The journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies (HGS) provides the premier forum for social-science and humanities scholarship on the Holocaust and other genocides. Research articles, interpretive essays, and book reviews compel readers to consider major moral issues, the role of science and technology in human affairs, significant political and social factors, and a variety of aspects of human behavior. Abstracts of previous articles may be viewed at http://www3.oup.co.uk/holgen.

HGS welcomes the submission of articles for editorial consideration. Submission involves the tacit assurance that the material has not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. To be accepted for publication, all articles must pass a peer review by at least two experts in the field.

Authors should submit three (3) copies of their manuscript to:

The Editors
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A separate title page should contain the title of the article, the author's name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. Manuscripts should be no longer than 10,000 words, and must be accompanied by an abstract and a brief biography of the author (each approximately 100 words in length). In general, manuscripts should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.

The 7th US/ICOMOS International Symposium
LEARNING FROM WORLD HERITAGE: Lessons in International Preservation & Stewardship of Cultural & Natural Resources of Global Significance
25-27 March 2004 - Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA

An indispensable symposium for all involved in heritage protection and management. Since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention in 1972, consensus on its criteria and operational guidelines has been shaped by a rich international discussion strongly influenced by the heritage policies of its 176 state parties, including the United States. Reciprocally, World Heritage policies and principles have returned home to every country to refine and enhance each nations' ability to address the complexity of its cultural and national heritage.

A major influence in this exchange was the search in recent decades by preservation stewardship professionals, agencies and institutions in many nations for ways to protect and interpret areas whose significance is inextricably bound to both natural and cultural resources. In the early
1990s, after a decade of extensive debate, the World Heritage Committee adopted definitions of designed, evolved and associative landscapes and an evaluation structure that enable ICOMOS to inscribe cultural landscapes of universal value in the World Heritage List. During the same period, the consideration of natural resources progressed under IUCN. In the United States, conceptualizing heritage at the territorial level has led to the rapid growth of heritage areas and corridors as tools for both preservation and community development. Within ICOMOS, the territorial concept of a cultural itinerary has been effectively expanded to address assemblies of non-contiguous territories unified by an overarching theme. The effectiveness of de-fragmenting protective mechanisms through consolidation of valued heritage into broader protected territories is indicated by the diversity of cultural itineraries and cultural landscapes recently inscribed in the World Heritage List.

Today, after more than a decade of global activity, it is timely to re-examine preservation and conservation work at the intersection of cultural and natural resources in an interdisciplinary forum. The Scientific Committee of the 7th US/ICOMOS International Symposium requests 250 to 300
word abstracts of papers from professionals in any nation of the world that address resources of national and global significance focusing on progress, emerging trends, current issues in:

1. Global and national thinking about international charters, declarations, philosophical constructs and national guidance for the stewardship of
cultural landscapes, heritage areas, protected areas, biosphere reserves, and mixed resources of national and global significance;

2. Proven practices and challenges in addressing the protection, understanding, enjoyment and sustainability of cultural landscapes, heritage
areas, protected areas, biosphere reserves, and mixed resources of national and global significance;

3. Identification, designation, protection, interpretation, management and financing for inhabited areas rich in cultural and natural resources of
national and global significance;

4. Preservation of the cultural and natural resources and uniqueness of communities in and adjoining heritage areas, biosphere reserves, and cultural landscapes addressing financial, social and cultural investments and benefits to the local inhabitants.

US/ICOMOS seeks interesting and challenging papers providing a global geographic capture to address these topics as a platform for dialogue among presenters those attending. An exploration of current practices, successes and conflicts in the emerging areas of integrated cultural and natural resource protection, planning, stewardship, management and interpretation is anticipated.

The 7th US/ICOMOS International Symposium will be held in Natchitoches, Louisiana, a city of rich heritage in northwestern Louisiana, USA.
Co-sponsors are the United States Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS), the National Park Service National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, the Cane River National Heritage Area Commission. Partners in the symposium include the Cane River National Historical Park, Northwestern State University, the City of Natchitoches, the Louisiana Preservation Alliance, the Natchitoches Historic Foundation, Natchitoches Main Street and the Natchitoches Parish Tourist Commission.

