About the Annual Scholars’ Conference
Founded in 1970 by Franklin H. Littell and Hubert G. Locke, the ASC provides an invaluable forum for scholars to discuss and advance Holocaust research, ensuring the valuable lessons of the Holocaust remain relevant for today’s world. This conference offers the opportunity to address the historical significance of the Holocaust through scholarship that is interfaith, international, and interdisciplinary.
Various universities have held it over the years, but the Ackerman Center at The University of Texas at Dallas has been its permanent home since 2018. A list of past venues can be found here.
“When Franklin Littell and Hubert Locke convened the first Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches in 1970, many deemed it the dawn of Holocaust Studies as an academic discipline. Truly intergenerational and interdisciplinary, the ASC embodies the enduring memory and testimony summoned in the systematic murder of European Jewry.”
Dr. David Patterson,
Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair of Holocaust Studies
