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We change venues today. Rountable discussion this evening at VWI (Wiesenthal Inst. for Holocaust Stuides) to discuss the future of historical dialogue and historical justice.
I’ll speak abt recent example of progress/achievement (esp in US and Europe) and the limits of critical disposition and avoiding discouragement.
Joined by Nanci Adler, Ariella Lang, Klaus Neumann, Baskara Wardaya, and Eva Kovács.
Moderated by Kate McGregor and Steve Winter.
10th Conference of the Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory kicks off today in Vienna 🇦🇹. Thank you to the organizing committee and hosts: The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
CONFERENCE | "Travels Beyond the Holocaust: Memorialization, Musealization, and Representation of Atrocities in Global Dialogue" (25-28 June) in Vienna, AT.
More info and conference program here: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/conferences/travels-beyond-the-holocaust
#histodons #history #humanrights #museums #justice #Holocaust #genocide
Had a few quotes in this Christian Science Monitor piece on #Holocaust #reparations and possibilities for #justice in the aftermath of atrocities. Tried to say something even-handed about the discourse of justice in light of the most recent cycle of violence in #Israel #Palestine, but I imagine others will let me know how depraved I am for seeing the conflict in these terms.
Reminder re: our 10th Network Conference. June 25-28, 2024. Vienna, 🇦🇹.
“Travels Beyond the Holocaust:
Memorialization, Musealization and Representation of Atrocities in Global Dialogue“
#DemocracyNow
"#TheCostOfInheritance": Meet the Descendants of Enslavers and Enslaved Fighting for #Reparations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImRDiNGeCBQ
Grassroots Groups Are Doing Small-Scale #Reparations in Absence of Federal Action
One reparations group in #Portland, #Oregon, is working to redistribute wealth and enable Black residents to own homes.
“Advocates say that in order to turn #reparations from an academic debate into a political reality, they must first close what they call the “hope gap,” the chasm among Black voters who support reparations but believe they are politically unfeasible. According to a WasPo-Ipsos poll conducted last spring, 75 percent of Black Americans said the government should compensate descendants of enslaved people, yet only 14 percent believed it would happen in their lifetimes.”
Some major #justice news from New York to wind down 2023.
https://abc7ny.com/amp/gov-hochul-reparations-ny-legislation/14202065/
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
Program coordinator, Memory Program, Humanitarian Law Center (Belgrade, Serbia).
“One can tell a great deal about a country by what it chooses to remember: by what graces the walls of its museums, by what monuments are venerated, and by what parts of its history are embraced. One can tell even more by what a nation chooses to forget.”
—Lonnie G. Bunch III, on working w the papers of the Freedmen’s Bureau
The Remorseful War Criminal: How a Bosnian Convict’s Apologies Were Ignored | Balkan Insight
Laura Martin, returning to Edinburgh, to launch her book on transitional justice in Sierra Leone among friends.
The research was done during PhD studies here, with Gerhard Anders and me supervising.
Simeon Koroma was a great discussant, able to inject his own experience and insight to enrich the session.
Pls boost and circulate widely. 🙏
HISTORICAL DIALOGUES NETWORK CONFERENCE, Vienna 🇦🇹 (June 25-28, 2024):
"Travels Beyond the Holocaust: Memorialization, Musealization, and Representation of Atrocities in Global Dialogue."
CFP (due Dec 1):
#HistoricalJustice #HistoricalCommissions #Holocaust
"The Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust: historical evidence, implications for today, teaching for tomorrow"
https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/medicine-and-the-holocaust
Pls boost and circulate widely. 🙏
HISTORICAL DIALOGUES NETWORK CONFERENCE, Vienna 🇦🇹 (June 25-28, 2024):
"Travels Beyond the Holocaust: Memorialization, Musealization, and Representation of Atrocities in Global Dialogue."
CFP (due Dec 1):
@histodons @historikerinnen
@AHAHistorians
Pls boost and circulate widely. 🙏
HISTORICAL DIALOGUES NETWORK CONFERENCE, Vienna 🇦🇹 (June 25-28, 2024):
"Travels Beyond the Holocaust: Memorialization, Musealization, and Representation of Atrocities in Global Dialogue."
CFP (due Dec 1):
Today is the 85th anniversary of the #Kristallnacht pogroms.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht
@histodons @historikerinnen
@AHAHistorians
Pls boost and circulate widely. 🙏
HISTORICAL DIALOGUES NETWORK CONFERENCE, Vienna 🇦🇹 (June 25-28, 2024):
"Travels Beyond the Holocaust: Memorialization, Musealization, and Representation of Atrocities in Global Dialogue."
CFP (due Dec 1):
CONFERENCE | European Observatory on Memory (EUROM): "The Memories of European Roma and Sinti." 21 November. Barcelona, Spain. Details and registration:
https://europeanmemories.net/activities/subaltern-memories-2023/
