A Transnational Approach to Resistance in Europe, 1936-48
Department of History and the Centre for War, State and Society, University of Exeter 6-7 July, 2017 Convenors: Dr Ana Antic, University of Exeter, and Dr Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom, University of Leeds This workshop aims to explore the intersections between the personal and the political in the experiences of antifascist fighters in the 1930s and 1940s.…
Society for the Study of French History 31st Annual Conference France, Europe and the World University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 26-27 June 2017 Confirmed plenary speakers: Robert Gildea (Oxford) Marie-Laure Legay (Lille 3) John Merriman (Yale) Sophie Wahnich (CNRS) The history of France has been profoundly shaped by its European and global entanglements. Whether through its…
Date: Monday March 20 Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm The Orchestras of Auschwitz is an opera-ballet production that memorialises the Jewish musicians imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau who were forced to play each day as slave labour commandos set off to and returned from their work. The production will focus on the Sunday concerts given by the camp’s…
Olga Manojlović Pintar and her team recently held a conference in Belgrade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the International Brigades formation. The conference comprised two panel discussions, a film programme and two exhibitions in association with the National Archives of Catalonia and an interesting NGO, Archives of War and Exile from Madrid. Participants were…
The Mandel Center welcomes applications from students in all academic disciplines, including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, psychology, sociology, geography, and others.The Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is pleased to invite applications for the Summer Graduate Research Assistant Program, designed for students accepted to or currently enrolled in…
After several years and 31 archives, the Dutch translation of Megan Koreman’s history of the Dutch-Paris Escape Line will be released with a mini-symposium at the Amsterdam Hilton at 14:00 on 10 November 2016. Dr Koreman’s talk will be followed by a discussion among panelists Hans Blom (historian), Onno Sinke (historian), Ad van Liempt (journalist)…
Fonds français de l’Internationale Communiste 1917-1947 Importance matérielle: Cet instrument de recherche est composé de 28 fonds d’archives, 83 sous-fonds et 3282 dossiers. Particularité physique: Les documents numérisés contiennent plus de 456 000 pages en noir et blanc. La qualité des images est variable. Les documents sont principalement en langue française, russe, allemande et anglaise,…
Paris, Maison de l’Italie 12-13 septembre 2016 Ce colloque international analyse pour la première fois les résistances antifascistes en Europe du Sud avec une approche de genre. Dans tous les pays européens du pourtour méditerranéen, des hommes et des femmes se sont engagé-e-s, selon des modalités différentes, dans des mouvements de résistance antifasciste, que ce…
Salón de Actos. Facultad de Geografía e Historia (UCM), Madrid Wednesday 19 April 2017 Organiser: Jorge Marco, University of Bath Madrid was an international symbol of anti-fascist resistance during the 1930s and 1940s. The slogan “No pasarán” [They shall not pass], used during the siege of the city, became a universal reference. In fact, these…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide Wednesday 28 September 2016, 6:30pm-8pm Ron Coleman The Library is pleased to host a lecture and discussion by EHRI Fellow Ron Coleman, a research librarian for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, whose research interprets the American response to refugees who tried to escape…