As the last eyewitnesses to the Holocaust pass away, tourism's importance to the future of Holocaust memory becomes in increasingly conspicuous, for better and for worse. As a rapidly expanding form of remembrance, tourism to Holocaust memorials, museums, and sites of catastrophe is testing the limits of representation. In Germany, for instance, some memorial managers suggest that the current exhibition designs fail to engage visitors, necessitating new approaches. This seminar invites participants to share and debate the educational and more broadly societal impact of tourism to sites of Holocaust and Nazi remembrance. We welcome contributions that stem from humanities and social science disciplinary methods, including theoretical considerations, ethnographic studies, and other empirical analyses to develop a richer, more evidence-based analysis of tourism's place in remembering the Holocaust and the Nazi past more broadly.

We aim to convene an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners at all career stages from the social sciences, the humanities, and public education in order to ask what sites of Holocaust remembrance can and do achieve, and where they fall short. As scholars and critics, what expectations should we articulate, and what methodologies, disciplinary practices, and responsibilities do we have to engage with these sites and the publics they address?

To apply, please use the following link: https://www.xcdsystem.com/gsa/member/index.cfm (you have to be a member of the German Studies Association).