
27
March
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 1:00pm
When the Fragmented becomes the Stitched
Start: Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 1:00pm
End: Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 1:00pm
where:
Online
In a follow up to her inaugural lecture series, Mélanie Péron will discuss how she and her students at the University of Pennsylvania drew upon a wealth of different sources such as diaries and archives to reconstruct the individual stories of Jewish children and their families in occupied France before they were reduced to a typed line on a deportation list and the importance of using sources such as diaries and video testimonies to teach about the Shoah despite the inexorable disappearance of the last remaining witnesses.

09
April
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 2:00pm
Forced into Transit: Global Perspectives on Refugees Fleeing Nazi Persecution
Start: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 2:00pm
End: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 2:00pm
where:
Online
The talk introduces transit as a concept to analyze spatial and temporal experiences of Jewish or political refugees from Nazi persecution, starting first in 1933 in Germany and later on in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and all over Europe.