In partnership with host universities, the Holocaust Educational Foundation of North-western University (HEFNU) organiszes and sponsors the biennial Lessons & Legacies of the Holocaust Conference, the premier intellectual gathering in Holocaust Studies, which since 1989 has offered scholars the opportunity to present their latest work and interact with colleagues in the field.
Convenors: Avril Alba (University of Sydney), Ruth Balint (UNSW Sydney), and Jan Lanicek (UNSW Sydney).
Day 1 Program
Monday, 15 November
Keynote, 1pm-2.15
Professor Wendy Lower (Claremont McKenna College), The Ravine: A Family, A Photograph, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed
Panel 1: 3pm-4.30pm
The politics of race and victimhood
Lynne Swarts (University of Sydney), Racial Politics, Antisemitism and Visual imagery today: The Legacies of the Holocaust as a Comparative Space to Rethink the Politics of Hatred in the Time of Corona
Keith Rathbone (Macquarie University), From Jeu à treize to Rugby: Sports and the Politics of Jewish Victimhood in Post-War France
Melanie O'Brien (University of Western Australia), Violations of Freedom of Opinion and Expression in Genocide
Panel 2: 5pm-6.30pm
Holocaust Memory and Representations
Rebecca Margolis (Monash University), The Supernatural in New Yiddish Cinema: Dybbuks, Demons and a Haunted Jewish Past
Avril Alba (University of Sydney), Australia, the Holocaust and Genocide: Shifting Landscapes of Memory
Joseph Toltz (University of Sydney), Sotto voce: music, musicians, audiences and Holocaust representation in Australia
Day 2 Program
Tuesday, 16 November
Panel 3: Roundtable, 10am-11.30am
Mediating the Holocaust on Social Media
Anna Alves Vian, Barbara Deoti, Maria Visconti (the Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Panel 4: 1pm-2.30pm
Gendered violence and the politics of free speech
Courtney Baker (Monash University), Male-Male Sexual Violence, Space and Agency in the Concentration Camps
Rebecca Cordony (UNSW Sydney), Women in Nazi War Crimes Trials: Representation and Symbology in Legal and Political Discourse and Popular Consciousness
Margot Holt (Monash University), Sexual Violence Against Children in Hiding: Recovering Agency Through Retelling
Panel 5: 3pm-4.30pm
Holocaust education and representation
Gregory Keith (University of Sydney), Teaching the Holocaust in Western Sydney
Breann Fallon - Rebecca Kummerfeld (Sydney Jewish Museum), Australian Holocaust Education in the Digital Age
Nathalie Segeral (University of Sydney), New Directions in Commemorative Literature: Fictionalizing Women Deportees in the French Context
Panel 6: 5pm-6.30pm
The Holocaust in Australia
Jan Lanicek (UNSW Sydney), “This has nothing to do with Australia”: Revisiting historical connections between Australia and the Holocaust
Jayne Persian (University of Southern Queensland), Fascists in Exile: Displaced Persons in Postwar Australia
Donna-Lee Frieze and Steven Cooke (Deakin University), Refuge and Mosaics: Doikayt in Australia
