News at the HVC
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The Nineteenth Hugo Valentin-Lecture: Renée Poznanski
2023-01-11
The Nineteenth Hugo Valentin-Lecture will be given by Professor Renée Poznanski on 25 January, in the Main University building, room IV, at 5.15 PM.
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Conference 9-11 May 2023, in Uppsala, Sweden
2022-11-08
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Hongye Bai och Santiago López Rodríguez Receive Research Grants from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
2022-11-01
It is our great pleasure to announce that our colleagues Hongye Bai and Santiago López Rodríguez have received research grants from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for their respective projects ‘Improvisation and hope in the face of assimilation: Mongolian identities in a changing China’ and ‘Witnessing the Holocaust: Spain and Portugal during the Second World War’.
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International Consortium Organizes Conference on the Jasenovac camp
2021-11-15
Recent years have seen an increase in public debates and controversies concerning the Jasenovac camp complex, built in August 1941 after the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH). On 15–17 December a group of international scholars will revisit the history and memory of the camp in Belgrade, Jasenovac and Zagreb on an online conference that is open to the public.
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August Prize Nomination to Carl Henrik Carlson
2021-10-19
It is with great joy and pride that we can announce that our long-standing collaborator in the research field "minority studies", Carl Henrik Carlsson, has been nominated for this year's August Prize in the category "Swedish non-fiction book of the year" for the monograph The History of the Jews in Sweden. The Prize is one of the highest literary awards in Sweden.
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This year's Hugo Valentin Lecturer: Dan Stone
2021-08-26
This year's Hugo Valentin Lecture has the title "Unaccompanied Children: The Child Search Branch of the International Tracing Service, 1945–1950" and will be held by Dan Stone, Professor of modern history and director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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Call for a Substitute Senior Lecturer in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
2021-03-19
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Postdoctoral position in Holocaust History and Memory advertised
2021-03-19
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"Memories in Conflict": New Edited Volume Published
2020-12-04
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Postdoctoral position in Holocaust and genocide studies, focusing on the Balkan region
2020-10-27
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Post-doctoral fellow in Romani Studies is announced
2020-10-27
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The Westinska Prize to Constanze Ackermann-Boström
2020-10-23
Constanze Ackermann-Boström is awarded the Westinska prize of 30,000 SEK by the Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala. She is awarded the prize for her doctoral thesis, which she wrote and defended at the Department of Modern Languages.
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New book by Michelle Gordon
2020-10-12
Analysing three cases of British colonial violence that occurred in the latter half of the 19th century, Michelle Gordon's Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’: Colonial Warfare in Perak, Sierra Leone and Sudan argues that all three share commonalities, including the role of racial prejudices in justifying the perpetration of extreme colonial violence.
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Hugo Valentin Lecture Cancelled
2020-03-13
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Conference, 'Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Killing'
2020-02-11
The HVC is co-organising the conference, 'Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Killing', together with the Center for Holocaust Studies, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) to be held on 11-13 November 2020. This conference will address the recent contributions and challenges of considering the Holocaust from a colonial perspective. Such an approach includes considering European colonialism from a genocide perspective, as well as examining the practices of violence from European colonialism and how these may have fed back into Europe throughout World War II.
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The 2020 Hugo Valentin Lecturer: Dan Stone
2019-10-18
Professor Dan Stone. We are pleased to announce that Professor Dan Stone of Royal Holloway, University of London, has accepted to give the XVIIIth Annual Lecture in Honour of Hugo Valentin.
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ComFas 2020 Successfully Completed
2019-09-30
The second convention of ComFas (International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies) reached its successful completion this Friday. During three days, over sixty participants discussed various aspects of the relationship between fascism and violence on 18 panels and two plenary sessions.
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Conference on History and Memory about the Jasenovac Concentration Camp
2019-09-06
Recent years have seen an increase in public debates and controversies concerning the Jasenovac camp complex, built in August 1941 after the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) following the invasion of Yugoslavia by Axis forces in April the same year.
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Project on Aryanization of Jewish property approved
2019-04-16
The Unwanted Citizens: The Holocaust and the Aryanization of Jewish Property in Romania and the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), 1940-1945
Project leader: Goran Miljan
Funding: Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond
Research focus: Holocaust Studies
Project start: July 1, 2019The forced transfer of Jewish property into “Aryan” hands (Aryanization) represented one of the crucial aspects of the process of exclusion of Jews from European societies during the Holocaust. The same process took place in the Axis partner states, Romania and the Independent State of Croatia – NDH during WWII. As active participants in the Holocaust the two regimes engaged in the mass dispossession of Jewish wealth for the purpose of reshaping their societies and changing the perceived internal power structure through the distribution of jobs, businesses and real estate to the “dominant” ethnic community.
