Lessons and Legacies IX

Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, California, 2006

The Ninth Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust will be held November 2-5, 2006, at Claremont McKenna College and Pomona College in Claremont, California. The conference is sponsored by the Holocaust Educational Foundation, the Claremont McKenna College Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, and Pomona College, with assistance from the Claremont Graduate University.

The overall theme of the conference will be "Memory, History, and Responsibility: Reassessments of the Holocaust, Implications for the Future." Panels are planned to include the following themes:

• Antisemitism after Auschwitz
• Belzec: Its Place in the History and Memorialization of the Holocaust
• Christianity and the Holocaust
• Cutting Edges: Graduate Student Research about the Holocaust
• Ethics during and after the Holocaust
• Holocaust Economics: Funding and Restitution for the Shoah
• Hollywood and the Holocaust
• The Holocaust in Romania
• New Research on Ghettos
• The Place of the Holocaust in Comparative Genocide Studies
• The Rescue of Jews by Jews during the Holocaust
• The Significance of Holocaust Poetry and Fiction
• Sixty Years Ago: Postwar Trials and Population Upheavals

Also planned are a retrospective on the work of Yehuda Bauer, roundtables on "The Vocabulary of Holocaust Studies: Are Its Categories Accurate and Adequate?" and on "The Future of Holocaust Studies and the Responsibilities of Holocaust Scholars: Interdisciplinary Perspectives," as well as a variety of workshops whose themes include:

• Academic Life and Responsibility during and after the Holocaust
• Authors Meet Critics: Recent Books about the Holocaust
• Challenges, New and Old, in Holocaust Pedagogy
• Current Research and Reflection on Homosexuality in the Third Reich
• Current Research and Reflection on the Radicalization of Health Policy in the Third Reich
• Gender Studies and Holocaust Studies
• Teaching about the Holocaust in Multicultural and Other Specialized Settings
• Using the Archives at the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

Proposals for papers on these themes will be considered for inclusion in the various panels, roundtables, and workshops. Complete panels on other subjects may also be considered. The deadline for submission is September 1, 2005.

Please send proposals to:
John K. Roth, Program Chair
Lessons and Legacies IX
Email John K. Roth

Conference registration will be open as of 10/01/2005.