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TUESDAY, 25 JUNE |
| 14:30–15:30 |
Registration (ÖAW Aula) |
| 15:30–17:45 |
Welcome & Keynote (ÖAW Festsaal | public event)
Chair: Ljiljana Radonić |
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Welcome
Heinz Faßmann | ÖAW
Jochen Böhler | VWI
Alexander Karn | AHDA |
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Introduction of the ERC Project
Ljiljana Radonić/Zuzanna Dziuban | ÖAW
Globalized Memorial Museums – Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals |
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Keynote
Carol Gluck | Columbia University
Memory on the Move: The “Comfort Women” and their Afterlives |
| 17:45 |
Wine Reception (ÖAW Aula) |
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WEDNESDAY, 26 JUNE |
| 09:00‒11:00 |
SESSION 1 (ÖAW Sitzungssaal)
Opportunities of Musealization and Remembrance in Education: Analytical Tools and Practical Examples from Europe and Latin America
Chair: Monika Mokre |
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Angela Bermudez
Representations of Violent Pasts in Memorial Museums: Ethical Reflection and History Education |
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Julian Bermeo
School Museums of Memory in Colombia: Opportunities for Making Sense of the Violent Past |
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Brent Geerts/Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse
In- or Excluding Colonial Violence? The Representation of “Small War” Trophies in Belgian Museum Exhibitions |
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Denise Bentrovato
The Carabinieri Museum in Rome: A Post-Colonial or Postcolonial Museum? |
| 09:00‒11:00 |
SESSION 2 (ÖAW Seminarraum 1)
Migration, Memory and Historical Justice in Vienna and Beyond
Chair: Karina Horsti/Klaus Neumann |
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Karina Horsti
Memorialising Injustices at Europe’s Border |
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Klaus Neumann
(Not) Remembering Violence Against Migrants in a Country of Immigration |
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Elena Messner
MUSMIG – for a Museum of Migration |
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Anne Wiederhold-Daryanavard/Michael Podgorac
BUNKER16 - Erinnern in Zukunft |
| 09:00‒11:00 |
SESSION 3 (VWI)
Roundtable: In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Making Atrocity Legible
Chairs: Angelika Bammer/Karen Remmler |
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Participants
Jason Francisco | Sabina Tanović | Renata Stih | Frieder Schnock |
| 11:00‒11:30 |
COFFEE BREAK (ÖAW-Sitzungssaal & VWI) |
| 11:30‒13:00 |
SESSION 4 (ÖAW Sitzungssaal)
Transmedial Engagements with the Holocaust
Chair: Gerald Lamprecht |
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Jan Elantkowski
Holocaust and Trauma in Post Socialist Europe: Contemporary Art from Hungary and Poland after 1989 |
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Eva Kuttenberg
Travels Beyond the Holocaust: Literary, Cinematic and Artistic Reminders of the Kindertransport |
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Chiara Antico
Ephemeral and Intangible Travelling Objects of Memory: The Holocaust Repertoire within Musical Commemorations Around the World |
| 11:30‒13:00 |
SESSION 5 (ÖAW Seminarraum 1)
Absented Voices and Gendered Memorialisation of Political Violence
Chair: Alexander Karn |
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Violeta Davoliūtė
The (Un)silencing of Sexual Violence and the Politics of the Past in Lithuania: A Tale of Two Diaries |
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Julia Gerster
Whose Lessons Do We Learn? On the Absence of Women’s Memory in Public 3.11 Disaster Memorial Museums in Japan |
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Tine Destrooper
“The Truthfulness Lies in the Process, Not the Outcome”: Using Artistic Practices to Further Truth-Telling and Memorialization in the Philippines |
| 11:30‒13:00 |
SESSION 6 (VWI)
Indonesia and the Netherlands: Colonial Violence and the Limits of Memory
Chair: Baskara T. Wardaya |
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Susie Protschky
Soldiers’ Memories of Raymond Westerling and the Attempted APRA Coup in Bandung, January 1950 |
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Katharine McGregor
Indonesian Engagement with Dutch War Cemeteries in Indonesia |
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Ana Dragojlovic
Decolonising Heteropatriarchal Silencing: Intergenerational Affects and Decolonial Thrapeutics in the Documentary Indo’s Silence (“Indisch Zwijgen”) |
| 13:00‒14:00 |
LUNCH BREAK
not organized, see restaurant & market list on conference website) |
| 14:00‒15:30 |
SESSION 7 (ÖAW Sitzungssaal)
Alternative Media and Memory Registers in Literature, Poetry and Art
Chair: Monika Mokre |
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Renée Ragin Randall
Minor Massacres, Major Histories: Memorialising Multiple Atrocities in Ilyas Khuri’s Novel “Yalu” |
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Rimantė Jaugaitė
The Power of Coffee in Srebrenica Remembrance<7i> |
| 14:00‒15:30 |
SESSION 8 (ÖAW Seminarraum 1)
Memorialisation and Musealisation of “Comfort Women” (1)
Chair: Carol Gluck |
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Maumita Banerjee
Museums as Sites of Civic Engagement: The Case of Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace, Japan |
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Clara Martín Rivero
