Archives: holocaust

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Jennifer Evans Gives Holocaust Memorial Lecture at Stetson University

Jennifer Evans delivered the Holocaust Memorial Lecture at Stetson University in DeLand Florida.  In “The Third Reich’s Other Victims: Queer Identity and Holocaust Memory After Fascism,” Evans explored the continuous struggle for recognition, the establishment of a memorial in central Berlin dedicated to queer victims and the broader... More

Friday, December 8, 2023

Jennifer Evans and Former Public History Students Publish New Book on Holocaust Memory and Social Media

This month, Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape will be released by Bloomsbury UK. Written by Jennifer Evans together with former students Meghan Lundrigan and Erica Fagen, it is a landmark intervention in the field of memory studies, Holocaust studies, and public history. As founder and co-president of the Memory Studies Association Jenny... More

Thursday, March 3, 2022

New Fascism Syllabus, Ukraine Edition

Jennifer Evans, who co-curates the New Fascism Syllabus, has opened up the site to scholars and advanced graduate students with expertise in and around the war in Ukraine. Submissions have included celebrated Holocaust historians, scholars of Soviet memory, and our own colleagues in Political Science, EURUS, and the Department of History. Most... More

Thursday, July 8, 2021

Jennifer Evans Curates Holocaust Memory Debate

In May and June, Jennifer Evans curated a series of daily responses on the New Fascism Syllabus (NFS) to a thought piece written by genocide historian Dirk Moses in the Swiss history journal Geschichte der Gegenwart (the History of Today). In "The German Catechism," Moses, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights... More

Monday, January 6, 2020

Jennifer Evans publishes article in the Washington Post

Jennifer Evans published an article in the Washington Post December 27th that explored the controversy surrounding a recent art collective's effort to chasten Germans for seeming to forget the lessons of the... More

Friday, November 9, 2018

Jennifer Evans to bring international conference on Holocaust and genocide studies to Ottawa

Together with her co-host Jan Grabowski at the University of Ottawa, Jennifer Evans will bring a major international conference in Holocaust and Genocide Studies to Ottawa in the fall of 2020. In partnership with the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University,  Evans and Grabowski will organize the biannual Lessons &... More

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Recent PhD publishes in Journal of Modern Jewish History

Sean Eedy (PhD 2016) has recently published "Four colour anti-fascism: postwar narratives and the obfuscation of the Holocaust in East German comics" in a special issue of the Journal of Modern Jewish History entitled "Beyond Maus: Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust." Drawing on his dissertation research, Eedy shows that it wasn't until... More

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