Seminar to present new projects on Antisemitism and the Holocaust funded by the Swedish Research Council

 

The Institute for Holocaust Research in Sweden (IHRS) and NORAH at Lund University warmly welcomes you to join us in a seminar on zoom where we learn more about the new research projects on antisemitism and the Holocaust funded by the Swedish Research Council, read more about them here: https://www.vr.se/english/applying-for-funding/decisions/2023-06-22-project-grant-for-research-into-the-holocaust-victims-of-the-holocaust-and-anti-semitism-2023.html

The purpose of the seminar is to spread knowledge about this new research and for the scholars to get an input on their projects. After the presentations of the projects there will be time for discussion and comments and we welcome all to join in this conversation.

 

Date: Tuesday October 15th
Time: at 9:00-12:00
Place: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82998887703?pwd=GbatqOFtLmaa4uSB6zOVP1l0awBJOF.1

 

 

Time plan:

9:00 Welcome (Karin Kvist Geverts & Henrik Rosengren)

 

Testimonies 9:00-10:00

Andrej Kotljarchuk, Simo Muir & Karin Kvist Geverts: Witnessing for the future. Holocaust, Sweden and forgotten early testimonies
Malin Thor Tureby& Kristin Wagrell: Memory and Activism. Survivors Remembering, Commemorating and Documenting the Holocaust
Annika Björkdahl & Johanna Mannergren Selimovic: Women and the Holocaust. An analysis of the testimonies in the  Ravensbrück archive

Chair: Henrik Rosengren

 

Memory/Perpetrators 10:00-10:45
Michelle Gordon: Entanglements of the British Empire, the Holocaust and the Perpetration of Extreme Violence
Samuel Merrill: #NeverForget vs. #NeverHappened: Holocaust Commemoration and Contestation on Social Media
Chair: Karin Kvist Geverts

 

Short break 10:45-11:00

 
Antisemitism 11:00-12:00

Anders Blomqvist: Antisemitism and the economic situation for the Jews in Sweden during the Second World War
Olof Bortz: Einar Åberg and the global history of Swedish antisemitism, 1930s till 1960s
Markus Lundström & Tomas Poletti Lundström: The Free Church and the Holocaust: The Swedish Pentecostal Movement’s Relation to Antisemitism 1930–1974

Chair: Karin Kvist Geverts

 

12:00 Thank you and end of seminar (Karin Kvist Geverts & Henrik Rosengren)

 

If you have any questions, please e-mail karin.kvist.geverts@ihrs.se

 

Warmly welcome!

 

Karin Kvist Geverts, Director IHRS
Henrik Rosengren, Director NORAH at LU

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Karin Kvist Geverts  

Docent i historia och föreståndare/Associate professor and Director 

Svenska institutet för Förintelseforskning 

The Institute for Holocaust Research in Sweden (IHRS) 

Phone: +46708990014
E-mail: karin.kvist.geverts@ihrs.se 

Website: www.ihrs.se