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A United States-based Nigerian scholar, Mr Chijioke Onah, has emerged the winner of the 2023 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. This was

The Holocaust Plaza in Center City has the oldest Holocaust memorial sculpture in America. Now it is commissioning the largest mural.

30 years ago, Jill Freedman traveled to Europe to document sites of destruction and the resurgence of Jewish life after the Holocaust.

As part of the Fortieth Anniversary celebrations eight UK students via a competition were offered an all-expenses-paid visit to the Falkland Islands in February 2023. Ben Fogle, who headed the judging panel said: “The Falkland Islands really are a magical place. I’ve been lucky enough to visit the Islands many times over the years, drawn back by the unique wildlife. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Islands and to mark the event, we organized this competition.”

This conference is being conducted in hybrid mode, featuring over 160 speakers from the UK., USA., Israel, Poland and Australia as well as from across India.

This year the UK and Falkland Islands will mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Falkland Islands. As part of the anniversary, the Falkland Islands Government is offering eight lucky UK students the opportunity of a lifetime – an all-expenses-paid visit to the Falkland Islands in February 2023, where they will experience for themselves the Falkland Islands’ culture, history, and extraordinary natural environment.

Holocaust scholars reject use of anti-Semitism smears against Palestine campaigners.

Questions of the Humanities and its Value The integrative humanities is a form of value creation because it shows how contemporary rewritings of the past damage the present and the future. Photo: matthew Feeney/Unsplash Education7 hours ago The tense dynamic between academic freedom and academic accountability will persist for publicly funded universities – and questions will be asked of the “utility” of disciplines in an age of economic downturns and calls for instrumentalisati...

„Thematisieren, nicht verdrängen“ Wie werden wir uns in Zukunft an die Corona-Krise erinnern? Jenny Wüstenberg, Expertin für Erinnerungsstudien, über die Wege, im Alltag mit einem epochalen Ereignis umzugehen. 06.07.2021 Von LAURA LIBOSCHIK Lichter zum Gedenken: Hier in Brasilien wurden Ende Juni Kerzen zur Erinnerung an die Corona-Toten entzündet. Foto: Fernando Souza/dpa Berlin. Jenny Wüstenberg ist Historikerin, Politologin und Professorin an der Nottingham Trent...

As heroic statues fall out of vogue, communities have turned to experimental structures – from flourishing gardens to abstract sculptures – as monuments to loss on a vast scale