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Aubrey Newman Lecture Series
The annual Aubrey Newman Lecture Series was initiated in 2006 to honour Professor Aubrey Newman, founder of the Stanley Burton Centre in 1992.
Forthcoming Aubrey Newman Lectures:
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Previous Aubrey Newman Lecture Series:
| Date | Previous Aubrey Newman Lecture Series |
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| 21 September 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. |
| 11 May 2010 | Prof. Alon Confino (University of Virginia, USA) Space and Memory in the Third Reich |
| 5 May 2009 | Prof. Dan Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London) From Stockhollm to Stockton - The Holocaust and/as Heritage in Britain |
| 6 May 2008 | Prof. Griselda Pollock (Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory, and History, University of Leeds) After-image/After-affect. The Politics and Aesthetic Solace in the Encounter with Unbearable Knowledge. |
| 8 May 2007 | Prof. Robert G. Moeller (University of California, Irvine) Berlin, 2005-1945: Back to the Future? |
| 8 May 2006 | Prof. Harald Welzer (Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research in Essen/Germany) Perpetrators. How do ordinary people become mass murders? |
Past Public Lectures
In addition to providing undergraduate and postgraduate teaching on the Holocaust to the School of Historical Studies the Centre provides lectures and programmes to the community at large. Professor Newman has given public lectures as well as speaking to secondary schools and 'In-Service' programmes for teachers locally and nationally, in association with Beth Shalom (Laxton) and the Holocaust Education Trust.
Lectures given or written by staff of the Stanley Burton Centre are available online:
- Whose Holocaust is it? An address for National Holocaust Day by Prof. Aubrey Newman (pdf)
- The Miracle of the Children: An address for the second National Holocaust Day by Prof. Aubrey Newman (pdf)
- Trains and Shelters and Ships (pdf)
- The Union Castle Line and Emigration from eastern Europe to South Africa (pdf)
For more information about conferences in the Stanley Burton Centre please see our research conferences.
