Yad Vashem and USC Shoah Foundation partner in the framework of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) to offer a free early-career Holocaust research seminar.?

This seminar brings together PhD students and early-career researchers (PhD conferred 2021-2026) from IHRA member, observer, and liaison countries to broaden and deepen their subject expertise, teaching and research capabilities, and interdisciplinary professional networks.?

Conveners from Israel’s 2025 – 2026 IHRA Presidency, Yad Vashem, the USC Shoah Foundation, and the IHRA Academic Working Group provide framing and continuity through a four-part seminar consisting of Zoom guest lectures (Part I), self-paced online learning (Part II), in-person exchange and study at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw (Part III), and a series of Zoom wrap-up sessions following the in-person programme (Part IV). The seminar will be conducted in English.?Leading scholars have agreed to participate. These include Christoph Dieckmann, Mary Fulbrook, Andrea L?w, Robert Rozett, David Silberklang, Robert J. Williams, Catherine E. Clark, and Arkadi Zeltser. ?

Travel and accommodation for the in-person seminar will be covered.?

Application deadline: 15 April, 2026. ?

Recommendation letters (for PhD candidates only) are due by 22 April 2026.

Participants will be chosen by the seminar’s steering committee members and notified by 15 June 2026.

More information on the seminar, eligibility, and the application is available? here.