Program
09.00 Registration of participants
Opening of the International Symposium
09.30 Welcome greeting by the Rector of Vytautas Magnus University, Professor Dr. Habil. Zigmas Lydeka
09.35 Address by H.E. Mr. Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania (to be confirmed)
09.55 Welcome note by Professor Dr. Gertrud Pickhan, Institute for East-European Studies, Free University of Berlin
10.00 Welcome greeting by the Lord Mayor of the City of Kaunas, Mr. Andrius Kupcinskas
10.10 Coffee break
Morning Session I
Moderator: Professor Dr. Habil. Egidijus Aleksandravicius
10.30 Omry Kaplan-Feuereisen, M.A., Ph.D. Student, Institute for East-European Studies, Free University of Berlin:
Biographical Introduction to Jokubas Robinzonas – Jacob Robinson
10.40 Associate Professor Dr. Pranas Janauskas, Head of the History Department, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas:
Jacob Robinson’s Actvities in Lithuanian Parliaments
11.00 Dr. Egle Bendikaite, Research Fellow, Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius:
Politician Without Political Party. A Zionist Appraisal of Jacob Robinson’s Activities in the Public Life of Lithuania
11.20 Coffee break
Morning Session II
Moderator: Professor. Dr. Gertrud Pickhan
11.40 Professor Dr. Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto:
Jacob Robinson and the Holocaust at the Nuremberg Trials
12.10 Gabriel Bach, Judge (ret’d) at the Supreme Court of the State of Israel, Jerusalem:
The Eichmann Trial and the Role of Jacob Robinson as Member of the Prosecution Team
12.40 Jur. lic. Dirk Roland Haupt, Permanent Deputy of the Ambassador, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Vilnius:
Jacob Robinson as Writer and Practitioner in International Law
13.00 Lunch break
15.00 Birute Garbarviciene, Director of the Historical Presidential Palais of the Republic of Lithuania, Kaunas:
Guided tour around the Historical Presidential Palais of the Republic of Lithuania
Afternoon Session I
Moderator: Jur. lic. Dirk Roland Haupt
15.20 Philipp Graf, M.A., Ph.D. Student, Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig:
The Bernheim Petition 1933. Jacob Robinson’s Contribution to Jewish Minority Diplomacy in the Interwar Years
15.40 Asta Petraityte, M.A., Ph.D. Student, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas:
Jacob Robinson and the Lithuanian Emigrants Organizations
16.00 Omry Kaplan-Feuereisen, M.A., Ph.D. Student, Institute for East-European Studies, Free University of Berlin:
Jacob Robinson and Germany
16.20 Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Session II
Moderator: Professor Dr. Habil. Egidijus Aleksandravicius
16.40 Professor Dr. Daniel A. Greenberg, Sudbury Valley School, Sudbury MA, U.S.A. (first-cousin-once-removed to Jacob Robinson):
An Appreciation of Jacob Robinson as a Person: The Human Side of One of the Great Figures of the 20th Century
17.10 Professor Dr. Habil. Egidijus Aleksandravicius, Director of the Lithuanian Emigration Institute, Kaunas:
Conclusions and Closing of the International Symposium
18.30 Reception in Hotel Kaunas, Laisves aleja 79, 44297 Kaunas, hosted by the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Vilnius