- December 2001 Conferences Call for Papers Lectures Vacancies and Bursaries/Grants/Scholarships New Websites Useful Links
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- Conferences
Reminder for November: "Ibuka", the coalition of the Rwandese associations of genocide survivors in collaboration with the "Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and Their Children"
Life After Death. Rebuilding Genocide Survivors´ Lives: Challenges and Opportunities
An International Conference of Survivors
25.-30.11.2001, Kigali, Rwanda (postponed from May to November 2001)
- Purpose of the conference
The conference is intended to bring Holocaust survivors, Armenians, Cambodians, Gypsies, or their children, and other genocide survivors together with Rwandan survivors in order to share their experiences, commemorate the victims, seek ways to improve the lives of survivors after the genocide, and coordinate their efforts to help ensure that there will be no such crimes against humanity in the future.
Specific objectives
Sharing among the survivors´ groups experiences of genocide and of coping with post genocide life. Commemorating the genocide victims. Peace building among different communities in Rwanda. Exploring effective ways to meet the survivors´ entitlements to reparations, including restitution, compensation and rehabilitation. Preventing genocide from happening again and rebuilding genocide-torn societies to prevent the perpetuation of life-long and multigenerational effects
Anticipated results
The continuing consequences of the Tutsi genocide will be globally publicized to ensure that appropriate programs for survivors are undertaken. Rwandans will have learned how other people live in the aftermath of genocide and will use these lessons to take initiatives to overcome the consequences of their own genocide. Having clarified the living conditions of survivors in post-genocide society, solutions will be proposed. Strategies will be formulated to mobilize people to address the issues of the welfare of survivors, justice, and the collective memory of genocide victims.
Hopefully, a worldwide network of victim/survivors of genocide will be founded.
For further informations please contact the international organizing committee, represented by Yael Danieli, director of the "Group Project of Holocaust Survivors and Their Children", 345 East 80th Street, # 31-J, New York, NY 10021, USA
Email yaeld@aol.com
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Reminder for November: Association Française de Science Politique (AFSP)
Extreme Violence [in French and English]
29.-30.11.2001, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Salles François Goguel, 56, rue des Saints-Pères, Paris 7
- A Colloquium directed by Jacques Sémelin (CADIS/EHESS-CNRS), Nathalie Duclos (Rennes II) and Isabelle Sommier (Paris I, CRPS)
Since 1998, the interdisciplinary seminar on "Violence and Conflict" organised by Jaques Sémelin at the Maison des Sciences de l´Homme (Paris) aimed at reviving the study of violence in three perspectives: violence and politics, the representations of violence and the emergence from violence. This seminar gave a rise to a series of twenty-one communications by researchers, lecturers and doctoral students over twelve sessions. Looking back over those two years of the seminar´s running, it appears that one main idea constituted the thread linking the great majority of papers and ensuing discussions: that of "extreme violence", being understood as the violence of terrorism, civil war and various forms of mass crime (ethnic cleansing, genocide, etc.).
The experience of these two years has led us to propose the holding of a colloquium on this theme. The colloquium is to take place in Paris under the auspices of the Association Française de Science Politique (AFSP - French Association of Political Scienc), on the 29th and 30th of November 2001. Two main questions will be examined:
- the relevance of the notion of "extreme violence"
- the researcher´s position vis-à-vis the object of that research.
What may be termed "extreme violence"?
The primary aim of the colloquium is to question the conceptual validity of the notion. By "extreme violence" one does not refer generally to the violence of a political system that may, for example, be qualified "totalitarian", following the terms proposed by Hannah Arendt. The notion of "extreme violence" rather tends to stand for a specific form of action, a particular social phenomenon that seems to be situated "beyond violence". The qualification "extreme", coming before the substantive, refers precisely to an excess and, thus, to a limitless radicality of violence. Following this, does the notion of "extreme violence" rather imply:
- a qualitative phenomenon, including those atrocities that may be associated to the act of violence
- a quantitative phenomenon, that is the mass destruction of civilian populations not directly involved in the conflict?
Above what threshold is one inclined to speak of "extreme violence"? Whatever the excess of violence may be, it is considered the prototypical expression of the negation of all humanity, its victims often being "animalised" or "depersonified" before elimination. Putting aside moral judgement, it is important to examine the political, economic and cultural circumstances that participate in producing such collective behaviour.
In fact, the notion of "extreme violence" brings us to question once more the relationship between the rationality and the irrationality of political action. Since Clausewitz, war has principally been analysed as a rational enterprise in which the State has engaged with a precise political objective in mind. However, according to certain authors [for example, Martin Van Creveldt, La transformation de la guerre, translation. Paris: Editions du Rocher, 1998], the contemporary tendency towards the "barbarisation" of conflict puts this classical conception of war into question. Such an evolution is perceived to be one of the consequences of a post-bipolar world in which precisely those barbarians intermingle with the bourgeois [Pierre Hassner, La violence et la paix. Paris: Seuil, coll. Points Politique, 2000] and where the traditional allegiances of individuals to States being supposed to act rationally, has been generally put into question [Bertrand Badie et Marie-Claude Smouts, Le retournement du monde. Sociologie de la scène internationale. Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques/Dalloz, 1992].
Whatever that may be, should one consider, following the sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky, that extreme violence has no other aim but itself in that it is deprived of all strategic functionality [Wolfgang Sofsky, L´organisation de la terreur. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1995, particularly Chapter 20, "Extreme Violence"]? Or is it possible to give such practices one or several "meanings" that may remain - despite appearances - endowed with certain forms of political or economic rationality [See the dossier "Les rationalités de la violence extrême" coordinated by Jaques Sémelin in Critique Internationale, no.6, pp. 122-175]?
A subject like any other?
A second level of questioning concerns the very position of the researcher in relation to such a research object. The proximity of the subject to death provokes very different reactions that may range from legitimate repulsion to ambiguous fascination. It is difficul for the researcher to place him or herself at a distance and claim "scientific neutrality". The theme of extreme violence poses the problem of the researcher´s relationship to values. Is is possible to separate ethical judgement from scientific study? From this perspective, what critical approach could be taken, for example, to the work of Max Weber or Carl Schmitt?
In fact, that which we today term "extreme violence" refers to phenomena which have essentially always been present in war. Then, would it not be our approach as contemporaries that should be examined in the first place? Do we not have a tendency to call "extreme", violent behaviours that may not have been qualified as such in the past? Would this not confirm the theses of Norbert Elias?
In other words, violence which appears to be unacceptable to our western modernity related to a universal conception of "humanity" is defined as "extreme". Here again arises this questioning of the cultural and historical representations of violence that was a constant concern of our seminar.