War and Women’s Human Rights Museum (Seoul) (전쟁과여성인권박물관): A Museum for Survivors, Made by Survivors |
| 14:00‒15:30 |
SESSION 9 (VWI)
Memorial, Spacial and Political Reconfigurations in the Decolonial
Moment
Chair: Erica Lehrer |
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Emiliano Abad García
The Ghosts of the Nation: Museums, Oblivion and Knowledge in Postcolonial Spain |
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Stephen Winter
Redress and Representation in Aotearoa New Zealand |
| 15:30‒16:00 |
COFFEE BREAK (ÖAW-Sitzungssaal & VWI) |
| 16:00‒17:45 |
SESSION 10 (ÖAW Sitzungssaal)
Memorialisation and Musealisation of “Comfort Women” (2)
Chair: Kate McGregor |
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Lee Moore
Ama Museum - Gender, Museum and Taiwanese Memory of World War II |
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Yujie Zhu
Forgetting and Remembering: The Comfort Women Museum in China |
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Mohor Chakraborty
Memory, Monuments and Representation: Leitmotif of “Comfort Women” Activism |
| 16:00‒17:45 |
SESSION 11 (VWI)
German Memorial Model Revisited: Local (Re)articulations and Global Travels
Chair: Jochen Böhler |
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Katrin Antweiler
The Construction of a Memory-Integration-Nexus in Contemporary Germany as a Form of Globalised Holocaust Memory |
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Susanne Luhmann
Nazi Family History Beyond Black and White: Responsibility, Race, and the (Re)Making of German Identity |
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Susanne Luhmann
Nazi Family History Beyond Black and White: Responsibility, Race, and the (Re)Making of German Identity |
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Joseph Ngoaketsi/Zat Makaba
“Never Again”: The Influence of the Holocaust in Memorialisation, Commemoration, Representation, and Musealization of the 21 March Sharpeville Massacre |
| 18:00‒19:30 |
SESSION 12 (VWI)
Roundtable: Celebrating #10: The Historical Dialogues, Justice, and Memory Network
Chairs: Kate McGregor/Stephen Winter |
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Participants:
Nanci Adler | Xan Karn | Éva Kovács | Ariella Lang | Klaus Neumann | Baskara Wardaya |
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THURSDAY, 27 JUNE |
| 09:00‒11:00 |
SESSION 13 (ÖAW Sitzungssaal)
Nationalism and Memory Politics in Micro Perspective
Chair: Éva Kovács |
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Béla Bodó
“Jewish Pain? Socialist Pain? – No Pain at All:” The Place of the White Terror in Hungarian Collective Memory, from 1920 to the Present |
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Sarah Grandke
Controversial “Memory Activists” and Silenced Memory: Ukrainian Nationalists, their Global Trajectories and Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial 1947-1950 |
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Andrew Weinstein
Meshes of Nazism, Neo-Nazism and the Confederacy: Stories of Opposition to Monuments that Honor the American Doctor J. Marion Sims |
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Graziela Ares
Primo Levi and Kossuth Square: The Use of Memory to Tell History |
| 09:00‒11:00 |
SESSION 14 (ÖAW Seminarraum 1)
Whose Narrative Afterlives? Global Reflections on Strategies of Transitional Justice in “Post”-Conflict Societies
Chair: Nanci Adler |
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Katie Wu
When “the Duty of Forgiveness” isn’t “Plain and Simple”: Rethinking Petitions for Land in the Post-bellum U.S. South |
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Tyler J. Goldberger
Exhuming Spain’s “Glorious Crusade”: Contested Memories and Strategies of Reckoning at the Valley of Cuelgamuros |
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Ayleen Correa
Caring Laterally Through Violence: La Cuarenta’s Transformation from Torture Site to Community |
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Lucy Gaynor
The Right to Judge the Doorkeeper: Reckoning with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| 09:00‒11:00 |
SESSION 15 (VWI)
Remembering the War in East Asia
Chair: Carol Gluck |
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Emily Matson
Complicity and the Cold War: The Long Shadow of Unit 731 in Sino-US Relations |
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Lothar Wigger/Jun Yamana
Visualizing Memories of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima in Scientific Dialogue |
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Kirk A. Denton
The Representation of Atrocity in Taiwan’s February 28 Museums |
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Florian Pölking/Dong Hun Kim
Local, Domestic, and Global Memorialisation of the Jeju April 3rd Incident: A Contested Narrative for Peace |
| 11:00‒11:30 |
COFFEE BREAK (ÖAW-Sitzungssaal & VWI) |
| 11:30‒13:00 |
SESSION 16 (ÖAW-Sitzungssaal)
Holocaust Commemoration in Asia (1)
Chair: Kirk A. Denton |
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André Hertrich
The Musealization of the Holocaust in Japan |
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Ran Zwigenberg
Ashes – Finding the Holocaust and Nanking at a Kyoto Museum |
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Ariko Kato
The “Relay of Visas for Life” and the Expanding Definition of Japanese Rescuers of Jewish Refugees: Contemporary Japanese Narratives on the Holocaust in Constructing Perceptions of the War |
| 11:30‒13:00 |
SESSION 17 (ÖAW Seminarraum 1)
Digital Memory
Chair: Stephen Naron |
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Veerle Veerbeek
