What looks to be an interesting conference takes place this week, at the Holocaust Memorial in Milan. Called Holocaust Memorial Days in the EU: the Challenges of Commemoration in the XXI century, it is somewhat off the usual topics we deal with on Jewish Heritage Europe, but its focus is closely related to the use of memory in general when dealing with Jewish heritage and Jewish issues.
Speakers from various countries will discuss challenges in the way that the Holocaust can, will and/or should be remembered — and the place it can, will and/or should have in general memory — in the 21st century, as eye-witnesses and survivors pass away and the living past transitions into history.
PROGRAM
Monday, April 13
14:30 – Conference opening
Greetings
Giorgio Sacerdoti, president of the CDEC Foundation
Liliana Segre, president of the Children of the Shoah Association
Introduction – Guri Schwarz (University of Pisa)
Chair: Liliana Picciotto (CDEC)
Michele Sarfatti (Fondazione CDEC/Centro di Judaica Goren Goldstein, Milan University)
January 27 in Italy: Tensions and Intersections between History, Memory and the Present
Tal Bruttmann (EHESS – Paris)
Commemorating what? And when? France and the commemoration of the Holocaust
David Cesarani (Royal Holloway College – London)
The Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission in the UK, 2013-2015
Discussion
Tuesday, April 14
9:30 – Beginning morning session
Chair: Marco Cuzzi (Milan University)
Giorgios Antoniou, (International Hellenic University – Thessaloniki) – Leon Saltiel (University of Macedonia)
Between Lethe and Mnemosyne. Institutional memories and Holocaust Legacies in post Cold War Greece
Mila Orlic ( University of Rijeka)
The Controversial Past of a New State: Croatia between National Myths and Memory of the Second World War
Eva Kovacs (Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies – Vienna)
Remembering the Holocaust – The Hungarian Secession
Discussion
13:00 – Lunch
14:30 – Afternoon session
Chair: Piero Graglia (Milan University)
Michael Shafir ( Babes-Bolyai University – Cluj-Napoca)
Romania: Neither fish, nor fowl
Carla Tonini (Bologna University)
April 19, Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland. The reasons for this choice
Michael Brenner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität-München/American University – Washington DC)
Which Day is the Right Day? Holocaust Remembrance in Germany
Lothar Probst (Universität Bremen)
The Europeanization of Holocaust Commemoration – A Way of a Moral Foundation of the EU?
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1 comment on “Holocaust Memorial Days, Europe and the Challenges of Commemoration”
a reality ,a real world just in actuality ,appreciate the link to full details,especially all the photography,part or …..of so called Western Civilization,ideological engineered by intelligent humans,
just listening to a german radio programm(* WDR) about remembering nowadays,historians,and a shift ,according to the programm mentioned,to the WHY -question.
for me,as soon as becoming as a child some fragmented information ,bit by bit,mainly by listening and hearing by accident tales by my family,aunts,oncles,friends,and reading later on my first book about something such horrifying,I did not understand;later you will was said to avoid questions,now as an old man,I still do not understand,how should I,my only brother don’t want to talk about,at the same time Jewishness is a fact,no issue to explain to the” öutside”world!
again many thanks for your links!