[New-Poetry] American Responses to the Holocaust: Transatlantic Perspectives

[Anny Ballardini]

*Netherlands American Studies Association (NASA) *

*Belgian Luxembourg American Studies Association (BLASA)*

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*American Responses to the Holocaust: Transatlantic Perspectives*

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*June 15-17, 2011*

*Roosevelt Study Center*

*Middelburg, The Netherlands*

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*Call for Papers*







The Netherlands American Studies Association and the Belgian Luxembourg
American Studies Association are pleased to announce that they will be
co-organizing an international conference titled *American Responses to the
Holocaust: Transatlantic Perspectives**,* to be held at the Roosevelt Study
Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands, June 15-17, 2011.



The conference aims to explore American responses to the Holocaust and the
ways in which the systematic destruction of European Jewry during the Second
World War has figured in American politics, in important cultural and social
debates in the United States, in American literature and popular culture,
and in other aspects of American life, such as religion, education, and
jurisprudence. The organizers encourage contributions from scholars
interested in the United States and the Holocaust from as diverse a range of
disciplines as possible, including history, historiography, the social
sciences, cultural studies, literary studies, museum studies, gender
studies, religious studies, memory studies, ethics, and law. We encourage
multi- and interdisciplinary approaches to the topic, which we hope will
bring a new American studies perspective to what has traditionally been the
focus of Jewish Studies and Holocaust studies. We are particularly
interested in papers that explore the responses to the Holocaust from a
transatlantic perspective in the belief that a comparative approach that
takes into account the similarities and differences between responses in
Europe and the United States is useful and enlightening for American studies
scholars and can contribute new and valuable insights into the ways in which
the Holocaust has figured in American life.



We hope to explore especially how American responses to the Holocaust
contradicted, provoked, or changed European reactions. The following are
just some of the themes that conference papers could address: government
responses to the Holocaust during and right after World War II; the effects
of the Holocaust on foreign policy toward Israel and intervention elsewhere
in the world since World War II; responses to the Holocaust in fiction and
other arts, and in popular culture, such as film and television; post-memory
and second-generation experience as reflected in literature and other art
forms; museums and Holocaust memorials as expressions or embodiments of
public memory of the Holocaust; debates on the use of the term Holocaust and
their implications for memory of the *Shoah*; legal responses to Holocaust
denial and revisionism; theological responses to the Holocaust within
Judaism and other religions; the role of education in remembering the
Holocaust and the place of the Holocaust in the curriculum; the emergence of
(comparative) genocide studies in the wake of Holocaust studies; and any
other aspects of American life in which effects of the Holocaust are
present, either explicitly or implicitly.

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The conference organizers are Gert Buelens (Ghent University), Hans
Krabbendam (Roosevelt Study Center), and Derek Rubin (Utrecht University) in
cooperation with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.


A selection of the papers will serve as the basis for a thematically
coherent collection of essays to be submitted for possible publication in
the Amsterdam University Press series New Debates in American Studies.

Those interested in presenting a paper are kindly requested to submit a
one-page proposal for a 20-minute presentation and a brief *curriculum vitae
*before *December 1,* 2010 to Hans Krabbendam jl.krabbendam at zeeland.nl .**

Please note that conference participants are expected to cover their own
travel and hotel expenses.








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