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The Chair of Excellence “Holocaust and Genocide Studies”
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The Chair of Excellence “Holocaust and Genocide Studies” was created in September 2024 at the University of Caen. It is the first Chair of Excellence in France devoted to the Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Its three-year mission is to develop research of excellence and to promote this research on a national and international scale.The Chair focuses on “Experienced spaces and representations of space in the Holocaust and mass violence”, with particular expertise on the occupied Soviet Union (1941-1944). She is part of a dynamic international research program on the geography of the Shoah, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe.Marie Moutier-Bitan holds a doctorate in contemporary history and is a graduate of EHESS. Her work focuses in particular on the use of rivers in mass violences. Pauline Anicet, PhD in contemporary history from Bordeaux Montaigne University, is a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair. She is working on the practices of genocidal violence in different terrains and timeframes (Belarus, Rwanda).