Contesting/Contested Memories: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century

Date: 9-11 February 2012 Time: 12.30 pm

Venue: Bowland North Seminar Room 2 and FASS, Meeting Room 2

The Dynamics of Memories Research Group are holding a two day conference on the Holocaust in February 2012.

Presentation Sessions will be held at Lancaster University

Papers presented at the conference to include:-

Malgorzata Fabiszak (Poznan, Poland), 'Memory and Commemoration in Text and Image'
Lars Fischer (CJCR, Cambridge, UK), 'Socialists grappling with the Shoah: Early Post-War Responses'
Andre Gingrich (Vienna, Austria), 'Racism, Modernist Theories and 'Applied' Practices: Anthropology in Germany and Austria during the Nazi years (1933-1945)'
David I. Hanauer (Pennsylvania, USA) 'The Discursive Construction of the Stolper Steine Memorial Project: Official, Educational and Familial Meanings'
Dovid Katz (Vilnius, Lithuania), 'The Prague Declaration: Writing the Holocaust out of History'
Andreas Musolff, (Norwich, UK) - 'Metaphorization of Holocaust memory and false historical analogy in antisemitic discourse'
David Seymour (Lancaster, UK) 'The Visibility of the Holocaust and the Invisibility of Antisemitism'
Tracey Skillington (Cork, Ireland), 'UN Holocaust Commemoration in a Post-Secular Age'
Karin Stoeger (Vienna, Austria), 'Antisemitism in Austrian Media Discourses on the Financial Crisis'
Ruth Wodak (Lancaster, UK), '"That is how it is written in the schoolbooks!": Calculated ambivalence and Holocaust denial in Austria'

The Presentation Panels will be followed by a Round Table Discussion and public event at The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster

The conference is FREE to attend

Contact: Please register by contacting Oliver Wilkinson by 9 January 2012

Event website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/dynamicsofmemories/

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Who can attend: Anyone

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