This project investigates the policies and practices of Aryanization conducted in Romania and the NDH during WWII. By focusing on antisemitism, legislation, bureaucracy, policy implementation, and gentile and Jewish responses, the project examines the ideological, political, and legal factors that shaped this Aryanization in three major urban areas that hosted the largest Jewish communities: Bucharest, Iaşi, and Czernowitz in Romania, and Zagreb, Osijek, and Varaždin in the NDH. In particular, by showing how the Aryanization of minority property was utilized for the purposes of nation and state building during WWII, the project will provide a comparative perspective on the role of Aryanization in the two above-mentioned Axis countries. This comparative perspective will advance the existing scholarship on the dynamics and mutual influences between fascism, Holocaust and nationalization policies in Central and South Eastern Europe. Drawing on new archival collections, a comparative methodology, and state of the art research on fascism and Aryanization, the project will address not only the strategies employed to seize Jewish property but also the responses of gentiles and Jewish citizens.
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Award for research and teaching on the Holocaust
2019-04-16
Tomislav Dulić, Senior Lecturer in History and Director of the Hugo Valentin Centre, has been awarded the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award 2019.
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New guest researcher: Nika Potinkara
2018-11-30
The Hugo Valentin Centre warmly welcomes new guest researcher, Dr. Nika Potinkara. Dr. Potinkara has research expertise in ethnic categorisation processes. Her dissertation, ‘Etnisyyden rakentuminen kahden saamelaismuseon perusnäyttelyissä’ (The Construction of Ethnicity in the Permanent Exhibitions of Two Sámi Museums), examines the ways in which ethnic categories and boundaries are created by museum exhibitions.
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Social memory in the Balkans: New project awarded by the Resarch Council
2018-11-22
Recent political developments have challenged the self-perception of the EU as a union of states sharing a set of universal democratic values opposed to a history plagued by totalitarianism, political repression and genocide. This is particularly evident in the Western Balkans, where intense controversy over the Second World War and its aftermath have affected social and inter-ethnic, as well as diplomatic relations.
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New post doc. Theresa Johnsson
2018-10-02
Postdoctoral Project on Subaltern Perspectives on Romani in Sweden
The Hugo Valentin Centre warmly welcomes new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Theresa Johnsson.
Her work focuses on questions about class, social, economic and legal inequality between people and how these variables could shape people's lives, c. 1780-1850. A consequence of this is a methodological interest in accessing an often difficult-to-access history of everyday life that also includes poor people. -
New post doc. Michelle Gordon
2018-09-25
Postdoctoral Project on European Warfare and Extreme Violence. The Hugo Valentin Centre warmly welcomes new postdoctoral fellow Dr. Michelle Gordon.
Dr. Gordon has specific research and teaching expertise in studies of genocide and mass violence. Her doctoral thesis, British Colonial Violence in Perak, Sierra Leone and the Sudan, examines British colonial violence as a part of a longer tradition of European colonial violence and within a framework of extreme violence and mass killing. -
New post doc. Sylwia Szymańska-Smolkin
2018-09-25
Postdoctoral Project on the Role of Couriers in Spreading Awareness of Mass Murder during World War II.
The Hugo Valentin Centre warmly welcomes new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Sylwia Szymańska-Smolkin. Dr. Szymańska-Smolkin has research and teaching expertise in the history of the Holocaust and Eastern European Jewry. Her dissertation, "Fateful Decisions: The Polish Policemen and the Jewish Population of Occupied Poland, 1939-1945", examines the complicity of Polish policemen in the Holocaust in occupied Poland. -
Opening of the exhibition Stitched Voices
2018-08-21
The Hugo Valentin Centre organizes “Stitched Voices,” an exhibition of textile arts about political violence and resistance. The exhibition is co-organized with Fredens Hus, Conflict Textiles, the Conflict and Method research node, and Aberystwyth University.
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Book written by Goran Miljan published: Croatia and the Rise of Fascism
2018-05-22
Our colleague Goran Miljan recently published a book on the youth movement in the Independent state of Croatia, which was run by the fascist Ustasha organisation during 1941-45.
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Four postdoctoral fellowships available!
2018-03-13
For further information, please follow the links below:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Holocaust studies
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in genocide studies
Postdoctoral Research Fellow specializing in the study of national minorities in terms of linguistics
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New volume: Knowledge, peace and international intervention
2018-02-20
Knowledge about violent conflict and international intervention is political. It involves power struggles over the objects of knowing (problematization/silencing), how they are known (epistemic practices), and what interpretations are taken into account in policymaking and implementation. This topic is explored in a recently published edited volume by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and HVCs Roland Kostić, carrying the title Knowledge and Expertise in International Interventions: The Politics of Facts, Truth and Authenticity (Routledge).
