An Environmental History of the Holocaust
The spatial turn in Holocaust studies and historical research more broadly has provided some key new insights into how we think about the past and understand people’s lives in relation to their surroundings. This week we will look at a recent special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research which sought to outline an ‘environmental history of the Holocaust’ as an offshoot of the spatial lens. In doing so, we can discuss how spatial histories have evolved and what environmental history can contribute to our understanding of the Holocaust.

Tim Cole, ‘Expanding (Environmental) Histories of the Holocaust’, Journal of Genocide Research 22:2, (2020), pp. 273-279.

Jacek Małczyński, ‘The Politics of Nature at the Former Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp’, Journal of Genocide Research 22:2, (2020), pp. 197-219.
Date: 3 November 2020, 14:00
Venue: Online
Speaker: N/A
Organiser: Barnabas Balint (Magdalen)
Part of: Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: Barnabas.balint@magd.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence