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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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Event information
- Venue
- Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism
- Free of charge
Organized by
the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism and the Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in collaboration with Katarzyna Person and Piotr Rypson (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland).
Staged in connection with the exhibitions More Important Than Life. The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto and Materializing. Contemporary Art and the Shoah in Poland
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