I gave a paper on the British/Lithuanian ITF 'Liaison Project' as part of a panel on 'National and Transnational Narratives of the Holocaust' at the 'Holocaust Memory Re-Visited' conference, Uppsala University, 21-23 March 2013. Included here are the conference programme and a review of the conference that appeared in 'H-Soz-u-Kult', which is based at the Humboldt University, Berli

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I gave a paper on the British/Lithuanian ITF &apos;Liaison Project&apos; as part of a panel on &apos;National and Transnational Narratives of the Holocaust&apos; at the &apos;Holocaust Memory Re-Visited&apos; conference, Uppsala University, 21-23 March 2013. Included here are the conference programme and a review of the conference that appeared in &apos;H-Soz-u-Kult&apos;, which is based at the Humboldt University, Berli

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1  The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University & The Department of History, University of Stockholm with the kind support of Riksbankens jubileumsfond and the German Embassy, Stockholm  HOLOCAUST MEMORY RESIVITED Conference Programme 21 – 23 March 2013 The conference will be held at Norrlands Nation Norrlands nation Västra Ågatan 14 753 09 Uppsala http://www.norrlandsnation.se/   THURSDAY, 21 March 2013 8:45 – 9:30 Registration & Coffee  9:30 – 9:45 Welcome Note and Opening Remarks Diana Popescu & Tanja Schult, organizers Tomislav Dulic, Director of the Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University Pär Frohnert, Head of the Department of History, Stockholm University Harald Kindermann, German Ambassador to Sweden  9:45 – 10:45 Keynote Lecture, chair: Diana Popescu Professor Ernst van Alphen, Revisiting the Individualisation of Catastrophe (Centre for Arts in Society, Leiden University, Netherlands)  10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break  11:00 – 13:00 Panel one, chair: Stephanie Rotem Memorials: Intersections between Individual and Public Memories of the Holocaust Pnina Rosenberg, Publicly Private: Kindertransport Memorials (Technion Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel) Nicola Hille, Dani Karavan’s “Passages for Walter Benjamin” (1990–1994) (University of Tübingen, Germany) Rachel Perry, Timescapes and Sideshadows: Michal Rovner’s “The Jewish World as it was” at Yad Vashem (Tel Aviv University, Israel) 2  Jørgen Lund, Villa Wannsee: The Distance to the Crime Scene (Norwegian University of Science and Techinology, Trondheim, Norway)  13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break  Parallel Sessions 14:00 – 16:00 Panel two, chair: Jacob Lund Reinterpretations and Renegotiations: Holocaust Museums and Memorials in Europe Stephanie Rotem, Subversive Narratives: The Architecture of Holocaust Museums (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Anna Maria Droumpouki, The Shaping of Holocaust Memory in Greece: Revisiting Memorials and their public history (University of Athens, Greece) Imke Girssmann “As if one of the slabs of the Holocaust Memorial had walked across the street at night...” Commemoration and Representation of Different Victim Groups in the Centre of Berlin (Oldenburg University, Germany) Tracy Jean Rosenberg, On the Borders of the Sacred and the Profane: Contemporary Memorials in Berlin (Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany)  Workshop one, chair: Helene Berg Simona Slanicka, Children as Popularizing coping Figures: “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” (novel 2006/film 2008) (University of Bern, Switzerland) Teresa Lazzaro, The Butterfly Project and Teaching Teenagers about Bullenhuser Damm. A Unique Experience in a Comprehensive School in Italy (Middle Comprehensive School in Messina, Italy)  Aleksandra Kubica, Jewish Other in Polish National Identity. Public Receptions of Pasikowski’s Film “the Aftermath” in Poland (St Andrews University, Scotland)  16:00  Walk to the Museum of Art, Uppsala  16:30 – 18:00 Lecture and workshop with Swedish Artist Anna Berglind at the Museum of Art,  The Trauma of the Holocaust – Perception, Suppression, Oblivion  Host: Elisabeth Fagerstedt, the museum’s director  19:30  Wine Reception, Norrlands Nation   3  FRIDAY, 22 March 2013 9:00  Coffee  9:30 – 10:30 Keynote lecture, chair: Tanja Schult Professor Silke Wenk, Beyond (Self)Victimisation and Heroism? Ironic Strategies in Commemorative Practice (Oldenburg University, Germany)  10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break  