Panel 1: Children and Youth during the Holocaust
(Chair: Debórah Dwork)
- Joanna Sliwa: Coping with the Distorted Reality: Children in the Krakow
Ghetto
- Jeffrey Koerber: Beyond the Polemics: Jewish Youth in Soviet Vitebsk on
the Eve of the Holocaust
- Henricus Theo Gerardus (Harry) Monkel (Amsterdam): Prosperity and Survival?
1500 Jewish Children in Occupied Amsterdam
Panel 2: The Holocaust in the East
(Chair: Thomas Kühne)
- Waitman W. Beorn: Gray Areas in White Russia: Examining Complicity of
Wehrmacht Units in the Holocaust in Belarus
- Martin R. Gutmann: Scandinavian Waffen-SS Officers and the Holocaust
- Eric C. Steinhart: Family, Fascists, and „Volksdeutsche“: The
Bogdanovka Collective Farm and the Holocaust in Ukraine
- Jared McBride (Los Angeles/USA): Popular Anti-Jewish Violence during the
Summer of 1941 in Ukraine: Olevs’k and Beyond
Panel 3: Collective Memory
(Chair: Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Danish
Institute for International Studies, Denmark)
- Jeremy Maron: Unbridgeable History: Towards a Heuristic of Canadian
Holocaust Cinema
- Jacob S. Eder: The New Germany and the „Americanization of the Holocaust“
- Solvej Berlau: Testimonies from Theresienstadt
Panel 4: Jewish Life in Nazi Ghettos
(Chair: Ilana F. Offenberger)
- Sarah Rosen: Surviving in Murafa Ghetto: A Case Study of Life in the
Ghettos in Transnistria
- Michaela Soyer (Chicago/USA): Behavioral Choices and Social Structure in
the Ghettos Lachwa, Piotrokow, and Tarnow
- Elizabeth Strauss: „Do Not Cast Me Off in the Time of Old Age...“:
Institutional Care for the Elderly in the Lódz Ghetto
Panel 5: Law and the Concept of Genocide
(Chair: Srinivasan Sitaraman)
- Christoph Jens Kamissek: Reconstructing Genocide as Ideal Type: Weber and
Lemkin on Intent and Causation
- Clotilde Pegorier (Exeter/UK): The French Position on the Denial of the
Armenian Genocide: A Question of Legal and Moral Legitimacy?
- Martha Mutisi: Endogenous Methods of Dealing with the Aftermath of
Genocide: The Gacaca Process in Rwanda
Panel 6: Bystanders to the Holocaust in Hungary: Case
Studies
(Chair: TBD)
- László Csosz (Szeged/Hungary): Volunteers, Opportunists, Mitigators: „Bystanders“
of the Holocaust in Hungary: A Comparative Study
- Raz Segal: National Revival and Genocide: The Case of Ruthenian Bystanders
to the Destruction of Subcarpathian Rus’ Jewry
- Doreen Eschinger (Berlin/Germany): Bystanders and Perpetrators of the
Hungarian Holocaust: Oral and Written Testimonies of Female Hungarian
Survivors
Panel 7: Genocide against Native Americans
(Chair: Andrea Smith)
- Carroll P. Kakel (London/UK): Settler Colonialism and Genocide as a
Paradigm for the „American West“ and the „Nazi East“
- Benjamin Madley: „Many Indians Killed“: Northern California’s Wintu
Genocide, 1849-1864
- Alex (Abraham) Kerner (Tel Aviv/Israel): „The Invisible Body“:
Physiological Factors in Defining Levels of Humanity in Sixteenth-Century
Spain Following the Encounter with the Natives of the New World
Panel 8: Gender and Genocide
(Chair: Jody Emel)
- Alaettin Çarikci: En(gendering) Trauma in the Late Ottoman Empire Period
- Anika Walke (Santa Cruz, Calif./USA): (Post)-Soviet Commemorations of the
Nazi Genocide: Public Terror, Jewish Resistance, and the Hidden Struggle for
Survival
- Alicja Bialecka: Structures of Memory: Auschwitz in Women’s Literature
25.4.
