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Taking place in Prague, Czech Republic, the 2023 lessons & legacies conference will be the first to be conducted in east-central europe, a region in which nazi occupation and racial policies intersected with competing nationalisms, shifting borders, and the sovereignty of new nation states. it will be the second european iteration of the conference series, after the 2019 lessons & legacies conference in munich.taking its location as a point of departure, but not limiting the geographical scope of conference presentations, we invite proposals that investigate the crossings of boundaries of various kinds, including national and group or community histories as well as scholarly disciplines. combining a thematic and a methodological track, the prague lessons & legacies conference aims to promote scholarly debate on the manifold divides and connections that exist in holocaust studies.sponsored by the holocaust educational foundation of northwestern university, center for holocaust studies at the leibniz institute for contemporary history, the german federal agency for civic education, masaryk institute and archives of the czech academy of sciences, and the charles university, the conference invites proposals for papers, panels, and workshops. for more info see HERE