The study of gender in the Holocaust confronts the question of how to fruitfully integrate the histories of occupation, antisemitism, and ethnic racism, as well as issues of competing victimhood in the various countries of East Central Europe remain a research challenge and a point of contention in public and scholarly debate. There are also scholarly challenges when one considers the intersectionality of religious, ethnic, and gender identities and the impact, tensions, and traumas they have produced.
The Women in the Holocaust International annual conference wants to promote scholarly discussion and debate on the various divides, connections, and intersections that can be found in Holocaust and Gender Studies about women in the Holocaust.
The Women in the Holocaust conference aims to probe and challenge disciplinary boundaries to advance multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary inquiries into the subject of women in the Holocaust. The various conference streams include the methodological connections involved in placing the Holocaust in the context of social, cultural, and gender studies.