Prof. Christian Wiese, Goethe-University Frankfurt/University of Sussex, and Prof. Andreas Gestrich, German Historical Institute, London, London 08.12.2010, German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ
The workshop, co-organised by Prof. Christian Wiese, Goethe-University Frankfurt/University of Sussex, and Prof. Andreas Gestrich, German Historical Institute, London, will be devoted to topics addressed in the recent publication Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination: Saul Friedlaender and the Future of Holocaust Studies, ed. by Christian Wiese and Paul Betts (Continuum 2010). The speakers, Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Hamburg), Prof. David Cesarani and Prof. Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway), Prof. Donald Bloxham (Edinburgh) and Prof.
Richard King (Nottingham) will discuss questions such as the relationship between Holocaust Studies and Genocide Studies, the role of testimony, the question of gender and Holocaust Studies, the relationship between perpetrator history and victim history as well as the relationship between Holocaust Studies and cultural studies.
Link to Continuum Press:
http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=133940&SearchType=Bas
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