CFP: Anti-Semitic Legislation in Slovakia and in Europe
The Nation's Memory Institute; The Department of General History of Faculty of Philosophy and the Department of Legal History of Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava 08.09.2011-09.09.2011, Bratislava
Deadline: 15.04.2011
This event will take place on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of accepting the so-called Jewish Code (Order no. 198/1941 of the Slovak
Code) about the legal status of Jews. The aim of this conference is to present results of the research in the field of anti-Jewish legislation and to define its role in the process of persecution and liquidation of the Jewish community. This conference should clarify usage of existing legal norms for persecution of the Jewish population, creation of new anti-Jewish legislation, and it should also point out to the mutual relation of anti-Jewish legislation, discrimination, and Jewish community liquidation during 1930s and 1940s. The conference aims to highlight not only the common features of anti-Jewish legislation, but also its particularities in individual countries.
Conference domains:
1. Ideologically-political foundations of anti-Jewish legislative
- Racial, religious and social foundations of anti-Jewish legislation and the role of religious, national, economical, and political anti-Semitism at its origin.
- Definition of legislative authority of individual state institutions in the process of creating the anti-Jewish legislation and its asserting.
2. Infringement of fundamental human rights and freedoms of Jews
- Definition of the term "Jew"; reduction of Jews in the work performance; right to vote deprivation and exclusion from public functions; exclusion of Jewish students and pupils from schools; house searches; gathering prohibition; Jewish citizens´ register and ways of marking, etc.
- This domain should comprise discrimination of Jewish population in all of the fundamental right and freedoms except the property ones and those that were closely connected with the property moving and deportations.
3. Legislation restricting the property rights of Jews
- Aryanization and liquidation of corporate, agricultural, house, moveable, and capital property of Jews.
4. Legislative frame of Jewish population concentration and deportation
- Concentration camps, internment and forced labour centers; Jewish labour duties and deportations.
The aim of this event is to present the newest research results of the anti-Jewish legislation to the lay as well as to expert public.
Therefore we would like to ask potential applicants to respect the content focus of the conference.
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Nám. slobody 6
817 83 Bratislava 15
Contact person:
Martina Fiamová
Tel.: 00421 2 593 00 338