Tuesday, January 27, 2009

5:45 p.m. Welcome addresses by the organizers

6:00 p.m. Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, Minister of the
Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany

6:30 p.m. Keynote
Richard Overy, University of Exeter

8:00 p.m. Reception

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

9:00 a.m. Introduction to the sessions

9:30 a.m. Panel 1
Who is a Perpetrator? The Changing
Construction and Interpretation over Time
Contributions by:
“Reference Frames of Group Violence“
Harald Welzer, Center for Interdisciplinary
Memory Research, Essen
“The Historiography of Perpetrators”
Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of
London
“Perpetrators in the Eyes of Beholders”
David Silberklang, International Institute for
Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
Discussion
Moderation: Carolin Emcke, Journalist and Author

11:00 a.m. Coffee break

11:30 a.m. Panel 2
Case Studies of ‘Ordinary’ Perpetrators
Contributions by:
“Women as Perpetrators”
Elisabeth Harvey, University of Nottingham
“Violence as a Popular Spectacle“
Michael Wildt, Hamburg Institute for
Social Research
“Holocaust and Collaboration”
Wendy Lower,

Moderation: Birthe Kundrus, Hamburg Institute for Social
Research

1:00 p.m. Lunch snacks

2:30 p.m. Panel 3
Case Studies of Perpetrators in the
Holocaust and Other Genocides in
Comparative Perspective
Contributions by:
“Holocaust Perpetrators”
Peter Longerich, Royal Holloway, University of
London
“Perpetrators – Cambodia”
Alex Hinton, State University of New Jersey
“Perpetrators – Yugoslawia”
Marie-Janine Calic, University of Munich
Discussion
Moderation: Franziska Augstein, Süddeutsche Zeitung
4:00 p.m. Coffee break

4:30 p.m. Panel 4
Interdisciplinary Approaches: The Social
Sciences – Philosophy – Representation
Contributions by:
“Holocaust Studies and Social Sciences”
James E. Waller, University of Vermont
“Holocaust Studies and Philosophy”
Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University
of London
“Holocaust Studies and Representation”
Wulf Kansteiner, State University of New York
Discussion
Moderation: Claus Leggewie, Institute for Advanced Study
in the Humanities, Essen

Thursday, January 29, 2009

9:00 a.m. Introducing the session and workshops

9:30 a.m. Panel 5
The Path Leading from Research to
Citizenship Education: Transfer of
Knowledge and General Aspects
Contributions by:
“Memorial Sites”
Johannes Tuchel, German Resistance
Memorial Center Berlin
“Teaching about the Holocaust”
Simone A. Schweber, School of Education,
University of Wisconsin
Discussion
Moderation: Christian Gudehus, Center for
Interdisciplinary Memory Research, Essen

10:30 a.m. Coffee break

11:00 a.m. Parallel workshop sessions
Dealing with Perpetrators in Citizenship
Education – From Research to Practice

Workshop 1: Teaching and Learning about
Perpetrators in Schools and Non-Formal
Education
Contributions by:
Falk Pingel, Georg Eckert Institute for
International Textbook Research, Braunschweig
Paul A. Levine, Uppsala Programme for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Uppsala
University
Moderation: Johannes Tuchel, German Resistance
Memorial Center Berlin

Workshop 2: Teaching and Learning about
Perpetrators within Memorial Sites
Contributions by:
Matthias Heyl, Ravensbrück Memorial
Museum
N.N.

Moderation: Christl Wickert, Historian and Political
Scientist

Workshop 3: Teaching and Learning about
Perpetrators in Multi-Ethnic and Migration
Societies
Contributions by:
Astrid Messerschmidt, Technical University
Darmstadt
Elke Gryglewski, House of the Wannsee
Conference, Berlin
Moderation: Ulla Kux, Foundation “Remembrance,
Responsibility and Future“, Berlin

Workshop 4: Perpetrators in Movies and
the Role of Film Education
Contributions by:
Barry Langford, Royal Holloway, University of
London
Tomasz Lysak, University of Warsaw
Moderation: Rainer Rother, Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin

12:30 a.m. Lunch break

2:00 p.m. Continuation of the workshop sessions
As part of each workshop, a topic-related project will be
presented

3:30 p.m. Coffee break

4:00 p.m. Final Panel
The Artist´s Perception – a Contribution to
Citizenship Education?
Contributions by:
Romuald Karmakar, Director
Christoph Mayer, Artist and Project Manager
of the „Audioweg Gusen“
Thomas Medicus, Author
Sandra Nuy, University Siegen
Moderation: Thomas Krüger, President of the
Federal Agency for Civic Education and
Claus Christian Malzahn, Spiegel Online,
Political Editor