[Unicum] March 19, 2014 - USHMM - The Holocaust in Hungary: 70 Years Later

The Holocaust in Hungary: 70 Years Later

Informatin on USHMM website: http://www.ushmm.org/research/scholarly-presentations/conferences/the-holocaust-in-hungary-70-years-later

Register here: http://www.cvent.com/events/the-holocaust-in-hungary-70-years-later-march-19-2014/event-summary-937296170e384236a7ab4d326537f629.aspx

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
March 19, 2014

Co-organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), this international conference coincides with worldwide commemorations of the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary.

The conference aims to engage international scholarly cooperation and present new and emerging scholarship on the Holocaust in Hungary and its aftermath. Leaders in the field will address a range of topics, including postwar Hungarian Jewish refugees; the Catholic Church, nationalism, and antisemitism in Hungary since 1989; and antisemitic and anti-Roma policies in present-day Hungarian politics.

10–10:30 a.m.                        
Introduction and Opening Remarks

Introduction: Paul A. Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Opening Remarks: Randolph Braham, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, City University of New York

10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.         
Panel I: The Evolution of the Holocaust in Hungary: New Sources and Approaches

Chair/Respondent: Holly Case, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University, and 2002–2003 Yetta Jacob Gelman Fellow and 2007–2008 Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Presenters:

Gábor Kádár, Senior Historian, Hungarian Jewish Archives, and 2003–2004 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Morphology of Antisemitic Mass Violence during and after the Holocaust in Hungary

Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Purdue University
Across the Iron Curtain: Hungarian Jewish Refugees in  Austria, 1945–1950

László Csősz, Senior Historian, Holocaust Memorial Center, Budapest, and 2006–2007 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow and 2013–14 Tziporah Wiesel Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Evolution of the Labor Service System in Hungary

12:30–1:30 p.m.                    
Break

1:30–3:30 p.m.                      
Panel II: Remembering the Holocaust in Post-Communist Hungary

Chair/Respondent: Paul Hanebrink, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University, and 1999–2000 Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Presenters:

Árpád von Klimó, Associate Professor of History, Catholic University
The Catholic Church, Nationalism, and Antisemitism in Hungary since 1989

Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, Lecturer on Collective Violence, University of St. Andrews
Fantasies of Hate: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Roma Politics of the Contemporary Hungarian Radical Right

Zoltán Vági, Historian and Deputy Director of the Social Conflicts Research Center of the Eötvös Loránd University and 2003–2004 Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Deportation of the Hungarian Jews and its Aftermaths

Zoltán Tibori Szabó, Senior Scientific Researcher and Associate Professor, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Department of Political, Administrative, and Communication Sciences
The Holocaust in Transylvania

3:30–5 p.m.                           
Closing Roundtable: The State of Scholarship on the Holocaust in Hungary

Moderator: Paul A. Shapiro

Discussants:

Randolph L. Braham
Holly Case
Paul Hanebrink
András Kovács, Director of Jewish Studies, Central European University
Zoltán Tibori Szabó