{"id":2484,"date":"2019-10-24T07:17:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T06:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.manchester.ac.uk\/hcri\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2021-11-05T15:48:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T15:48:38","slug":"academic-spotlight-dr-antoine-burgard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.manchester.ac.uk\/hcri\/2019\/10\/24\/academic-spotlight-dr-antoine-burgard\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Spotlight: Dr Antoine Burgard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Antoine Burgard is a visiting postdoctoral fellow at HCRI.\u00a0 He has recently been appointed to the role of Lecturer in Contemporary History of Humanitarianism and Disasters, which will begin in January 2020.<\/p>\n

Before completing a PhD in History from Universit\u00e9 Lumi\u00e8re Lyon 2 and Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec\u00a0\u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, Antoine\u2019s curiosity in the displacement of Holocaust survivors began to develop during his bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n

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In 2010, Antoine worked on an internship at the Centre d’histoire de la\u00a0R\u00e9sistance\u00a0et de la\u00a0D\u00e9portation in Lyon. \u201cThe internship made me realise that I was really interested, yes in the Holocaust, but more so on the idea of its aftermath,\u201d reflects Antoine.<\/p>\n

With his interest sparked, Antoine transitioned his research to focus on Holocaust survivors who migrated to North America. He worked in archives in Montreal, gaining access to a vast supply of documents that told the stories of Holocaust orphans who tried to apply for Canadian visas.<\/p>\n

A key question Antoine has considered in his work is age categorisation. During his research he realised: \u201cWhere do you draw the line between a child and an adult? What is exactly the category of a teenager or adolescent?\u201d Antoine says that these questions are important because they have a massive impact on the lives of young people in situations of conflict and displacement.<\/p>\n

On completing his PhD in 2017, for which he was awarded Best Doctoral Thesis from the International Council for Canadian Studies, the French Association for Canadian Studies, and the Fondation Auschwitz, Antoine secured a two-year funding with the M\u00e9morial de la Shoah in Paris as well as a grant from the Fondation Claude Levy in Strasbourg to conduct an oral history project with Holocaust survivors in France, Belgium and Britain.<\/p>\n

Based on his work, Antoine has developed a teaching toolkit which will be used by the history teachers at the European School of Strasbourg to encourage students to learn more about the fate of Jewish children during the Holocaust and to critically question the use of testimonies in history.<\/p>\n

Antoine is sharing his research in the classroom. He has developed the course \u2018Children in War and Displacement\u2019<\/a>, which allows him to demonstrate both the usefulness of his discipline and the importance of adopting a historical perspective on current humanitarian issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I think is really interesting in HCRI is that it brings together a lot of different disciplines, even though it definitely takes you out of your comfort zone,\u201d reflects Antoine.<\/p>\n

Antoine explains how, although being a historian, he did not want to be in a history department. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to work with people that are in different disciplines but who have similar questions.\u201d Antoine describes how the staff at HCRI are careful to engage with current news, something he does not see as much in history departments.<\/p>\n

Antoine has recently obtained an early career fellowship at the John Rylands Research Institute to work on a new project with HCRI and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) during which he will continue investigating the importance of age in migration control.<\/p>\n

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