von Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2024 -  08:00
bis Freitag, 14. Februar 2025 - 23:59

Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary

June 26– July 4, 2025

This 8-day, intensive summer course will investigate the genealogy of the era of the witness, focusing on the emergence of Holocaust testimony as the model for eyewitness documentation of 20th and 21st century atrocities, and its impact on efforts to record and represent subsequent human rights abuses and acts of mass violence.

The course will feature a series of workshops, seminars, public lectures, and film screenings. The goal of the course is to bring together leading scholars of testimony and oral history, who engage in highly interdisciplinary approaches to documenting, studying, and interpreting the Holocaust and other genocides and mass atrocities through the lens of first-person accounts.

Participants will explore the vast genre of Holocaust testimony through readings, lectures, and hands-on work with a variety of primary sources. The course interrogates testimonies from historical, legal and moral perspectives, raising theoretical and methodological questions about the "afterlife" of these sources, which are highly relevant for a wide variety of scholarly fields, including History, Jewish Studies, Nationalism Studies, Genocide Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Cultural and Literary Studies, Memory Studies and Legal Studies.

For further academic information on the course and on eligibility criteria and funding options please visit the website at: https://summeruniversity.ceu.edu/2025-holocaust

Financial aid is available, in limited numbers.

Latest news and updates: https://www.facebook.com/ceu.summer

Directors

Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies)
Michael Miller (Nationalism Program, Central European University)
Stephen Naron (Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale, University)

Faculty

Laura Jockusch (Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis)
Samuel Kassow (Trinity College, Hartford)

Guest speakers

Zsuzsi Flohr (Institute of Fine Arts and Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
Diana Groó (Film Director and Screenwriter, Budapest)
Angéla Kóczé (Romani Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest / Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Vienna)
Dániel Véri (Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) / Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)

Co-funded by the Open Society Foundations and the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies/Yale University.

In cooperation with CEU Jewish Studies Program, CEU Nationalism Studies Program and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.