Feb. 2


From: "Steinert, J.d" <J.D.Steinert@...>



Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on
survivors of Nazi persecution.

Third international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at the
Imperial War Museum, London, 7-9 January 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

This conference is planned as a follow-up to the two successful
conferences, which took place at the Imperial War Museum in London in
2003 and 2006. It will continue to build on areas previously
investigated, and also open up new fields of academic enquiry.

The aim is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines
who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi
persecution. These will include - but are not limited to - Jews,
Gypsies and Slavonic people, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Soviet
prisoners of war, political dissidents, members of underground
movements, the disabled, the so-called 'racially impure', and forced
labourers. For the purpose of the conference, a 'survivor' is defined
as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis or their
allies as a result of the Nazis' racial, political, ideological or
ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945, and who survived the Second World
War.

The organisers welcome proposals, which focus on topics and themes of
the 'life after', ranging from the experience of liberation to the
trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective
memory and consciousness, and questions of theory and methodology. We
are also interested in comparative papers that discuss the experience
of victims of forced population transfers during the war and in the
immediate post-war years, including the historiographical development
from polemical and memoirist approaches to empirical, analytical, and
critical studies.

Specific conference themes anticipated are:

* DPs in post-war Europe

* Reception and resettlement

* Survivors in Eastern Europe

* Exiles, émigrés and refugees in the reconstruction process

* Rescuers and liberators

* Child survivors

* Women survivors and gender issues

* Trials and justice

* Testimony and memory

* Film and photography

* Psychological approaches: trauma, amnesia, intergenerational
transmission

* Educational issues

* Remembrance and memorials

* Museums and archives

The Advisory Board consists of: Dan Bar-On (Ben Gurion University of
the Negev), Wolfgang Benz (Technical University Berlin), Gerhard Botz
(University of Vienna), Helga Embacher (University of Salzburg),
Evelyn Friedlander (Hidden Legacy Foundation, London), Atina Grossmann
(Cooper Union, New York), Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (University of Münster),
Yosefa Loshitzky (University of East London), Hanna Ulatowska
(University of Texas at Dallas), Inge Weber-Newth (London Metropolitan
University).


Please send an abstract of 200-250 words together with biographical
background of about 50 words by 28 February 2008 to: Johannes-Dieter
Steinert, email: J.D.Steinert@... <mailto:J.D.Steinert@...>


All proposals are subject to a review process.


Fees: No more than GBP135 for speakers. The fee includes admission to
all panels and evening events, lunches, coffees and teas. Further
information and registration details will be made available in 2008.


It is intended to publish the conference proceedings. The proceedings
of the first conference have been published by Secolo Verlag,
Osnabrück (ISBN 3-929979-73-x). The proceedings of the second
conference are in press by Secolo Verlag as well. For further
information please contact
www.secolo-verlag.de <http://www.secolo-verlag.de/
> or u.kuhlmann@....




The conference is being organised by



Suzanne Bardgett, Imperial War Museum, London

David Cesarani, Royal Holloway, University of London

Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck College London

Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton