Witnessing. Sites of Destruction and the Representation of the Holocaust

Programm

Introduction to the Conference
(Habbo Knoch, Henri Lustiger-Thaler)

Opening Lecture
(Chair: Geoffrey Hartman)
Victims and Perpetrators in Holocaust Historiography
(Hans Mommsen, München)

I. Beyond Authenticity: Camp Sites and Memorial Cultures
(Chair: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Hannover)

• Rainer Schulze (Essex/UK): Immediate Images. Narrating the British Discovery of Belsen
• Teresa Swiebocka: The Politics of Place. Nazi Camp Sites in Poland
• Heidemarie Uhl (Wien): Symbolic Places. Camp Sites as Landscapes of Memory

II. Remembering Destruction: Social Memory and Personal Recollections
(Chair: David Bankier, tbc)

• Henri Lustiger-Thaler: Holocaust Lists and the Memorial Museum
• Insa Eschebach (Ravensbrück): Rituals and Iconographies at Concentration Camp Sites
• Zoe Waxman (London): Words of Pain. Interpreting Personal Memories of the Holocaust

Key Note Lecture
(Chair: David Marwell, New York)
Holocaust Testimony in a Genocidal Era: Authentic Memory and Commemoration
(Geoffrey Hartman)

III. Representations of Destruction: Imagining the Place of the Individual
(Chair: Henri Lustiger-Thaler)

• Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (New York): Overdue Memories. The Jewish Museum at Warsaw
• Esther Farbstein (Jerusalem): Ultra Orthodox Collections of Testimonies: History and Characteristics

Project Report
(Chair: Paul Shapiro, Washington)

• Pere Patrick Desbois (Paris): Uncovering Hidden Traces. Mass Graves in Ukraine and Belarus

IV. Extended Memory: Genocide Museums and Human Rights Education
(Chair: Rainer Schulze, Essex/UK)

• Paul Williams: Remembering Genocides. The Global Rush to Commemorate
• Habbo Knoch: Beyond the Individual. Memory and Democracy in Contemporary Politics
• Mark Weitzman (New York): The Tolerance Project at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, New York
• Anja Schade (Bergen-Belsen): Teaching Democracy? Memorial Sites and Human Rights Education in Germany

Public Panel Discussion (Celle)
Historical Sites, Individual Testimonies and the Future of Memorial Museums
(Chair: Bernd Weisbrod, Göttingen)
(Participants with Statements: Geoffrey Hartman, Thomas Lutz, Paul Shapiro)

V. Perspectives: Memory and Witnessing in the 21st Century
(Chair: Joanne Rudof)
Lawrence Langer: Deep Memory Revisited. Where Does it Lead Us?

(Chair: Habbo Knoch)
Annette Wieviorka (Paris): Cultures of Witnessing and Memory. Entering the 21st Century

Closing Discussion
Participation of all Conference Speakers and Moderators welcome

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