JANUARY 3-8, 2014
Applications due October 21, 2013

The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies announces the 2014 Jack and
Anita Hess Faculty Seminar. This year’s Hess Seminar is designed for
professors who are teaching or preparing to teach English, Jewish
studies, modern languages, literature, or other courses that have a
Holocaust-related literature component. Sessions will focus on
imaginative responses to the Holocaust created by a variety of
writers, from those writing during the Holocaust to survivors to
second generation authors to those without an explicit family
connection to this event. Continue reading →

The inaugural cross-institutional and inter-disciplinary conference convened by Deakin University and the Jewish Holocaust Centre, to be held in Melbourne, Australia.
Dates: 6-8 July, 2014
Venues: Deakin University and the Jewish Holocaust Centre

The proliferation of depictions of the Holocaust and other traumatic events in popular culture and elsewhere demands continued attention to the means by which complex human experiences are communicated to and negotiated by contemporary audiences. From Anne Rothe’s Popular Trauma Culture to Alvin H. Rosenfeld’s The End of the Holocaust, recent scholarship has engaged with the ethics of different representational strategies—strategies that become progressively diverse with expanding technological innovations. Yet many questions remain unanswered. This conference aims to expose and explore key issues relating to the Holocaust, genocide and mass trauma, contributing to ongoing debates over historical and cultural representation. Continue reading →

Call for Papers Due Date: 2013-08-25

Seeking essays for an edited collection on global lynching and collective violence (e.g., communal rioting, vigilantism), either historical in focus or contemporary in focus with some historical context. Especially interested in essays on Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Near or Middle East. Please submit a 500 word essay abstract and short bio or cv by August 25, 2013. Essays will be due by September 1, 2014 with prospective publication of the volume in 2015.

Prof. Michael J. Pfeifer
Dept. of History
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York
524 W. 59th St.
New York, NY 10019
Email: mpfeifer@jjay.cuny.edu

The Utrecht School of Law will be appointing three PhD researchers to engage in research on the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction to protect global values in the environmental and socio-economic field. The project examines whether the traditional international legal framework of jurisdiction (which emphasizes territorial or personal links to the regulating entity) can accommodate recent regulatory developments in the field of extraterritorial jurisdiction, or whether, instead, a novel ‘global values’-based principle of jurisdiction is crystallizing. The project will study regulation in respect of three topics:

1. climate change,
2. protection of marine resources, and
3. foreign corrupt practices.

For more info, click on the links above. The project is funded by the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and is headed by my excellent colleague, Dr. Cedric Ryngaert.