Tomorrow’s Holocaust Memory
The Goethe-Institute Israel, the Eva and Marc Besen Institute for the Study of Historical Consciousness and the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Tel Aviv University invite you to:
Tomorrow’s Holocaust Memory
An International Conference
Sunday and Monday, April 29-30, 2018
Gilman Building, Room 496
Tel Aviv University
Sunday, April 29, 2018
11:30 Opening words
Jose 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, 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: The Holocaust in the Palestinian-Israeli Context
Odeh Bisharat
Dalia Ofer (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Amal Jamal (Tel Aviv University)
Amos Goldberg (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Monday, April 30, 2018
10:00 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, 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, 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, Beer Sheva)
Irit Dekel (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena)
Zsuzsanna Toronyi (Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, Budapest)
Dan Michman (Bar-Ilan University / Yad Vashem)