Recent approaches to Holocaust memory work: Lithuania and the British at the turn of the millennium

I gave a paper on the British/Lithuanian ITF 'Liaison Project' as part of a panel on 'National and Transnational Narratives of the Holocaust' at the 'Holocaust Memory Re-Visited' conference, Uppsala University, 21-23 March 2013. Included here are the conference programme and a review of the conference that appeared in 'H-Soz-u-Kult', which is based at the Humboldt University, Berli

Research in the School of the Arts

Presented and discussed my research role within the School of the Arts with court members (Governors of the University, honorary degree holders, honorary fellows, local employers, representatives of livery companies, local politicians and community leaders, leaders of faith groups, county dignitaries)

From Tell Ye Your Children to Dinner with Polpot: the challenges of globalizing Holocaust memories at Sweden’s Living History Forum

Established in 2003 as Europe’s first publically funded national educational authority on the Holocaust, tolerance, democracy and human rights, Sweden’s Living History Forum (LHF) lies at the intersection of global, national and local Holocaust remembrance cultures and their ‘universalisation’ into the wider study of global ‘Crimes against Humanity’. Beginning with LHF’s origins in 1997’s Living History Project, this paper will discuss major developments within the organization over the last ten years. It will address how LHF has effectively worked in the space between the national and the transnational as well as the controversies that LHF has stimulated, particularly as Conny Mithander has noted, in relation to the representation of communist crimes. This paper will also give an overview of an increasingly critical liberal historiography, which sees LHF as part of a progressively more ‘regularized’ Swedish remembrance culture. My paper will include interview material with Paul Levine and Stéphane Bruchfeld, authors of Tell Ye Your Children as well as information from a 2014 meeting with Marcel Rådström (Educator) and Johan Perwe (Press Officer) at LHF’s premises in Stockholm on 14 May 2014. My paper will also connect the case of LHF to some of the broader findings of my forthcoming book, Holocaust Remembrance Between the National and the Transnational: A Case Study of the Stockholm International Forum (2000) and the First Decade of the ITF

The Holocaust, the Jews of Lithuania and Blair's foreign policy

Holocaust Memorial Day Keynote Lecture, Northampton Synagogue, 26 February 2012. Chair: Dr Paul Jackso

Reflections on trauma and the process of researching and writing the histories and memories of the Holocaust

This paper was delivered at the University of Zaragoza, 'Acts of Remembrance' conference (24-26 April 2013) as part of Dr Allwork and Dr Sonya Andermahr's Santander sponsored trip to promote the Working Group for Interdisciplinary Research in Trauma, Narrative and Performance. Included here is the conference programme as well as reviews of the conference that Dr Allwork and Dr Andermahr posted on the University of Northampton website and research hu