Workshop: Documentation As Resistance. Methodologies for Reconstructing Early Postwar Transnational Jewish Knowledge Networks
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure invites applications for a two-day transnational workshop at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London on December 1 and 2, 2026. The workshop examines the documentation efforts undertaken by Jewish survivors, refugees, and exiled intellectuals in the years immediately following the Holocaust. Their collecting, publishing, and institution-building is understood not only as commemorative work but as intellectual and cultural resistance against the destruction of evidence and memory itself. The first day is devoted to case studies, including the history of the Wiener Library, the Polish Research Institute founded in Lund in 1940, and the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. The second day explores digital and historical methods for reconstructing dispersed holdings, among them social network analysis, the mapping of correspondence networks, prosopographies of refugee scholars, and metadata harmonization across institutions. Historians, archivists, and digital humanities specialists at all career stages are invited to apply. Accommodation and travel costs are partially subsidised.
Deadline for applications: August 24, 2026 | DETAILS
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