The Eva and Marc Besen Institute History & Memory Buchmann ...
Tomorrow’s Holocaust Memory An International Conference Sunday and Monday 29-30 April 2018 Gilman Building, Room 496 Tel Aviv University The Eva and Marc Besen Institute for the Study of Historical Consciousness History & Memory Sunday, April 29, 2018 11:30 Opening José Brunner (Tel Aviv University) Wolf Iro (Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv) Leora Bilsky (Tel Aviv University) 12:00 The Future of Holocaust Memory: The Broad Perspective Dan Diner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Between Jewish Past and Universal Future: The Epistemological Meaning of the Holocaust Revisited Daniel Levy (Stony Brook University, New York) Holocaust Mnemonics and the Future 14:00 Lunch Break 15:00 What Remains? The Material Turn in Holocaust Memory Yechiel Weizmann (Haifa University) Dissonant Landscape: Jewish Spaces and the Memory of the Holocaust in One Polish Town Yoram Haimi (Tel Aviv University) Archaeological Excavations in the Sobibór Extermination Camp, 2007-2017 16:00-16:15 Short Break Zuzanna Dziuban (University of Amsterdam / Free University of Berlin) Post-Holocaust Politics of Dead Bodies after the ‘Forensic Turn’ Leora Bilsky (Tel Aviv University) Cultural Genocide: Between the Material and the Symbolic 17:30 Coffee Break 18:00-19:30 Round Table 1: The Holocaust in the Palestinian-Israeli Context Odeh Bisharat Dalia Ofer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Amal Jamal (Tel Aviv University) Amos Goldberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Minerva Center for Human Rights Buchmann Faculty of Law Monday, April 30, 2018 10:00 Panel 3: The Archived Memory of the Holocaust Hannah Pollin-Galay (Tel Aviv University) From the Era of the Witness to the Era of Translation: The Case of Yiddish Henning Borggräfe (ITS, Bad Arolsen) A New Role for Archives in Holocaust Memory!? Open Access and Interactive Offers at the International Tracing Service (ITS) 11:00-11:15 Short Break Rachel N. Baum (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) The Holocaust Survivor in the Age of Digital Reproduction Amit Pinchevski (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Virtual Testimony and the Digital Future of Traumatic Past 12:30 Lunch Break 14:00 The Holocaust in the Media and Contemporary Popular Culture Stephanie Benzaqen-Gautier (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) REMEMBER NOW! The Performative and Archival Dimensions of Holocaust Memory on Snapchat Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Magneto’s Memories: Super-Signs and Resonant Memories in the X-Men Universe Kobi Kabalek (Haifa University) Nazis, Zombies, and the Question of Historical Imagination 15:30 Coffee Break 16:00-17:30 Round Table: Exhibiting the Holocaust Volkhard Knigge (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena) Jackie Feldman (Ben-Gurion University Be'er Sheba) Irit Dekel (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena) Zsuzsanna Toronyi (Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, Budapest) Dan Michman (Bar-Ilan University / Yad Vashem) Photo Courtesy of USC Shoah Foundation
Transcript of The Eva and Marc Besen Institute History & Memory Buchmann ...
Tomorrow’s Holocaust MemoryAn International Conference
Sunday and Monday29-30 April 2018Gilman Building, Room 496Tel Aviv University
The Eva and Marc Besen Institutefor the Study of Historical ConsciousnessHistory & Memory
Sunday, April 29, 2018
11:30 Opening José Brunner (Tel Aviv University)Wolf Iro (Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv)Leora Bilsky (Tel Aviv University)
12:00 The Future of Holocaust Memory: The Broad PerspectiveDan Diner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Between Jewish Past and Universal Future: The Epistemological Meaning of the Holocaust RevisitedDaniel Levy (Stony Brook University, New York)Holocaust Mnemonics and the Future
14:00 Lunch Break
15:00 What Remains? The Material Turn in Holocaust MemoryYechiel Weizmann (Haifa University)Dissonant Landscape: Jewish Spaces and the Memory of the Holocaust in One Polish Town Yoram Haimi (Tel Aviv University)Archaeological Excavations in the Sobibór Extermination Camp, 2007-2017
16:00-16:15 Short Break
Zuzanna Dziuban (University of Amsterdam / Free University of Berlin)Post-Holocaust Politics of Dead Bodies after the ‘Forensic Turn’Leora Bilsky (Tel Aviv University)Cultural Genocide: Between the Material and the Symbolic
17:30 Coffee Break
18:00-19:30 Round Table 1:The Holocaust in the Palestinian-Israeli ContextOdeh Bisharat Dalia Ofer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Amal Jamal (Tel Aviv University)Amos Goldberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Minerva Center for Human RightsBuchmann Faculty of Law
Monday, April 30, 2018
10:00 Panel 3: The Archived Memory of the HolocaustHannah Pollin-Galay (Tel Aviv University)From the Era of the Witness to the Era of Translation: The Case of YiddishHenning Borggräfe (ITS, Bad Arolsen)A New Role for Archives in Holocaust Memory!? Open Access and Interactive Offers at the International Tracing Service (ITS)
11:00-11:15 Short Break
Rachel N. Baum (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)The Holocaust Survivor in the Age of Digital ReproductionAmit Pinchevski (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Virtual Testimony and the Digital Future of Traumatic Past
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 The Holocaust in the Media and Contemporary Popular CultureStephanie Benzaqen-Gautier (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)REMEMBER NOW! The Performative and Archival Dimensions of Holocaust Memory on SnapchatTobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Magneto’s Memories: Super-Signs and Resonant Memories in the X-Men UniverseKobi Kabalek (Haifa University)Nazis, Zombies, and the Question of Historical Imagination
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Round Table: Exhibiting the HolocaustVolkhard Knigge (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena)Jackie Feldman (Ben-Gurion University Be'er Sheba)Irit Dekel (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena)Zsuzsanna Toronyi (Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, Budapest)Dan Michman (Bar-Ilan University / Yad Vashem)
Photo Courtesy of USC Shoah Foundation
