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Comment: Cites mostly UU's own website. Primary sources cannot establish notability per WP:ORG. The sole secondary source is alone not enough. DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:19, 17 September 2025 (UTC)
The Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (UHGS) (Swedish: Uppsala centrum för Förintelse- och folkmordsstudier), previously known as the Hugo Valentin Centre, is a research center and educational unit at Uppsala University specialising in the research fields of Holocaust history and historiography and comparative genocide studies. The primary areas of studies lie in the social and social-psychological dynamics of violence, transitional justice, geostatistical analysis (GIS) and memory culture in relation to the Holocaust and other outbreaks of mass violence.[1] The activities of the UHGS are mainly funded by the Faculty of History and Philosophy, the Faculty of Linguistics and Philology and the Faculty of Political Sciences at Uppsala University.
It also aims to educate on genocide and other forms of mass violence through their interdisciplinary Master's Programme in Holocaust and Genocide Studies while also planning to start a new international Bachelor's programme in the same field. The Centre is a unit at the Department of History at Uppsala University, located at the English Park Campus (Swedish: Campus Engelska Parken).[1]
History
[edit]Similar research was conducted at the Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Swedish: Programmet för studier kring Förintelsen och folkmord), who commenced their research in 1998. The institute later got merged with the Centre for Multiethnic Research to establish the Hugo Valentin Centre in January 2010, named after the former Swedish Professor Hugo Valentin.[2] The newly formed Centre focused its studies on two main fields: Holocaust and Genocide Studies as well as research on ethnicity and the national minorities in the Nordic region. Due to a lack of funding in recent years, only research on the Holocaust and genocide remains active.[3]
In 2025, the Hugo Valentin Centre changed its name to the Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. While the name change was met with criticism, claiming the name change would weaken the center's historical connection to Jewish history[4][2], the Dean of the Faculty of Arts Erik Lindberg argues that the name change will lead to increased visibility in the research field and aims to get the research to be noticed.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies - Uppsala University". www.uu.se. 2025-08-28. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
- ^ a b info199275 (2025-01-09). "Debattartikel i UNT om namnbytet på Hugo Valentin-Centrum". judiskacentralradet (in Swedish). Retrieved 2025-09-17.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Det nya namnet på Hugo Valentin-centrum speglar dess fokus". Arbetaren (in Swedish). 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
- ^ Nyheter, S. V. T. (2025-01-10). "Hård kritik mot Uppsala universitet efter namnbyte på centrum för Förintelsestudier". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2025-09-15.
- ^ "New name for Hugo Valentin Centre - Uppsala University". www.uu.se. 2025-01-13. Retrieved 2025-09-15.
- ^ Nyheter, S. V. T. (2025-01-28). "Internationellt upprop mot Uppsala universitet: "Förolämpning"". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2025-09-17.
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