CONFERENCE SUMMARY WHAT BRITAIN KNEW: THE HOLOCAUST AND NAZI CRIMES On the 30th November 2014, Staffordshire University through the Centre of Archaeology hosted the conference ‘What Britain Knew: The Holocaust and Nazi Crimes’. The conference, which was supported by the UK Chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and organised by the Centre of…
Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls presented her work at Treblinka at the Archaeology of Violence: Wartime Violence, Mass Violence conference this month. Her paper, entitled “Mapping Nazi Terror: Archaeological Investigations at Treblinka Extermination and Labour Camps” outlined the results of her work at the extermination and labour camps. The conference was organised by the National Institute of Preventive Archaeological…
A new book and exhibition were launched this month which include the results of Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls’ research at Staro Sajmiste in Serbia. Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth is the culmination of a collaborative partnership between Dr Sturdy Colls and artists, filmmakers, lawyers, and theorists who participated directly in the “Forensic Architecture” project in…
On 22nd-23rd January, Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls presented her research at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Conference in Krakow, Poland. Her paper, entitled ‘Learning from the Present to Understand the Past: Forensic and Archaeological Approaches to Sites of the Holocaust’, addressed how forensic and archaeological methods can be used to search for mass grave sites.…
Over the summer months, staff from the Centre of Archaeology have been involved in a number of exciting fieldwork projects, conferences and events: June 2013 Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls participated in a research visit to Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia Herzogovina with the Terrorscapes Research Group. Fifteen international scholars visited sites from the Second World War,…
Dr Caroline Sturdy Colls recently presented at the Competing Memories conference in Amsterdam and Westerbork in The Netherlands. She spoke about her research in the area of Holocaust archaeology and outlined many of the challenges faced by archaeologists seeking to investigate sites from this period. Dr Sturdy Colls also gave an official response to the…