To sum up, it is necessary to question the capacity of political science to analyse such phenomena. Our discipline has made the study of violence one of its most important objects of research, reflected in France by a congress of the AFSP held at the beginning of the 1990s [Philippe Braud (ed.), La violence politique dans les démocraties européennes occidentales. Paris: L´Harmattan, 1993]. Therefore, to what degree are the tools and concepts already employed for the analysis of political violence in general sufficient for understanding "extreme violence" in particular? Would it not be useful fo benefit from the contribution of other disciplines, such as political anthropology or social psychiatry, in the interpretation of certain paths to acts of monstrosity and the analysis of the long-term effects of the trauma suffered by victims? Is a multi-disciplinary approach not necessary in order to analyse the political processes that follow events of massacre? Such was the intuition of the seminar and it was largely validated by our discussins which we wish to go into further in the course of the proposed colloquium.
November 2000
Jacques Sémelin (CADIS/EHESS-CNRS), Nathalie Duclos (Rennes II) and Isabelle Sommier (Paris I, CRPS)
Monsieur Jacques Sémelin
Centre d´analyse et d´intervention sociologiques (CADIS), Paris, France
Tel: + 33 1 49 54 24 27
For further informations, the detailed program and texts for downloads please visit the conference website
URL http://www.afsp.msh-paris.fr/activite/violences.html
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Yale Genocide Studies Program, Fall 2001 Sawyer Seminar Series
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
Symposium on Ethnic Cleansing on the Frontiers of Europe and America
co-sponsored with the Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders
30.11.-01.12.2001, 101 Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Yale University
- On Friday and Saturday, November 30 and December 1, the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University will hold its second annual symposium on the topic "Ethnic Cleansing on the Frontiers of Europe and America." The symposium was originally scheduled for September 14-15.
We are delighted that all the original participants have graciously rearranged their schedules to be able to join us for this event. It is co-sponsored with the Genocide Studies Program at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
Jay Gitlin and John Mack Faragher for the Lamar Center
Friday, November 30, 5:15 pm
- Professor Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University, author, "The Fires of Hatred"
- Professor John Mack Faragher, Yale University
Saturday, December 1, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Carl Brasseaux, University of Southwestern Louisiana, author "The Founding of Ne Acadia"
- Paul Kennedy, Yale University, author, "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"
- Ben Kiernan, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University, author," The Pol Pot Regime"
- Jeremy Mumford, Yale Ph.D candidate, focusing on forced resettlements in Spanish Peru
- Robert Remini, University of Illinois, author, "Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars"
- Timothy Snyder, Yale University, author of the forthcoming "The Reconstruction of Nations:
Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, 1569-1999" and numerous articles on the mutual
Ukranian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s.
Moderator: Professor Jennifer Baszile, Yale University
For Symposium details please see
URL http://www.yale.edu/gsp/fall01/symposiumdetails.html
Contact the Genocide Studies Program:
Barbara Papacoda
P.O. Box 208206, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520-8206, USA
Email Barbara.Papacoda@yale.edu
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Penn Council for Relationships, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work
Transcending Trauma Conference. A Multidisciplinary Conference on Life After the Holocaust
02.12.2001, Pennsylvania
- Exploring how we cope, adapt and rebuild after traumatic life expe ...
For further details please visit the Penn Council's website.
Email isserman@astro.temple.edu
URL http://www.pcfr.org
[Source: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=128850 ]
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International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) - 17th Annual Meeting
Reaching Underserved Trauma Survivors Through Community-Based Programs
06.-09.12.2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Community-based programs targeting underserved trauma populations will be highlighted in the theme of the 2001 meeting. Underserved trauma survivors are those who do not receive adequate or appropriate services due to limited financial resources, limited service availability, language or other cultural barriers, discrimination or social exclusion, geographical barriers, or lack of awareness of available services. Community-based programs address trauma survivors' physical survival, general health, mental health, economic, and social needs in the places where they live and work.
Community-based programs deliver trauma-related prevention and intervention efforts in schools, in health-care and social service settings, in courts, in neighborhoods, in religious settings, in villages, and in people's homes. These activities are provided by emergency service and rescue workers, health and mental health professionals, law enforcement officers and legal professionals, teachers, advocacy organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), clergy, the media, and volunteers.
The current epidemic of trauma on every continent demands a better understanding of those community-based trauma interventions that are most effective for preventing and ameliorating the impact of traumatic exposure among large groups of survivors. How best to deliver these services, given the context of myriad obstacles that typically confront both trauma survivors and those who attempt to serve them, are important issues that need to be addressed. Such knowledge necessarily comes from collaborations between community-based service providers, researchers, advocates, policymakers, and trauma survivors themselves.
The 2001 Annual Meeting of the ISTSS in New Orleans will focus on reaching underserved trauma survivors through community-based programs. A major aim of the meeting is to feature and encourage collaborations at all levels. This effort will further our scientific and applied knowledge toward the goals of preventing and reducing exposure to traumatic experiences and of improving the lives of trauma survivors worldwide.
Response to September 11th
The recent violent and disastrous events in the United States unfolded as this program was going to press. As part of the ISTSS response to these events, the Program Chair and the ISTSS Board are planning a number of additions to the New Orleans meeting. Time will be provided in the program for formal and informal presentations, as well as opportunities for sharing, support and contemplation.
Mary Ann Dutton, PhD, ISTSS 17th Annual Meeting Program Chair
Bonnie L. Green, PhD, ISTSS President
Complete program details available on the web
URL http://www.istss.org/
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The International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP)
South East Asia Regional Conference on Scientific and Applied Psychology
Enhancing Human Potential
17.-20.12.2001, Hotel West End, Mumbai, India
- Pre-conference workshops will be offered in two streams, one on scientific Psychology and the other on Applied Psychology from 12th to 17th December 2001 depending on the proposals and the requisite participants.
The Bombay Psychological Association in collaboration with Department of Applied Psychology, University of Mumbai and Department of Psychology, SNDT Women’s university is honored to host the Southeast Asia Regional conference on Scientific and Applied Psychology: Enhancing Human Potential at Mumbai. We extend a warm welcome to all those who wish to contribute to the deliberations of this conference. Here is an opportunity for the East and the West to meet and exchange views and concerns affecting the human behavior. This would facilitate in drawing common benchmarks as well as to delineate the unique cultural parameters that determine our behavior. The conference would further facilitate in building awareness on national, regional and international issues pertaining to the field of Psychology and especially that of South Asian Region. Eastern philosophy and its way of life has much to offer to the well being of humans, while the west could offer its scientific rigor, precision and objectivity to life. Metropolis of Mumbai is a well-known city for its academic excellence and commerce. Its contribution is comparable to any other major cities of the world. Psychology has made a deep dent in the University Departments and Institutes especially in Mumbai. The Bombay Psychological Association is one of the oldest Associations in India started in 1945 and registered under the Trust in 1956. To this place of historical significance, which is called the ‘Gate Way Of India’, we invite participants with like-minded ideas to meet and share their expertise and rich experience on the subject.
