European Social Science History Conference, 
Amsterdam,
22-25.3.2006 (amended)


 

 European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC)

 http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/2006.html

 Call for Papers ESSHC 2006

 The Sixth ESSHC will take place from 22 - 25 March 2006 at the
RAI conference center in Amsterdam. The conference welcomes
papers and sessions on any topic and any historical period. It is
organized in a large number of networks which cover a certain
topic.

 The deadline for pre-registration is May 1, 2005.

 Information on how to propose a paper, a session or how to
register as chair, discussant or spectator and how to fill in the
electronic form can be found on the registration page.

 When you already know how the registration procedure works you
can go directly to the pre-registration form.

 All conference participants are required to register. The
conference fee is Euro 175 (payment in advance) or Euro 225
(payment on site). There is special fee for MA students of Euro
50. Students are requested to contact the organizer to be
considered for this special fee.

 When you have pre-registered we will send you information on
final registration, payment and accommodation in the fall of
2005.

 

 

 

 CfP: Beyond Camps and Forced Labor, London, 11-13.1.2006

 BEYOND CAMPS AND FORCED LABOUR - 60 YEARS ON

 

 Second international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at
the Imperial War Museum, London, on 11-13 January 2006

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 This conference is planned as a follow up to the successful
conference 'Beyond Camps and Forced Labor: Current International
Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution' which took place in
January 2003 at the Imperial War Museum in London. It will
continue to build on areas previously investigated, and also open
up new fields of academic enquiry. The aim of the conference 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 laborers. 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 organizers 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. As an innovation, and in response to
recent debate, papers in the following two new areas of research
are also invited:

 1. Comparative papers that discuss the construction of memory of
other victims of the war in literature and historiography.

 2. Papers on educational issues (Survivors of Nazi persecution
as a topic in educational institutions, museums, the media,
etc.).

 Specific conference themes anticipated are: DPs in
post-war-Europe - Reception and Resettlement - Survivors in
Eastern Europe - Trials and Justice - Testimonies - Memory and
Identity - Construction of Memory in Literature -
Intergenerational Transmission - Psychological Approaches - Child
Survivors - Women Survivors and Gender Issues

 

 The Advisory Board consists of: Suzanne Bardgett (Imperial War
Museum, London), Dan Bar-On (Ben Gurion University of the Negev),
Wolfgang Benz (Technical University Berlin), Gerhard Botz
(University of Vienna), David Cesarani (Royal Holloway,
University of London), Evelyn Friedlander (Hidden Legacy
Foundation, London), Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (University of
Muenster), Wolf Schmidt (Koerber-Stiftung, Hamburg), Hanna
Ulatowska (University of Texas at Dallas).

 Please send an abstract of 200-250 words together with
biographical background of about 50 words by 15 March 2005 to:

 Dr Johannes-Dieter Steinert

 E-mail: JDSteinert@t-online.de


 All proposals are subject to a review process.

 Fees: * ¦?115 (GBP) for speakers. This includes admission to all
panels and evening events, lunches, coffees and teas. Further
information and registration details will be made available in
2005.

 It is intended to publish the conference proceedings. The
proceedings of the first conference will be published in spring
2005 by Secolo Verlag, Osnabrueck. Further information will be
available in November 2004 at: www.secolo-verlag.de.

 The conference is being organized by

 Johannes-Dieter Steinert,

 University of Wolverhampton,

 History and Governance Research Institute (HAGRI)

 JDSteinert@t-online.de

 Inge Weber-Newth,

 London Metropolitan University,

 Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET)

 

 

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