Hilary Term 2025
Thursdays, 14:15 16:00
Room 207, Clarendon Institute
Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG
Convened by Zoë Waxman and Cailee Davis
Week 1, January 23
Kristin Baumgartner (Academic Translator, German): ‘Translation and Transliteration of Historic Documents: What Researchers Need and What Translators Deliver’
Week 3, February 6
Professor Dan Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘The Psychoanalysis of Survival: Rereading Hilde O. Bluhm’s 1948 Article, “How Did They Survive?”‘
Week 5, February 20
Dr Christine Schmidt (The Wiener Holocaust Library): ‘Challenging the Discourse on Age and the Holocaust: Nelly Wolffheim and Archiving the Elderly’
Week 6, February 27
Cailee Davis (St. Anne’s College, Oxford): ‘Voices, Past and Present: Generational Patterns in Holocaust Memory and Representation’
Week 7, March 6
Dr Na’ama Seri-Levi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): ‘Mapping Wandering Routes: Using GIS to Analyze Refugee Movements in the Soviet Union during WWII’
Week 8, March 13
Professor Laura Hobson Faure (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne-Paris 1): ‘Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America during the Holocaust’