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Words That Kill Conference

Monday, May 28, 2018 (All day)

In our current troubled historical moment, where toxic discourses are being mobilized for political ends, there is growing concern and debate over the perilous effects of post-truth regimes, false news and lying in politics. The phenomenon is not new: As Hannah Arendt notes in Lying in Politics, penned after the publication of the Pentagon Papers, “Secrecy…and deception, the deliberate falsehood and the outright lie used as a legitimate means to achieve...

Forced Confrontation: The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of WWII

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - 18:00

In collaboration with Yahad-In Unum, The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention is pleased to announce a guest lecture by History Professor Christopher Mauriello, Ph.D., and Director of The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Salem State University, who will present his latest book: Forced Confrontation: The Politics of Dead Bodies in Germany at the End of WWII. Book Blurb: During the final weeks of World...

Orders of Violence

Monday, April 9, 2018 - 13:00

The conference “Orders of Violence” is dedicated to investigating political violence, exclusion and memory within marginalized communities, with particular emphasis on caste violence and genocide. The conference themes are thus intimately linked to stigma, systemic violence, discrimination and historical oppression, while resisting and interrogating the trope of the abject and suffering subject. Indian, Indigenous, North American and European scholars specializing in the...

When Denial Becomes State Policy

Thursday, April 5, 2018 - 17:30

The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention is pleased to announce a guest lecture by Elżbieta Janicka on "When Denial Becomes State Policy: The Origins and Significance of the New Holocaust-Speech Law in Poland." How could it happen that a democratically elected parliament in an independent Poland – member of NATO and the EU – could pass a law criminalizing free debate about the Holocaust? How could such a...

Big Data and Testimonies

Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 17:30

The Visual History Archive is in the process of transcribing all of their collection, presenting new challenges and opportunities for engaging the 54,000 testimonies contained in the collection. This roundtable, organized by the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention will bring together experts on the study of Holocaust survivors and qualitative researchers in the social sciences to think through the challenges of building knowledge...

International conference: Home as a place for anti-Jewish persecution

Thursday, January 11, 2018 - 09:00

Co-organized by:

  • The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention, The American University of Paris
  • Le Centre de Recherches Historiques, EHESS-CNRS
  • L'Institut de Sciences sociales du Politique, Université Paris Nanterre-ENS Paris Saclay-CNRS

Dates:

  • 11th Jan in C-104, 6 rue colonel combes
  • 12th Jan at Memorial de la Shoah: 17 rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, Paris...

Roger Frie: Witnessing the Crimes of Our Grandparents: Remembering and Responsibility in the Wake of the Holocaust

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 17:30

What does it mean to discover a Nazi history in one’s own family? This was a discovery I neither wanted nor asked for, and yet, in a moment defined by chance and circumstance, it became an irrefutable reality. Recognition of my German grandfather’s support for the Nazi regime led to a host of questions about the nature of memory, its dissociation and transmission. What lurks in the silences that are passed down between generations? How does our collective response to history...

The Visual History Archive: Research Experience

Thursday, October 26, 2017 - 14:15

Interdisciplinary conference

Founded by the film director Steven Spielberg in 1994, the Visual History Archive is a collection of testimonies recorded in order to preserve the words, faces, gestures and histories of genocide survivors. Holocaust survivors’ testimonies, recorded around the world in 28 languages, represent the bulk of the collection (51 333 to this day). This core documentation is complemented by accounts from other victims of the Nazis (Sinti and Roma survivors,...

Mark Roseman speaks on "Resistance and Rescue in Nazi Germany"

Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 16:00

On June 15th, the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention will host a session of the seminar "Histoire et historiographie de la Shoah" (HHS, Centre de recherches historiques, EHESS-CNRS). 

We will hear Professor Mark Roseman (Indiana University Bloomington), who will present his book: Rescued lives: The “Bund”, resistance, and rescue in Nazi Germany, Oxford...

Holocaust Survivors and their Networks: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives

Friday, June 2, 2017 - 09:30

On June 2nd, the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 will be organizing an international symposium entitled "Holocaust Survivors and their Networks: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives," with the participation of the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention.

The workshop will take place from 9.30am to 6pm at La Maison de la...

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