CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop: Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust in European Memory

Place: Berlin

Venue: Center for Historical Research Berlin of the Polish Academy of Science

Organizers: Dr. Zofia Wóycicka (Center for Historical Research Berlin of the Polish Academy of Science), Dr. Raphael Utz (Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena), German Resistance Memorial Center

Dates: June 27th-29th, 2018

Application deadline: March 18th, 2018

 

The workshop aims to gather international scholars of different disciplines – historians, historians of literature, art historians, social scientists, museum specialists and others – researching on the memory of Jewish rescue during World War II.

The papers could address the following questions:
1) What are the national specifics and alterations of the way the Righteous are being commemorated in different countries of Europe and beyond?
2) We would also like to ask about the evolution of the memory of Jewish rescue after World War II and the deeper-rooted cultural patterns, national and local “agents of memory” recur to, when shaping the contemporary discourse.
3) What are the drives and implications of this international trend to commemorate people who rescued Jews during the war?
4) Can this commemoration be seen as an expression of the emergence of a “cosmopolitan memory” and if so, can one trace the links between international, national and local “memory agents” promoting this topic?
5) What are the potentials and risks of introducing this issue into public debate and education?