Special Issue of Eastern European Holocaust Studies Deadline for Submissions: November 1st, 2024 Perceptions, Actions and Limitations of Children in the Holocaust. For many children war and persecution meant the end of their childhood in “conventional sense” now and then. About 1,1 million Jewish children lost their lives in the Holocaust.  Approximately 400,000 further underage…

Heritage Narratives of Victimhood and Perpetration in Times of Crisis Edited by Mario Panico and Ihab Saloul (University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory, and Material Culture) For this issue of the Heritage, Memory, and Conflict Journal (HMC), we invite contributions that explore how heritage and memory narratives construct individual/collective categories of victimhood and perpetration in times of…

Special Issue: Researching Perpetrators, Revisited. Edited by Erin Jessee and Kjell Anderson. This special issue, edited by Erin Jessee and Kjell Anderson, continues the critical conversation on methods and ethics in perpetrator research initiated in their 2020 edited volume Researching Perpetrators of Genocide (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020). The contributions to the special issue present…

La revue de l’histoire de la Shoah is planning an issue focused on Gender and the Holocaust. The leading French-language journal on the Holocaust, La Revue is published quarterly by la Mémorial de la Shoah. (https://www.cairn.info/revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah.htm). For this issue, La Revue is pleased to cooperate with Eastern European Holocaust Studies. This special issue will explore…

Congratulations to Antonius Robben and Alexander L. Hinton, who have received the prestigious 2023 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title from the American Library Association for their book Perpetrators: Encountering Humanity’s Dark Side (2023, Stanford University Press). Based on in-depth interviews with Argentine and Cambodian perpetrators of disappearances and genocide, the book offers scholars crucial…

Date: 4-5 October 2024 Location: Monasterium Poortackerey, Gent, Belgium Keynote speakers: Mihaela Mihai (The University of Edinburgh) Ivan Stacey (Beijing Normal University) The global impact of World War II has been profound and enduring. Narrated across the globe in a myriad of ways — as a just struggle by democracies against oppressive forces, as a testament to…

Terribly and Terrifyingly normal? A podcast series on the perpetrators of mass atrocities by Nicola Quaedvlieg and Alette Smeulers. The attacks on 9/11, the invasion in Ukraine, the rise of the Islamic State, the genocides in Srebrenica, Rwanda, Cambodia and Nazi Germany are all incredible acts of human cruelty. They make us wonder: who are…

On March 23, 2023, we discussed Hikmet Karčić’s monograph Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System (University of Michigan Press, 2022). Torture, Humiliate, Kill is a thorough and definitive resource for understanding the function and operation of camps during the Bosnian genocide. The discussants were Jessie Barton Hronešová (University of North Carolina, Chapel…

On 9 February we launched The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes (Oxford UP, 2022), edited by Barbora Holá, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, and Maartje Weerdesteijn. The handbook brings together research from across the social sciences and humanities to chart and further develop the evolving field of atrocity crimes studies. The launch included presentations by the editors…

Watch the illuminating discussion of Iva Vukušić’s Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia! On 15 December 2022 we launched Iva Vukušić’s Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence (Routledge, 2022). The book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the nature and functions of the Serbian paramilitary units during…