Sub Themes
1. Cross cultural and other issues in Psychology
Indigenization in psychology
Ethnic and cultural diversity
Terrorism and peace
Psychology of religion and prejudices
Multicultural issues
Sports Psychology
2. Globalization and human behavior
IT and media revolution
Organizational restructuring and downsizing
Changing trends in organizational behavioral analysis
Human Resource Management: eastern and Western style
3.Health and community psychology
HIV & AIDS
Psychopharmacology
Psychotherapies in East & West
PTSD and Trauma Management
Child Mental Health
Addiction and Management
Women and Health Issues
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy
4. Futuristic vision of cognitive sciences
Experimental methods in Cognitive Sciences
Assessment and outcome in Cognitive Abilities
Cognitive Neurosciences
Neuropsychological Assessment and Rehabilitation
Cognitive Science vis-à-vis Applied Psychology
5. Gender and parity
Breaking through the glass ceiling
Woman in the unorganized sector
Women, career and family
Legal issues and women’s status
Violence against women
6. Social Research, planning and action
Aging and quality of life
Religion and ethnic prejudices
Class, caste and race
Interpersonal relationship in the changing society
Ecology and its impact on behavior
Further informations are available from the conference committee for the South East Asia Regional Conference on Scientific and Applied Psychology at:
SNDT Women’sUniversity, 1 Nathibai Thackersey Rd., Mumbai 400 020, India
Email bpapsyindia@rediffmail.com
URL http://www.iaapsy.org/Mumbai.htm
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Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library, London
Generations of Genocide
26.-27.01.2002, at a Central London venue (to be specified)
- A chilling aspect of the twentieth-century was the unprecedented loss of life and destruction of communities through genocide. Scholarly research, the development of human rights issues and greater public awareness have contributed to a wider understanding and acknowledgement of the history and effects of the recurring phenomenon of genocide.
On Britain's second National Holocaust Memorial Day, this ground-breaking conference focuses on the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and genocide in the Balkans and Rwanda. Examining the history, processes, implications and responses during and after conflicts, a wide range of perspectives will cover themes including: International Responses; Surveillance and Prevention; Law, Denial and Education; Trauma, Memory and Identity.
Speakers include Dr. Joyce Apsel, Dr. Yair Auron, Helen Bamber OBE, Prof. Dan Bar-On, Prof. Kevork Bardakjian, Dr. David Calonne, Dr. John Ceronne, Dr. Bridget Conley, Prof. Vahakn Dadrian, Dr. Martin Dean, Dr. Louis Flancbaum, Dr. Peter Hall, Prof. Ian Hancock, Prof. Henry Huttenbach, Dr. Avi Kay, Dr. Hilmar Kaiser, Dr. Mark Levene, Prof. Maud Mandel, Dr. Stephan Marks, Dr. Eric Markusen, Linda Melvern, Prof. Manus Midlarsky, Kemal Pervanic, Prof. William Schabas, Prof. Jaques Semelin, Prof. Lorne Shirinian, Dr. Greg Stanton, Dr. Dan Stone, Dr. Jonathan Todres, Prof. Eric Weitz, Inaki Zabala
Confirmed Speakers and Workshop Titles
- Dr. Joyce Apsel, President, International Association of Genocide Scholars; New York University: Teaching about Genocide - Pedagogical and Moral Challenges
- Dr. Yair Auron, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Judaism and Genocide, Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of Education: Attitudes of the Jewish 'Yishuv', the Zionist Movement and the State of Israel Toward the Armenian Genocide
- Helen Bamber OBE, Director, Medical Foundation for the Care for Victims of Torture, UK (Plenary Panel)
- Prof. Dan Bar-On, David Lopatie Chair of Psychological Post-Holocaust Studies, Ben Gurion University, Israel: Title to be confirmed
- Prof. Kevork Bardakjian, Director Armenian Studies Programme, University of Michigan: What do some Turkish sources tell us about the Armenian genocide?
- Dr. David Calonne, Wayne State University, USA: The Armenian Genocide - the Struggle with Trauma in the work of Leonardo Alishan
- Dr. John Ceronne, Executive Director, War Crimes Research Office, Washington: Legal Constraints on the International Community's responses to genocide and other Gross Violations of human Rights, Humanitarian, and International Criminal Law
- Prof. Margaret Cox, Bournemouth University, UK: The Contribution of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology to the Investigation of Genocide?
- Dr. Bridget Conley, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Dateline Omarska - Covering the Camps
- Prof. Vahakn Dadrian, Director Genocide Research Zoryan Institute, USA: The Documentation of the Armenian Genocide in the light of persistent Turkish denials (Keynote Lecture)
- Dr. Martin Dean, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Economic Final Solution: - the Interrelations of Nazi Emigration, Confiscation and Deportation Policies towards the Jews, 1938-43
- Dr. Louis Flancbaum MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons: Physicians and Genocide - From Hippocrates to Hypocracy
- Dr. Peter Hall, Chair, Physicians for Human Rights, UK: Breaking the cycle of genocide - the medical profession's role in defending human rights
- Prof. Ian Hancock, University of Texas, USA: Title to be confirmed (Keynote Lecture)
- Dr. Helen Hintjens, University of Swansea, UK: Generating Counter-Facts - the Propaganda of Denial in Rwanda
- Prof. Henry Huttenbach, City College NY, Editor, Journal of Genocide Research: The Intersection of Identifying Genocide, Diplomatic Denial and International Intervention - Rwanda and Bosnia Compared
- Dr. Hilmar Kaiser, Ruhr University, Germany: Ottoman Nationalities Policies in World War 1
- Dr. Avi Kay, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Touro College, Jerusalem: Psychological Perspectives on the Transmission of Stories of Personal Trauma. The Holocaust Experience
- Dr. Mark Levene, University of Southampton, UK (Opening Plenary)
- Prof. Maud Mandel, Brown University, USA: In the Wake of Destruction - comparing Armenian and Jewish Survivor Communities in Modern France
- Dr. Stephan Marks, Director of research project, "History and Memory", Germany: Interviews with Nazi-"perpetrators" and "bystanders": Findings and Implications for Research and Education
- Dr. Erik Markusen, Research Director, Danish Centre for Holocaust and Genociode Studies: Genocidal Violence in the Former Yugoslavia (Keynote Lecture)
- Linda Melvern, Journalist, UK (Opening Plenary)
- Sheila Melzak, Head of Child Psychotherapy, Medical Foundation for the Care for Victims of Torture, UK: Working with Child and Adolescent Survivors of Genocide
- Prof. Manus Midlarsky, Profesoor of Internatinal Peace and Conflict resolution, Rutgers University, USA: From Massacre to Genocide - Dynamics of International Influence
- Esther Mujawayo: Title to be confirmed ( Keynote Lecture)
- Kemal Pervanic: Survivor testimony - the Balkans
- Ara Sarafian, Editor, Gomidas Institute Books: The Armenian Genocide and US Interventionist Neutrality 1915-17
- Prof. William Schabas, Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland (Panel Plenary)
- Prof. Jaques Semelin, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris: Defining Genocidal Processes in Comparative Genocides
- Prof. Lorne Shirinian, Royal Military College of Canada: The Armenian Genocide - Eighty-Eight years of Memory and Denial
- Dr. Greg Stanton, Executive Director, Genocide Watch (Panel Plenary)
- Dr. Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, UK: Genocide as Transgression
- Greg Topalian, University of Southampton: Media representations of the Holocaust and Armenian genocide
- Dr. Jonathan Todres, Human Rights Lawyer, USA: The Role of Duty in Preventing and Responding to Genocide
- Prof. Eric Weitz, Universioty of Minnesota, USA: Are Genocides Modular? Assessing the Transmission of Genocidal Practices
- Inaki Zabala, EC Delegation, Eritrea: An analysis of the first post-genocide situation of the humanitarian era and the response of the International community
- Supported by: Aegis Trust; BBC History Magazine; Kessler Foundation; Leo Kuper Foundation; NYU, London; Second Generation Trust; Survivors Fund; Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture
Conference Registration £40/$60 by 24 December 2001, £45/$65 thereafter. Please make cheques payable to Wiener Library Ltd. You may provisionally register by email, but please send cheques by post. Hotel lists can be emailed on request.
