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>
>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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>Deadline 15 March 2005
>
>BEYOND CAMPS AND FORCED LABOUR - 60 YEARS ON
>
>Second international multidisciplinary conference,
>to be held at the Imperial War Museum, London, on
>11-13 January 2006
>
>The aim of the conference is to bring together
>scholars from a variety of disciplines who are
>engaged in research on all groups of survivors of
>Nazi persecution. These will include - but are not
>limited to - Jews, Gypsies and Slavonic people,
>Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Soviet prisoners
>of war, political dissidents, members of
>underground movements, the disabled, the so-called
>racially impure, and forced labourers. For the
>purpose of the conference, a "survivor" is defined
>as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by
>the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis'
>racial, political, ideological or ethnic policies
>from 1933 to 1945, and who survived the Second
>World War.
>
>The organisers welcome proposals which focus on
>topics and themes of the 'life after', ranging from
>the experience of liberation to the
>transgenerational impact of persecution, individual
>and collective memory and consciousness, and
>questions of theory and methodology.
>
>Specific conference themes anticipated are:
>- DPs in postwar Europe
>- Reception and Resettlement
>- Survivors in Eastern Europe
>- Trials and Justice
>- Testimonies
>- Memory and Identity
>- Construction of Memory in Literature
>- Intergenerational Transmission
>- Psychological Approaches
>- Child Survivors
>- Women Survivors and Gender Issues
>
>In response to recent debate, papers in the
>following two areas of research are also invited:
>- Comparative papers that discuss the construction
>of memory of other victims of the war in literature
>and historiography.
>- Papers on educational issues (Survivors of Nazi
>persecution as a topic in educational institutions,
>museums, the media, etc.).
>
>The Advisory Board consists of: Suzanne Bardgett
>(Imperial War Museum, London), Dan Bar-On (Ben
>Gurion University of the Negev), Wolfgang Benz
>(Technical University Berlin), Gerhard Botz
>(University of Vienna), David Cesarani (Royal
>Holloway, University of London), Evelyn Friedlander
>(Hidden Legacy Foundation, London), Wolfgang
>Jacobmeyer (University of Muenster), Wolf Schmidt
>(Koerber-Stiftung, Hamburg), Hanna Ulatowska
>(University of Texas at Dallas).
>
>Please send an abstract of 200-250 words together
>with biographical background of about 50 words by
>15 March 2005 to: Dr Johannes-Dieter Steinert,
>email: [log in to unmask]
>
>All proposals are subject to a review process.
>
>Fees: GBP 115 for speakers. This includes admission
>to all panels and evening events, lunches, coffees
>and teas. Further information and registration
>details will be made available in 2005.
>
>It is intended to publish the conference
>proceedings. The proceedings of the first
>conference will be published in spring 2005 by
>Secolo Verlag, Osnabrueck.
>
>The conference is being organised by
>
>Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of
>Wolverhampton, History and Governance Research
>Institute (HAGRI)
>
>Inge Weber-Newth, London Metropolitan University,
>Institute for the Study of European Transformations
>(ISET)

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