We've got a busy programme of events this term. First up, Barnabas Balint @barnabasbalint.bsky.social (research fellow at @ushmm.bsky.social) is speaking on 'Writing a History of Animals During the Holocaust'. Tues 21 Jan, 16.30-17.30 in Amory 239C. Abstract here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/holocaustand...

"The work of an overlooked German-Jewish artist who created the UK’s first memorial to victims of Nazi persecution is to be the focus of an exhibition that shines light on the unreported aspects of his life" @theguardian.com Only on display until 6 February!

For the first time in its history, the Auschwitz museum jas banned all speeches from politicians at its event on 27 January to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Farewell snowy rooftops of Exeter. This time, try not to take another seven years to return. (Tomorrow normal service resumes: 15 degrees and solid rain).

Just visited the UK Covid-19 Inquiry memorial tapestries for my forthcoming book with Routledge. Fine as artworks, though difficult to imagine them getting much public traction in a government office corridor behind airport-level security.

We have just started an Interdisciplinary Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, funded by Leverhulme at the University of Stirling. With Prof John Sutton as director and me as Deputy with academics from philosophy, psychology, heritage, anthropology, arts etc. we can’t wait to get stuck in!

Recently co-edited by @exetercihgs.bsky.social member Caroline Fournet: Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions, Studies in International Criminal Law (Leiden: Brill / Nijhoff Publishers, 2024) brill.com/display/titl...

Recently co-authored by @exetercihgs.bsky.social member Klejda Mulaj: 'The International Criminal Court and Responsibility for Mass Atrocities: Can JCE Enhance Capacity to Hold Masterminds Accountable?’, Contemporary Justice Review, 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Here's my open-access @holocauststudies.bsky.social article from earlier in 2024: ‘"Never right to make comparisons"? Holocaust memory, climate crisis, and the debate over appropriate discourse': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....