Events and Conferences

This page provides information on forthcoming conferences and symposia relating to issues of historical dialogue, historical and transitional justice, and public and social memory. It is regularly updated. Please email any related announcements to: dialogues@columbia.edu.

November 2022

Creative Counter-Memorializations – A Symposium
Location: Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dates: November 24-27, 2022

Operation Reinhardt and the Destruction of Polish Jews
Location: POLIN Museum – Warsaw, Poland
Dates: November 27-29, 2022

December 2022

Annual Lecture: “We are far, very far from our former home”: German and Austrian Jews after Deportation to “the East”
Location: USHMM (or virtual)
Date: December 12, 2022

February 2023

Universalizing the Holocaust
Location: University of Florida
Dates: February 18-20, 2023

March 2023

Diaspora and Indigeneity – Intersections of Modern Jewish, Kurdish, and Amazigh History
Location: Heidelberg University
Conference Dates: 27–29 March 2023

The Council for European Studies (CES) Conference: Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias. 
Location: University of Iceland
Dates: June 27-29, 2023

September 2023

Sixteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Conference Dates: 18-20 September 2023

April 2023

CfP: International Conference “European Jews Facing the Imminence of the Holocaust” at the POLIN Museum 2023
Conference Dates: April 23-25, 2023

May 2023

CfA: Memories of the Shoah: Narrative Forms and Cultural Discourse in East-Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern Europe 
Location: Padua/Venice
Conference Dates: May 11 – 12, 2023

July 2023

The Third International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies
Location: University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)
Conference Dates: July 4-7, 2023