In this virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea talk, Pragya Kaul will explore photographs and writings of Jewish refugees in British India to interrogate the place of European Jews in the racial hierarchy of colonial society.
On 27 June 1941, the Wehrmact captured the Soviet-occupied Polish city of Białystok and murdered 2,000 Jews. In this virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea presentation, Jake Holliday will draw upon official records, survivors’ accounts and post-war criminal trial papers to try and understand what happened in Białystok that day.
In this virtual doctoral seminar, Mark Frankel will talk about two episodes in the Quaker politician T. Edmund Harvey’s career: his intervention on behalf of political prisoners in the occupied Ruhr in 1923, and his part in the Quakers’ collective response to the Munich Agreement of 1938.
In this virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea talk, Paula Oppermann will trace the origins of fascism in Latvia and investigate which role antisemitism played in this context.
The essayist, novelist, philosopher, and Auschwitz survivor Jean Améry’s greatest intellectual influence in the post-war years was Jean-Paul Sartre. This Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea presentation, will chart the initial promise and ultimate limitations of Améry’s encounter with Sartre’s existentialism.
In this virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea presentation, Daniel Adamson will explore how the British response to the Holocaust has been depicted in a sample of set history textbooks designed for use in schools.
In this Virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea talk, Julia Eisner talks about visibility in the archive and its consequences, with a focus on Lotte Eisner, the well-known film historian and author of major retrospective studies of Weimar cinema.
This virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea presentation examines the discursive strategies of the Nazi defendants throughout the Nuremberg Trial (1945-1946), the first trial of Europe’s denazification process.
This virtual PhD talk will explore the Jewish refugee industrialists who settled in Britain’s ‘Special Areas’ as part of the effort to revitalize the regions hit hardest by the Great Depression.
This virtual PhD and a Cup of Tea talk examines the Netherlands Auschwitz Committee’s fifteen-year-long battle to bring the country’s first national Holocaust monument to Amsterdam.