Digital Threads of Memory: “Remembering the Revolution is the Second Round against the Regime” |
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Fisseha Tefera
Translocution of Memory: Holocaust and Genocide Discourses in Ethiopian Social Media |
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Éva Kovács/Kinga Frojimovics
“A Miraculous Sign!”– Challenges of Virtual Memory Tours on Slave Labour in Vienna |
| 13:00‒14:00 |
LUNCH BREAK
(not organized, see restaurant & market list on conference website) |
| 14:00‒15:30 |
SESSION 18 (ÖAW Sitzungssaal)
Holocaust Commemoration in Asia (2)
Chair: André Hertrich |
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Lillian Tsay
Touring Sugihara Chiune: JTB, the Holocaust, and Japan’s War Memory |
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Marketa Bajgerova Verly
The Holocaust as an Instrument of Chinese Diplomacy: Exhibiting Shanghai Jewish Refugees History in the Xi Jinping Era |
| 14:00‒15:30 |
SESSION 19 (ÖAW Seminarraum 1)
Forensic Aesthetic and Memorial Practices in the Aftermath of Political Violence
Chair: Zuzanna Dziuban |
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Hikmet Karčić
From Collective Burials to Memorial Centers: How Collective Memory Developed in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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Željana Tunić
Forensic Aesthetics and Nationalist Memory in the (Post)Yugoslav Space |
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Lorena Maeso Blanco
Objects Recovered during Exhumations in Mass Graves: Using these Material Objects in a Didactic Way |
| 15:30‒16:00 |
COFFEE BREAK (ÖAW-Sitzungssaal & VWI) |
| 16:00‒17:45 |
SESSION 20 (ÖAW Sitzungssaal)
Entanglements between the Local and the Global in Genocide Memory in Rwanda
Chair: Rachel Ibreck |
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Stephanie Wolfe
Agency in the Post-genocide Memorialization Process in Rwanda |
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Anna-Marie De Beer
Memorial as Home: Survivors and Sites of Memory in Rwanda |
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Eric Sibomana
Memorializing and Musealizing the Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda: The Holocaust as Reference |
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Matthew Bergbower/Carly Schmitt
U.S. Public Opinion During the Rwandan Genocide and the Challenges of the “Never Again” Mentality |
| 16:00‒17:45 |
SESSION 21 (ÖAW Seminarraum 1)
Claims for Justice, Memory and Community Engagement in a Global Perspective
Chair: Klaus Neumann |
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Tichaona Mazarire
The Politics of Genocide Reparations: The Case of Germany and Namibia |
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Neringa Klumbytė/Dovilė Budrytė
Memorialization, Historical Justice and Jewish Property in Post-Holocaust Lithuania |
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Eszter Kirs
Past without an Echo – The Parallel Poleis of Civil Resistance under the Communism and Youth Resistance Movements in the Illiberal Regime of Hungary |
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Amanda Grzyb
Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador: Co-Creating Massacre Memorials, Museums, and Memory Routes with Communities |
| 16:00‒17:45 |
SESSION 22 (VWI)
Theorising Travel – Theorising Change
Chair: Alexander Karn |
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Matt James
Learning, Doppelganging, Saming: The Politics of Historical Injustice Comparison in Times of Crisis |
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Nicole Immler
Transformative Justice: What to Gain from a Relational Approach for Revealing Epistemic Injustice? |
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Erica Lehrer
Do We Need to Decolonize Atrocity Museums? |
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Thari Jungen
Gardens, Meadows, Forests – Holocaust Memories in Visual Culture |
| 19:00 |
Reception at the Dutch Embassy (Jacquingasse 8-10)
For preregistered conference speakers only! |
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FRIDAY, 28 JUNE |
| 09:00‒11:00 |
SESSION 23 (ÖAW Seminarraum 1)
Challenges of Memorialization in Museums
Chair: Ljiljana Radonić |
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Stephanie Rotem
Universalizing the Architectural Language of Holocaust Museums |
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Mirah Langer
Kindling the Darkness: The Representation of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors in Museums |
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Maria Kobielska
Modes of Musealisation of Soviet and Communist Crimes in 21st Century Poland |
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Mario Panico
Where They Lived: Questioning Perpetrator’s Domesticity in Trauma Sites |
| 09:00‒11:00 |
SESSION 24 (VWI)
Porrajmos: Spatial and Discursive Inscriptions
Chair: Mirjam Karoly |
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Aleksandra Szczepan
Precarious Memorials for Precarious Memory: Memorialising the Roma Holocaust in Poland |
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Volha Bartash/Leonard Stöcklein
Sites of Memory of Roma and Sinti as Meeting Points of the Local and the Global |
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Kirsty Campbell/Timothy Williams
The Past as a Teacher for the Present? Discursive Connections between the Porrajmos and Discrimination in the Present |
| 11:00‒11:30 |
COFFEE BREAK (VWI, no coffee break at ÖAW) |
| 11:30 |
Closing Remarks (VWI) |