Appel à communication Workshop History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Workshop History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
12-16 novembre 2008
Sachsenhausen (Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen/Ravensbrück Memorial Museum/Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung-Berlin)
The Call for Papers is addressed to advanced graduate and PhD students who work on the history of the Nazi concentration camps and their memory. We explicitly invite applications by international students for presentation of
their research. The workshop’s languages are German and English.
By focussing on the notions of continuity and discontinuity, this year’s workshop seeks to explore the development and structure of the Nazi concentration camps, and the changing memory of these places of terror. We want to evaluate existing periodisations, think historical events in terms of dynamic processes, and engage critically with previous interpretations of historical context and development. Our overall goal is to bring together the results of specialised and empirical studies, and consider how syntheses with broader analytical application might be achieved.
The planned conference stands in the tradition of the annual “Workshops on the History of the Nazi Concentration Camps”, first held in 1994. Participants themselves are responsible in annual rotation for the organisation of these workshops. By now an internationally-established forum, the workshop gives young scholars the valuable opportunity to present and discuss their work with an informed community of peers in a critical but supportive environment. Whereas the workshops of the past years have focussed on the memory and post-war history of the concentration camp sites, this year’s conference will concentrate more on the period of National Socialism itself.
Proposals for papers should relate to at least one of the workshop’s key themes:
(1) The development, structure and changing functions of the concentration camp system over the 12-year period of the Third Reich.
(2) The experiences, motives and modes of behaviour displayed by the camps’ signature actor groups: perpetrators, persecuted and bystanders.
(3) The various forms of collective reception and interpretation of the criminality perpetrated in the camps.
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