Panel 14 - US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Inquiries and Initiatives
Start Date
3-10-2020 2:45 PM
End Date
3-10-2020 4:15 PM
Submission Type
Panel
Abstract
Three researchers from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will present their research inquiries into ethnography, oral history, and microhistory on the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. The aim is to address themes of collective memory, mass-violence, and genocide. The panel also aims to discuss research tools and management of large-scale research projects.
Presentations
Iliriana Blakaj: Rescue in Berat: Stories of the Holocaust in Central Albania
Noemi Szekely-Popescu: Oral Histories and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Opportunities and Limitations
Janos Desi: Collective Consciousness, Individual Forgetting
Panel 14 - US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Inquiries and Initiatives
Three researchers from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will present their research inquiries into ethnography, oral history, and microhistory on the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. The aim is to address themes of collective memory, mass-violence, and genocide. The panel also aims to discuss research tools and management of large-scale research projects.
