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A trio of 国标麻豆视频APP professors were at the forefront of an international research workshop held earlier this year in Cambridge, England.

The conference was organized by 国标麻豆视频APP Associate Professor of African History Jonathon L. Earle and Shirli Gilbert, professor of modern Jewish history at University College London. The event was held in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Trinity College, Cambridge University. Among the scholars presenting were Associate Professor of Religion Shana Sippy and Visiting Assistant Professor of French Ma茂t茅 Marciano.

鈥淚t is a testament to the remarkable scholarship taking place at 国标麻豆视频APP that one of its faculty members co-organized this international workshop, and two additional 国标麻豆视频APP professors were keynote presenters,鈥� Earle said. 鈥淪tudents are working with the world鈥檚 foremost experts in their classes.鈥�

The 3-day workshop, entitled African and South Asian Histories of the Holocaust, brought together emerging and leading scholars from around the world to better examine how the Holocaust impacted South Asian and African histories. The workshop was made possible thanks to the generosity of the Martin Rees Conference Series Fund and the College Council of Trinity College, and support of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

鈥淎lthough there has been growing scholarly interest in encounters and links between the Holocaust and the Global South over the past two decades, there has also been relatively little contact and conversation between scholars coming to the broad subject from Holocaust Studies, on the one hand, and from African or South Asian Studies, on the other,鈥� said Gilbert. 鈥淲hen Jon Earle and I first discussed the idea of this workshop, we were interested in a forum that would bring together junior as well as established scholars and facilitate conversations across those silos.

鈥淚t was exciting to see deepening discussion of the genocide鈥檚 impact further afield, and particularly the entanglements between the Holocaust, colonialism, and anti-colonial politics and thinking across diverse African and Asian contexts.鈥�

Earle, a Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, and Gilbert selected papers from a large body of abstracts from countries across four continents. Fifteen papers were organized into five panels.    

鈥湽曷槎故悠礎PP is remarkably fortunate to have several scholars among its faculty who are rethinking the field of Holocaust studies,鈥� said Earle. 鈥淢y interest grew from a 国标麻豆视频APPTerm course I co-taught with Assistant Professor of German Katrin Bahr in Germany and Poland, where we explored the African origins of the Holocaust. Katrin鈥檚 work has examined the intertwined histories of East German families in Mozambique following the Second World War.鈥�

Sippy鈥檚 work securing and administering grant funding from the Louisville, Kentucky-based Jewish Heritage Fund has also supported 国标麻豆视频APP faculty鈥檚 research and teaching in the field. To date, she has secured more than $300,000 through four rounds of grants.

鈥淭he generosity of the Jewish Heritage Fund has enabled 国标麻豆视频APP faculty and students to shape the field of Holocaust studies in ways that are unusual for a small liberal arts college,鈥� said Earle, noting the grant funding has contributed to his ongoing work to produce an African intellectual history of the Holocaust.

During the workshop, Earle moderated a panel on intersecting histories that featured Marciano鈥檚 presentation 鈥淗olocaust Memory and Colonial Violence in the Work of Ousmane Semb猫ne,鈥� which looked closely at the cinema of the Senegalese film director, producer and writer. 鈥淎ttending the workshop was truly inspiring,鈥� Marciano said. 鈥淭he international scope of the conference and interdisciplinary conversations opened new pathways for thinking about the Holocaust in a global context.鈥�

鈥淚'm especially grateful to the Jewish Heritage Fund, whose support made both my research on the topic and my participation in the workshop possible, alongside generous funding from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Trinity College. Thanks to the Jewish Heritage Fund, I was able to conduct research in Ousmane Semb猫ne's archival collection at the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington earlier this summer. I was thrilled to share some of the outcomes of this research at the workshop.鈥�

Sippy, who presented the final talk of the workshop, 鈥淔rom the Holocaust to Hinduphobia: Memory Work as a Tool in 21st Century Victimization Politics,鈥� noted the connections made possible by the conference, and the research opportunities funded by the Jewish Heritage Fund, benefit not only 国标麻豆视频APP faculty but also the students they teach.

鈥淭he opportunity to attend a truly international workshop and learn with scholars from all over the world was extremely generative and has enriched my thinking in a host of ways,鈥� she said. 鈥淎s scholars and educators, it is imperative for us to consider how Holocaust memory is deployed by various actors to advance radically different agendas. While we recognize that all knowledge is open to interpretation, the conference highlighted why it is important that we are precise in our research and explicit about the lessons we want readers and students to derive from inquiries into the past.

鈥淭he JHF grant made it possible for us to engage with other 国标麻豆视频APP colleagues at the level of research and it has allowed us to explore synergies in our work, which will not only shape our research going forward but our teaching as well.鈥�

The research shared during the workshop will be assembled into an edited volume and a host of ongoing collaborations are underway as well.

鈥淏y the end of the workshop there was a real sense of momentum and possibility for the development of the field,鈥� Gilbert noted.