Student and Scholar Opportunities
Calls for Papers, Conferences, and Journals
The Mauthausen Memorial and WHISC – Women in the Holocaust – International Study Center at Moreshet Mordechai Anielevich Memorial Holocaust Study and Research Center, Givat Haviva, Israel are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Second International Conference on Women in the Holocaust.
The Second International Conference on Women in the Holocaust will take place on 13–15 September 2024 in Mauthausen, Austria, at the Visitor Center of the Mauthausen Memorial. The working language of the conference will be in English.
Scholars who want to participate in the Women in the Holocaust conference should submit a proposal. Each proposal should include a title, an abstract of at least 250, but no more than 300 words (in English), and a short CV/Bio for the Author (no more than 250 words long).
Proposals for full panels (Moderator, plus three [3] or four [4] panelists should include the title of the panel, the title of each panelist’s paper, plus the title of each person’s paper, an abstract of at least 250, but no more than 300 words (in English) for each paper, and a short CV/Bio for each author (no more than 250 words long for each CV/Bio).
Conference Streams:
- Female Prisoners in Camps and other NS-Institutions (“work education camps”, Gestapo Prisons etc.)
- Female Perpetrators
- Female Resistance
- Female Remembrance
- Female Liberators
- Medicine and medical Corps in the Camps focusing on Women
- Other Related Topics about Women in the Holocaust
Submission Deadline: May 31st 2024
More Conference and Submission Information HERE
Funding Opportunities
We are pleased to offer MVHR graduate students funding support for travel to present their research at academic conferences, which includes an exciting new partnership with the UMN Libraries:
CHGS / HRP travel awards funded by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Human Rights Program
Library Archives travel awards: the Kautz Family YMCA Archives HGMV Graduate Award and the IHRC Archives HGMV Graduate Award
Funding for both types of awards will be provided to graduate students in the form of reimbursement for travel costs and registration fees for conferences, symposia, workshops, and meetings where they will present their work.
Topics must be relevant to the Holocaust, genocide, mass violence, and other systemic human rights violations. Applications accepted on a rolling basis; first consideration will be given to those students who have presented or are scheduled to present their work in the HGMV workshop.
Library awards require prior consultation with an archivist and incorporation of archive research in the paper. Archivists are always available for consult via ihrca@umn.edu and ymcaarch@umn.edu
Funding Opportunities from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Immigration History Research Center:
The Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) and our partners at the Immigration History Research Center Archives (IHRCA) invite applications for the Michael G. Karni Scholarship and the Grant-in-Aid Award.
The Michael G. Karni Scholarship supports visiting scholars utilizing the IHRCA, with a preference for projects using the Finnish American collections or the Baltic American collections. This scholarship supports up to $2,000 to help defray travel- and research-related expenses.
The award is a memorial to Michael Karni, a pioneering historian and publisher of Finnish American ethnicity, who was chiefly responsible for the initial development of the Finnish American collection at the IHRCA. The fund has been made possible through gifts from friends and members of the Karni family along with other supporters of Finnish American scholarly activity.
Grant-in-Aid Awards support a visit to the University of Minnesota Libraries in order to conduct research in the IHRCA collections. This $2,000 award is open to researchers from all disciplines and levels of training and is intended to support a research visit of 5 days. Awards are available through co-sponsorship by the IHRCA ethnic and general funds, and the Immigration History Research Center.
Both awards will give priority to applicants who identify as people of color or as a member of groups historically excluded or underrepresented in academia and archives.
Deadline for Submissions: Deadlines are rolling; page will be updated with new deadlines.
Find Additional Information Here: Michael G. Karni Scholarship | Immigration History Research Center | College of Liberal Arts (umn.edu)
Contact ihrc@umn.edu with questions
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research is accepting applications for research fellowships from any discipline for research related to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. Fellowships during the academic year will be awarded to outstanding advanced-standing Ph.D. candidates from any discipline for dissertation research with innovative approaches focusing on testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources. There are three available fellowships:
Katz Research Fellowship in Genocide Studies
Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellowship
The African Studies Initiative (ASI), through a Title VI grant in African Studies from the U.S. Department of Education, is able to provide travel support up to $1,500 to the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, faculty, and instructional staff. The Travel Grants are intended for projects that enhance the University’s undergraduate and graduate curriculum in African Studies and for projects that support the building of sustainable educational partnerships with institutions abroad on African Studies.
The ASI accepts applications on a rolling basis but does require that all applications be received at least 2 months before the departure date.