Friday, 10th October; venue: German Historical Institute London
09:30 Opening and welcome
Introduction
09:45 – 10:15
Mary Fulbrook (UCL)
Session 1:
What is a perpetrator? Interpretations and self-understandings
10:15 – 11:30
Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL): "'Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner': Reflections on the ethics of the representation of and research into perpetrators"
Nicolas Berg (Leipzig): "'Bureaucratic Imagination' – Raul Hilberg's key concept in the historical discourse after 1945"
11:30 – 12:00 tea break
12:00 – 1:15
Iris Wachsmuth (Berlin): "Gender relations as crime alliances and their moral implications in narratives of female perpetrators"
Imke Hansen (Uppsala): "'And he was one of us' – Perceptions of local collaboration and complicity in Belarus and Ukraine"
1:15 – 2:15 lunch
2:15 – 3:30
Session 2: Representations and Transmissions
Felix Römer (German Historical Institute London): "Perpetrators among themselves: Perceptions of violence in conversations between German POWs, 1944-45"
Stephanie Bird (UCL): "Calling the mass murderer to account: Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones and the fantasy of justice"
3:45- 5:00
Ismee Tames (Amsterdam): "Dutch Nazi-collaborators and their families after the war"
Katharina von Kellenbach (Maryland): "The father’s house: prodigal sons, obedient sons, lost sons"
5:00 – 5:30 tea break
5:30- 7:30
Session 3: Family Histories
Jens-Jürgen Ventzki (Zell am See): "'We called it Litzmannstadt'" – A German family story"
Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster): "Family memorialisation: 1939-2014"