Thursday 11th May
Sala Meeting, Biblioteca Beato Pellegrino, Complesso Beato Pellegrino, University of Padua
9: 15 Opening
9:30 – 10:15 Key speaker Andrea Pető (Central European University, Vienna Austria)
Illiberal memory politics as a successful paradigm shift in the memory of the Holocaust
Panel 1: The Other Subject: the Shaping of their Experiences
Moderator Tiziana D'Amico/ Discussant Andrea Pető
10:20 – 10: 40 Marie Brunová (Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Science, Prague)
Representations of the Shoah in the works of Czech women writers in the new millennium
10:40 - 11:00 Stefania Zezza (Università Tor Vergata, Roma)
Women’s memoirs from Salonika: Lisa Pinhas and Erika Kounio Amariglio. Deculturation, gender and memory
11:00- 11:20 discussion
11:20 11:50 coffee break
11:50: 12: 10 Ingrid Lewis (Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Innocent, Beautiful and Doomed: Transnational Stereotypes of Female Victimhood in Holocaust Cinema between the mid1950s and late 1960s
12:10- 12: 30 Paola Ferrandi (Sapienza University Rome /Charles University Prague)
Narrating women in the Holocaust witnesses collected and edited for the “Black Book of Soviet Jewry”
12: 40- 13:00 Discussion
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
Panel 2: What to remember and what was remembered
Moderator Gianluca Volpi / Discussant Attila Pók
14:00 – 14:20 William Kaiser (St. John's University, New York)
Innocent in Memory and Guilty by Association. A Modern Review of Jewish Holocaust Survivor Narratives from Albania
14:20- 14:40 Kata Bohus (University of Tromsø, Norway )
The Holocaust and Central European Memory Wars Expressed Through Monuments and Counter-Monuments
14:40- 15:00 Katarzyna Grzybowska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)
Transmission of memory of „Holocaust by Bullets” in the close neighbourhood of the killing site. Case study of two Polish families
15:00 -15:30 discussion
AULA B PALAZZO MALDURA
16:20- 16:40 Costanza Calabretta (Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Roma)
The memory of the Shoah between the end of the GDR and reunified Germany (1985-1996)
16: 40 - 17:00 Anca Tudorancea (Ciuciu) (Center for Hebrew Studies, University of Bucharest; CSIER-WF, Fedrom)
Surviving Transnistria. Hidden memories
17:00 – 17:20 Giovanna Tomassucci (Università di Pisa, Pisa)
Adolf Rudnicki’s “Epoch of the ovens”(1945-1955)
17:20 - 17:40 discussion
17: 40 –18:00 break
18:00 – 18:20 Tímea Jablonczay (University of Milton Friedman, Budapest)
Official amnesia and the imperative of remembering. Memory discourse(s) of the Holocaust in the Hungarian cultural sphere (1958/60-1967)
18:20- 18:40 Ana Kršinic-Lozica (Zagreb University, Zagreb)
Remembering Jasenovac in socialist Yugoslavia: Memorial area design proposals
18:40- 19:15 Discussion
Friday 12th May
Aula Magna Trentin, Ca’ Dolfin, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
10:15 Opening
10:30 – 11:15 Key speaker Attila Pók (Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest/Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg - IASK)
The memory of the Shoah as a constituting other
Panel 3: Image, Sound, Word: Representations of the Shoah
Moderator Stefania Ragaù /Discussant Antonio Sciacovelli
11:20 -11:40 Mischa Twitchin (Goldsmiths, University of London, London)
Remembering (in) the absence of memorials
11:40 -12:00 Marcin Filipowicz (University of Hradec Králové/University of Warsaw)
Memory of the Shoah soundscapes in contemporary Czech prose
12:00 – 12: 20 Discussion
12:20 13: 30 Lunch
13:30 -13:50 Nevena Dakovic (Belgrade University, Belgrade)
Holocaust in Balkan Cinema: trauma*film*transmission
13:50 -14:10 Eva Filová (Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava)
Holocaust in Slovak Film: From Amnesia to Memory
14:10 – 14: 30 Tiziana D’Amico (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Stratifications of memory: the Holocaust in comics production
14:30- 14:50 Discussion
14:50-15:20 Coffee break
15:20 -15: 40 Zofia Wóycicka (University of Warsaw, Warsaw)
A beech tree for the Righteous. On the interplay between local and transnational memory politics
15:40 -16: 00 Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair (University of Applied Arts, Vienna)
Contested Ground: Public commemorations on the Shoah in L'viv
16:00 -16:45 Discussion and Closing remarks