Parallel Sessions 10:45 – 12:45 Panel three, chair: Anna Maria Droumpouki National and transnational Narratives of the Holocaust Gintare Malinauskaite, Documenting the Holocaust in Lithuania: Cinematic Memories of the Lithuanian-Jewish Diaspora (Humboldt University, Germany) Christian Karner, Spanning the ‘Ethics’ and ‘Morality’ of Memory: Representations and References to the Holocaust in Austria’s contemporary Jewish Community (University of Nottingham, UK) Larissa Allwork, Recent Approaches to Holocaust Memory Work: Lithuania and the British at the Turn of the Millennium (University of Northampton, UK)  Panel four, chair: Ingrid Lewis  Interrogations of the Limits of Holocaust Representation Netty Gibson, Betraying the Holocaust? An Investigation of the Nazi Perpetrator in European Contemporary Visual Art Practice (University of Tasmania, Australia) Ruth Sheridan, Sympathy with the Perpetrators: Assessing Anti-Semitic Ideology in “Der Vorleser”/The Reader (Charles Sturt University, Australia) Guido Vittielo, The New Rhetorics of the Sublime. From Iconoclasm to “Todes-Kitsch” (University of Rome, Italy) Elizabeth Ward, Exploiting Memory: Uwe Boll’s “Auschwitz” (2012) (University of Leeds, UK)  12:45 – 14:15 Lunch Break  Parallel sessions  14:15 – 16:15 Panel five, chair: Anne Hedén Twitter and the World Wide Web. Shifts in Memory Discourses and Politics Marek Kazmierczak, Tweetting about the Past. Changes in the Collective Imagination about the Holocaust in the Social Media (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) 4  Till Hilmar, Between Media Memory and the Historicity of the site. Visitors’ Photography at Auschwitz (University of Vienna, Austria) Eva Pfanzelter, Holocaust Related Websites between Media Discourse,  Politics of Memory and Politicking (University of Innsbruck, Austria)  Alina Bothe, Probing the Limits of Representation? Survivors’ Testimonies on You Tube (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)   Workshop two, chair: Samantha Mitschke  Kjersti Dybvig, “The Trials of John Demjanjuk”. A Holocaust-Cabaret by Jonathan Garfinkel (University College London, UK) Karianne Ommundsen, “Disturbing Laughter”. Arthur Zmijewski’s video “Berek” (1999) (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Tanja Schult, To go or not to go? Contemporary Artists and Auschwitz (Hugo   Valentin Centre, Uppsala)  16:15 – 16:30 Coffee Break  16:30 – 17:30 Lecture and workshop with Alexander Freudenthal, Silence by Music. A Composer’s view on the Holocaust, chair: Tanja Schult  19:00  Conference Dinner, Norrlands Nation   SATURDAY, 23 March 2013 9:00  Coffee  9:30 – 11:00 Panel six, chair: Ernst van Alphen The Holocaust in the European Artistic Imagination Elizabeth Bryant, Miroslaw Balka: Representing the Unrepresentable? (Florida State Universtity, USA) Jacob Lund, The Act of Remembering in the Work of Esther Shalev-Gerz (Aarhus University, Denmark) Diana Popescu, Why Now and How? Defamiliarization with the Holocaust in Contemporary European Visual Art (University of Southampton, UK)  11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break  11:15 – 11:45 Teaching about the Holocaust through Art, chair: Diana Popsecu Helen Berg, “The Children in Theresienstadt”. An educational CD-ROM (Practitioner, Sweden) 5   11:45 – 12:45 Lunch Break  Parallel sessions  12:45 – 14:45 Panel seven, chair: Silke Wenk Holocaust Laughter and Holocaust Politics  Samantha Mitschke, “I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry”: Empty Empathy and Holocaust Cabaret (University of Birmingham, UK) Christine Gundermann, Between Worship of Saints and Fascination for Evil. Comics about the Holocaust and the Second World War as Entertainment and Education (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Jan Borowicz, Holocaust Zombies. “The Night of the Living Jews” and Holocaust Memory in Poland (Warsaw University, Poland)  Workshop three, chair: Christian Karner Isabelle Hesse, Israel, Palestine and the Holocaust in British Popular Culture (University of York, UK) Ingrid Lewis, The Redemption of Nazi Women in Film: “Downfall” and “The Reader” (Dublin City University, Ireland) Stefanie Rauch, Perpetrators of the Holocaust in Feature Films: a Reception Study of British Responses to Recent Films (University of Leicester, UK) Anne Hedén, Victims and Perpetrators in Roman Polanski’s Universe (University of Stockholm, Sweden)  14:45 – 16:00 Coffee, Discussion & Closure  

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