The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) has the pleasure of inviting you to a public seminar on:
Holocaust Memory:
European Responsibility – or German Standard?
Thursday, 27 May 2010, 14.00-16.00
Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K
Background
Since the mid-1990’s, Europe has experienced an increased interest in the Holocaust. In 1996 Germany made 27 January – the day Auschwitz was liberated – a day to remember the victims of National Socialism. Since then, other European countries have followed Germany by establishing national Holocaust remembrance days on this day. In Great Britain, the Holocaust has been commemorated on 27 January since 2001. Also in 2001, the Council of Europe recommended its member countries to choose a day to remember the Holocaust.
What does the Holocaust mean to Europe today? Is Holocaust remembrance a European trend? Or has the German ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ become a European standard? How has Holocaust memory developed in Great Britain? And does the Council of Europe have any influence at all?
Andy Pearce is a graduate of University of London and has recently passed his PhD examination subject to minor amendments. He holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Royal Holloway and a PGCE from the Institute of Education. He has taught history and politics in schools in London, and worked in collaborative projects with the Imperial War Museum and the International Task Force on Holocaust. He is also the author of a travelling exhibition produced by the Wiener Library. He currently works for the Holocaust Educational Trust.
Karl Christian Lammers is MA in History and German literature, Professor of Contemporary German and European History and holds guest professorships at the University of Kiel and Tübingen. He has written numerous books and articles on contemporary German and European history.
Elisabeth Kuebler studied Political Science and Jewish Studies at the University of Vienna and Tel Aviv and completed her PhD on European politics of Holocaust remembrance. She is currently doing an MSc degree in European Studies at the London School of Economics and lecturing at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna and at Lauder Business School, Vienna. She has published on Holocaust remembrance, anti-Semitism, and questions of European identity.
Programme
14.00-14.10 Introduction
Cecilie Felicia Stockholm Banke, Senior Researcher, DIIS
14.10-14.30 Holocaust Memory and Britain: Why, and Why Now?
Andy Pearce, PhD Candidate, Royal Holloway, London
14.30-14.50 Holocaust in German Memory
Karl Christian Lammers, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
14.50-15.10 The Emerging Network of European Holocaust Remembrance:
A Little about the Holocaust, a Lot about Europe?
Elisabeth Kuebler, PhD, University of Vienna
15.10-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-16.00 Open Discussion
Chair: Cecilie Felicia Stockholm Banke, Senior Researcher, DIIS
Practical Information
The seminar will be held in English.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use our below online registration form no later than Wednesday, 26 May 2010 at 12.00 noon.
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