Please send abstracts by November 7, 2003, in English, by e-mail, either within the main text of the message or as attachments in Word or Word Perfect files to: symposium@usicomos.org. Submit any illustrations attached in jpeg format. Authors selected for presenting fully developed papers in Natchitoches will be notified by 2 January 2003. The 2004 Scientific Committee members are Patricia M. O'Donnell, FASLA, AICP, chair, Kirk Cordell, NCPTT, Saidee Newell, Natchitoches, Charles Leider, FASLA, Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA and Darwina Neal, FASLA. Papers selected will be presented in English, as no simultaneous translation will be provided at the Symposium. The US/ICOMOS 2004 Symposium Scientific Committee may invite authors of papers not selected for presentation to prepare their work for a
poster session. All papers will be published in a set of bound proceedings later in 2004.

Note: US/ICOMOS will make every attempt to secure funding (but cannot guarantee) to cover all or part of the travel costs of speakers whose papers are selected for presentation at the 7th International Symposium.

Polish-Jewish Relations in the Aftermath of the Shoah
Contributions are sought to a collection of essays on the subject of Polish-Jewish relations in the aftermath of the Shoah. We are particularly interested in including texts that mobilize a wide range of theoretical vocabularies, including philosophical, psychoanalytic, and literary approaches (e.g. post-structuralism and deconstruction; Levinas-inspired ethics; Freudian and post-Freudian approaches to trauma, mourning, witnessing etc.; cultural studies work on race, national identity and ethnicity, to name but a few).

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
The project was originally inspired by the publication of J.T. Gross's book Neighbors, in which he writes about the murders of hundreds of Jews by their Polish neighbors in 1941, in the town of Jedwabne, and the resulting public discussion about Polish-Jewish relations. The controversy revealed that the Holocaust memory in Poland is a memory in conflict, while questions about the role of Poles in the pogroms and Polish attitudes toward the Jews remain largely untheorized, despite a number of ardent exchanges on the topic. At the same time, the debate surrounding Gross's book drew attention to the multiple images of Poland and Polishness circulating in diasporic stories of survival, migration and return, on both sides of the Atlantic. While the issue of Jedwabne remains the nodal point of our book, we are particularly interested in questions concerning the representations of Jews and Jewishness in the Polish cultural and historical imaginary (for example, in terms of loss, absence, mourning or nostalgia; in the context of Polish national narratives of heroism, oppression and liberation; in relation to anti-semitic topoi, etc.) and, conversely, Jewish representations of Poles and Poland (for example, Poland as the place of origin and the site of trauma, a graveyard, an absent presence, an imaginary homeland reconfigured in terms of narratives of exile and survival, of brotherhood and betrayal). We want to start by posing the following questions: Are forgiveness and reconciliation between Poles and Jews possible or even desirable, and what do these terms mean, considering the post-Shoah history of irreconcilable differences? Can Poles bear witness to Jewish suffering, or are they false witnesses? On the other hand, to what extent is the Jewish narrative of continuing survival grounded in the foreclosure of the Polish narrative? Further, what is the effect of that exclusion on the popular imagination, as reflected in recent cultural productions? What is the relation between Poland's effort to come to terms with its Jewish legacy and the changing geo-political configurations in Europe?

Please e-mail a proposal of 500 words to both Dr. Dorota Glowacka (Associate Professor of Contemporary Studies, University of King's College, Canada) e-mail: dorota.glowacka@ns.sympatico.ca and Dr. Joanna Zylinska (Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of Surrey Roehampton, UK) e-mail: j.zylinska@virgin.net before June 5, 2003. Contributors will be notified about the acceptance of their papers at the beginning of July 2003. The deadline for the submission of final chapters will be January 2004.