Program

"Anthropological Methods for Documenting Human Rights Violations and Genocide"

Victoria Sanford, Lehman College, City University of New York

Thomas Kühne, Clark University

CHAIR: Thomas Kühne, Clark University

PANELISTS:

The Reception of Survivors of the Shoah in Buenos Aires, Recreated in Their Narratives
Malena Chinski, General Sarmiento National University and Institute for Economic and Social Development, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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“Not Six Million nor Thirty Thousand.” From "Holocaust Revisionism" to State Terrorism Denial in Argentina, 1945-1990
Boris Matías Grinchpun, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Struggles over the Military Archives and Political Disputes in Post-dictatorship Argentina
Déborah Cinthia Balé, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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CHAIR: Ani Ohanian, Clark University

PANELISTS:

"I think it is (the) mother who keeps the things going": Gender and Post Memory of the Armenian Genocide
Öndercan Muti, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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“Then, My Father Gave Me a Rope:” Women in Genocide and Mass Violence
Nomi Landau, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Women and Men in the Labor Camp Sereď, Slovakia (1942-1944)
Denisa Nešťáková, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
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CHAIR: Burçin Gerçek, Clark University

PANELISTS:

The Geopolitics of Genocide in the Middle East: Armenian Terrorism and Israeli-Turkish Relations (1980 - 1985)
Eldad Ben Aharon, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
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Denying Genocide, Rejecting Knowers
Melanie Altanian, University of Bern, Switzerland
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Into the Abyss: Mise-en-Abîme, Multidirectional Memory, and the Armenian Genocide in Atom Egoyan’s Ararat
Nora Nunn, Duke University
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CHAIR: Emil Kjerte, Clark University

PANELISTS:

Locally Sourced Hate, Locally Sourced Resistance: Dynamics of Mass Violence in the Municipality of Vukovar from the Killing Pits of Dudik to Jasenovac Death Camp, 1941-1943
Danijel Matijevic, University of Toronto, Canada
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The Holocaust in the Soviet Memory Culture of World War II
Alexandra Tcherkasski, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
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CHAIR: Rebecca Carter–Chand, Clark University

PANELISTS:

Dagmar Herzog, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Andrea Löw, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, Germany

Victoria Sanford, Lehman College, City University of New York

CHAIR: Alexandra Kramen, Clark University

PANELISTS:

Holocaust Education at a German Site of Memory: Site Educators as Mediators of Memory
Irene Ann Resenly, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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‘Misleading and inaccurate’: The Auschwitz classroom resources and the politics of Holocaust education in 1980s Britain
Chad McDonald, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
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Holocaust Memory and its Mediation by Teachers in England and France
Heather Mann, Oxford University, United Kingdom
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CHAIR: Simon Goldberg, Clark University

PANELISTS:

The Materialization of Sobibor Death Camp: Artefacts, Narratives and Representation
Hannah Wilson, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
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Alternate Histories – The Meck Affair as an Example of Different Viewpoints of Ghetto Life
Rami Neudorfer, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Visits to Nazi Concentration Camps
Kerstin Schwenke, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, Germany
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CHAIR: Alison Avery, Clark University

PANELISTS:

The Perpetrators’ Gaze: SS Photos from Concentration Camps
Lukas Meissel, University of Haifa, Israel
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Rudolf Höß – Work Behaviour, Interpersonal Relations and Private Life of a Concentration Camp Commandant
Anna-Raphaela Schmitz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, Germany
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Centers of Terror: The Offices of the Commanders of the Security Police and the Security Service in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine
Christian Schmittwilken, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, Germany
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CHAIR: Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman, Clark University

PANELISTS:

Traditional and Modern Concepts of International Law: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and its Impact on Genocide
Manjida Ahamed, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
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Propaganda and Genocide in Iraq: ISIS, the Anbar Uprising, and Operation Inherent Resolve
Ross Caputi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Anna Ullrich, Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, Germany

CHAIR: Daan de Leeuw, Clark University

PANELISTS:

The Spatial Turn in Holocaust Studies: Urban Experience in Breslau Autobiographical Writing
Annelies Augustyns, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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Making the Altreich “Judenrein”: Excluding Jews from their Homeland in Nazi Germany
Teresa Walch, University of California, San Diego
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“See Situation Plan”: Maps of Treblinka from the Oneg Shabbat Archive
Hamutal Jackobson Girshengorn, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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CHAIR: Alon Confino, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

PANELISTS:

The Jewish Partisans in the Lithuanian and West Belarus Forests during World War II, 1941-1944
Daniela Ozacky-Stern, University of Haifa, Israel
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Josef Zelkowicz and the Circle of Intellectuals in the Lodz Ghetto
Yaron Nir Freisager, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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Dealing with assumed "Jewish Collaboration" - Honor Court Trials, Social Court Trials and Judicial Trials against Shoah Survivors in post-national-socialist Germany.
Philipp Dinkelaker, Technical University Berlin, Germany
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PANELISTS:

Daniel Blatman, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Raz Segal, Stockton University