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• 01 mai 2018

  Pessac

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Urbicide - urban destruction and renaissance (16th-21st centuries)

  Ce colloque se propose d'aborder les différents aspects des destructions urbaines : guerres, catastrophes naturelles ou industrielles, accidents majeurs, « villes-fantômes », opérations radicales de remodelage urbain, etc. Outre sa large envergure chronologique, il couvre aussi une vaste aire géographique, les études portant sur des situations extra-européennes étant particulièrement attendues. On traitera aussi bien des causes et modalités de l'urbicide, que des réactions des populations urbaines confrontées à ce phénomène ou encore de l'« après » urbicide.

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• 11 jan 2018

  12 jan 2018

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Home as a place for anti-Jewish persecution in European cities, 1933-1945

  Anti-Jewish persecution didn’t only happen in specifically designed or transformed spaces such as camps and ghettos. It invaded spaces of everyday life in European cities: public spaces, work places and private spaces such as homes. In this landscape not only Jews and agents of persecution appear but also their immediate residential environment: concierges, neighbors, nannies, landlords, property managers, sub-tenants, local administrations, etc. These figures have an essential place in the memories of Jewish survivors. Though, so far, scholars have hardly addressed their role. The spatial turn that occurred during the last fifteen years in Anglophone Holocaust studies focused on the symbolic places of genocide. It mostly neglected apartment blocks and ordinary cities as spaces of persecution. This conference thus intends to focus on urban housing as a place for anti-Jewish persecution.

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