International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)
Early-Career Holocaust Research Seminar.
Deadline for Applications: 15 April 2026
IHRA free seminar offers early-career researchers an opportunity to strengthen their subject expertise, expand their professional network, and engage with leading scholars in the field.
Seminar Overview
Yad Vashem and USC Shoah Foundation partner in the framework of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance 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 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 Löw, Robert Rozett, David Silberklang, Robert J. Williams, Catherine E. Clark, and Arkadi Zeltser.
The seminar is open to all students and early-career researchers from IHRA member, observer, and liaison countries and working in any relevant academic discipline who are either currently enrolled in a PhD program at an accredited university or received a PhD from an accredited university between 2021 and 2026. Relevant academic disciplines include but are not limited to history, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, political science, area or regional studies, cultural, film, music and visual art studies, and literature.
There is no tuition fee. In addition to academic content, the seminar offers participants an opportunity to build professional connections across IHRA countries and disciplines. The organizers will cover the cost of economy class flights or train, ground transportation, and lodging for the in-person portion of the seminar and offer either a stipend for meals or actual meals during the seminar.
For more details of the four-seminar and how to apply, please see IHRA’s announcement: “Apply to early-career Holocaust research seminar”
Deadline: All materials must be received by 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.