ShoahLab: Holocaust studies laboratory is designed as a hub of disciplinary and methodologically different approaches to Holocaust research. The Laboratory brings together historians, philosophers, sociologist, theorists of visual arts, literature and contemporary media as well as practitioners in the field of museology, education, archiving and librarianship – in a joint effort to shed light on an unimaginable
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The Holocaust Studies Laboratory is the first institutional unit in the higher education system of Serbia dedicated to the academic study of the Holocaust. It was founded with the idea of bringing together researchers, educators, museologists and other experts from this field to create a framework for an interdisciplinary and modern approach to the study of the Holocaust, its social causes and consequences, and its legacy. Special focus is placed on representation studies, Holocaust education, theoretical and philosophical reflections on the Holocaust, transnational studies of the Holocaust and genocides.
Activities of ShoahLab include creating and publishing scientific papers and books, organizing lectures, round tables and conferences, leading research and educational projects, and developing a physical and digital library as an information center for Holocaust and genocide studies in Serbia. The Laboratory currently includes researchers and practitioners from the fields of history, museology, library science, art history, literary studies, education, media and communication studies, philosophy and social theory, sociology, religious studies and memory and representations studies. The goal of ShoahLab is to become a recognized center for the study of the Holocaust and related fields in Serbia and beyond.
Milovan Pisarri, PhD (IFDT, NGO Center for Public History), Predrag Krstić, PhD (IFDT), Vera Mevorah, PhD (IFDT), Marija Velinov (IFDT), Vladimir Cvetković, PhD (IFDT), Biljana Albahari (Serbian National Library), Marko Terzić (Museum 21st October, Kragujevac), Nada Banjanin Đuričić (Railway Technical School Belgrade, NGO Center for public history), Dragana Stojanović, PhD (Faculty for Media and Communications, Singidunum University), prof. Nevena Daković (Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade), Sonja Viličić (Haver Srbija), Stefan Radojković (Indipendent scholar)
Coordinator: Milovan Pisarri, PhD, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, milovan.pisarri@instifdt.bg.ac.rs