3:30-4:15 pm
OPENING THE AGENDA
Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University
Welcoming Remarks:
President Harold Shapiro, Princeton University
Ambassador Juergen Chrobog, Federal Republic of Germany
Ruth Mandel, Vice-Chair, United Holocaust Memorial and Museum, Washington,
DC
Steven Some, Chair, NJ Commission on Holocaust Education
4:30-5:30 pm:
Keynote Address: Saul Friedlander, Class of 1939 Chair in Holocaust Studies,
UCLA, Tel Aviv University
Introduction: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
7:30 pm:
NEGOTIATIONS
Round Table: Negotiating the Paths of Memory
Chair: Christian Wildberg, Princeton University
Andreas Nachama, Juedische Gemeinde, Berlin
"The Jewish Community, the Holocaust and the Reconstruction of Jewish Life
in Postwar Germany"
Claus Leggewie, University of Giessen, Germany
"Negotiating the Past in Collective Memory after German Unification"
Daniel Daniel Libeskind, Architect
"The Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrueck"
Michael Berenbaum, Shoah Visual History Foundation,
"Documenting the Experience of Survivors: The Shoah Visual History Foundation"
9:30 am-12:30 pm
Panel One: Sites of Memory: History in the Museums
Chair: James Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Edward T. Linenthal, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
"From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to Oklahoma City: the Function
of Memory"
Thomas Lutz, Topographie des Terrors, Berlin
"The History of the SS Terror Center and the Politics of Memory in Berlin"
Annegret Ehmann, Director of Education, Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, Berlin
"Learning from History: the Nazi Era and the Holocaust in German Education"
Cilly Kugelmann, Juedisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main
"The National Context of Jewish Museums in Germany"
12:30-2:00 pm Luncheon break
2:00-5:00 pm
Panel Two: The Past in Stone: Memorials/Monuments/Architecture
Chair: Mario Gandelsonas, architect, Princeton University
Michael Z. Wise, author
"Capital Dilemma: Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy"
Y. Michal Bodemann, University of Toronto
"The Course of Memory and Jewish Space. Notes on a German Tug-of-War"
James Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Germany's Holocaust Memorial Problem -- and Mine"
Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Architects, Princeton University
"An Architect Designs a Memorial"
8:00 pm. FILM: "Letter without Words." (1997)
Discussion afterwards with the director, Lisa Lewenz
9:30 am-12:30 pm
PERFORMANCES
Panel Three: Manufacturing Memory: After Schindler's List
Chair: Thomas Levin, Princeton University
Anat Feinberg, Hochschule fuer Juedische Studien, University of Heidelberg
"The Stage of Memory: Holocaust and German Theater"
David Bathrick, Cornell University
"Re-Screening The Holocaust': The Children's Stories"
Frank Stern, Center for German Studies, Ben Gurion University, Israel
"Imagining Memory: Screening German Jews as Redemptive Entertainment"
Gertrud Koch, Freie Universität, Berlin
"Pictorialization and Monumentalization - The Holocaust as Visual Metaphor"
12:30-2:00 pm: Luncheon break
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Panel Four: Optics of Memory: History and Public Perception
Chair: Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University
Andrei S. Markovits, University of California, Santa Cruz
"The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe"
Eric Santner, University of Chicago
"Freud's Moses and Monotheism after the Holocaust"
Sander Gilman, University of Chicago
"Can the Shoah be Funny? Thoughts on New and Old Films"
Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University
"Present, Pasts: Public Sites of Memory"
5:30-6:30 pm
Keynote Address:
Michael Blumenthal, Juedisches Museum, Berlin
The Public and the Struggle over Memory"
Introduction: Andrew Baker (Rabbi), Director of European Affairs (AJC)
9:00am-11:15
THE FUTURE OF MEMORY
Roundtable: The New Berlin Republic and the Politics of Memory
Chair: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
Susan Stern, author
"German Agendas -- Where Do the Jews Figure?"
Eugene DuBow, American Jewish Committee, Berlin Office
"Germany and the American Jewish Agenda"
Peter Schneider, author
"Historical consciousness and self-esteem: A German dilemma?"
11:30-12:30 pm
Keynote Address:
Michael Naumann, Cultural Minister, Federal Republic of Germany
"Anamnesis: Some Remarks on the Perceptions of Political Reality"
Introduction: Hans-Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg, Deputy Consul General
of the FDR
12:30-2:00 pm: Luncheon break
2:00-4:30 pm
Round Table: Frontlines: History and the Future of Memory
Chair: Barbara Hahn, Princeton University
Omer Bartov, Rutgers University
"Germany as Victim"
Michael Brenner, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Munich
"Good Jews, Bad Jews, and Vulnerable Germans: Changing Perceptions in
German-Jewish Relations at the Turn of the Century"
Micha Brumlik, University of Heidelberg
"German-Jewish Grandchildren of the Holocaust, Russian Immigrants, and the
Multicultural Future"
Michael Geyer, University of Chicago
"The Future of the Past: German History for the 21st Century"
Co-sponsor: the Federal Republic of Germany, New Jersey Commission onHolocaust Education, American Jewish Committee
For further information: contact either
Dr. Joan Rivitz, Conference Coordinator, fax 201-265-7944. Email: drjoanr@aol.com
or Marcie Citron, Program Manager of Jewish Studies, phone:609-258-0394; email:mcitron@princeton.edu,
or see Website: www.princeton.edu/~jwst/conf/
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