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The Jews, the Holocaust and the Public: The Legacies of David Cesarani
No full textThis book explores the work and legacy of Professor David Cesarani OBE, a leading British scholar and expert on Jewish history who helped to shape Holocaust research, remembrance and education in the UK. It is a unique combination of chapters produced by researchers, curators and commemoration activists who either worked with and/or were taught by the late Cesarani. The chapters in this collection consider the legacies of Cesarani’s contribution to the discipline of history and the practice of public history. The contributors offer reflections on Cesarani’s approach and provide new insights into the study of Anglo-Jewish history, minorities and nationalisms, Nazi war crimes and their legacies and the history and public legacies of the Holocaust. This edited collection comprises 17 chapters (approx' 365 pages) that have been curated by Dr Larissa Allwork and Dr Rachel Pistol. As well as working with Pistol to select and copy edit all the chapters, Allwork co-wrote the 'introduction' with Pistol (c. 6000 words), proposing that there is a distinctly 'Cesaranian' interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Holocaust. Allwork also submitted two further chapters to the collection. The first, a sole authored chapter offering an original interpretation of Gerhard Richter and Gustav Metzger's artistic confrontations with Nazi criminality (c. 10,000). The second, a transcript of an interview conducted with Cesarani in 2009 (c. 7,500 words). This includes an introductory section which self-reflexively grounds the interview and is fully footnoted and referenced
The Perversion of Holocaust Memory: Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989
No full textJudith M. Hughes’s monograph clearly states its intention: ‘My new book has been prompted by reflections—and distress—at recent efforts to minimize the Holocaust and to play down the anti-Semitism that lay at its root’ (p. viii). The historical context that Hughes invokes for her analysis of Germany, France, Poland and Hungary is the contrast between post-1989 state efforts at confronting the Holocaust after the end of the Cold War and the presence in more recent years of radical right governments (Poland, Hungary) and political parties (Germany, France) who turn away from this imperative. For Hughes, the ‘perversion of Holocaust memory’ constitutes the refusal of national governments and societies to acknowledge instances of active participation and/or local collaboration in the crimes of the Holocaust (p. 105). This refusal is often accompanied by a desire to emphasize the condition of national ‘victimhood’ during the Second World War. Polemical in tone, Hughes’s work is both novel and problematic in claiming the direct influence of historians on this process. Her book becomes a defence of historians such as Saul Friedländer who have stressed ‘the moral rupture’ of the Holocaust (p. viii) and, conversely, posits a particularly aggressive critique of the historical and narrative approach adopted by Timothy Snyder in Bloodlands (2010)
Decolonizing trauma studies round-table discussion
Full text linkThis round-table, which featured literary critics Professor Stef Craps, Professor Bryan Cheyette and Dr. Alan Gibbs, was recorded as part of the “Decolonizing Trauma Studies” symposium organized by Dr. Sonya Andermahr and Dr. Larissa Allwork at The School of The Arts, The University of Northampton (15 May 2015). Convened a week after the University of Zaragoza’s “Memory Frictions” conference, where Cheyette, Gibbs, Andermahr and Allwork gave papers, the Northampton symposium and round-table was sponsored by The School of The Arts to coincide with Andermahr’s guest editorship of this special issue of Humanities. Craps, Cheyette and Gibbs addressed five questions during the round-table. Namely, does trauma studies suffer from a form of psychological universalism? Do you see any signs that trauma studies is becoming more decolonized? What are the challenges of a decolonized trauma studies for disciplinary thinking? How does a decolonized trauma studies relate to pedagogical ethics? Finally, where do you see the future of the field? While this edited transcript retains a certain informality of style, it offers a significant contribution to knowledge by capturing a unique exchange between three key thinkers in contemporary trauma studies, providing a timely analysis of the impact of postcolonial theory on trauma studies, the state of the field and its future possibilities. Issues addressed include the problematic scholarly tendency to universalize a western model of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); the question of the centrality of the Holocaust in trauma studies and the implications of this for the study of atrocities globally; the vexed issues posed by the representation of perpetrators; as well as how the basic tenets of western cultural trauma theory, until recently so often characterized by a Caruth-inspired focus on belatedness and afterwardness, are being rethought, both in response to developments in the US and in answer to the challenge to ‘decolonize’ trauma studies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Holocaust Trauma Between the National and the Transnational: Reflections on History’s “Broken Mirror”
No full textTrends in Holocaust memorialization
No full textThis event was co-organised by Dr Larissa Allwork (English) and Dr Paul Jackson (History).
Professor David Cesarani OBE (Royal Holloway, University of London) gave the University of Northampton’s annual Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture on ‘The Second World War and the Fate of the Jews.’ Professor Cesarani’s lecture was introduced by University of Northampton Vice Chancellor, Nick Petford and Northampton Borough Councillor, Anna S King (Assistant Cabinet Member for Community Engagement). Professor Cesarani’s lecture was preceded by a stone laying ceremony led by the University of Northampton Multi-Faith Chaplaincy team at the Anne Frank/ Stephen Lawrence Memorial Tree. His lecture was followed by various talks and activities. These included a presentation from the University of Northampton’s Searchlight Archive (Dan Jones), a contribution by the University of Northampton History Society, a presentation on contemporary challenges in memorialization (Dr Larissa Allwork) as well as a talk on the representation of the Rwandan genocide in graphic novels (Dr Sam Knowles). 45-50 staff, students and members of the public attended Professor Cesarani's lecture.
Subject Leader for Fine Art, Dr Ralph Darbyshire’s contemporary photographs of the architectural remains of Camp de Rivesaltes, a former Vichy concentration camp which imprisoned Jews, Roma and political dissidents, among others, was also on display. It was shown at Avenue Campus Gallery (26-30th January) and Northampton Town Hall (26th-30th January 2015)
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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