Dr. Verena Buser, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin
Children in Crisis: Post WW2 and Relevance for Today
October 17-19 2017, Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London; Sponsored by the Foundation Memory, Responsibility and Future and the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, with support of the UNHCR, Genève.
Conveners:
Dr Verena Buser, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin and Dr Boaz Cohen, Western Galilee College, Akko
Conference Host:
Prof Mary Fulbrook, University College London
Tuesday 17th
Venue: Institute of Advanced Studies UCL, Room 11, 1st floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building
11:00–11:30
Registration: Room 17
11:30–12:30
Greetings:
Prof Mary Fulbrook, UCL Dean, Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences
Opening remarks:
Dr Verena Buser and Dr Boaz Cohen
12:30–13:30
Keynote Lectures:
Prof Michael Berkowitz Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL: Children in government film: Trauma, Transition, and Responsibility in post-war Europe
Dr Joanna Michlic UCL Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Trajectories of Rehabilitation of Jewish Child Survivors in Poland, 1945-1949: Approaches and Challenges
13:30-14.15
Lunch
14:15–16:15
Session I. Listening to Children after War and Genocide
Chair: Dr Jessica Reinisch, Birbeck, University of London
Ms Gloria Atiba-Davies International Criminal Court, The Hague:
Crimes Against and Affecting Children in the Rome Statute
Ms Agnieszka Witkowska-Krych University of Warsaw: Attempts of Rehabilitation during the Wartime - The Case of the Orphanage of Janusz Korczak (1939-1942)
Prof William Yule Children and War Foundation/Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London: Training skills for Recovery in Children affected by War, Disaster and Displacement
16:15–16.45
Break
16:45–18:45
Session II: Children on the Move after WW2 and Today
Chair: Dr Christine Schmidt, Wiener Library, London
Dr Verena Buser Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin The DP Experience of Children
Ms Sofia Kouvelaki The Home Project, Athens: Invisible Children: Support, Protection, Education and Social Integration Services to Unaccompanied Children in Greece
Dr Karen Wells Birbeck, University of London: Bringing Children’s Bodies back in: Understanding the specific Vulnerabilites of Children in contemporary Wars
19:00
Dinner: Institute of Advanced Studies UCL, Roberts Building, Room 105a
Wednesday 18th Venue: German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square
9:30
Registration
9:45–10:00
Opening Remarks:
PD Dr Michael Schaich, German Historical Institute London
10:00–11:20
Session III. The Search for Children
Chair: Dr Simone Gigliotti, Royal Holloway, University of London
Ms Rocío Comas University of Erlangen-Nuremberg: Unaccompanied Migrant Children in EU
Ms Tehila Darmon Malka Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: The Search for Jewish children in the aftermath of the Holocaust
11:20–11:40
Break
11:40–13:00
Session IV. Homes and Shelters
Chair: Dr Boaz Cohen
Dr Maggie Fraser Kirsh College of William and Mary, Williamsburg: Housing as Healing: The Placement and Rehabilitation of young Holocaust Survivors
Dr Christian Hoeschler International Tracing Service Bad Arolsen: The Care of Unaccompanied Minors in the IRO Children’s Village Bad Aibling, 1948-1951
13:00–13:45
Lunch
13:45-15:00
Session V. Challenges of Rehabilitation 1
Chair: Prof Johannes-Dieter Steinert, University of Wolverhampton
Dr Boaz Cohen Western Galilee College, Akko/Shaanan College, Haifa: Rehabilitation of Children and Staff, Survivors of the Holocaust 1945
Ms Tricia Young Child to Child, UK: Responding to Children impacted by Ebola using the Child to Child Participatory Approach
15:00-15:15
Break
15:20–16:45
Session VI. Challenges of rehabilitation 2
Chair: Dr. Verena Buser
Ms Anke Kalkbrenner Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg/ Bergische Universität Wuppertal: Historical perspectives on the grey zones of intercountry adoption and the case of Jewish children in the aftermath of World War II
Dr Bina D´Costa Office of Research – Innocenti, UNICEF, Florence: UNICEF, Forced Displacement and Humanitarian Action (Skype presentation)
Thursday 19th
Venue: Institute of Advanced Studies UCL – Common Ground, G11, South Wing, Wilkins Building
8:30–8:45
Opening Remarks
08:45–10:30
Session VII. Children in the Archives
Chair: Dr Daniel Wildmann, Leo Baeck Institute London/Queen Mary, University of London
Ms Montserrat Canela Garayoa Archives of the UNHCR, Genève: Protection Needs and Historical Research: The Protection Role of UNHCR Records and Archives. Refugee Children Protection as a Case Study
Ms Carina Huestegge Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences The Archives of the ASH Berlin
10:30–11:00
Break
11:00–13:00
Session VIII. Changes of Rehabilitation 3
Chair: Prof Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London
Ms Fareeda Miah Children in Crisis: Education in Emergencies for Returnee and Displaced Children in Afghanistan
Dr Rebecca Clifford Swansea University: Family Reunification after the Holocaust: Lessons for the Present
13:00–13:45
Lunch
13:45–15:00
Concluding discussion