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UHGS is a research center at Uppsala University tasked with conducting research and teaching in the field of Holocaust and Genocide studies. https://linktr.ee/UHGS
We concluded the second and final day of the workshop on Neutral Countries & Jewish Refugees during the Holocaust. Today featured the roundtable on Jewish refugee experiences in Sweden & panels on neutrality in Sweden, Turkey, Spain & Portugal.
Thank you to all speakers and the public!
We concluded Day 1 of the workshop "The Neutral Countries and the Plight of Jewish Refugees during the Holocaust" at UGHS, Uppsala University.
Featuring a keynote by Rebecca Erbelding and panels on refugees, neutrality, and complicity.
Looking forward to more interesting panels tomorrow!
This week at UHGS!
More information: url-shortener.me/BWNO
New book by our colleague!
"Radicalization and Fascism in the Ustaša" by Constantin Iordachi & Goran Miljan examines the Ustaša’s path from interwar terrorism to genocidal rule, using new archival research and a newly translated militant memoir.
More here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/radicaliz...
Professor Tomislav Dulić recently visited Kraków to give a guest lecture in the Erasmus+-funded course “Genocide and Mass Atrocities Under International Law”. A great opportunity to share a historian’s comparative perspective with engaged students!
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Last week, our colleague Dr. Santiago López Rodríguez co-organized and presented at the international workshop "Victims and Bystanders: the Sephardi Jews and Spain during the Holocaust" at the University of Potsdam. His talk examined Franco, Salazar, and historiographical debates on neutrality.
04.02.2026 12:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to share a new publication by our colleague and UGHS Director, Dr Roland Kostić, co-authored with Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, titled “Intimate Networks and Strategic Knowledge in Peacebuilding Interventions”!
Available here (open access): academic.oup.com/book/61853/c...
We’re pleased to share a new publication by our colleague Dr Michelle Gordon! Her chapter, “Persecution, Oppression, and Subjection,” appears in A Cultural History of Violence in the Age of Empire, published by Bloomsbury Academic.
22.01.2026 10:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As we approach the end of this semester, we want to congratulate five students from our MA Programme in Holocaust and Genocide Studies who recently successfully defended their theses - a fantastic achievement worth recognizing. We wish you all the best in the next chapter!
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Our centre is launching a new BA in Holocaust & Genocide Studies, with the first cohort starting autumn 2026.
More on how to apply:
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More information about the BA programme: www.uu.se/en/study/pro...
Our Master's Programme in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsala University is a cross-disciplinary course of study drawing from diverse academic fields.
The application period is now open!
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Our centre is launching a new BA in Holocaust & Genocide Studies, with the first cohort starting autumn 2026.
Applications are now open!
Apply: www.universityadmissions.se/intl/search?...
Programme info: www.uu.se/en/study/pro...
Our colleague Dr. Ivo Plšek has been awarded a MIRAI/STINT Research Fellowship, a competitive Swedish–Japanese program supporting high-impact international research collaboration. In 2026 he will serve as a Visiting Researcher at Sophia University (Tokyo).
Congratulations Ivo!
Looking to join a dynamic research community in Holocaust and Genocide Studies? We invite researchers to share their project proposals with us!
02.12.2025 16:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last week, our colleagues Dr. Santiago López Rodríguez and Matylda Jonas-Kowalik took part in the international conference “Collecting the Holocaust: Ethics, Memory, and Materiality” hosted by the Swedish Holocaust Museum and Swedish History Museum in Stockholm.
01.12.2025 11:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Our colleague Dr. Santiago López Rodríguez took part in the conference “Past and Present: Reflections on the Transmission of the Memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War in Contemporary Society” where he presented “Memoria selectiva: judíos españoles, franquismo y recuerdo del Holocausto.”
24.11.2025 16:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yesterday we had the pleasure to host Valens Bimenyimana (University of Gothenburg and University of Rwanda), who, in our internal seminar, presented a draft of his article “Interacting with Memory: Social Categories and the Genocide Memorial Sites in Rwanda.” Thank you Valens!
21.11.2025 23:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thinking about studying Holocaust and Genocide Studies?
We offer an interdisciplinary Master’s programme, and starting autumn 2026, a Bachelor’s too!
More information 👉https://www.universityadmissions.se/intl/search?period=27&freeText=Holocaust+and+Genocide+Studies
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This week, we had the honour of hosting Prof. Marcos Centeno! During his time at UHGS he gave a lecture on “Visual Memory, Erasure, and the Afterlives of Images from Hiroshima’s Peace Museum” as well as led an internal seminar. We are grateful for the discussions his visit inspired.
07.11.2025 12:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are very excited to announce that our colleague Dr. Savina Sirik received Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) research grant for her project titled: “Navigating Complexity: Intergenerational Memories of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia”!
Congrats on this great accomplishment Savina!
Call for papers!
We are pleased to announce that the call for papers for the upcoming International Workshop: “The Neutral Countries and the Plight of Jewish Refugees during the Holocaust: A Comparative Perspective” is now open!
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More: tinyurl.com/msphbb2k
Next week join us for UHGS Public lecture:
➡️ Haunted Screens: Visual Memory, Erasure, and the Afterlives of Images from Hiroshima’s Peace Museum by Dr. Marcos Canteno from University of Valencia
📅 4 November 15.15–17.00, Geijersalen, Campus Engelska parken
Our colleague, Dr. Santiago López Rodríguez, presented today at the international conference Twisting the Past: Questioning Historical Revisionism in Barcelona with a paper titled “Eighty Years Later: Francoism and the Holocaust in Light of Historical Research.”
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If you weren’t able to join us for the Hugo Valentin Lecture 2025 with Professor Alexander Hinton, we’re happy to share that the recording is now available to watch:
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We’re thrilled to announce the international workshop “The Neutral Countries and the Plight of Jewish Refugees during the Holocaust: A Comparative Perspective”, taking place at Uppsala University, 12–13 Feb 2026.
This workshop is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
and the open call is coming soon!
Recently, our PhD student Matylda Jonas-Kowalik participated in the COST workshop "Holocaust Survivors as Postwar Patients Across Europe" organised by Victoria Martinez, Kata Bohus and Friederike Kind-Kovács at Sveriges museum om Förintelsen!
More about COST: www.cost.eu/actions/CA22...
This autumn, UHGS welcomes Prof. Manuela Consonni!
Her recent seminar examined how the massacre in Israel and genocide in Gaza is challenging the concept of “Jewish exceptionalism” and reshaping memory, identity, and discourse.
Thank you, Prof. Consonni, for an insightful talk!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s Hugo Valentin Lecture!
We are grateful to Professor Hinton for sharing his expertise, to our partners at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) for the fruitful cooperation, and to everyone who attended and contributed to the discussions.
Today we had the pleasure of hosting Professor Alexander Hinton for our internal seminar. This seminar marked the beginning of his time in Uppsala as this year’s Hugo Valentin Lecturer. We are looking forward to 22nd Annual Hugo Valentin Lecture tomorrow!
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Next week we will have an honour of hosting Professor Alexander Hinton:
22nd Annual Hugo Valentin Lecture
Perpetrators: Why Do They Kill?
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SCAS and UGHS Lecture
It Can Happen Here 2.0: Democratic Backsliding and the Rising Threat of Violence in the U.S.
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