Conference begins 7pm, 26 January, ends 6pm, 27 January 2002 at a Central London venue.
For more details and a booking form please go to the website of the
Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London W1W 5BH, United Kingdom, Tel: + 44 (0)20 7636 7247, Fax: + 44 (0)20 7436 6428
Email info@wienerlibrary.co.uk
URL http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
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An Interdisciplinary Conference on
Psychiatry and Eugenics in the 19th and 20th Centuries - Switzerland in the European-American Context
17.-22.02.2002, Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland
- Organizers:
Prof. Dr. phil. Regina Wecker (Basel), Prof. Dr. phil. Jakob Tanner (Zuerich), Prof. Dr. med. Daniel Hell (Zuerich), Prof. Dr. phil. Doris Kaufmann (Bremen
Registration for the conference until latest November 30th, 2001 to Robert Suter.
Email robert.suter@unibas.ch
In various European countries and in the Unites States, the development of psychiatry and the history of eugenics have increasingly become the focus of public interest. Historical studies that focussed on the role of psychiatric experts and institutions in implementing eugenic measures contributed to this phenomenon. The area of social welfare received equal attention as the laws on sterilization and the international organizations of the scientific community.
The research results now available clearly show that the connection between psychiatry, racial hygiene, and eugenics is much more complex than a discussion focussing on the Third Reich and the holocaust had us suspect.
After 1933, eugenic efforts in Germany merged with National Socialist dictatorship, were made to serve anti-Semitism and the racial politics of the government, and opened up new areas of political activity. Towards the end of the 19th century, when "negative eugenics" became popular, a clearly defined, political orientation of this socio-technological project could not as yet be discerned however. As a social movement, eugenics was at the same time an expression of a belief in progress, which found a great echo in the workers' movement, as well as a reaction to the fear of degeneration and decadence which became gradually more intensive at that time.
In Scandinavia, eugenic efforts developed after World War I in close interaction with the genesis of the modern welfare state, for which the thought of prevention was a constitutive factor. Other democratic countries, too, such as Switzerland and the United States, showed how a definition of democracy aiming for a healthy populace and theories of inheritance worked together and caused the race-based exclusion of cultural minorities. Beyond all social and political differences though, ideas of social "normality" and strategies of scientific legitimation are discernible that clearly show why the eugenic measures implemented by the Nazi regime found a positive echo until the 30s in most countries.
In the international field of eugenics, Switzerland was not only a "Mitlaeufer" or collaborator; its scientists - such as e.g. the manager of the Zurich psychiatric clinic of "Burghoelzli", Auguste Forel, or Basel psychiatrist and human geneticist Ernst Ruedin - belonged among the pioneers of a scientific paradigm of eugenics. Based on the Swiss development, the cognitive dimensions of psychiatry and eugenics may help explain the debates on and metaphors of a healthy population and the role of the scientific community, institutions, and international networks. The question always was whether and, if so, how the U.S., Great Britain, Switzerland, and Scandinavia differed from Nazi Germany as to the social role of psychiatry and eugenics.
And while there was a substantial consensus in these countries as to basic scientific convictions, what continued role did they play after 1945? How closely related were psychiatry and eugenics? And how did psychiatry use public demand for eugenic measures to professionalize and implement itself as an independent scientific discipline? What significance did gender have for the developing concepts of illness, the scientification of classification systems and the rate of measures actually taken? What changed at the beginning of the 70s, when semantics and the practice of racial hygiene and eugenics began to change? What references may be made between today's discussions on pre-implantation diagnostics and prenatal therapy, which open up new possibilities of positive eugenics (or the optimization of mankind's gene pool) and negative eugenics (or a prevention of genetically transmitted illnesses)?
Organizational Structure and Conference Agenda
The conference is based on a comparative perspective, which is to enable contributions to the history of the scientific, institutional, gender-related, and social aspects of psychiatry and eugenics of the various countries and compare them.
Participants are to be given an opportunity to put their (planned or current) projects up for discussion and discuss methodological and theoretical problems of research.
Conference languages: German and English.
Conference fee: CHF 610.- including board and lodging (5 days), grants available
Registration
Additional information available from: Regina Wecker and Jakob Tanner
Email Regina.Wecker@unibas.ch
Email Tanner@wiko-berlin.de
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At the 8th International Conference of the ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas) in 2002, I will offer a workshop / panel on
The Reaction in Literature and the Arts to September 11, 2001
- Many artists will have responded to the events of September 11, 2001. In this workshop I want to provide an opportunity both to discuss such responses, and to present more responses. In addition, we can discuss the role of literature and the arts in relation to global terrorism.
Anyone interested in presenting a paper at this workshop panel should get in touch with me.
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgraefe
University of Wales Aberystwyth
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies
Parry Williams Building
Penglais Campus
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3AJ
Tel: + 44 1970 622835, Fax: + 44 1970 622831
Email dam@aber.ac.uk
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
URL http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal
ISSEI 2002 Conference
URL http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/issei2002
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- Call for Papers
Call for Papers for a Scientific Journal
Austrian Studies, New Series, Volume 1, 2003
"Hitler's First Victim?" Holocaust Writing and Public Memory in Austria
- Austrian Studies has been relaunched by the "Modern Humanities Research Association" in London (MHRA) under the new editorship of Judith Beniston and Robert Vilain, who take over from distinguished predecessors Ritchie Robertson and Edward Timms. "Austrian Studies" will appear both in printed and in electronic form from 2003.
A Call for Papers for the first volume has been prepared. It can be found at the following website:
URL http://www1.rhbnc.ac.uk/German/ASVolume1.html
A brief description of "Austrian Studies" can be found at the
URL http://www1.rhbnc.ac.uk/German/AustrianStudies.html
This site will be updated gradually to give more information about the journal, its advisory board and the preferred format for submissions.
Please contact either of the editors, Dr. Robert Vilain or Dr. Judith Beniston, with any suggestions.
Email r.vilain@rhul.ac.uk
Email j.beniston@ucl.ac.uk
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Conference on Unique Holocaust Survivors
Summer 2002, Idaho, USA
- Deadline: 2001-11-31
Description: One Thousand Children, Inc, (OTC) an organization dedicated to documenting the experiences of the approximately 1,000 children rescued from the Holocaust by bringing them to the U.S. and placing them with foster families across America, is seeking papers and presenters for a national reunion next summer ...
