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Hugo Valentin Centre

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We are a research center at the Uppsala University tasked with conducting research and teaching in the field of Holocaust and Genocide studies.

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The full-length video of this years Hugo Valentin Lecture is now available on our YouTube channel. Go check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=4vvbyd…


For today's seminar we had a discussion about Matylda Jonas-Kowalik's PhD proposal about collective memory among female polish holocaust survivors in Sweden.

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Today Ivo Plsek, one of our researchers, presented a chapter of his current project called "Narratives in Bronze: The children's war victims monument in Lidice". The rest of our research team joined in for a discussion afterwards.

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We are thrilled to share that our very own Tomislav Dulić has been featured in an article by @UU_University that describes his remarkable work at our centre. Check it out here: uu.se/en/news/2024/2…

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Meet Timon and Merten! They're joining us from our collaboration with the Austrian Service Abroad , and we're thrilled to have them on board this and next semester. Timon will support our researchers across various projects, and Merten is our new social media manager. #NewTeam

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Today, as part of his visit at the HVC @jgrabows held an inspiring presentation on different practices of holocaust distortion in Poland and beyond. On top of that we are very much looking forward to his upcoming lecture this Thursday!

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We're very excited to announce our 21st Hugo Valentin lecture at @UU_University ! This year's lecture is about Holocaust distortion in Poland and will be given by Professor Jan Grabowski on the 26th of September. For more info see below:

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We are grateful to have had Vicente Sánchez-Biosca with us today for a thought provoking presentation of his chapter followed by a lively discussion.

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IN THE NOW: Professor Vicente Sánchez-Biosca speaking under the heading ”The Death in their Eyes: Perpetrator Images and the Visual Representation of Genocide”.

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We’re excited to announce a public lecture, in collaboration with Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice at @UU_University , by Vicente Sánchez-Biosca! Don’t miss this insightful event on 17 September. See below for details

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HVC colleague Michelle Gordon was recently interviewed, along with Rachel O'Sullivan (@Leibniz_IfZ), discussing their book 'Colonial Paradigms of Violence' for the podcast New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/colonial-parad…


Michelle Gordon, researcher at the HVC, recently published an article in Ayer, '«Un barniz sobre el salvajismo»: prácticas británicas de extrema violencia en China, 1900-1901'. You can find the article here: revistasmarcialpons.es/revistaayer/is…


Our Director at the HVC, Roland Kostic, presented his paper “Researching Peace and Conflict in Times of Liquid Modernity” at the DGSi conference in Durham this week.

Excellent two-day DGSi conference on Methodological innovations in changing context of #peace and #conflict. Many thanks to @OlgaDemet & @rogermacginty for bringing us all to Durham!🙏💐

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We are happy to announce two postdoctoral positions in Holocaust and genocide studies. One is more general, and the second is specifically related to Holocaust history and memory. Read more and apply below: jobb.uu.se/details/?posit… jobb.uu.se/details/?posit…


We were very delighted to have our first but hopefully not last visit by Professor Manuela Consonni, and had a very interesting discussion based on her article The Ethnicization and the Deterritorialization of Genocide.

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