2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camps – the ‘end’ of the Holocaust – and the 30th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica. With these two anniversaries, we want to reflect upon what happens to communities after genocide and mass violence: How do families and communities rebuild? How do communities re-establish their identities? How do we seek and find justice? How do we teach about what has happened? How do we try and prevent it happening again? How do we respond in art, media and literature?
This conference brings together experts from a range of fields to explore these important questions.
We would love if you would like to join us and take part in these discussions. Lunch will be provided.
This conference is in partnership with History and The Centre of Archaeology at The University of Huddersfield.
Day 1: Thursday 23rd October – 9am – 6.30pm
Panel 1: Memory Across Borders: The Politics of Remembering Atrocities
Panel 2: Archaeologies of Absence and Cultural Genocide
Panel 3: Institutions of Memory and Ethics of Representing Nazi Mass Violence
Panel 4: Persecuted Bodies
Keynote: Researched to the End? Contemporary History and the Legal Prosecution of Nazi Crimes – by Dr Stefan Hördler*
Day 2: Friday 24th October – 9am – 5pm
Panel 1: From Nuremberg to Nanking: the Politics of Post-Genocide Narratives
Panel 2: Narratives of Memory, Distortion and Creative Engagement in Genocide Education
Keynote: Archaeology at Trawniki – by Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls, Will Mitchell and Joanna Spyra
*Please note: Purchasing a ticket to attend Day 1 + Day 2 or Day 1 of the After Genocide and Mass Violence: What Comes Next grants access to this keynote. Additional tickets for Dr Stefan Hördler’s keynote will be available to non-conference attendees. If you already have a Day 1 + Day 2 or Day 1 admission ticket, you do not need to book a separate ticket for the keynote.