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The deadline is approaching for the 2026 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar which explores interdisciplinary approaches for incorporating Holocaust survivor testimonies into the college classroom. While foregrounding audiovisual interviews, this seminar will examine various forms of survivor testimonies to consider what kinds of questions they can and cannot answer about Holocaust history and memory. Together, we will discuss approaches for introducing students to how testimonies can illuminate everyday experiences of the Holocaust across a diverse range of linguistic, geographic, religious, and gendered contexts. We will also reflect on how survivor testimonies are shaped by the institutional cultures and approaches of their respective archives, including those at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and the USC Shoah Foundation. Finally, we will discuss how the digital turn in Holocaust testimony, including the use of AI technology, shapes how students engage with testimonies as we transition to a period in which survivors will no longer be present to provide the ethical anchorage for how their recorded testimonies are used.
The 2026 Hess Seminar is designed to help faculty, instructors, and advanced PhD candidates currently teaching or preparing to teach courses that focus on or have a curricular component relating to the Holocaust. Applications are welcome from instructors across academic disciplines, including but not limited to: Anthropology, Communication, Cultural Studies, Digital History, Disability Studies, Film and Media Studies, Gender Studies, German Studies, History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Jewish Studies, Literature, Museum Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Theology and Religious Studies, and World Languages and Cultures. Drawing on interdisciplinary methods, the seminar aims to provide faculty with new approaches for integrating Holocaust testimony into college-level curricula.
The deadline for applications is Friday, October 31, 2025. This seminar will take place January 5–9, 2026 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Seminar applicants must be teaching or anticipate teaching relevant courses at accredited institutions in North America. The full CfA and the application form are available here on the USHMM website. Please contact Campus Outreach Programs (campusoutre...@ushmm.org) with any questions.
This Seminar is endowed by Edward and David Hess in memory of their parents, Jack and Anita Hess, who believed passionately in the power of education to overcome racial and religious prejudice.
We live in a paradoxical moment for Holocaust memory. On the one hand, we encounter Holocaust analogies in the media and online nearly every day. And yet, public understanding of Holocaust history is at a low. One way to reengage with the experiences of torment and survival under the Nazis is to study language—the words and phrases that victims used to describe their own plight, in real time. Together, we will delve into the stories behind key terms that Yiddish speakers invented during the Holocaust. Bringing us deep inside daily life in ghettos and camps, these words also help us grapple with contemporary ethical questions.
Opening Remarks
Sara J. Bloomfield, Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dr. Janice Weinman Shorenstein
Speaker
Dr. Hannah Pollin-Galay, Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies and Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Moderator
Dr. Lisa M. Leff, Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
During the lecture, we will share reflections on the field of Holocaust Studies submitted by past speakers, including Dr. Mehnaz Afridi (Manhattan University), Dr. Norman J. W. Goda (University of Florida), Dr. Henry Greenspan (University of Michigan), Dr. Sara Horowitz (York University), and others.
This program is free and open to the public, but registration is required. If you require assistance registering for this program, please contact event...@ushmm.org. Please register here: https://register.ushmm.org/MCAHSPUBP11125
The Monna and Otto Weinmann Annual Lecture honors Holocaust survivors and their fates, experiences, and accomplishments. Monna Steinbach Weinmann (1906–1991), born in Poland and raised in Austria, fled to England in autumn 1938. Otto Weinmann (1903–1993), born in Vienna and raised in Czechoslovakia, served in the Czechoslovak, French, and British armies; was wounded at Normandy; and received the Croix de Guerre for his valiant contributions during the war. Monna Steinbach and Otto Weinmann married in London in 1941 and immigrated to the United States in 1948.
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Regular Proposal Deadline is 20 January 2026
CFP for Special Issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444)
CFP HSS/ESHS 2026
Symposia: The Science and Medicine of Bodily Habits
Co-convenors: Kristin Hussey (Newcastle University); Racha Kirakosian (University of Freiburg); Alexander Wragge-Morley (Lancaster University)
These symposia will engage with scientific and medical writings on bodily habits from the medieval to the modern periods. Over the centuries, people have sought to explain the apparent regularity of bodily phenomena such as eating, sleeping and evacuating. In particular, debates emerged about the extent to which these activities are amenable to human control. When framed as habits, such phenomena may be regarded as subject to control – although deeply entrenched habits may be very hard to shift. Alternatively, viewing these phenomena as instincts may place them beyond the reach of medical or social transformation.
