Thursday, 11.12.2014
14.00-14.30 Welcome (Magnus Brechtken, IfZ München-Berlin)
14.30-18:00 Panel 1: Victims of genocide, massacres and war crimes
Chair: Martin Sabrow (ZZF Potsdam)
Ingo Loose (IfZ München-Berlin): Eastern European Shoah victims and the problem of group identity
Tatiana Voronina (European University, St. Petersburg): "Heroes or Victims": The politics of memory in Blokade associations in Russia.
Daqing Yang (George Washington University, Washington D.C.): Japanese War Atrocities and the Construction of Victim Identities in China
Satoshi Nakano (Visiting Scholar George Washington University, Washington D.C.): The Death of Manila in World War II and postwar commemoration
Jürgen Zarusky (IfZ München-Berlin): History on Trial before the Social Courts: Holocaust-Survivors, German Judges and the Struggle for „Ghetto Pensions“
19:00: Public Lecture (Simultaneous translation)
Introduction: Andreas Nachama (Stiftung Topographie des Terrors)
Andreas Wirsching (IfZ München-Berlin): Vom Heldentod zum leidenden Opfer? Überlegungen zur "postheroischen" Erinnerungskultur
Public reception
Friday, 12.12.2014
9:00-12:30 Panel 2: Forced migration
Chair: Randall Hansen (Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto)
Mathias Beer: Rhetorics of victimization. German forced migrants after World War II (IDGL, Tübingen)
Brigitte Neary (University of South Carolina Upstate): „Herstory“ – The Traumata of East European German Women Towards and Following the End of World War II
Moritz Florin (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): The Chechen and Ingush in Central Asia (1944-1956). Victim narratives and identities
Sören Urbansky (Universität München): „Are they all the same? The production of victim narratives in memorials in North East China“
Lori Watt (Washington University St. Louis/Missouri): Post-World War Two Repatriations in East Asia in History and Memory
14:00-15:00 Topography of Terror - Guided Tour through the exhibition
15:30-17:30 Panel 3: Aerial bombing
Chair: Magnus Brechtken (IfZ München-Berlin)
Randall Hansen (Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto): Allied perpetrators, German victims? The Bombing war 1942-1945
Yuki Tanaka (Hiroshima City University): Juxtaposing the Atomic Bombing of Japan and Japanese War Atrocities during World War II
James Orr (Bucknell University, Lewisburg/Pennsylvania, USA): Victimhood in Japan
18:00-19:30 Panel 4: Images of victims in educational media
Chair: Markus Otto (GEI Braunschweig)
William B. Niven (Nottingham Trent University): Multidirectional Memory? Flight, Expulsion, and the Holocaust in West and East German TV and cinema
Barbara Christophe (GEI Braunschweig): Representation of Lithuanian post-war partisans in educational media and practice
Denise Bentrovato (GEI Braunschweig): Representing genocide: education and the politics of victimhood in present-day Rwanda
Saturday, 13.12.2014
9.00 – 11:00: Panel 5: Narratives of victimization in popular cinema and documentaries
Chair: Thomas Lindenberger (ZZF Potsdam)
Michael Berry (University of California Santa Barbara): Shooting the Enemy: Photographic Attachment in Nanjing Massacre Cinema and the Curious Case of Scarlet Rose
Liliana Ruth Feierstein (Humboldt University of Berlin): Echoes from Europe. Jewish and Catholic narratives in films about the desaparecidos in Argentina
Peter Carrier (GEI Braunschweig): De- and Recontextualising the Holocaust in Curricula and Textbooks. A Report by UNESCO and the Georg Eckert Institute
11:30-13:30 Panel 6: Methodological and Theoretical Approaches and Final Discussion
Chair: Jean-Michel Chaumont (University Louvain)
Jie-hyun Lim (Hanyang University Seoul): The Contested Victimhood in Transnational Memory Space
Svenja Goltermann (ETH Zürich): Can the victim speak? A history of knowledge perspective on suffering and recognition
Michael Schwartz (IfZ-München-Berlin): Victim Identities in the Public Sphere: Patterns of Shaping, Ranking and Reassessment