Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Upcoming events
Each year we host a series of free seminars and lectures which is open to graduates, students, staff and members of the public:
The 2025 Stanley Burton Centre's Aubrey Newman Lecture
Thursday, 27 November, 2025 - 5.30pm
University of Leicester, Attenborough Tower , Main Campus, Room 101
How do we commemorate the Holocaust in the absence of not only survivors but of the physical places of suffering themselves? Many Holocaust sites are simply not only inaccessible for most people but sometimes simply gone. The Janowska camp in Lviv, Ukraine is one such place. Perhaps as many as 80,000 Jews were murdered there between 1941 and 1944. In this lecture, Dr. Beorn will present the history of the camp and then discuss his current project of digitally reconstructing the camp from photographs, drawings, and survivor testimony.
Hybrid Lecture - 'Writing Cultural Histories of Nazi Germany: Thoughts from the Concert Hall'
Tuesday, 2 December, 5.30pm
University of Leicester Attenborough Tower, University of Leicester, Room 101, and online.
Neil Gregor will discuss what a study of orchestras and their audiences can tell us about the social and cultural history of Nazi Germany more generally. It brings the regime's attempts to engineer a new 'listening community' in the concert hall from 1933 onwards into dialogue with wider questions about the transformation - or not - of German subjectivities during the Nazi era. Dispensing with belletristic conceits regarding the concert hall as a space of political and emotional retreat, it explores how the mobilization of German society behind the politics of the regime was pursued in the domain of classical music.
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