Email contact@onethousandchildren.org
URL http://www.onethousandchildren.org
[Source: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=128897 ]
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Finite Subjects: Mortality and Culture in Germany
Tenth Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference at the University of California at Berkeley, April 5-6, 2002
Keynote Speaker: Slavoj Zizek
Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, January 2, 2002
This year's conference will examine the role of mortality and the consciousness of finitude in German culture and history. Death generates an array of responses, both creative and destructive, and plays a crucial role in the history of German thought and artistic practice. The graduate students of the German Department at the University of California at Berkeley welcome scholars from across the disciplines to submit proposals that address the intersection of mortality, culture and intellectual history in Germany. We are open to submissions in any time period from the medieval to the present.
Possible areas of investigation include but are not limited to:
- Aesthetics and mortality
- Cinema, mummification and death
- Tragedy
- Apocalyptic narratives
- Death and transcendence in the visual arts
- Metaphor and euphemism
- The sublime
- Death on screen
- Commodity and death
- Black humor
- Vampirism
- The death drive
- Finitude and transcendence in philosophy
- Romanticism and German idealism
- Phenomenology and death
- Ideology and finitude
- Utopia and finitude
- Mortality and subject formation
- Mortality and ethics
- War, mass death and trauma
- Memory and memorial
- Decadence and decay
- Medical and scientific discourses on death
The language of the conference is English, but submissions in German are also welcome. In some cases we may be able to provide a travel subsidy. Please mail or e-mail a one page anonymous abstract with a separate cover sheet indicating your name, affiliation, address, phone number and e-mail address to: Joel Freeman Department of German University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Email thelon@uclink4.berkeley.edu
URL http://german.berkeley.edu/news/conferences.html
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- Lectures and Seminars
Reminder for November: Tim Stainton
Reason's Other: the Emergence of the Disabled Subject in the Northern Renaissance
19.11.2001, 4:00-6:00 pm, Room 200, Jack Bell Building, School of Social Work and Family Studies, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- There is a tendency in both popular and scholarly discourse to assume that'disability' as we know it has always existed in some fixed, trans-historical reality. This paper challenges this notion and argues that 'disability' as a concept only emerges in any clearly definable way with the re-emergence of the individual and the priority of reason in the early renaissance. By examining the literary and visual art immediately prior to and immediately after the beginning of the renaissance we can clearly see the emergence of the disabled subject as metaphor for the folly and depravity of humanity. The presentation initially compares the writings of Nicholas de Cusa and Sebastian Brant with Erasmus and the Shakespearean fool actor Robert Armin. A similar comparison is then made of the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and those of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, looking at images of physical disability, blindness and mental illness.
Tim Stainton is currently a visiting Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Family Studies. He has taught, consulted and published widely on issues of policy, practice, theory and history related to disability. He has a Master's of Social Work from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Political Theory and Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. The current lecture is based on research for his forthcoming book on the historical construction of intellectual disability.
The lecture is followed by a wine & cheese.
Further informations from G. Helms
Email ghelms@interchange.ubc.ca
URL http://www.swfs.ubc.ca/index.htm
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Reminder for November: Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
Institute for Security Studies
Municipal Policing in South Africa - Development and Challenges
28.11.2001, Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa
- The CSVR and the ISS invite you to a joint this public seminar on Wednesday 28 November 2001.
Most of South Africa's six metros have decided to establish police services. These new police services face several challenges such as their relationship with the SAPS, fulfilling their 'crime prevention' role, and ensuring the broad training needed to carry out all their functions.
The seminar will examine different approaches taken by two cities:
Johannesburg established its Metro Police Department in March 2001, built mainly on its former traffic departments. Chris Ncgobo, a senior council executive with no police background, was appointed as Chief.
Cape Town is establishing its Metro Police Service next month, with new recruits currently in training. Unlike any other province, the Western Cape provincial government is providing training and other resources.
To ensure accessibility for the widest possible audience, the seminar will be presented at a choice of two times and venues. A new ISS publication, "Municipal Policing in South Africa: Developments and Challenges", co-authored by Janine Rauch, Mark Shaw and Antoinette Louw will be distributed. One of the authors will speak at each seminar. The other presenters will be:
- Chris Ngcobo, Executive Head (Chief) of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department
- Mark Sangster, Project Leader for the establishment of the Metro Police Service for the City of Cape Town
The same seminar will be repeated at venues in Pretoria and Johannesburg on Wednesday 28 November.
Morning Seminar:
Pretoria
28.11.2001, 11h00 - 13h00, ISS, Block C, Brooklyn Court, 301 Bronkhorst St., New Muckleneuk, Pretoria
Please RSVP to Bobbie Jacobsif you wish to attend the seminar in Pretoria, Tel: + 27 (0)12 346 9500 or
Email bobbie@iss.co.za
Afternoon Seminar:
Johannesburg
28.11.2001, 14h30 - 16h30, CSVR, 4th floor, Braamfontein Centre, 23 Jorissen St. (corner Bertha), Braamfontein, Johannesburg
Please RSVP to Bella if you wish to attend the seminar in Johannesburg, Tel: + 27 (0)11 403 5650 or
Email bmontsho@csvr.org.za
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Gerd Hankel
Kriegsverbrechen und die Moeglichkeiten ihrer Ahndung in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart [in German]
06.12.2001, 16-18 Uhr, Militaergeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Haus 12, Grosser Vortragssaal.
- Referent: Dr. Jur. Gerd Hankel, geb. 1957, Jurist und Sprachwissenschaftler, seit 1993 freier Mitarbeiter des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung, seit 1998 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Hamburger Stiftung zur Foerderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur, Forschungsprojekt über "Die Leipziger Prozesse - Zum Versuch einer strafrechtlichen Ahndung deutscher Kriegsverbrechen im Ersten Weltkrieg", seit Dezember 1999 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Team der Ausstellung "Verbrechen der Wehrmacht. Dimensionen des Vernichtungskrieges 1941-1944".
Im Anschluß an den Vortrag laedt das Forschungsamt zu einem kleinen Imbiss ein. Gaeste sind herzlich willkommen, Anmeldung erbeten unter Tel: + 49 331 9714 513.
Militaergeschichtliches Forschungsamt (MGFA)
Zeppelinstr.127-128
D-14471 Potsdam
Email MGFA-Potsdam@t-online.de
URL http://www.mgfa-potsdam.de/
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Ringvorlesung am Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften der Universitaet Lueneburg
WS 01/02, donnerstags 18:30 Uhr, Scharnhorststrasse 1, Hoersaal 1
Koordinator: Dr. Sven Kramer
Die Shoah im Bild. Zur audiovisuellen Geschichte des Holocaust [in German]
- 6.12.2001 (7)
Prof. Dr. Detlef Hoffmann (Univ. Oldenburg)
Aktuelle Symbolisierungsstrategien im Umgang mit dem System Auschwitz
13.12.2001 (8)
Dr. Hanno Loewy (Fritz Bauer-Institut, Frankfurt/M.)