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Contribute to special issue in Romani Studies
2018-02-08
The 2018 issue of our journal Multiethnica is dedicated to Nordic Romani studies, an expansive multidisciplinary research area that has seen a number of new perspectives and projects during recent years. Deadline for article submissions is 3 April.
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The XVIth Hugo Valentin Lecture
2017-10-31
We are pleased to announce that Professor Stathis N. Kalyvas of Yale University will be delivering the XVIth Annual Lecture in Honour of Hugo Valentin.
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Project on racism and "intelligence"
2017-09-14
Historian Jim W. Porter recently took up his position as a post-doctoral research fellow at the HVC. Dr. Porter received his PhD at Michigan State University in the history of science for a doctoral thesis that examined the efforts of an influential network of scientists, politicians and educational policymakers to implement more systematic testing and ability grouping in US public schools in the mid-1950s.
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Postdoctoral project on the Jewish refugees in Sweden after the Holocaust
2017-08-31
On 1 August, Dr. Pontus Rudberg took up a position as post-doctoral research fellow at the Hugo Valentin Centre. His research has mainly been concerned with modern Jewish and Holocaust history and his doctoral thesis examined how Jews in neutral Sweden reacted to the predicament of European Jewry in the Nazi era.
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Dr. Borges will work on the project "The New Speakers of Wymysory" at the Hugo Valentin Centre
2017-08-31
We are happy to announce that Dr. Robert Borges, a linguist with specialization in sociolinguistics and contact-induced language change, has taken up his position as post-doctoral research fellow.
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Academic conference on Indigenous policy
2017-05-24
The HVC is co-organizing a conference on Indigenous policy, which will be held in Sapporo, Japan on 2 – 4 December 1017. The conference will be preceded by a workshop and art exhibition taking place 30 November – 1 December 2017.
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Senior lecturer in Holocaust and genocide studies
2017-05-22
We are advertising a two-year position as senior lecturer in Holocaust and genocide studies, which we hope to fill as soon as possible.
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Three postdoc positions
2017-05-05
The HVC is recruiting three postdocs. Two are in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies and one in minority studies. For more information and access to the online registration system, follow the links below.
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Hugo Valentin Lecture online
2017-04-07
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Holly Guthrey new colleague at the HVC
2017-04-06
We are happy to announce that we have received a new associate in Dr. Holly Guthrey, who is a peace and conflict researcher with specialization in reconciliation and transitional justice.
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New PhD project
2017-02-28
Kate Lonergan is a new PhD Candidate with the Hugo Valentin Centre and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Her research focuses on reconciliation and peacebuilding after mass violence and atrocities.
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Two postdoc positions
2017-02-23
The Hugo Valentin Centre is announcing two postoc positions with 1 March 2017 as application deadline.
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New PhD project
2017-01-12
Lior Becker took up his position as PhD candidate on 1 January. He is most welcome to our Centre!
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New senior lecturer at the HVC
2017-01-12
We are happy to announce that our new senior lecturer, Christian Gudehus, took up his position on 1 January. Welcome to our Centre!
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Date set for the Hugo Valentin Honorary Lecture 2017
2016-12-08
The Hugo Valentin Lecture 2017 with Christopher R. Browning will take place in Uppsala on Thursday 16 March 2017.
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International conference closed
2016-10-11
The Conference Historicising International Law - Could We? Should We?gathered participants from four continents.
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The Dept. of History seeks to fill a PhD position with placement at the HVC
2016-09-15
The Department of History and the Hugo Valentin Centre are seeking to fill a joint PhD position, specialized in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies.
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The Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research is seeking to fill a position in cooperation with the HVC
2016-09-14
HVC will co-finance a PhD position with the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. The position is a doctoral education with specialisation in the field of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The doctoral student will be part of a cooperation between the Hugo Valentin Centre and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research.
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Christopher Browning for next year’s Hugo Valentin lecture
2016-09-09
We are very pleased to announce that Christopher Browning has agreed to honour Uppsala University and the HVC by delivering the XVth Annual Lecture to the memory of Hugo Valentin.
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New postdoc welcomed — Ida Ohlsson Al Fakir
2016-09-02
Historian Ida Ohlsson Al Fakir began her postdoc employment at HVC on September 1st
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Expert on political extremism visits the HVC
2016-09-01
It is our pleasure to announce that professor Constantin Iordachi from the Central European University in Budapest is visiting the HVC during August and September 2016. Professor Iordachi is a historian and specialist in Central and East European political history and political extremism, and has published extensively on the subject.