We seek papers that address the history of these questions from the middle ages to the modern period, especially as they intersect with medicine and/or health. We are conscious, however, that disciplinary configurations vary across time and place, and encourage applications addressing habit and health from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including (for instance) religion alongside science and medicine. Central to this theme are questions about the extent to which supposedly automatic bodily processes unfolding over time may be responsive to some kind of control or shaping. Papers might thus include scientific and medical approaches to the periodicity of sleeping, eating, urinating, and defecating. But they may also engage with questions about the role that patterns of culture, religion, or work may play in changing or reinforcing regular bodily processes.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 2,000 characters (about 250 words) to Kristin...@newcastle.ac.uk by November 21st. For more about the conference visit: 2026 HSS Call for Proposals - History of Science Society
Call for chapter proposals
Tongues: The Edinburgh Companion to the Global Medical Humanities
Editors: Benjamin Dalton (Lancaster University), Steven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast), Alex Wragge-Morley (Lancaster) and Stephanie Wright (Lancaster)
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2025
We invite proposals to participate in a new Edinburgh Companion to the Global Medical Humanities. Following on from the landmark Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities, this handbook aims to catalyse the emerging field of global, multilingual work in the medical humanities. In its earliest form, the medical humanities sought to recognize the importance of literature and the arts to medical education and communication. In the following decades, scholars have recognized the entanglements that have existed between mind, body and environment – entanglements that call into question still prevalent distinctions between the sciences and the humanities, or between biology and culture (Whitehead et. al., 2016). Now, scholars and practitioners are increasingly bringing global cultures, epistemologies, and languages to bear on the medical humanities. At the same time, new approaches that both challenge and extend the concerns of the medical humanities are emerging in non-Anglophone and non-Western contexts.
This volume will give students and scholars a comprehensive guide to the dynamic and emerging field of global medical humanities – identified as such in recent editorials in Medical Humanities, The Polyphony and The Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities. This is a field that engages critically with the notion of global studies, recognizing that some of its iterations simply perpetuate the cultural, epistemic, and cultural hierarchies that have so long dominated the fields of health and the humanities. At once synthesizing and developing the insights of the field, this Edinburgh Companion will deploy the metaphor of the tongue to bring together, without homogenizing, a globally diverse range of contexts and interconnections. The tongue is at once an instrument of speech and a bodily organ that connects people to their cultures and environments. Indeed, through its communicative function and the pleasures and pains of taste, the tongue relates people to the language and foodways frequently taken to define cultures and societies. Moreover, the tongue is an interface for pleasure, intimacy and connection between bodies. And, of course, the tongue quite literally brings the world into the body through acts of taste and eating (Mol, 2021).
On the one hand, therefore, this Companion will deal with language, exploring the manifold ways in which translation between cultural and linguistic contexts can change our understandings and experiences of health. But at the same time, taking its cue from the corporeality of the tongue, it will explore how thought, perception and bodily reality may alter or be altered by movement in and between cultural and linguistic settings. This new handbook will thus serve as a crucial resource for anybody engaging with the trans-cultural and trans-linguistic aspects of health and wellbeing, from scholars and students to medical practitioners and carers.
The handbook will include a foreword by Angela Woods (Durham University), and the editors invite proposals for chapters on any topic relating to the global medical humanities, including but not restricted to:
- Translating the medical humanities across cultures (broadly conceived)
- Vernaculars of healthcare
- Non-verbal languages
- Global conceptions or expressions of pleasure, sexuality, taste, and/or pain
- Bodies, senses and environments
- Failures of language to communicate pain and/or bodily resistance to translation
Abstracts of between 200-300 words should be sent along with a short (50-word max) bio to a.wragg...@lancaster.ac.uk, b.da...@lancaster.ac.uk, s.wr...@lancaster.ac.uk and steven...@qub.ac.uk by 31 December 2025. Informal enquiries can be directed the same addresses.
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