Panel 9: Holocaust Refugees
(Chair: Ken MacLean)
- Bonnie M. Harris (Santa Barbara, Calif./USA): From Zbaszyn to Manila:
Refugee Rescue in the Philippines
- Adara Goldberg: „We Were Called Greenies“: Holocaust Survivors in
Postwar Canada
- Elizabeth Anthony: Rückkehrer: Holocaust Survivors and Refugees’
Repatriation to Austria
Panel 10: Holocaust Memory in Israel
(Chair: Taner Akçam)
- Amir Peleg-Uziyahu: Holocaust, Politics, and Memory in Israel: The Case of
the Jewish Military Union (ZZW)
- Gish Amit: A Bizarre Insanity: The Loot of Jewish Cultural Assets during
the Holocaust and its Restitution after World War II
- Cristina Andriani: Jewish-Israeli Sense of Belonging: An Exploration of
Life Stories Interview Themes within the Context of Trauma, Memory, and the
Holocaust
Panel 11: Post-Genocide Identity
(Chair: George Foster, Sydney/Australia)
- Nicole S. Fox: „Their History Is Part of Me“: Post-Genocide Identity
Politics and the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma to Third
Generation Holocaust Survivors
- Sara Seerup Laursen (Aarhus/Denmark): Living in a State of Distrust:
Friendship and Secrecy among Students in Post-Genocide Rwanda
- Juliette Brungs: Dirty Jewishness: Recapturing the Jewish Body in
Contemporry Germany
Panel 12: Camps and Genocide
(Chair: TBD)
- Natalya Lazar: Russian and Soviet Concentration Camps until 1941
- Dominique Schröder (Bielefeld): Writing the Indescribable: Diary Writing
in Concentration Camps, 1933-1945
- Alexis Herr: Remembering Fossoli di Carpi
Panel 13: Holocaust Museums and Memorial Sites
(Chair: John K. Roth)
- Jody Russell Manning: Living in the Shadows of Auschwitz and Dachau
- Katarzyna Stec: Portrait of Contemporary Visitors to the Memorial Sites of
the Former Death Camps: Results of Sociological Research Conducted in
Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Belzec
- Avril Alba (Sydney/Australia): Holocaust Museums: Sacred Memory in Secular
Space, Comparative Case Study: The Sydney Jewish Museum and the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Panel 14: Roots of Genocide: Three Case Studies
(Chair: Ben F. Kiernan)
- Andrei Gomez-Saurez: Genocidists: Why Perpetrator Blocs, and How to Study
Them
- Ihediwa Nkemjika Chimee: Interrogating the Factors of Ethnicity, Revenge,
and Power Struggle as Forces Motivating Genocide: A Comparative Discourse of
Nigeria and Rwanda
- Tea Rozman-Clark (Nova Gorica/Slovenia): Unintentional Results of UN
Military Intervention: The Case of Srebrenica, the UN „Safe Area“
Panel 15: Relations between Jews and Non-Jews, 1930-1945
(Chair: Eric D. Weitz)
- Stefanie Maria Fischer (Berlin/Germany): Violence against Jews in the
German Countryside, 1930-1935
- Michael Geheran: German-Jewish WWI Veterans under the Nazis
- Stefan Ionescu: The Romanization Policy during the Antonescu Regime: Mass
Participation, Greed, Denunciation, and „Camouflage“
Panel 16: Sources for Holocaust Research
(Chair: Robin May Schott)
- Christiane Hess (Bielefeld/Germany): Visual Archives: Bodily
Representations and Social Hierarchy in Drawings of Concentration Camp
Prisoners
- Mark Volovici: The Officer Entered the House without Taking His Hat off“:
The Hermeneutics of Manners under the Nazi Regime
- Marina Shafran: Soviet Jewish Holocaust Survivors: An Ethnographic Study
26.4.
Panel 17: Holocaust and Genocide Education
(Chair: Shelly Tenenbaum)
- Sara A. Levy: An Examination of the Role Secondary School Teachers Play in
the Authoring of Holocaust History
- Michelle Kelso: „...and Gypsies Were Victims Too“: An Ethnography of
Holocaust Education in Romania and Discourses on Romani Suffering
- Tine Brøndum: Learning about Genocide – in Bosnia and Beyond
Panel 18: Mass Media and Genocide
(Chair: Kristen Williams)
- Tobias Seidl (Mainz/Germany): Genocides Need Slogans - Slogans Need to be
Transmitted: Genocide and the Role of Media
- Catherine Morrow: Hitler on Film: Monster, Fool, or Man?
- Sine Molbæk-Steensig: Holocaust Denial on the Internet: Is There Really a
Problem?
Concluding Roundtable Discussion
(Panelists: Yehuda Bauer, Debórah Dwork, Ben F.
Kiernan, John K. Roth, Andrea Smith, and Eric D. Weitz)
(Moderator: Thomas Kühne)