Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies: Annual Scholars' Conference

The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas invites you to join fellow scholars March 2-4, 2024, as we celebrate the 54th anniversary of this important conference and continue the legacy established by Franklin H. Littell and Hubert G. Locke more than fifty years ago. This conference offers the opportunity to address the historical significance of the Holocaust through scholarship that is interfaith, international, and interdisciplinary.

The central theme of the 54th ASC is “There and Then, Here and Now.” This year’s conference invites presentations that look back on not only the history of the Holocaust but the ways in which its memory has been preserved and transmitted. Proposals on related topics from all disciplines are welcome. (Submissions are now closed, but you can see the Call for Papers here.)

The below keynotes and other presentations during the conference are open to the public free of charge, but pre-registration is required.

Michael and Elaine Jaffe Lecture

“The Legacy of the Holocaust by Bullets in Contemporary Mass Crimes and Genocides”

Sunday, March 3 at 9am

Presented by Marco Gonzalez, director of Yahad-In Unum, who has worked alongside Father Patrick Desbois for more than twenty years collecting evidence and testimonies of the “Holocaust by Bullets.”

Mitchell L. and Miriam Lewis Barnett Lecture

“But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust”

Sunday, March 3 at 7pm

Presented by Dr. Charlotte Schallié, Professor of Germanic Studies and Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada).