Conference

Crossing Borders Historical Research and Artistic Practices on the Shoah in Poland

13. to 14. Dec 2023

Zuzanna Hertzberg, Mechitza. Individual and Collective Resistance of Women During the Shoah, 2019 – 2022 | © NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, photo: Connolly Weber Photography

The workshop Crossing Borders brings together academics and artists discussing memory and history of the Shoah in Poland. The particular focus of the academic presentations will be on border-crossing in terms of space, culture, identity and memory, looking especially at the Warsaw Ghetto and its internal societal dynamics.The conference will also demonstrate how history and memory of the Shoah in the Polish lands affects artistic practice. A concluding panel comprising of scholars, curators and artists will discuss how to navigate the challenges of memorialization and representation.
 

Program

Wednesday, December 13

3 pm | Panel I: Popular Culture in the Ghetto
Amos Goldberg: Rubinstein the Warsaw Ghetto Jester: Speaking Truth to Powerless
Karolina Sulej: Fashion as a Tactic of Resistance and Resilience
Karolina Szymaniak: Everyday Language as Means of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto

5.30 pm | Spoken Word Performance
Zuzanna Hertzberg: Mechitza: Individual and Collective Resistance of Women During the Shoah

Thursday, December 14

9 am | Panel II: Inside / Outside
Katarzyna Person: Cooperation/Collaboration: Spaces, Survival and Choices
Anne-Christin Klotz: Unzer Obvehr. Yiddish Cultural Responses to the Rise of National Socialism and the Destruction of Polish Jewry
Yechiel Weizman: Via Dolorosa in the Shtetl: Memory and Martyrdom in the Polish Periphery

11.45 am | Exhibition Tours

1 pm | Lunch Break

3 pm | Concluding Panel: Space, History and Memory. A Conversation Between Artistic, Curatorial and Historical Practices
Natalia Romik, Piotr Rypson and Yechiel Weizman
Chair: Mirjam Zadoff


Speakers

Amos Goldberg, Associate Professor at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Zuzanna Hertzberg, Artist, Artivist, and Researcher, Poland

Anne-Christin Klotz, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Katarzyna Person, Head of the Research Department at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland

Natalia Romik, Historian, Architect and Artist, Poland

Piotr Rypson, Curator, among others, at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland

Karolina Sulej, Fashion Anthropologist, Writer, Journalist, Reporter, Poland

Karolina Szymaniak, Assistant Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław, Poland

Yechiel Weizman, Lecturer at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Mirjam Zadoff, Director of the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, Germany

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