New Approaches to Studying Global Refugee Transit

Join the School of Humanities & Languages for this keynote lecture by Professor Atina Grossmann.

In this keynote lecture, Professor Atina Grossmann presents exciting new work on the ambivalent encounters of Jews who found refuge from National Socialism and the Holocaust in the global South after 1933. Drawing from her own research on Iran and India, the talk reflects on the challenges of studying Jewish histories of global transit as they intersect with both Holocaust and Post Colonial Studies at our own fraught historical moment.

Introduced by Professor Claire Annesley, Dean of UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture and Chaired by Professor Konrad Kwiet.

Bio: Atina Grossmann is Professor of History at the Cooper Union in New York City. Her books include Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany, and as co-editor, The Surviving Remnant: Documents on Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany 1945-1950. She was the 2022/23 Ina Levine Invitational Senior Scholar at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM. She is currently researching “Jewish Refugees from National Socialism in Iran and India: Between ‘Orient’ and European Catastrophe” and the entanglements of family memoir and historical scholarship.

Location:
UNSW, The Council Chambers, The Chancellery (C22), Gate 9 High Street Kensington NSW 2033

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