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News
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| 16 Mar 2012 |
The Holocaust Masterclass 2012: A Masterclass for Year 12 students, offered by the School for Historical Studies: Friday 16th March 2012, 9:30 - 13:00 |
| Mar 2012 | Dr Fransiska Louwagie, lecturer in French Studies, has joined the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies |
| 2 Mar 2012 |
Dr Olaf Jensen presents 'Night and Fog: Nazi Concentration Camps Caught on Film'. 2 March, 2012, 5pm at the New History Lab, 1 Salisbury Road, Leicester |
| 27 Feb 2012 |
Khojaly - A Legal Analysis The School of Law will be hosting a lecture introducing their new research project providing an assesment of the massacre at Khojaly in 1992, which Armenia and Azerbaijan still hotly debate over whether it was a massacre or not. The lecture will be in Room L66 of the Law Building, Leicester, at 4pm, and will introduce the main aspects of the project and the academic challenges they are likely to encounter. |
| 10 Feb 2012 |
One-day workshop at the Wiener Library, London Dr Alex Korb will be presenting a paper on 'The Balkans: How the 'Final Solution' was intertwined with local forms of violence' at a one-day workshop on 'The Wannsee Conference: new views from Berlin, the Baltic and the Balkans'. It is being held at the Wiener Library, London, on Friday 10 February, 2012, 10am to 4pm. |
| 19 Jan 2012 |
Fraenkel Prize Lecture: Dr Alexander Korb The Wiener Library is delighted to welcome Dr Alexander Korb (University of Leicester), joint winner of Category A of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History 2011 to present his work, 'In the Shadow of the World War. Mass violence by the Ustaša against Serbs, Jews and Roma in Croatia, 1941-45'. |
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| 14 Dec 2011 | International Holocaust Archive to be available in the UK for the first time
After supporting a long campaign, SBC Director Olaf Jensen was invited to the Foreign and Commenwealth Office for the official arrival of the UK copy of the International Tracing Service (ITS) archive, to be hosted at the Wiener Library. London. |
| 7 Dec 2011 |
Ethnic Homogenization in Europe 1941-1949: Rethinking the gap between Fascism and Communism Alexander Korb is giving a guest lecture at the Centre for the Study of Wider Europe at NUI Maynooth (1 pm on 07 December 2011, first floor seminar room of the Iontas Building, North Campus) |
| 6 Dec 2011 | Provincializing WWII – non-German perpetrators during the Holocaust
Alex Korb is giving a talk at the MA-seminar, History department, National University of Ireland at Maynooth (December 6, 2-5pm) |
| 23 Nov 2011 |
Rethinking Modern Europe Seminar at the IHR London Alex Korb and Mary Vincent (Sheffield): The Spanish Falange and the Croatian Ustasha - comparative perspectives (23 November, 5:30, Stewart House, Room ST274, Chair: Christian Goeschel) |
| 17 Nov 2011 |
Alexander Korb gave a talk on 'Croatia - The Militia State (1941–45)' at a conference on fascism in northern, east-central and south-eastern Europe at the Hugo Valentin Centre in Uppsala |
| 9 Nov 2011 |
'Politics after the Holocaust: Arendt in America' Richard King (University of Nottingham) gave a talk at the School Seminar Series, jointly organised by the Stanley Burton Centre and the Centre for American Studies |
| 24-27 Oct 2011 |
From 24-27 October 2011 the Stanley Burton Centre hosted the Holocaust Awareness Week at the University of Leicester which included talks by Holocaust survivors Ruth David (Leicester) and Imre Rochlitz (London), and a lecture by Professor David Cesarani (Royal Holloway, London) |
| 22-23 Sep 2011 |
'A Contextual View of Genocidal Intent' |
| 21 Sep 2011 | Sixth Aubrey Newman Lecture Professor William A. Schabas (University of Middlesex) 'Proving Genocidal Intent: Is it Really so Difficult?' Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, 17.30-18.30. The lecture is free and open to the public. See poster. |
| July 2011 | Antero Holmila, 'Reporting the Holocaust in the British, Swedish and Finnish Press, 1945-50' Vol. III in the book series 'The Holocaust and its Contexts' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). |
| 7 July 2011 | 'Germany, the ‘World Champion’ of Coming to Terms with a troubled Past?’ Olaf Jensen gave the Key Note Lecture at the 50th Anniversary of Aktion Suehnezeichen Friedensdienste (Action Reconciliation Service for Peace), Coventry Cathedral. |
| 6 July 2011 | '“Of course, they didn’t live a moment longer” – WWII and the Holocaust in German Family Memory' Presentation by Olaf Jensen at the Oral History Day, East Midlands Oral History Archive. |
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23 March 2011 |
'Confronting the Holocaust' Lecture and discussion with film director and producer Rex Bloomstein ('KZ', 2005, and others). 5.00pm, Frank and Katherine May Lecture Theatre, Henry Wellcome Building. Hosted in collaboration with the Department of Criminology. See poster. |
| 22 March 2011 |
Public lecture and seminar with Holocaust Survivor Dr Martin Stern |
| 2010 | Oral history archive aquired The Stanley Burton Centre has aquired the oral history archive Refugee Voices from the Association for Jewish Refugees (AJR, London), containing 150 audio-visual interviews with former refugees from Nazi Germany now living in Britain (Licensed by kind permission of the Association of Jewish Refugees). Call for support and donation. |
| 25 June 2009 | 'The Universal Hero: Raoul Wallenberg', public talk by Tanja Schult (Stockholm University) Presentation of the book series 'The Holocaust and its Contexts' and introduction to lecture by Olaf Jensen, Wiener Library, London. |
| 18 June 2009 | ‘The Historical Importance of Oral Testimony’ Invited paper by Olaf Jensen at the Wiener Library, London at he launch of the 'Refugee Voices Oral History Archive'. |
| 23 May 2009 | ‘One goes left to the Russians, the other goes right to the Americans’ – Family Recollections of the Holocaust in Europe' Paper given by Olaf Jensen at the ‘Legacy of the Holocaust’ Conference, Jaggiellonian University Krakow, 23/05/2009. |
| April 2009 | Tanja Schult, 'A Hero's Many Faces. Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments' Vol. II in the book series 'The Holocaust and its Contexts' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan). |
| Nov 2008 | 'Ordinary People as Mass Murderers. Perpetrators in Comparative Perspectives' First volume in the new book series 'The Holocaust and its Contexts' (Palgrave Macmillan), edited by Olaf Jensen and Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann. |
| 27 October 2008 | Notice/Tribute The Stanley Burton Centre mourns the death of Derek Downey on 27 October 2008. See obituary. |
| 23 August 2008 | Notice/Tribute The Stanley Burton Centre mourns the death of Audrey Burton on 23 August 2008. See obituary. |
| 'The Holocaust and its Contexts' Book Series The Stanley Burton Centre has launched a book series with Palgrave Macmillan. |
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Podcasts of Lectures on the Holocaust (external) Christopher Browning is Frank Porter Graham Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. One of the world’s leading historian of the Holocaust, he has published very widely on all aspects of Nazi extermination policy. His most recent monograph is Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (2004). Event Date:9 June 2009 |
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