Call for Papers | 'The Violence of Silence: Overlooked Holocaust Histories' Conference | UCD, 23-24 January 2026
The conference explores the conscious and unconscious mechanisms through which silence
functions as a transnational tool of exclusion, distortion, and, ultimately, continued violence. It sheds light on the silenced or marginalised dimensions of Holocaust history and memory, and examines literary works that instead, deepen and extend official narratives while challenging the rhetorical and political limits of transnational slogans such as "Never forget" and "Never again" (e.g., Knittel, 2015; Subotić, 2019; Pisanty, 2020; Vice, 2020). It brings together scholars working on how silence operates as a site of violence and how the acknowledgement of silence functions as a form of healing. It considers the role of literature in encouraging readers to break cycles of forgetting and in offering non-canonical images for cultivating new forms of memory, justice, and solidarity today.
- Call for Papers submission deadline: 22nd August 2025
- Full conference and call details available HERE
Co-organisers: Dr Mara Josi (UCD) and Dr Lindsay Thistle (Wilfrid Laurier University)