United Kingdom
Call for Papers: Materiality and Precarity: Preserving Holocaust Memorial Sites
We are delighted to announce a upcoming postgraduate conference at the University of Cambridge, in partnership with DAAD Cambridge, for graduate and early career researchers to share emerging research on challenges to preserving Holocaust sites.
The conference will take place in Cambridge on June 25-26, 2025; paper proposals are due on March 31, 2025.
We welcome proposals on topics included – but not limited to – the following:
- Evolving interpretations of ‘Authenticity’
- Climate Change and Memorial Sites; impact, planning, prevention
- Memorialisation
- Holocaust tourism
- Sources of “wear and tear” to physical objects, buildings, and landscapes at Holocaust sites
- Representing place in cultural and popular media
- The role of ‘virtual space’ and digital media
- Political controversies about management of memorial sites
- Contemporary comparisons between climate change and Nazi genocide
- Contemporary and historical conflicts over space at sites (national, religious)
Applicants are invited to submit a paper title, short bio (150 words) and abstract (300 words) to Beatrice Leeming (University of Cambridge) rl699@cam.ac.uk and Jonathan Marrow (University of Cambridge) jm2521@cam.ac.uk
Applications close on 31 March, 2025. There will be funding to support travel costs and accommodation.
Contact Information
Jonathan Marrow (University of Cambridge) jm2521@cam.ac.uk and Beatrice Leeming (University of Cambridge) rl699@cam.ac.uk
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