University of Exeter