The keynote "Navigating the Labyrinth of Personal Accounts in Holocaust Studies" will be given by Professor Eva Kovacs, acting Director of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. You can attend in person and online. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating...

Navigating the Labyrinth of Personal Accounts in Holocaust Studies

What can personal accounts be used for in Holocaust research, and how?

eventbrite.co.uk

Our visiting fellows @charlieknight.bsky.social and @monjast96.bsky.social are organising a conference and keynote on ego-documents and life writing on 14 April at the University of Southampton. Register here for in person attendance: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossing-b...

How do languages and cultures shape diplomacy, and how do we show it? On 20 February, join @monjast96.bsky.social (KDP), @ezolotariov.bsky.social (MAHP), and @charlottefaucher.bsky.social (@bristoluni.bsky.social) for Putting the Humanities on the Knowledge Diplomacy Map. 1/2

📣 Seminar | Wed, 4 Feb 2026 | Senate House & Zoom "Sudetenland Political Refugees in 1938: The Role of Labour MP D.R. Grenfell in Prague" Drawing on family archives and oral history, Rosamund Mykura examines both the possibilities and limits of rescue. 🕕 6:00–7:30pm 🎟️ Free | registration required

CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026 We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton! Please share!!

Join us for this year's Miller Memorial Lecture on Art Historian Helen Rosenau’s Jewish and Feminist Studies as Anti-Fascist Defiance! 📅 12 June, 6-7:30pm 📍 Senate House, London Registration essential - all welcome! #ExileStudies #UniversityOfLondon #AcademicEvents ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

‘Her Heart Belongs to Jewish and Women’s Questions’ (Lutz Weltman, 1951) Art Historian Helen Rosenau’s Jewish and Feminist Studies as Anti-Fascist Defiance (The 2025 Miller Memorial Lecture)

.

ilcs.sas.ac.uk

From the archives: "We thought of ourselves as being German Jews not Jewish Germans". This quote challenges binary thinking about hyphenated identities. Personal narratives reveal identity as both assertion and resistance & become meditations on belonging beyond national and religious frameworks.

Erstmals nach 1945 sind extrem Rechte zweitstärkste Partei. Das ist bitter, zumal die liberalen Demokratien auch von Putin und Trump in die Zange genommen werden. Für die demokrat. Mehrheit kommt es nun darauf an, pro EU, pro Humanität und pro liberale Demokratie zu streiten.

Came across this testimony @wienerlibrary.bsky.social: »My daughter in law doesn’t like it when I tell them [the grandchildren] stories from the time of the Nazis. ”Let them grow up normal and unburdened by your sad memories“, she begs me.«