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UoE Centre for Interdisciplinary Holocaust and Genocide Studies @exetercihgs.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

We've got a busy programme of events this term. First up, Barnabas Balint @barnabasbalint.bsky.social (research fellow at @ushmm.bsky.social) is speaking on 'Writing a History of Animals During the Holocaust'. Tues 21 Jan, 16.30-17.30 in Amory 239C. Abstract here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/holocaustand...

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

"The work of an overlooked German-Jewish artist who created the UK’s first memorial to victims of Nazi persecution is to be the focus of an exhibition that shines light on the unreported aspects of his life" @theguardian.com Only on display until 6 February!

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Show shines light on overlooked artist who made UK’s first Holocaust memorial

Work of German-Jewish sculptor Fred Kormis, who fled Nazis in 1930s, will be subject of an exhibition in London

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

For the first time in its history, the Auschwitz museum jas banned all speeches from politicians at its event on 27 January to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Speeches by politicians banned at 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation

Director of the memorial says he wants the focus to be on the last survivors of the Nazi concentration camp

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David Tollerton @davidtollerton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Farewell snowy rooftops of Exeter. This time, try not to take another seven years to return. (Tomorrow normal service resumes: 15 degrees and solid rain).

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David Tollerton @davidtollerton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Just visited the UK Covid-19 Inquiry memorial tapestries for my forthcoming book with Routledge. Fine as artworks, though difficult to imagine them getting much public traction in a government office corridor behind airport-level security.

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Prof Paula Reavey @reaveyp.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We have just started an Interdisciplinary Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, funded by Leverhulme at the University of Stirling. With Prof John Sutton as director and me as Deputy with academics from philosophy, psychology, heritage, anthropology, arts etc. we can’t wait to get stuck in!

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UoE Centre for Interdisciplinary Holocaust and Genocide Studies @exetercihgs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Recently co-edited by @exetercihgs.bsky.social member Caroline Fournet: Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions, Studies in International Criminal Law (Leiden: Brill / Nijhoff Publishers, 2024) brill.com/display/titl...

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Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions

"Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions" published on 29 Jul 2024 by Brill | Nijhoff.

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