DIIS organises a PhD Workshop on Holocaust Memory in Post-War Europe
Research students from Europe, USA and Israel will come to DIIS to discuss their findings
In co-operation with the Danish Graduate School for Historical Studies DIIS is hosting a PhD workshop for researchers from Europe, Israel and USA. The workshop is intended to explore developments and patterns in the way the Holocaust has been remembered and dealt with in post-war Europe. Is there a general pattern for how societies have come to terms with the crimes committed against European Jewry during the Second World War?
The aim of the workshop is to bring together PhD candidates who are currently doing research in the field of post-war Holocaust history and memory in Europe. Furthermore, the workshop is an opportunity for the participants to present their work and get comments and new ideas from colleagues working within the same research area.
The workshop is organized by Senior Researcher Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, DIIS; Associate Professor Karl Christian Lammers, University of Copenhagen; and PhD Candidate Anne Węhrens, DIIS and University of Copenhagen.
Workshop Sessions
Session 1: Holocaust remembrance in Denmark, Italy and Britain
Bernhard Forchtner, Lancaster University: How Jean-Baptiste Clamance met Anders Fogh Rasmussen, or: how confessions of wrongdoing legitimise the claim for moral superiority in post-1989. Denmark and beyond
Alexis Herr, Clark University: In the Shadow of Fossoli di Carpi: the History and Memory of the Holocaust in Italy
Andy Pearce, Royal Holloway, London: Britain’s Holocaust Memorial Day: The “Nationalisation” of Memory
Session 2: European Holocaust remembrance
Elisabeth Kuebler, University of Vienna: Holocaust Remembrance in Cosmopolitan Europe: The Case of the Council of Europe
Felix Münch, Giessen University: The crusades of civil religion – “Holocaust versus GULag” and the competition of negative founding myths of Europe
Anne Węhrens, DIIS and University of Copenhagen: Holocaust Memory and Politics of Memory in the European Parliament – Resolution on European conscience and totalitarianism, 2009
Session 3: Jewish and Israeli Holocaust remembrance
Johannes Heuman, Stockholm University: Making a Cultural Heritage of the Holocaust A European Jewish Conference in Paris 1947
Katalin Deme, University of Aarhus: Presenting, Commemorating and Debating the Holocaust by the Museum of Jewish Culture in Bratislava and its Institutional Environment
Orna Keren Carmel, University of Tel Aviv: The Memory of the Holocaust among Israeli Ultraorthodox. The example of Ultra-Orthodox approach to the Rescue of Danish Jews, October 1943
Session 4: The legacy of Nazi camps
Silvia Tarabini Fracapane, Technische Universität, Berlin: Early testimonies about Theresienstadt – Danish survivors' testimonies and their place in the history writing
Jody Russell Manning, Clark University: Legacies of Genocide: Dachau and Oświęcim
Jens-Christian Hansen, University of Southern Denmark: The History Continues - Understanding Daily Life in Subcamps from Post-War Testimonies |
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