Collaboration in Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust
December 5–7, 2013
Vienna, Austria
Deutsch
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies invite applications for an interdisciplinary conference on complicity and collaboration in World War II and the Holocaust in the eastern part of Europe. The conference will be held December 5–7, 2013, in Vienna.
This conference will bring together scholars from all disciplines working on complicity and collaboration in a number of Eastern European countries to share their research with each other and the public. The conference will consist of two and a half days of presentations and roundtable discussions open to the public and a half day of workshop sessions.
The conference seeks to highlight new research on the complexity and dynamics of complicity and collaboration in such areas as mass killing and other atrocities; forced and slave labor; everyday life on the front and under occupation; plunder, robbery, and expropriation; the radicalization of local politics during Nazi occupation; and understudied victims.
Applicants interested in presenting a paper should be currently researching or completing projects exploring the topics and issues listed above, broadly understood. Proposals on new, previously unpublished research are welcome from scholars in all relevant academic disciplines, including doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy. Successful applicants will be required to submit a copy of their presentation in advance of the conference for circulation among commentators, other panelists, and conference participants.
The conference will be conducted in English and German.
To propose a paper for this conference, please submit:
Send these items in a PDF file to Éva Kovács and Béla Rásky at cfp@vwi.ac.at. Your submission must include your name, mailing address, and e-mail address.
The deadline for receipt of proposals is June 2, 2013. Participants will be selected and notified in June.
Conference organizers will provide lodging for the duration of the conference and a stipend to partially defray transportation costs for conference participants. Any necessary visas will be the responsibility of the conference participant. The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute can provide invitation letters for the purpose of visa applications.
A limited number of junior scholar stipends will also be available to partially defray costs for graduate students and junior scholars from post-communist countries to attend the conference.
Applicants must be advanced graduate students, or recent PhD recipients no more than three years beyond conferral of their degree, and must reside in one of the countries in the regions covered by this call for papers. Scholars enrolled in graduate programs or teaching at universities outside of these countries are not eligible for junior scholar travel stipends. Please note that these awards are not for panelists presenting papers but for junior scholars who wish to attend the conference as part of the audience.
To apply for a junior scholar travel stipend, please submit:
Statements of interest and CVs must be in English; the supporting letter may be in either English or one of the languages of your country. Please send these items to Krista Hegburg, PhD, Program Officer, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, at khegburg@ushmm.org.
The deadline for receipt of application is June 15, 2013. Participants will be notified in July 2013.
