Holocaust Research: International Perspective Conference with USHMM
In July 2019, The Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education hosted a collaborative conference with and the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The conference brought together alumni of the Weiss-Livnat MA Program who presented their research in front of current and former Heideman Fellows from the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. We were honored to have Professor Yehuda Bauer as the keynote speaker.
Joint Seminar and Workshop: National Holocaust Museum in Holland
In May 2019, The Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education was pleased to host a team of representatives from the soon-to-be inaugurated National Holocaust Museum of Holland for an engaging, two-day exchange discussing the challenges and obstacles facing the construction of a contemporary Holocaust Museum in the 21st century. We look forward to our continued collaboration with the NHM through initiatives such as the upcoming academic symposium: Challenges of Holocaust Museums Today.
The Future of Holocaust Memory: A Global Consideration of Holocaust Commemoration Held in the American South.
In September 2019, we were pleased to partner with the University of Richmond, VA, and the Virginia Holocaust Museum to present the conference The Future of Holocaust Memory: A Global Consideration of Holocaust Commemoration Held in the American South. This week-long conference took place on the beautiful University of Richmond campus. It featured 30 international Holocaust scholars from around the world and five Weiss-Livnat alumni currently pursuing PhDs among the participants. Richmond was chosen as the host city for the conference, given its historical significance as the former capital of the confederacy. Workshops throughout the conference aimed to incorporate relevant local sites, such as the American Civil War Museum and the T. Tyler Potterfeild Memorial Bridge, as a means of highlighting the city and region’s traumatic history.
Ben Gurion University – Weiss-Livnat Center Joint Research Seminar
In collaboration with the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Dr. Reuven Hecht Chair in History at the University of Haifa, the Weiss-Livnat Center organized the research seminar, “Views on Israeli Society through Holocaust Plays.” Since the end of World War II, playwrights in Israel have produced works about the Holocaust and its context within Israeli society. Therefore, the play’s texts can be seen as cultural lenses through which Israeli society can be analyzed in relation to the Holocaust themes presented. As part of this conference, a group of researchers engaged in a study of Israeli society and Holocaust plays. The seminar formulated a corpus of Holocaust plays written in Hebrew from the end of World War II to the present day in Israel. Following the workshop, participants were asked to write an academic article about the evolving place the Holocaust holds in Israeli society. All articles will be subject to peer review and published in a special volume entitled “Plays on the Holocaust: A Look at Israeli Society,” edited by Ofer Schiff and David Guedj.