The Center holds lectures for the benefit of visiting and local scholars, faculty members from the Washington area, Museum staff, and the public about the latest research in the field of Holocaust studies.
On April 7, the Center has invited three scholars to lecture on Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe. For more information, please click here. The Center is also co-organizing a conference with Topography of Terror Foundation, which will examine the legacy of the Eichmann trial 50 years. The conference will take place in Berlin, and begins May 24. For more information, please click here. Please consult the Center’s Calendar for information on other upcoming scholarly presentations.
To date, the Center has organized or co-organized the following presentations:
An evening with Anthony Julius
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Bearing Witness: Memory, Representation, and Pedagogy in the Post-Holocaust Age
Interdisciplinary conference
April 11–13, 2010
Co-organized by Shenandoah University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.
Operation 1005: Nazi Attempts to Erase the Evidence of Mass Murder in Eastern and Central Europe, 1942–1944
International conference
June 15-16, 2009
Soviet Jewish Soldiers, Jewish Resistance, and Jews in the USSR during the Holocaust
International workshop and conference
November 16-17, 2008
Roundtable
Monday, December 10, 2007
The Holocaust in Ukraine: New Resources and Perspectives
Conference
October 1-3, 2007
This conference was jointly organized by the Shoah Memorial, Paris; the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.; Yahad-In Unum: Catholics and Jews Together, Paris; and the Center for Central Europe History of the University Paris IV-Sorbonne.
Learn more about the Museum’s relationship with Yahad-In Unum and Father Patrick Desbois.
Learn more about Father Desbois’ forthcoming book,
The Holocaust by Bullets.
Conference
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Panel presentation
Thursday, December 18, 2003
PART 1: German Churches, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust
PART 2: How Deep are the Roots? Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Now
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Panel presentation
Tuesday, August 14, 2001
Excerpt — “Men should be soldiers. Women should be mothers. This call to duty was often combined with the glorification of physical self-sacrifice, so people who were unable to perform military service, to die on the battlefield for Germany, might convince themselves that being sterilized was a patriotic thing to do. Certainly some disabled Nazis, including deaf people, used this argument. The image of disabled people calling on other disabled people to sacrifice themselves for the good of the nation is a good illustration of the two-faced nature of the Nazi system. It held out the utopian promise of a society free of crime and deviance, in which everybody was guaranteed good health, productive work, and a secure family life. And this was a promise that people wanted to believe, but in practice the system treated people as infinitely deployable and dispensable as objects.”
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Lecture
Sunday, March 15, 1998
Excerpt — “...One must be aware of what happened. The person I have the privilege of introducing to you has the distinction of bringing to light a crime that occurred not in Europe, but on the other side of the globe, in China, in 1937, several years before the outbreak of war in Europe, and before the full fury of the Holocaust was unleashed by the Nazis. She has made millions of people aware of a crime that claimed some 300,000 civilian victims in a period of weeks. She has presented us with a subject that will now be subjected to further research...to achieve a better understanding of that tragedy, out of respect for its victims and in the hope of preventing repetitions.”
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The Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Chair of Holocaust Studies Inaugural Lecture
The Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Chair of Holocaust Studies at New York University was established in 1999 through the generosity of Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The individual selected to hold this endowed chair is a distinguished scholar who has done substantial research into elements of the Holocaust and is recognized in the academic community as a prominent teacher and researcher in the field of Holocaust studies. The first and current holder of the Greenberg Chair is David Engel, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, and Member, Academic Committee, United States Holocaust Memorial Council. His Inaugural Lecture is available below.
“On Studying Jewish History in Light of the Holocaust”
Lecture
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