Holocaust und Schulddiskurs im Court-room-Film.
20.12.2001 (9)
Joerg Friess, M.A. (Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Babelsberg)
Zur Rhetorik historischen Bildmaterials in Filmen über die Shoah
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- Vacancies and Bursaries/Grants/Scholarships
Scholarship at the Bucerius Center
- The Center offers a six months fellowship from January until June 2002, with a monthly reimbursement of DM 2.000 for Ph.D.(preferably) or M.A. students who are in the process of writing their thesis in areas of interest covered by the Center. The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage exchange between German and Israeli scholars. Study and research in Israel ought to form an essential part of the student's thesis.
Applicants should be fluent in German and English. Knowledge of Hebrew is an advantage but not obligatory. The student will assist, two days a week, in research and administrative tasks at the Center. It is possible to participate in courses of his/her choice at the University of Haifa (courses to be taken for credits must be paid for).
Accommodation is available at the University's dorms at a cost of approximately DM 560 per month.
If you are interested, please e-mail your resume, a proposal of your M.A. or Ph.D. thesis and two names of referees until November 30, 2001 to Ms. Lea Dror-Batalion.
Email ldor@univ.haifa.ac.il.
Replies will be send by email until December 12, 2001.
University of Haifa, Israel
Bucerius Center for Contemporary German History and Society
URL http://bucerius.haifa.ac.il/scholarship.htm
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Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
University Programs Division
Graduate Student Assistantship
- The University Programs Division of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum seeks applications for a graduate-student assistantship to update and finalize The Guide to Holocaust Studies. The Guide is a comprehensive catalogue of the Holocaust and Holocaust-related programs, courses, research centers, financial-assistance opportunities, and faculty positions at universities throughout the United States. The objective of the Guide is to serve as a handbook for students and professors alike on what programs and resources are currently available in the United States to further education and research about the Holocaust. The objectives of the assistantship is to
1. expose a young scholar to the Museum's extraordinary collection of archival materials that could be of use to his/her studies and
2. update the information currently contained in the Guide.
The candidate's duties for the Guide will include:
1. the identification via web and follow-up surveys of all faculty members and courses being taught on the Holocaust in the United States; and
2. the compilation of a final publication suitable for use by scholars and students.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Council established the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
a. to promote research on the Holocaust and growth of the field of Holocaust studies at universities in the United States,
b. to undertake the publication and dissemination of scholarly output relating to the Holocaust, and
c. to ensure the ongoing training of future generations of young scholars specializing in the Holocaust. The objective of the University Programs Division is to foster institutional partnerships with universities and other research organizations and to enhance the quality of teaching and research about the Holocaust on university campuses. A summary of the Center's activities is available on the Museum's website.
The assistantship will be of 16-week duration, at 40-hours per week, and provide a stipend of $6,000. The assistantship is made possible by a grant from the Dori Brenner Foundation.
Please send letters of interest and current CVs to:
University Programs Division
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, D.C. 20024-2126
Fax: 001 202-479-9726
URL http://www.ushmm.org
Email university_programs@ushmm.org
Application deadline is December 14, 2001.
Decisions will be announced by January 14, 2002.
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National Mental Health Association Internship Program
- Location: United States
Closing Date: January 25, 2002
Primary Category: Fellowships/Grants/Interns
Fall Internship Opportunities: National Mental Health Association (NMHA) is seeking undergraduate and graduate students for its fall internship program. Internships are available in mental health prevention, communications, public education, fundraising, juvenile justice, research, marketing, substance abuse and library science.
NMHA/GB, 1021, Prince Street, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA
Fax: 001 (703) 684-5968
URL http://www.nmha.org
Email interns@nmha.org
[Source: H-Net Job Posting, URL: http://matrix.msu.edu/jobs/jobview.cfm?ID=3680 ]
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University of Connecticut Visiting Professor, Human Rights
Location: Connecticut, USA
Closing Date: February 1, 2002
- Primary Category: Political Science/International Relations
Secondary Categories: Area Studies/ Ethnic Studies, General Social Sciences, Humanities, Religious Studies, Sociology, Women/Gender
The University of Connecticut is pleased to announce the appointment of Rhoda Howard Hassmann (Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University) as the Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor in Human Rights. Professor Howard-Hassmann will be in residence at the University of Connecticut, Storrs throughout the Fall 2001 term.
The university now invites nominations and applications for the Marsha Lilien Gladstein Visiting Professor in Human Rights for the 2002-2003 academic year. It is a one semester (either fall or spring) appointment and requires a distinguished record of scholarly publication and teaching in the area of human rights.
The University of Connecticut is a research extensive land- grant university located in rural Connecticut, 25 miles east of Hartford, 80 miles southwest of Boston, and 150 miles northeast of New York City.
At the University of Connecticut, human rights is emerging as a major interdisciplinary field. In addition to the Gladstein endowment, which provides for a one semester visiting scholar each year, the University has laid important groundwork for building a comprehen-sive program. The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, dedicated in 1995 by President Bill Clinton, is committed to the collection and preservation of archival materials and oral histories related to human rights issues. There are strong collections focused on the Nuremberg Trials and the Alternative Press in the United States. Moreover, the University has recently formalized an important partnership with the African National Congress that emphasizes the preservation of its records, oral history and the sponsorship of a broadly based academic program in comparative human rights. An undergraduate Minor in Human Rights has been established, and additional academic programs are anticipated.
The Visiting Professor, besides teaching a seminar and pursuing research or writing, would be expected to assist in developing a university-wide interdisciplinary Human Rights program based in the humanities and social sciences. We would expect the Visiting Professor to consult with faculty about developing human rights courses in a variety of fields, deliver one major public lecture, and be available to interact with students and faculty on an informal basis.
Applications received by February 1, 2001, will be given first consideration, but all applications will be considered until the position is filled. We encourage applicants from underrepresented groups, including minorities, women and people with disabilities. Applicants for the position should include a cover letter expressing their interest in the position, a CV including names and contact information for three references to Professor Diana Tietjens Meyers at address below.
Professor Diana Tietjens Meyers
Chair, Gladstein Committee
University of Connecticut
344 Mansfield Road UNIT 2054
Storrs, CT 06269-2054
USA
URL http://www.humanrights.uconn.edu
[Source: H-Net Job Posting, URL http://matrix.msu.edu/jobs/jobview.cfm?ID=3663 ]
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University of Sussex
Assistant Director
Centre for German-Jewish Studies
- Ref 048b, Research and Analogous Grade 1A
The Centre intends to appoint an Assistant Director for a period of three years to support Professor Timms in expanding its activities. The person appointed will be suitably qualified and have completed a doctorate in a relevant field. S/he will be a creative person capable of contributing to the longer-term development of the Centre.
Salary in the range: £17,451 to £26,229 per annum
Closing date: Monday 10 December 2001. Interviews will be held on Thursday 24 January 2002.
Letters of application accompanied by a CV and the names of two referees should be sent to Professor Edward Timms, Arts B, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN.
