Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion exploring the ever-evolving ways we interact and engage with the Holocaust, inspired by Professor Dan Stone’s book, The Holocaust: An Unfinished History.
The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialised and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked.
Drawing on decades of research, The Holocaust: An Unfinished History upends much of what we think we know about the Holocaust. Stone draws on Nazi documents, but also on diaries, post-war testimonies and even fiction, urging that, in our age of increasing nationalism and xenophobia, we must understand the true history of the Holocaust.
As new discoveries continuously reshape our understanding, this conversation will look into the unfinished nature of Holocaust studies, examining the latest scholarship, film interpretations, and the uncomfortable truths that often remain unaddressed or omitted. The discussion will also delve into how research extends beyond the academic sphere, reaching the general audience through film, literature, and other media.
Dan Stone
Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author or editor of 20 books, including most recently: The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Penguin, 2023; paperback 2024), Fate Unknown: Tracing the Missing after World War II and the Holocaust (OUP, 2023), and volume 1 of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Holocaust (CUP, 2024), co-edited with Mark Roseman. Dan has recently completed a study of psychoanalysis and Holocaust survival and is now writing a book on the Holocaust in Romania.
Sue Vice
Sue Vice is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield where she teaches contemporary literature, film and Holocaust studies. Her latest books are Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ Outtakes: Holocaust Rescue and Resistance (2021) and the co-edited collection The Politics of Dementia: Forgetting and Remembering the Violent Past in Literature, Film and Graphic Narratives (2021), with Irmela Krüger-Fürhoff and Nina Schmidt. Sue is currently working on a study of Holocaust representation in popular British and Irish fiction.
Barry Langford
Barry Langford is Professor of Film Studies based at the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond (Edinburgh University Press, 2005) and Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film (with Robert Eaglestone, Palgrave Macmillan 2007) and Post-Classical Hollywood (2010). His original short screenplay Torte Bluma was filmed in 2005 and premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, going on to win awards at international festivals. He is the co-creator and co-author of the 6-part ITV drama series The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015). He is currently completing a book-length study of the subject entitled Darkness Visible: The Holocaust in Cinematic Memory.
