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The Institut d’histoire du temps présent, the European Network for Contemporary History (EURHISTXX) and the network “Historiography and Epistemology of History” organize a series of lectures in preparation of the international conference to be held in Paris, October 2010, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the IHTP :
“The Writings of Contemporary History Today”
The seminar will compare the perspectives of contemporary history in different intellectual, scientific, and linguistic (...)
The 3rd Annual Summer Workshop for Holocaust Scholars
The Persecution and Murder of Jews: Grassroots Perspectives
Monday, 5 July – Monday, 12 July 2010
Call for Papers Submission deadline: 1 January 2010
About Yad Vashem and the International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, is located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Israel, and was established in 1953 by an act of the Knesset – the Israeli (...)
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. (Claims Conference) is offering a limited number of fellowships for Ph.D. candidates pursuing advanced Shoah studies. The application deadline is January 25, 2010 for academic year 2010-2011 fellowships.
The Claims Conference Academic Fellowship Program for Advanced Shoah Studies strengthens Shoah studies and Shoah memory throughout the world. Our mission is to support advanced study of the fate of Jews who were (...)
For almost half a century the Cold War conflict shaped international relations and to a large extent influenced the history of individual nations. The Cold War was a global conflict, but in a particular manner was also a European conflict. The beginning and end of the Cold War (at least the beginning of its end) took place in Central Europe. For several dozen years Europeans on either side of the Iron Curtain prepared themselves for a potential apocalyptic conflict, or sought to prevent one (...)
Rapes committed during armed conflicts are often assumed to have a kind of inevitability. Even the term in French, viols de guerre, makes them seem an intrinsic part of war in any period. For a long time the victims, for the most part women and civilians, were accorded only a secondary importance. They were marginal in relation to the fighting and ranked somewhere between a form of booty and the warrior’s reward. Since they had no effect on the outcome of the war, they figured only in (...)
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