Invitation Seminar to present new projects on Antisemitism and the Holocaust funded by the Swedish Research Council The Institute for Holocaust Research in Sweden (IHRS) and NORAH at Lund University warmly welcomes you to join us in a seminar on zoom where we learn more about the new research projects on antisemitism and the Holocaust funded by the Swedish Research Council, read more about them here: https://www.vr.se/english/applying-for-funding/decisions/2023-06-22-project… The purpose of the seminar is to spread knowledge about this new research and for the scholars to get an input on their projects. After the presentations of the projects there will be time for discussion and comments and we welcome all to join in this conversation. Date: Tuesday October 15th Time: at 9:00-12:00 Place: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82998887703?pwd=GbatqOFtLmaa4uSB6zOVP1l0awBJOF.1 Time plan: 9:00 Welcome (Karin Kvist Geverts & Henrik Rosengren) Testimonies 9:00-10:00 Andrej Kotljarchuk, Simo Muir & Karin Kvist Geverts: Witnessing for the future. Holocaust, Sweden and forgotten early testimonies Malin Thor Tureby& Kristin Wagrell: Memory and Activism. Survivors Remembering, Commemorating and Documenting the Holocaust Annika Björkdahl & Johanna Mannergren Selimovic: Women and the Holocaust. An analysis of the testimonies in the Ravensbrück archive Chair: Henrik Rosengren Memory/Perpetrators 10:00-10:45 Michelle Gordon: Entanglements of the British Empire, the Holocaust and the Perpetration of Extreme Violence Samuel Merrill: #NeverForget vs. #NeverHappened: Holocaust Commemoration and Contestation on Social Media Chair: Karin Kvist Geverts Short break 10:45-11:00 Antisemitism 11:00-12:00 Anders Blomqvist: Antisemitism and the economic situation for the Jews in Sweden during the Second World War Olof Bortz: Einar Åberg and the global history of Swedish antisemitism, 1930s till 1960s Markus Lundström & Tomas Poletti Lundström: The Free Church and the Holocaust: The Swedish Pentecostal Movement’s Relation to Antisemitism 1930–1974 Chair: Karin Kvist Geverts 12:00 Thank you and end of seminar (Karin Kvist Geverts & Henrik Rosengren) If you have any questions, please e-mail karin.kvist.geverts@ihrs.se<mailto:karin.kvist.geverts@ihrs.se> Warmly welcome! Karin Kvist Geverts, Director IHRS Henrik Rosengren, Director NORAH at LU ................... Karin Kvist Geverts Docent i historia och föreståndare/Associate professor and Director Svenska institutet för Förintelseforskning The Institute for Holocaust Research in Sweden (IHRS) Phone: +46708990014 E-mail: karin.kvist.geverts(a)ihrs.se Website: www.ihrs.se<http://www.ihrs.se> [cid:1f1cdb2d-0fbc-45c1-af2a-7534b4c6b4cf]