CfP in Falstad: Painful Heritage symposium - Cultural Landscapes of the Second World War

Invitation to the Painful Heritage symposium - Cultural Landscapes of the Second World War

Date: 11th - 12th November 2010

Symposium's themes:
*        Landscapes of memory
*        The landscapes of the prisoners of war
*        The archaeology of nazi camps

preliminary programme, practical information and further details: http://painfulheritage.no/
Registrations by 28th October 2010.

call for participants: seminar for Polish educators

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum through its International Center of Education on Auschwitz and Holocaust has opened call for the participants for the seminar "Jewish Culture and History".
Profile of participants: educators from Poland, active in projects/teaching Jewish culture, tolerance etc.
seminar: organized by Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Poland) and hosted by Institute Yad Vashem (Israel).
seminar's language: English.
venue: Jerusalem, Israel.

application form (in Polish): available here

holocaust summer schools 2010

Summer is approaching and so thus the summer schools.
Below is an attemt to collect information on summer schools in the research area of Holocaust/Holocaust education/Jewish Studies/ Genocide studies and alike.
but also on the museum-related themes.
If you know of anything else that is not yet listed below. Please write it in comments.
the list is presented in a format:
- what? (title)
- where?
- who: target group.

1. what: summer seminar: The Holocaust in History, Literature, and Film

• where: Harvard
• who: Secondary School Program juniors and seniors, and to college undergraduates
  

2. what: summer school course: Slavery, Holocaust and the Challenges of Global Justice: Exploring Critical and Decolonial Approaches.

• where: Middelburg, The Netherlands
• who: graduate and undergraduate academic students

3. what: The Holocaust & Present-day Jewish Life in Germany

• where: Berlin, Germany
• who: U.S. public secondary school teachers

4. what: The 2010 Memorial Library Summer Seminar on Holocaust Education in New York City

• where: New York, New York, USA
  
• who: NWP teacher-consultants in the Rural Sites Network and other teachers across the NWP who can show critical needs.

5. what: Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies

• where: Berlin, Germany
  
• who: advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students from the United States, Canada, Germany, Israel, and Eastern European countries

Is it too late to apply to these programs this year? don't worry, many of them are organized annualy.

Summer Research Assistantship Applications at USHMM

Graduate students enrolled to US colleges or universities can apply now for the Summer Program of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
"Recipients will participate with the Center's staff scholars in cutting-edge research and publication projects relating to key areas of Holocaust scholarship. Sample projects may include writing and editing for the Museum's Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945; research and translating for the Center's archival source series on Documenting Life and Destruction; and preparing in-depth studies and reports about the archival collections of the International Tracing Service, among others. " (from call for applications).
deadline: March 31, 2010

more on the program and application procedures>>

Annual statistics of this blog

On January 26th, 2010 the statistics of visits of my blog has been archived. In the previous year this blog received 266 visits from all over the world (see the map on the left)

Thank you very much and I hope you'll find this blog interesting to visit again in the upcoming year.