2012 INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE SEMINAR
Poland and Ukraine during and after World War II in the Records of the
International
Tracing Service Collection
AUGUST 6–10, 2012
Applications due April 13, 2012
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies
invites applications for the 2012 International Tracing Service Seminar.
The fifth in a series of programs created to encourage the use of the
recently
opened archival holdings of the International Tracing Service (ITS), this
year's
seminar seeks to acquaint doctoral students and faculty specializing in
Poland and
Ukraine with the substantial parts of the ITS collection that relate to these
countries. Applications are welcome from doctoral students and faculty in all
relevant academic disciplines, including history, political science,
literature,
Jewish studies, psychology, sociology, geography, and others.
During the seminar, Museum scholars will assist participants in exploring
portions
of the ITS collection relating to Poland and Ukraine. Participants will focus
especially on records concerning (1) forced and slave laborers in the
German war
economy; (2) Nazi Germany's expansionist and genocidal policies; and (3)
the postwar
experiences of displaced persons and refugees from Poland and Ukraine.
Participants
will also have the opportunity to acquaint themselves with the Museum's
library and
archival resources and to explore the ITS collection.
For more information, please visit our website:
http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/itsprograms/announcement/?content=its&year=2012.
This seminar is made possible by the major support of Betty-Jean and David
Bavar and
the Curt C. and Else Silberman Foundation, with additional support from
Edie and
David Blitzstein, in memory of Kurt and Thea Sonnenmark, and K. Peter and
Yvonee R.
Wagner.
Call for Applications
SUMMER RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
Applications due April 13, 2012
The Center is pleased to invite applications for the Summer Graduate Research
Assistant program, designed for students accepted to or currently enrolled
in a
master's (MA) degree program. Students who have completed their MA within
the last
two years but are not yet enrolled in a doctoral (PhD) program also will be
considered. The objective of the assistantship is to acquaint promising
MA-level
students with Holocaust studies by encouraging participation in the broad
range of
scholarly and public educational programs offered by the Museum during the
summer
months. Applications are welcome from students in all relevant academic
disciplines,
including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, psychology,
sociology, geography, and others.
Projects may include but are not limited to: (1) conducting research on
Holocaust-specific and Holocaust-relevant courses in the United States,
including
assisting with statistical assessments of the state of the field; (2)
facilitating
preparations related to the August 2012 seminar on Poland and Ukraine
during and
after World War II in the Records of the International Tracing Service
Collection,
as well as other projects related to the International Tracing Service
digital
collection at the Museum; and (3) supporting the research, annotation,
contextualization, and editing required for advancing the Museum's
Encyclopedia of
Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 (vols. 3-6) and the archival source series
Documenting
Life and Destruction, especially for Jewish Responses to Persecution,
1933-1946
(vols. 3-5), and The Holocaust in Hungary.
In addition to each applicant's involvement in these projects, graduate
assistants
will be expected to participate in a weekly training seminar led by Museum
staff,
introducing them to key subjects, essential tools, useful methods and
approaches, as
well as career opportunities in Holocaust research. Each assistant will
meet with a
staff mentor who will assign weekly tasks and project goals and discuss
the progress
in achieving them. Assistants will be expected to familiarize themselves with
relevant topics through assigned readings and actively engage with Center
staff.
Assistants will be required to be in residence at the Museum for 12
consecutive
weeks, arriving on June 1, 2012, and departing on August 24, 2012. They
will receive
a stipend of $2,500/month, as well as a stipend to offset the cost of direct,
economy-class travel to and from Washington, DC. Local assistants will not
receive a
travel allowance.
For more information, please visit our website:
http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/summergra/.
Reminder: Call for Applications
2012 CURT C. AND ELSE SILBERMAN SEMINAR FOR FACULTY
Teaching the Gendered Experience of the Holocaust
JUNE 4–15, 2012
Applications due February 27, 2012
The Center invites applications for the 2012 Curt C. and Else Silberman
Seminar for
college and university faculty from all relevant disciplines who are
teaching or
preparing to teach Holocaust or Holocaust-related courses.
This year's seminar will deepen participants' understanding of the
Holocaust through
the perspective of gender. The seminar will explore and compare the points of
convergence and divergence between male and female experiences in a
variety of
circumstances, including early persecution, refugee life, concentration
camp life,
life in hiding, separation and reunion of families, and survival in the
postwar era.
Through an interdisciplinary lens that combines historical, literary,
archival, and
visual sources, participants will also analyze the experiences of gays and
lesbians;
how gendered perspective is reflected in Holocaust diaries, memoirs, and
art; the
gendered experiences of perpetrators and their postwar representation; and
other
topics. Participants also will have the opportunity to consult and
interact with
Museum staff and visiting fellows, as well as access the Museum's
extensive archival
and library collections.
The seminar will be co-led by two leaders in the field: Atina Grossmann,
Professor
of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union
for the
Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York, and Dorota Glowacka,
Professor
of Humanities and Director of the Contemporary Studies Programme,
University of
King's College, Halifax, Canada.
For more information, please visit our website:
http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/seminars/announcement.php?content=silberman&year=2012.
Reminder: Call for Applications
2012 ANNUAL SEMINAR FOR SEMINARY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES FACULTY
Understanding Complicity: The Churches' Role in Nazi Germany
JUNE 18–22, 2012
Applications due March 1, 2012
The Museum's Committee on Church Relations and the Holocaust (CRC) invites
applications for its annual faculty seminar. Applications from professors
from all
disciplines will be considered, but the seminar is designed particularly for
professors of theology, ethics, and religious studies at theological
schools and
other institutions of advanced education.
This seminar will explore the historical and theological dynamics of the
complicity
of churches in Nazi Germany. How widespread was complicity in the German
churches
during the Nazi era? What were the causes? What was the role of the
leadership of
the churches? There will be discussion of how the reactions of the German
churches
to Nazism paralleled or differed from those of churches outside Nazi
Germany; what
influence historical complicity had on postwar discussions in Germany
about guilt
and responsibility; and how this issue has been addressed in the general
historiography of the Holocaust.
The seminar will be taught by two authorities in the field: Robert Ericksen,
Professor of History and Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies at Pacific
Lutheran
University, and Victoria Barnett, Staff Director, CRC.
For more information, please visit our website:
http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/seminars/announcement.php?content=religion&year=2012.
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