What can we learn by examining the experiences of refugees who traveled in and beyond Europe during the Holocaust? How did one become a refugee? And what were some of their routes, places of transit, failed exits, as well as locations of temporary and permanent refuge? The 2024 Silberman Faculty Seminar focuses on teaching topics relating to refugees and the Holocaust from a range of interdisciplinary approaches—including but not limited to perspectives from literature, art, history, migration, human rights, and memory studies. Together, we will make connections between local and global histories of the Holocaust, as well as reflect on ideas of displacement within the broader frameworks of the nation-state and empire.
The Silberman Seminar will take place from June 5-13, 2024 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Seminar is designed to help faculty, instructors, and advanced PhD students who are currently teaching or preparing to teach courses that focus on or have a curricular component related to the Holocaust and/or refugee and migration studies. Applications are welcome from instructors across academic disciplines, including but not limited to Anthropology, Archeology, Art, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, German Studies, History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Jewish Studies, Law and Human Rights, Migration Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Refugee Studies, Sociology, and Trauma and Memory Studies. The Seminar aims to deepen, broaden, and enrich how we teach about refugee experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust across a range of disciplines and fields.
Applications must be received electronically by March 15, 2024. The full CfA and the application form are available on the USHMM website: https://www.ushmm.org/research/opportunities-for-academics/faculty-seminars/silberman/2024.
Seminar Facilitators
Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History Emerita, New York University
Tabea Alexa Linhard, Director and Professor of Global Studies, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
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