Events
The Holocaust Research Centre is involved with a number of major events in 2008-9.
These include:
The Holocaust Research Centre and The Postcolonial Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London ran two joint seminars on the work of Hannah Arendt, on 22nd October and 19 November. We then ran a one-day workshop on held on Friday 5th December 2008 entitled Empire and genocide: the work of Hannah Arendt
The speakers were:
- Stephen Morton on ‘Arendt and Colonial States of Emergency in Israel/ Palestine’
- Richard King on ‘Arendt, Haiti and anti-colonial revolution’
- Simon Swift on ‘Arendt, violence and vitality’
Full online recording available here:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/archive/empire-and-genocide-the-work-of-hannah-arendt/
27th -29th January 2009, Berlin
“Perpetrator Research in a Global Context”
With the German government’s Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (Agency for political education) this will be a very major international conference, opened by Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Principal and Chair of Council are scheduled to attend. All members of the Centre will be giving papers or chairing panels.
17th March 2009, Royal Holloway
Annual Lecture: Professor Sue Vice
False Testimony
In this talk, Sue Vice will explore the phenomenon of false Holocaust testimony and ask two questions: first, whether these inventions are part of a wider phenomenon of invented victimhood; second, if false testimony about the Holocaust is different from other kinds of imposture, and is a form of representation which is only to be expected as the Holocaust stops being an event within living memory.
Professor Sue Vice is the UK’s leading expert on Holocaust Literature, and is the author of, among others, Holocaust Fiction and Children Writing the Holocaust. She has also published widely on contemporary literature, theory, film and television.
We are also expanding and developing our series of three annual one-day workshops to draw in and build a University of London research community while promoting the work of the Centre through the University.