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.

 

July 2021

Genocide and its Prevention in the Digital Age: 21st Century Challenges
Location: University of Barcelona
Dates: July 18-23, 2021

Museums in Poland Today: Beyond National Narratives
Location: Taube Center, Warsaw, Poland (online)
Date: July 27, 2021

Racial Violence: the American (hi)story
Location: Global Institute for Research, Education and Scholarship (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Conference Dates: July 24-25, 2021

September 2021

Civil Wars in History
Location: University College Dublin
September 10-11, 2021

October 2021

CfP: Narratives of Selfhood and Ambivalence
Location: School of Advanced Study, University of London
Conference Dates: October 1-2, 2021

Mass Violence and Its Lasting Impact on Indigenous Peoples – The Case of the Americas and Australia/Pacific Region
Location: University of Southern California – Los Angeles
Dates: October 9-13, 2021

Examining American Responses to the Holocaust
Location: FDR Presidential Library and Museum
Dates: October 10-15, 2021

November 2021

CfP: Justice and Equity: Challenging Hate and Inspiring Hope
Location: Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
Conference Dates: November 4-6, 2021

Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust XVI: The Holocaust: Rethinking Paradigms in Research and Representation
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Dates: 6-9 November 2021

2021 National Humanities Conference
Location: Detroit, Michigan
Dates: November 11-14, 2021

CfP: Jews of East-Central Europe after the Catastrophe: Multiplicity of Experiences, 1945–1956
Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine
Dates: November 23-24, 2021

December 2021

Fifth International Conference on Israel and Judaism Studies in Turkey
Location: Online (hosted by Israiliyat: Journal of Israeli and Judaic Studies)
Conference Dates: December 6-10, 2021

Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory network conference
Location: NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Date: Tentatively December 9-11, 2021  
Additional information will be circulated in 2021.   

January 2022

CfA: Camps, (In)Justice, and Solidarity in the Americas: Commemoration of the 29th Anniversary of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camps
Location: University of Graz, Austria
Conference Dates; January 28-31, 2022

February 2022

CfP: Practices of Reunification: The Continuation of Refugee Life after 1945
Location: Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany 
Conference Dates: February 2 – 4, 2022