Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event
Holocaust Literatures: A Comparative Approach
planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/641764
Featuring Victoria Aarons, Jonathan Druker, Ariane Santerre, and Sue Vice
Please join us!
Monday, May 11
10 AM PT/12 PM CT/1 PM ET
Online Only | Registration required
"'Thirst is dreadful, worse than hunger': Dehydration, Despair, and Death in the Holocaust," featuring Ed Westermann (Northwestern University)
Wednesday, May 13, 5–7 PM
Harris Hall, Room 108
In-Person Only | Reception to Follow
More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/641469
Call for Applications: Seminar Participant Applications
hef.northwestern.edu/lessons-and-...
Lessons & Legacies XVIII
Chicago, Illinois 12-15 November 2026
Submission Deadline: 04 May 2026 (11:59 PM Pacific Time)
HEFNU congratulates the recipients of our 2026-2027 Academic Year Teaching Grants.
More information can be found at hef.northwestern.edu/grants/teach...
Public Lecture: "I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany," featuring Sam Huneke (George Mason University)
planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/640719
Wednesday, April 22 | 5:00-7:00 PM | Harris Hall, Room 108
In-Person Only | Open to the Public | Reception to Follow
Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues: ‘Race’, Whiteness, and Holocaust Refugees in the Colonial World
Registration: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
9AM PT/11AM CT/ 12 PM Eastern Time
We have extended the Sharon and Earl Abramson Research Grant deadline - APPLY NOW!
Deadline: Sunday, March 1 (11:59 PM, U.S. Pacific Standard Time)
More information here:
hef.northwestern.edu/grants/sharo...
We have extended the Summer Institute Application Deadline - APPLY NOW!
Deadline: Sunday, February 15 (11:59 PM, U.S. Pacific Standard Time)
More information here:
hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/n...
Institute Dates: June 21 - July 3, 2026
Annual Winter Lecture
“The Nazi Transport of 440 Romani Women and Girls from Austria’s Burgenland in June 1939: A Microhistory”
Featuring Tiarra Maznick (Northwestern University)
More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/638521
The Winter 2026 Newsletter is here! Thank you to everyone who sent in submissions. Find it on our website: hef.northwestern.edu/about/newsle...
HEFNU Series: Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues
"New Research on Treblinka: Landscapes, Evidence, and Memory"
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 11 AM PT/1PM CT/2PM ET
Registration is required: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
APPLY NOW!
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 February 2026, 11:59 PM PST
hef.northwestern.edu/grants/sharo...
HEFNU awards Sharon and Earl Abramson Research Grants each year to support research related to the Holocaust.
APPLY NOW!
hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/n...
Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization – Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University
Institute Dates: June 21 - July 3, 2026
Application Deadline: Sunday, February 1 (11:59 PM, U.S. Pacific Standard Time)
This Giving Tuesday, please consider giving a donation to the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU). HEFNU supports and advances Holocaust Research and Education at institutions of higher learning. Please donate today at: hef.northwestern.edu/support/.
HEFNU's inaugural Emerging Scholars Lessons & Legacies Conference took place from 6-9 November 2025. HEFNU thanks the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University for co-sponsoring the Conference and hosting it in Worcester, MA, USA.
“Family and the Global History of the Holocaust,” Lecture & Lunch featuring Jan Láníček
Register here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/635430
Friday, November 21, 12-2 PM | Harris Hall, Room 108
The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU) is accepting proposals for Academic Year 2026-2027 Teaching Grants.
More information can be found at hef.northwestern.edu/grants/teach...
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 8 December 2025, 11:59 PM PST
Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues Series:
“Confinement, Deportation, and Transit”
Register here:
northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Please join us!
Tuesday, November 18
12:00-1:00 PM (Eastern Time, USA)
Online Only | Registration Required
Annual HEFNU/CCHS Lecture
"Representing the Operation Reinhard Killing Centers in Contemporary Holocaust Fiction"
Featuring Erin McGlothlin (Washington University in St. Louis)
More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/631594
Virtual Speakers Bureau Highlight Event: Comparative Approaches to Holocaust Geographies
Learn more here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/632900
Wednesday, October 29, 12:00-1:00 PM (CST)
Online Only | Registration required
HEFNU is excited to announce the publication of The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau, co-edited by HEFNU director Sarah M. Cushman along with Joanne Pettitt and Dominic Williams.
A purchase link for the book with a 20% discount is available here:
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Virtual Book Launch:
The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Tuesday, September 16, 11 AM ET/4 PM BT
Register Here: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
HEFNU’s 29th annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, held from June 22 to July 4, saw another wonderful cohort of Fellows. Learn more about our annual Summer Institute here: hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/n...
Apply Now!
HEFNU Regional Institute: Los Angeles
HEFNU and Loyola Marymount University are pleased to announce the Regional Institute “Acts of Translation: Personal Stories in a Post-survivor World.”
Details and application requirements can be found here:
hef.northwestern.edu/institutes/r...
Call for Papers:
LESSONS & LEGACIES XVIII
HEFNU at 50: Contexts, Connections, and (Dis)Continuities
International Conference on the Holocaust
hef.northwestern.edu/lessons-and-...
12-15 November 2026 (Thursday–Sunday)
Chicago, Illinois
Submission Deadline: 15 December 2025
The Summer 2025 Newsletter is here! Thank you to everyone who sent in submissions. Find it on our website: hef.northwestern.edu/about/newsle...
Featuring Monique Balbuena, Daniel Greene, Maja Kruse, and Alexandria N. Ruble
#hefnu #holocauststudies #holocausteducation #newsletter
On Tuesday, May 6, HEFNU hosted our annual Theodore “Zev” Weiss Lecture in Holocaust Studies, “Unlikely Allies: Jewish Middle Aged Photographers and the Trans Camera.” Thank you, Jennifer Evans, for joining us at Northwestern!
We are pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the HEFNU Sharon Abramson Research Grants to support research related to the Holocaust.
More information about this year’s recipients can be found on our website:
hef.northwestern.edu/grants/sharo...
HEFNU Series on Holocaust Studies and Contemporary Issues
What is Nazism? What is Fascism? (Online Roundtable)
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 12 PM (Noon Eastern Time)
Registration is required: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Emerging Scholars Program (Online Only)
“Alternatives to Academia (“Alt-Ac”) in Holocaust Studies”
Wednesday, May 14th, 11am-1pm EST
Featuring Dr. Susan Perlman (USHMM) and Dr. Ian Rich (Wiener Holocaust Library)
More information here: planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/628795