Email Professor Timms, from whom further particulars are available. Details of all posts can be found via the University website.
Email e.timms@sussex.ac.uk
URL http://www.susx.ac.uk/Units/staffing
Further details
URL http://www.sussex.ac.uk/central/jobs.shtml
© Copyright, Jobs.ac.uk or Original Authors
[Source: http://jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/TB537.html ]
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Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Director of Education
- Location: CA, U.S.A.
Last Updated: November 19, 2001
Submitted: November 13, 2001
Closing Date: open until further notice
Primary Category: Professional Non-Teaching Positions/Archives/Museums/Public History
Secondary Categories: European History/ Humanities Computing/ Distance Education/ Educational Technology
Job Description
Position: Director of Education, Education Department
Mission Statement
To overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry - and the suffering they cause - through the educational use of the Foundation´s visual history testimonies.
The Education Department is responsible for using the Foundation´s visual history archive to develop products and oversee the implementation of programs designed to further the Foundation´s mission.Using market research tools to determine the optimum use of Foundation resources, the Education Department will lead the development of documentary films, CD-ROMs, books and support material. The Education Department is also responsible for administering requests for access to the Foundation´s archive and methodologies. The Department develops relationships with individuals and institutions to utilize the Foundation´s archive. This position reports to the President and CEO.
Responsibilities
- Develop strategy for the development of domestic and international educational products and programs based on the Foundation´s archive
- Identify needs and trends worldwide in the educational market place; identify the niche markets for which the Foundation will create products
- Know and/or identify key leaders, educators, and developers of educational products and curricula
- Development of annual Education Department plan and budget
- Departmental leadership and management
- Maintain relationships with key educational, distribution, and marketing partnerships
- Provide Foundation-wide leadership and strategic vision for the Foundation´s educational mission
- Other duties as assigned
Performance Goals
- 5-7 international products created and distributed annually
- Strategic relationships with 5-10 key organizations
- Successfully manage and motivate staff of 13
Qualifications
We are seeking candidates offering the following qualifications:
- Master's degree in Marketing or Business Administration or extensive experience in the marketing and distribution of educational products is preferred.
- An advanced degree in education or in the humanities or social sciences is also desirable.
- Minimum of five years of experience identifying consumer product trends and developing key strategic partnerships in order to partner effectively with respected educational companies/institutions and to penetrate the educational market. Prior exposure to the international educational area is preferable.
- Strategic vision and educational expertise
- Strong management skills and extensive experience managing teams and projects
- Superior interpersonal and communication skills, including public speaking and negotiating skills
- Organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and plan
- Ability to work with CEO and senior management in the development of operational and long-range plans
- Ability to work comfortably to deadlines
- Imagination, high tolerance of risk
- Commitment to and profound understanding of the Foundation's mission and strategic goals
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, team oriented environment and to provide leadership and vision across the entire range of the Foundation's activities
- International expertise
- Ability to coordinate and implement projects on deadlines and under budget
- Working knowledge of PC computers and software
Equal Opportunity Employer
To apply: Please send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to:
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Attn: Human Resources
P.O. Box 3168,
Los Angeles, CA 90078-3168
Fax: (818)733-1424
URL http://www.vhf.org
[Source: H-Net Job Posting, URL http://matrix.msu.edu/jobs/jobview.cfm?ID=3886 ]
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- New Websites
Permanent Exhibition
Kulissen der Gewalt / Scenes of Terror
Faszination und Gewalt. Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelaende [in German]
Fascination and Terror. Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds [in English]
- The new "Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds" is located in the north wing of the Congress Hall, a building planned by the National Socialists to hold 50,000 people but never completed. The upper level with approximately 1,300 square metres of floor space will house a new permanent exhibition entitled "Faszination und Gewalt" ("Fascination and Terror") dealing with the causes, relationships and consequences of National Socialist tyranny. Topics directly associated with Nuremberg form the major focus of the exhibition, which is organised into 19 chronologically structured exhibition areas. These topics include: the history of the Nazi Party Rallies, the buildings at the Party Rally Grounds, the "Nuremberg Laws" of 1935, the 1945/46 Nuremberg Trial of the people and major organisations chiefly responsible for the NS crimes, the twelve Subsequent Proceedings, and the difficulty of dealing sensitively with the National Socialist architectural legacy after 1945.
Alongside the permanent exhibition the Education Forum is of key significance for the work of the "Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds". In special seminar rooms on top of the north wing of the Congress Hall the museen der stadt Nuernberg will be offering, in cooperation with other partners, an in-depth educational programme for school classes as well as youth and adult groups. The programme will range from the 45-minute thematic talks to day-long seminars.
Ausstellung - Studienforum, Bayernstrasse 110, D- 90471 Nuernberg
Email Dokumentationszentrum@stadt.nuernberg.de
URL (in German) http://www.museen.nuernberg.de/reichsparteitag/index_reichsparteitag.html
URL (in English) http://www.museen.nuernberg.de/english/reichsparteitag_e/index_reichsparteitag_e.html
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Server Fruehe Neuzeit
Krieg und Gesellschaft [in German]
- Der Schwerpunkt "Krieg und Gesellschaft" soll sich langfristig zu einem Kommunikationsknotenpunkt für Forschungen zur Militaergeschichte entwickeln und dabei besonders neuen Ansaetzen in diesem Feld Rechnung tragen. Schwerpunkt ist zur Zeit die Fruehe Neuzeit.
Dazu bieten wir in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Arbeitskreis Militaer und Gesellschaft in der Fruehen Neuzeit (AMG: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/fgp/amg/) eine Mailingliste zur Militaergeschichte der Fruehen Neuzeit an.
Neben weiterfuehrenden Links und Informationen stellen wir außerdem E-Texte aus dem Bereich der Militaergeschichte vor. "Muenchen im Dreissigjaehrigen Krieg" wiederum ist das Ergebnis eines Lehrprojektes mit Studenten, das besonders für den Einsatz an Schulen interessant sein kann. Weitere Materialien und Module folgen.
URL http://www.historicum.net/themen/krieg/
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Sehepunkte [in German]
Rezensionsjournal fuer die Geschichtswissenschaften
ISSN 1618-6168
- URL http://www.sehepunkte.de
1 (2001), Nr.1 ist am 15.11.2001 erschienen.
Die naechste Ausgabe der "sehepunkte" erscheint am 15. Dezember 2001
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- Useful Links
Of Current Interest: Robert Maxwell Young, On Fundamentalism
- The article "On Fundamentalism", written by Robert Maxwell Young from the British Scientific Journal "Free Associations", is available in the Internet.
Robert Young says, "I was asked to give a talk to the distance learning MA students in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield on 18 September. By the time I sat down to prepare my remarks, my chosen topic (psychoanalysis and the history of ideas) was hard to think about in the light of recent events. I therefore wrote on fundamentalism and terrorism, drawing attention to instances of them in the United States (lynching and white militias) and reflecting on Bin Laden and Muslim fundamentalism. I tried to bring concepts from the tradition of Klein and Bion to bear on the dynamics of fundamentalism and terrorism. Comments very welcome."
