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SUMMARY:Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea: Post War Categorization(s): Humanitarian Aid Organizations and Displaced Persons (1945-1951)
DESCRIPTION:Helen Bamber (1925 – 2014) was a British psychotherapist and human rights activist who worked for the Jewish Relief Unit in post-war Germany \nPart of our new seminar series: Humanitarianism\, Refugees and the Holocaust.\nUpon arrival in post-war Germany\, humanitarian aid organizations had to take over the care of millions Displaced Persons from military authorities. It became obvious\, that the categorization “Displaced Person” was too broad to describe and handle the diverse group of DPs. The legal term did neither take into consideration the different aspects of vulnerability nor their agency in planning their future after what they had been through. \nThe humanitarian aid organizations – from UNRRA to smaller groups – took part in multiple re-classifications of DPs in subcategories\, such as Jewish DPs or Hard-Core DPs\, which eventually resulted in the term refugee. In her dissertation Christina Wirth analyzes the different agents and practices that took part in categorizing people in transit between 1945 and 1951\, including the individual’s agency and self-classification. \nIn her presentation Christina Wirth will introduce the categorization practices with a case study about the small village Kaunitz in Westphalia\, Germany\, where approximately 800 Jewish women were liberated from a death march and placed in German civilian \nhomes by the liberating American army forces. After the Americans left\, the Jewish Relief Unit as well as the officials of the British Occupation Zone of Germany and the German major were responsible to take care of the DPs in Kaunitz. It will become apparent how the different agents tried to influence the categorization of these 800 women and how categorizations matter\, since they are key for attesting political rights and influence to people in transit. \nAbout the Speaker\nChristina Wirth is a Ph.D. student at the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1482 “Studies in Human Differentiation” Mainz\, Germany\, academic staff at the Leibniz Institute for European History\, and is currently the USC Shoah Foundation’s first Robert J. Katz Research Fellow in Antisemitism Studies. She studied history and German philology as well as educational studies at Georg-August-University Goettingen and at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. \nVirtual seminar guidelines:\n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, the chair may invite you to raise your hand or type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A.\nThis event will not be recorded. The seminar series is generally not recorded because the topics presented are works in progress.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible. \n 
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/virtual-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-post-war-categorizations-humanitarian-aid-organizations-and-the-displaced-persons-1945-1951/
CATEGORIES:PhD and a Cup of Tea,Refugees
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Exhibition PhD and a Cup of Tea: British Representations of the Armenian Genocide and the Role of Gender
DESCRIPTION:This event is organised as part of the Genocidal Captivity exhibition events series. Participants can register to attend in person or online. \nDuring the First World War the authorities of the Ottoman Empire headed by the Committee of Union and Progress carried out a policy of genocide against the empire’s Armenian minority population. This presentation will examine the interaction between British politicians\, writers and national and local newspapers as they dealt with this subject at a time when the divisions between the civilian and military spheres during ‘Total War’ were being eroded. As this unfolded there was a growing acceptance of this erosion at the same time as a mounting condemnation of the process. \nIt will demonstrate that a polemical and listing ‘literature of denunciation’ of carefully described acts of atrocity (‘atrocitarian’)\, often on an individual level\, underwent significant change. It was supplemented with one involving criterion-driven descriptions of staged and facilitating acts of the mass killing of civilians as groups rather than individuals. In short these were descriptions of a process of systematic extermination. \nThese representations demonstrated a growing awareness of how an ethnic or religious group could be taken to pieces and partially or completely destroyed. This was also closely linked to an apparent understanding of how geographical areas could be statistically altered in terms of population and homogenised. The tropes mobilised in these representations used biomedical language and concepts\, and often referred to a rural idyll. Moreover\, these representations often mirrored to an extent the language and rationales of the perpetrators themselves. \nTo tie in with the Library’s current ‘Genocidal Captivity’ exhibition which focuses on the experiences of Armenian and Yezidi women facing genocide in 1915 and 2014\, this presentation will concentrate on how much of this discourse was highly gendered. It will demonstrate how the increasingly analytical descriptions of a process of extermination contained within them an awareness of the importance of stages of persecution that were directed firstly against men\, and then women and children. Furthermore\, an understanding of the particular role of women within the structure of an ethnic group and how an attack on them facilitated its destruction\, in whole or in part. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr Peter Morgan studied history at the University of Leeds between 1986 and 1989 before working as a history teacher in secondary schools for 21 years. Since 2010 he became increasingly involved in Holocaust education. He left the teaching profession in 2015 to research and write a doctoral thesis on British Representations of the Armenian Genocide 1915-23 at the University of Brighton. \nRoutledge has included a chapter on this work in a collection on Communication in the First World War (2020) and is planning to publish a monograph later this year or next. He has recently started work as an education officer at the Wiener Holocaust Library. \n \nVirtual Event guidelines: \n\nThe Library will send you a Zoom link and joining instructions via email prior to the event. Please check your junk email folders.\nPlease try and join 5 minutes before the event start time and we will let you into the room (do try and bear with us if this takes a few minutes).\nIf you would like to ask a question during the event\, please type your question into the chat function\, and we will endeavour to answer as many questions as possible during the Q&A. Your webcam will not be seen during this event.\n\nThis event is free\, although registration via the link below is required. Please note that our free events are run by staff volunteers. Thank you for your patience should we have any technical or audio difficulties. We will do our best to correct them but this is not always possible.
URL:https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/hybrid-exhibition-phd-and-a-cup-of-tea-british-representations-of-the-armenian-genocide-and-the-role-of-gender/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
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