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Soviet
Jewish Soldiers, Jewish Resistance, and Jews in the USSR during
the Holocaust
Conference Date: November 16-17, 2008.
New York City
On November 16-17, 2008, the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and New
York University’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and
Judaic Studies are organizing an international scholarly conference
on Soviet Jewish Soldiers, Jewish Resistance, and Jews in
the USSR during the Holocaust. This conference will take place
in New York City at NYU’s Skirball Department of Hebrew
and Judaic Studies.
Masses
of rich material have become available since the dissolution
of the Soviet Union, providing new insight into previously
under-researched aspects of the Holocaust on Soviet territory.
This joint conference will examine the Soviet Jewish experience
during World War II and the Holocaust, including but not limited
to: Soviet Jewish soldiers at home and abroad; representations
of Jewish soldiers in press, literature, and films; contextual
issues such as German, Axis, and Soviet policies and attitudes
during the Holocaust; Soviet Jewish combatants in the struggle
against Fascism; camps and ghettos in the Soviet Union; Soviet
Jewish life and culture; collaboration as a Soviet and post-Soviet
issue; and the Soviet Shoah and the evolution of Soviet Jewish
consciousness.
Dr. Suzanne Brown-Fleming
Senior Program Officer
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20024-2126.
Phone: (202) 314-7802
Fax: (202) 479-9726
Email: sbrown-fleming@ushmm.org
Visit the website at http://www.ushmm.org/research/center
March 13,
2008.
The Ethics of Holocaust Rescue and
Rescuers
Conference Date: December 27-30, 2008.
California
THE ETHICS OF HOLOCAUST RESCUE AND RESCUERS. We are interested
in presentations that respond to either (or both) of these
themes specfically in terms of Patrick Henry's book WE KNOW
ONLY MEN: THE RESCUE OF JEWS IN FRANCE DURING THE HOLOCAUST
(Catholic University of America Press, 2007). What is or is
likely to be the importance or impact of this scholarly and
critical work upon Holocaust Studies, upon comparative genocide
studies, or upon other fields?
Richard Middleton-Kaplan
Harper College
LIB ARTS
1200 W. Algonquin Road
Palatine, IL 60067
Phone: (847) 925-6480
Fax: (847) 925-6039
Email: rkaplan@harpercollege.edu and goodhart@purdue.edu
March 13,
2008.
The
First World War and the End of Neutrality
Conference Date: March 6, 2009
The Netherlands
In his seminal “The Decline of Neutrality”, first
published in 1950, Nils Ørvik stated that the First
World War spelled the beginning of the end for neutrality
as a political concept. During this Great War, both belligerent
blocs expected the neutrals to realign their neutrality in
their favour. Some neutrals, such as the Scandinavian countries
and Switzerland, engaged in a daring balancing act between
the economic demands placed on them by the Germans and British.
Others, such as Belgium, could not maintain their neutrality
(or even their sovereignty) in the face of military demands
placed on them by the Central Powers or the Allies. Moreover,
in a “total war” cast in terms of a battle between
good and evil, the moral high ground was no longer theirs;
instead, they were increasingly seen as cowards, war-profiteers
or enemy collaborators. Finally, the legal framework that
had been established during the nineteenth century to safeguard
neutral rights against belligerent action in war was slowly,
but decisively, demolished in wartime.
The small
neutrals’ “war history” is most often reduced
as one of steadily encroaching demands on their sovereignty,
which they were powerless to resist. However, the decline
(or rather transformation) of neutrality proved to be an uneven
process, and neutrals managed to change both the concept and
the practice of neutrality during the First World War in order
to survive (relatively) unscathed. Moreover, during the course
of four and a half years of war, the small European neutrals
embarked on divergent paths in their quest to maintain their
national independence, economy and neutrality.
During
a conference to be held at Amsterdam, the Netherlands on March
6th, 2009, we aim to explore the topic of neutrality during
the First World War, focussing on changing concepts and practices
in different neutral countries. Our main themes will be:
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In what way and in what direction did neutrality change during
the First World War?
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How did changes in the concept of neutrality impact on a “neutral”
society?
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How and why did these changing concepts influence “neutral”
countries in the economic, military, political and cultural
sphere?
The conference
will be jointly organized by dr. M. de Keizer and dr. I. Tames
(Netherlands Institute for War Documentation), dr. J.P. den
Hertog (BKVGE, Freie Universität Berlin) and S. Kruizinga,
M.A. (University of Amsterdam), in cooperation with the Netherlands
Defence Academy. Pierre Purseigle (University of Birmingham)
and Neville Wylie (University of Nottingham) will be our keynote
speakers.
Additionally,
we hope that this conference will also serve as a springboard
for establishing a network of neutrality specialists from
different countries and scholarly disciplines.
Collection
of the papers will be published in the autumn of 2009 by the
Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD). For more
details, see (http://www.niod.nl/nl/conferentieWOI.asp) or
contact Samuël Kruizinga at s.f.kruizinga@uva.nl.
Samuël
Kruizinga, University of Amsterdam
Email: s.f.kruizinga@uva.nl
Visit the website at http://www.niod.nl/nl/conferentieWOI.asp
Posted:
May 28, 2008.
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