URL http://human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap135.htm
Email robert@rmy1.demon.co.uk
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Werkblatt - Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und Gesellschaftskritik [in German]
Redaktion: Karl Fallend, Karl Maetzler, Albert Ellensohn
- Das Inhaltsverzeichnis sämtlicher lieferbarer Hefte gibt es zum Herunterladen im Rich Text-Format.
Platzl 2/III
A-5020 Salzburg
Fon/Fax: + 43/662/650011
Email maetzler@salzburg.co.at
URL http://home.subnet.at/werkblatt
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literaturkritik.de [in German]
- In der Oktober-Ausgabe der Internet-Zeitschrift "literaturkritik.de" ist unter dem Titel "Psychotraumatologie. Ueber ein neues Paradigma fuer Psychotherapie und Kulturwissenschaften" ein Ueberblick über die neueren Tendenzen der Traumaforschung im deutschen Sprachgebiet zu lesen. Der Autor, Harald Weilnboeck, ist ein Mitarbeiter von "literaturkritik.de".
URL http://www.literaturkritik.de
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International Forum of Psychoanalysis
Integration or Sealing Over. A Pilot Study of Coping Strategies of Severely Traumatised Patients, written by Marika Lindbom-Jakobson and Lena Lindgren, in International Forum of Psychoanalysis 10: (27-34), 2001.
- For further details please contact Lena Lindgren, Stockholm, Sweden.
Email lena.lindgren@redcross.se
URL http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tfs/0803706x.html
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Verbrechen der Wehrmacht. Dimensionen des Vernichtungskrieges 1941 - 1944
Press release from the Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Hamburg/Berlin October 25, 2001
- House of Wannsee-Konferenz will be responsible for educational services to accompany the exhibition created by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Verbrechen der Wehrmacht. Dimensionen des Vernichtungskrieges 1941 - 1944, during its presentation in Berlin
The exhibition "Verbrechen der Wehrmacht. Dimensionen des Vernichtungskrieges 1941-1944" will be opened to the public for the first time on November 28, 2001 in Berlin. The Hamburg Institute for Social Research, creator of the exhibition, will be presenting the show in Berlin in cooperation with Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. (KW) and the House of Wannsee Konferenz..
For the past ten years, the House of Wannsee-Konferenz, memorial and educational site, has worked to provide information and educational services for young people and adults, aimed at promoting a better understanding of the history of Nazi genocide perpetrated on European Jews.
Central elements of this work are a permanent exhibition in Wannsee and intensive educational programs focusing on historical and political questions. Currently, the House of Wannsee-Konferenz is training qualified freelance educators with an appropriate background in the fields of history and education, who will offer tours, seminars and other educational services in connection with the exhibition "Verbrechen der Wehrmacht. Dimensionen des Vernichtungskrieges 1941-1944". The most important services provided will be tours of the exhibition in a number of languages (English, French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Hebrew) and, specifically for school classes and other young people, group work in small units, including age-group appropriate educational material and supervision by qualified personnel.
Staff members at the House of Wannsee-Konferenz are now available to provide further details about these educational services and to accept reservations for groups and individuals; please phone +49 30 805 001-35.
(Please note that school groups below grade seven cannot be admitted to the exhibition.)
For further information please contact Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Dr. Regine Klose-Wolf, Press and public relations office: Tel: + 49 40 414097-12, Fax: + 49 40 414097-11
Email presse@his-online.de
Email Regine_Klose-Wolf@his-online.de
Persons interested in presenting the exhibition in their town or city are asked to contact Jutta Mühlenberg at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (+ 49 40 41 40 97-0).
URL http://www.his-online.de
URL http://www.ghwk.de/engl/eduengl.htm
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Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW
The Body Remembers. The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment.
WW Norton, October 2000. It is written to the psychotherapist and bodypsychotherapist working with trauma, but should also appeal to clients interested in understanding what is happening to them. Strategies for "putting the brakes" on over-accelerated trauma processes are also included alongside numerous illustrative cases.
- Reviews, contents, and excerpts can be read at amazon.com:
URL http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393703274/qid%3D957547940/102-6200457-8904911
"If you purchase and read it, please send me a few words of feedback. I can always learn more! Best regards, Babette"
Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW
PO Box 241778
Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Tel: (+1) 310 281 9646, Fax: (+1) 310 281 9729
Email babette@webuniverse.net
(if that doesn't work, try Email babette_rothschild@hotmail.com)
Articles and training schedules at the
URL http://www.trauma.cc
Upcoming Professional Trainings:
- Milwaukee & Madison, WI - December 2001
- Toronto, Canada - April 2002
- Los Angeles, CA (12-day) March, June, September 2002
- London, UK (12-day) - October 2001 & May 2002
- Oulu, Finland (2-day) - Oct 2001
- Cambridge, UK (12-day) - October 2001 & May 2002
- Stockhom, Sweden (12-day) - May 2002 & 2003
- Melbourne, Australia - July 2002
- Auckland, New Zeland - July 2002
Upcoming Keynote Address:
Psychotherapy in Australia Conference - July 2002
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The Princeton University Press is pleased to send you the following information about this newly published book:
Michael Ignatieff
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
- Edited and Introduced by Amy Gutmann. Princeton University Press, 2001, 216 pages (=The University Center for Human Values Series).
URL http://www.pup.princeton.edu/titles/7119.html
Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of international affairs. But it has also faced challenges.
Ignatieff argues that human rights activists have rightly drawn criticism from Asia, the Islamic world, and within the West itself for being overambitious and unwilling to accept limits. It is now time, he writes, for activists to embrace a more modest agenda and to reestablish the balance between the rights of states and the rights of citizens.
Ignatieff begins by examining the politics of human rights, assessing when it is appropriate to use the fact of human rights abuse to justify intervention in other countries. He then explores the ideas that underpin human rights, warning that human rights must not become an idolatry. In the spirit of Isaiah Berlin, he argues that human rights can command universal assent only if they are designed to protect and enhance the capacity of individuals to lead the lives they
wish. By embracing this approach and recognizing that state sovereignty is the best guarantee against chaos, Ignatieff concludes, Western nations will have a better chance of extending the real progress of the past fifty years.
Throughout, Ignatieff balances idealism with a sure sense of practical reality earned from his years of travel in zones of war and political turmoil around the globe.
Based on the Tanner Lectures that Ignatieff delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 2000, the book includes two chapters by Ignatieff, an introduction by Amy Gutmann, comments by four leading scholars, K. Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Thomas W. Laqueur, and Diane F. Orentlicher, and a response by Ignatieff.
Michael Ignatieff, a writer, historian, and broadcaster, is Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. His books include "Isaiah Berlin: A Life, Blood and Belonging", "The Warrior's Honor", and "The Needs of Strangers". His novel "Scar Tissue" was nominated for the Booker Prize, and his book "The Russian Album, A Family Memoir" won Canada's Governor General's Award and the Heinemann Prize of Britain's Royal Society of Literature.
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