Past Events Archive

Members of the Centre advise and collaborate with Yad Vashem, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Imperial War Museum, the Wiener Library, The English Subject Centre and other universities.

We also run our own events.  These include our annual lecture, hosting academic guests as well as our workshop series. These include:

Workshops

The Research Centre runs three one-day workshops a year, at which leaders in the field, including members of the Centre, as well as graduate students present their research. Recent workshops have been on

2007-8 (at the Imperial War Musuem)
Colonialism and Genocide.
Gender and the Holocaust
The Work of Raymond Federman (supported by Two Ravens Press)

2006-7 (at the Imperial War Musuem)
Children and the Holocaust
Life in the Nazi Ghettos
Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust

2005-6 (at the Weiner Library)
The Holocaust and comparative genocide (London)
 Holocaust Poetry (London)
The Holocaust and Photography (London)

2004-5 (at the Weiner Library)
British Responses to Nazism 1933-39
Holocaust Film: Recent Work
Holocaust Perpetrators and Victims: Recent Research

2003-4 (at the Weiner Library)
Post-Holocaust Philosophy
Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust
Recent Holocaust Literature

Annual lectures

The Centre funds an annual lecture, delivered by a distinguished scholar in the field of Holocaust Studies. The Centre has attracted major international figures, and speakers have included:

• Professor Jeffery Herf (University of Maryland) gave a lecture entitled ‘The Jewish Enemy’
• Kitty Hart-Moxon (Honorary Fellow, Royal Holloway) gave a lecture entitled The Holocaust: A Survivor's Perspective
• Michael Marrus (University of Toronto) spoke on Custody: The Vatican and Jewish Children after the Holocaust
• Robert Jan van Pelt (Professor of Architecture, University of Waterloo, Ontario) spoke on The Architecture of Auschwitz
• Ulrich Herbert (University of Freiburg) spoke on Forced Labour in Nazi Germany
• Reinhard Rürup (Professor of History at the TU Berlin and Director of the memorial centre Topographie des Terrors) spoke on History, Politics and the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
• Saul Friedländer (University of California, Los Angeles) gave the 2001 annual Hayes Robinson Lecture on Facing the Holocaust: The Responsibility of the Historian
• Geoffrey Hartman (Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University) spoke on Holocaust and Hope
• Dina Porat (Professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and Director of the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism) gave a lecture entitled Is there a Tomorrow without Yesterday? Jewish History between Zionism and Diaspora

Academic Guests

This scheme brings eminent scholars to Royal Holloway, some of whom also run one-off seminars for MA and PhD students. The first visitor under the scheme was Professor Reinhard Rürup from Berlin, who talked on ‘Topographie des Terrors’. In 2000 there was a visit from Professor Michael Brenner (Munich), a leading expert on the history of German Jewry, and Professor Harald Welzer (Hanover), a social psychologist specialising in the memory of the Nazi period in the German population. Other lecturers have included Professor Robert Jan van Pelt (Waterloo, Canada) and Dr Margit Szöllösi-Janze (Munich).