Thursday, February 27

8:30
Registration

9:15 – 10:00
Introductory session

Welcome Remarks

Jonathon Earle, Associate Professor of African History, Centre College, and Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Shirli Gilbert, Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College London

Krista Hegburg, Senior Program Officer for International Academic Programs, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

10:00-12:00
Panel I: Intersecting Histories
Moderator: Jonathon Earle

Shared Histories of Exile and Displacement: Artistic Responses in the Works of Charlotte Salomon and Amrita Pritam
Harshada Anand, Senior Research Fellow and PhD Candidate, Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Holocaust Memory and Colonial Violence in the Work of Ousmane Sembène
Maïté Marciano, Visiting Assistant Professor of French, Centre College

Ethiopia at the Crossroads: Refugees, Colonialism, and the Holocaust
Matteo D'Avanzo, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa & INALCO

Sephardic Jewish Populations and Local Katangese Representation, 1930-1955
Catherine Porter, Assistant Professor of History and International Studies, Hampton University

14:00-15:30
Panel II: Camps and Internment
Moderator: Natalie Eppelsheimer, Professor of German, Middlebury College

Jewish Refugees from Germany in British Ceylon
Sebastian Musch, Alfred Landecker Lecturer, Osnabrück University

Exiled in Mauritius: An African, Asian, and Jewish History of Detainment During the Holocaust
Shae Omonijo, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University

In-Between Positions: Jewish Refugees, German POWs, and Colonial Contradictions in Wartime Mauritius
Roni Mikel-Arieli, Postdoctoral and Teaching Fellow, The Rabb Center for Holocaust Studies, The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

15:30-16:00
Tea & Coffee
Allusen Room

16:00-17:30
Panel III: The Holocaust in Colonial Discourse
Moderator: Krista Hegburg

Exploring the Holocaust and Nazi Germany in Nigeria: 1938-1948
Oliver Coates, Director of Studies and Tutor, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University

The Holocaust and Medicine in Colonial Africa
Edward Kissi, Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida

From the Promised Land to the Unpromised Land: Jewish Exodus Narratives and Ambedkar's Vision for India's Depressed Classes
Awadhesh Kumar Pandey, PhD Candidate, Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Friday, February 28

9:00-10:30
Panel IV: Refugees, Antisemitism & Fascism
Moderator: TBD

Jewish Migration to India in the Fascist Era
Benjamin Zachariah, Senior Research Fellow, Einstein Forum

Antisemitism Among and Against Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa
Jochen Lingelbach, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in African History, Department of African History, University of Bayreuth

“Evil Waves of Hitlerism”: The Struggle of Rhodesian Jews Against Nazism, and Anti-Semitism in Southern Rhodesian Immigration, 1930s-1940s
George Bishi, Postdoctoral Fellow, International Studies Group, University of the Free State

10:30-11:00
Tea & Coffee
Allusen Room

11:00-12:30
Panel V: Mobilising Holocaust Memory
Moderator: Shirli Gilbert

Rafting to Bombay: Nahum Laufer's Story of Displacement, Refuge, and Return
Subarno Chattarji, Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi

Breaking the Mirror: The Distortion and Manipulation of the Holocaust in South African Politics after October 7th
Jakub Nowakowski, Director, Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre

From the Holocaust to Hinduphobia: Memory Work as a Tool in 21st Century Victimization Politics
Shana Sippy, Associate Professor of Religion and Chair of Asian Studies and Religion Programs, Centre College

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