…spans throughout the world and involves partnerships with academic institutions, museums, and organizations dedicated to teacher training.
2024
18 September 2024, 2:00 pm (UTC/GMT +1), keynote lecture “Spectral Landscapes: Retracing the Holocaust by Bullets in East/Central European Literature, Film, and Visual Culture” with McKenna Marko, at the conference “The Holocaust by Bullets in Literature, Film and Visual Art,” University of London Senate House
19 September 2024, 7:30 pm (EST), roundtable “Yiddish on the Move– Yiddish Writing and Publishing after the Holocaust” with Rachelle Grossman, Matt Johnson, Harriet Murav, and Christin Zühlke, moderated by Erin McGlothlin, at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, NYC, USA (hybrid, recorded)
22 September 2024, 1:00 pm (EST), public event “Does Reading Holocaust Literature Strengthen Human Rights? A Forum Between Practitioners and Theorists” with Zoe Norridge, Tabea Linhard, Kirril Shields, Savita Pawnday (Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect), Shiri Sandler (Agahozo Shalom Youth Village), and Alice Wairimu Nderitu (UN’s Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide), The Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC
1 October 2024, 6:30 pm (UTC/GMT +1), public lecture “Sex, Violence and Speech in the Holocaust: The Case of Yiddish” with Hannah Pollin-Galay moderated by Zoe Waxman, at the Wiener Library London, UK (hybrid, recorded)
28 October 2024, 4 pm (GMT+2), Workshop “The History of Holocaust Literature with Prof. Stuart Taberner,” at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, South Africa
30 October 2024, 11 am (GMT+2), “SIXTH lecture: Introducing The Cambridge History of Holocaust Literature” with Stuart Taberner, University of the Free State, South Africa
14 – 17 November 2024, Lessons & Legacies 2024 “Languages of the Holocaust,” Claremont and Los Angeles, California;
- Panel “Mother-Daughter Stories, Postmemory and the Gendered Languages of the Holocaust” with Jonathan Druker, McKenna Marko, Victoria Aarons, Diane Otosaka, and Natalie Eppelsheimer
- Panel “Encounters between Translation, Testimony and Memory” with Peter Davies, Dorota Glowacka, Simon Goldberg, and Noah Shenker
- Panel “Document as Literature, Literature as Document: Holocaust Language(s) between History and Literature” with Erin McGlothlin, Anika Walke, Sue Vice, and Hanna Pollin-Galay
- Panel “Art, Photograph, Film: Silent Narratives of the Holocaust” with Valerie Hebert, Sharon Oster, and Hilary Earl
- Panel “Marginalized Memory: Multilingual Writing of Ghettos and Camps” with Saskia Fischer, Ariane Santerre, Matt Johnson, Sven Erik-Rose, and Sandra Alfers
- Seminar “Teaching Holocaust Studies with Refugee Studies: Global Perspectives” with Sarah Casteel, Natalie Eppelsheimer, and Tabea Linhard
- Seminar “Implicated and Complicit: Re-Reading Male Agency during the Holocaust Years” with Björn Krondorfer and Christin Zühlke
9 December 2024, Workshop “Imagining and Reimagining the Holocaust Museum in Literature, Art and Film,” Holocaust Centre North, University of Huddersfield
2025
January 13, 2025, Erin McGlothlin will be giving a talk on “Operation Reinhard and the Auschwitz Narrative,” at the Association of Holocaust Organizations Conference, St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum
27 January 2025, Diane Otosaka will be giving a talk at the event “Fragments of the Past: Holocaust Legacies and Commemoration,” organized by the British Library, London. The title of her talk is “Poetics of the Archive in Marianne Rubinstein’s C’est maintenant du passé and Ivan Jablonka’s Histoire des grands-parents que je n’ai pas eus.”
13 February 2025, 12.00 pm (EST), HEFNU Roundtable “Gendered Translations of the Holocaust,” with Dorota Glowacka, Sara Horowitz, and Matt Johnson (online)
24-25 February, 2025, Christin Zühlke will be speaking at the workshop “Antisemitism and Sexual Violence,” at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
March 9, 2025, Erin McGlothlin will be giving a talk on “Interpreting Eichmann,” at St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum
18 March 2025, 7.00 pm (SAST), 10am (PDT) and noon (CDT), Roundtable ‘Writing Experiences of Ghettos, Killing Fields, and Camps in Eastern Europe’, with Sandra Alfers, Erin McGlothlin, and Sven-Erik Rose, at the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, (online)
3 April 2025, 12.00 pm (EST), HEFNU Roundtable “Postmemorial Constellations in (post)Socialist Holocaust Literature,” with McKenna Marko, Benjamin Paloff, and Leona Toker (online)
25 September, tba, Lecture “The Black Book of Soviet Jewry between Testimony and Literature,” with Anika Walke, at the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Fall quarter 2025, date tbc, HEFNU Roundtable “Writing Jewish Refugee Routes to Colonial Spaces,” with Sarah Casteel, Natalie Eppelsheimer, and Tabea Linhard (online)
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