27.04.2023

09.00–09.20am
Welcome
Dr. Darren O’Byrne / Dr. Julien Reitzenstein (University of Cambridge / Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf)

09.20–09.30am
Dr. Felix Klein (Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Antisemitism): Greetings on behalf of the Federal Government

09.30–11.30am
Panel I

Paper 1
Sven Felix Kellerhoff (Die WELT, Berlin, Germany): The Nazi Party (NSDAP)

Paper 2
Dr. Lena Haase (University Trier, Germany): The Secret State Police (Gestapo)

Paper 3
Dr. Marlene Ernst and Markus Gerstmeier (M.A., University of Passau, Germany): The Munich Special Court as an example of ideologically based configuration in regular penal justice during “Third Reich”. A Digital History approach

Paper 4
Dr. Wolfgang Schroeter (Formerly Free University of Berlin, Germany): The Ministry of Armaments under Albert Speer

Discussion
Panel Chair
Dr. Darren O‘Byrne
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

11.30am–12.00pm
Coffee Break

12.00–13.30pm
Panel II

Paper 1
Dr. Ingrid Jacobs (Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands): „Dienststelle Mühlmann“. Working method and international network in the Netherlands (1940–1944) and preparations in Austria (from 1938) and in Poland (in 1939)

Paper 2
Dr. Michael Wedekind (Museo Storico Foundation Trento, Italy): The Südtirol Culture Commission

Paper 3
Dr. Reena Perschke (Government official at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Berlin, Germany): Ideology and Prehistory: the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce in Brittany

Discussion

Panel Chair
Prof. Dr. Christian Fuhrmeister
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI), Munich, Germany

13.30–14.30pm
Lunch Break

- light lunch buffet for panelists and registered guests -

14.30–17.00pm
Panel III

Paper 1
Dr. Tetiana Pastushenko (Schewtschenko Universität Kyiv, Ukraine): The "Selection" of Soviet Prisoners of War: Between Nazi Racial Ideology and Colonial Hierarchization

Paper 2
Dr. habil. Carmen Scheide (University of Bern, Switzerland): Atrocities without Ideology: The Secret Field Police in the German-Soviet War

Paper 3
Dr. Cristina Diac (National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism of the Romanian Academy, Bukarest, Romania): The Ethnic German Group. A Distribution Belt for Nazi ideology from the Fatherland to the German Community in Romania

Paper 4
Dr. Aleksandar Bandović (National Museum, Belgrade, Serbia): Between Propaganda, ideology and a "State of Denial": Prince Paul Museum and Institute for the Protection of Antiquities in occupied Serbia

Paper 5
Dr. Manjola Xhaferri (Aleksander Moisiu University, Durrës, Albania): Albania's Diplomacy and the Perception of Fascist and National Socialist ideologies from 1939 to 1945

Discussion
Panel Chair:
Dr. Paolo Fonzi (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy)

17.00–17.30pm
Coffee Break

17.30–19.00pm
Panel IV

Paper 1
Dr. Karin Müller-Kelwing (Dresden State Art Collections, Germany): Museums and Ideology. State Art Collections in Dresden and Elsewhere

Paper 2
Dr. Christian Drobe (Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic): The 1936 Olympic Art Competition. Artistic Choices and Opportunities Beyond Ideological Frameworks

Paper 3
PD Dr. Ramón Reichert (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria): The Cultural Film in the “Third Reich”

Discussion
Panel Chair
Dr. Julien Reitzenstein
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

19.30pm
Flying Buffet, Drinks and Inspiration (for Panelists and specially invited guests only)

28.04.2023

09.00–09.05am
Welcome
Dr. Darren O’Byrne / Dr. Julien Reitzenstein
University of Cambridge / Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

09.25–11.30am
Panel V

Paper 1
Dipl.-Ing. Tanja Scheffler (Technical University Dresden, Germany): Tall Building Authorities and the Redevelopment of Historic Cities during the Nazi Period

Paper 2
Prof. Dr. Christiane Fülscher (Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany): The Foreign Office and the Architectural Representation of the Nazi State Abroad

Paper 3
Dr. Anke Blümm (Bauhaus Museum Weimar, Germany): From Failed "Artistic Selection" to Nazi Instrument of Control: The incorporation of architects into the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts 1933–1936

Paper 4
Dr. Ingrid Holzschuh (Institute for Art History, University of Vienna, Austria): The local administrations of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts in the Ostmark (Austria)

Discussion
Panel Chair
N.N.

11.30–12.00h
Coffee Break

12.00–13.30h
Panel VI

Paper 1
Dr. Karsten Wilke (Hochschule Düsseldorf, Germany): Ideologies of the SS after 1945? Ritual Life: The Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit (HIAG)

Paper 2
Dr. Klemen Kocjančič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): National Socialist ideological indoctrination in the Waffen-SS: The Example of SS- und Waffen-Unterführerschule Laibach.

Paper 3
PD Dr. Sebastian Werr (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Germany): The Research Activities of the SS Ahnenerbe’s Department of Indo-Germanic-Germanic Music and Their Ideological Presuppositions

Discussion
Panel Chair
Dr. Dirk Schuster
University of Vienna, Austria

13.30–14.30h
Lunch Break
- light lunch buffet for panelists and registered guests -

14.30–15.30h
Panel VII

Paper 1
PD Dr. Patrick Cassiti (St. Johann Kloster in Müstair, Switzerland): The Institute for Pre and Early History at the German University in the Alps, Innsbruck, 1942–1945

Paper 2
Prof. Dr. Per Cornell and Adam Andersson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Swedish archaeologists and Archaeological Institutions and their relationship to Nazi ideology and Institutions in Nazi-Germany

Discussion
Panel Chair:
PD Dr. Luitgard Löw (Västergötlands Museum, Skara, Sweden)

15.30–17.30h
Panel VIII

Paper 1
Prof. Dr. Monica Fioravanzo (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy): The “Reich Europe Committee" of the Nazi Foreign Office: Constitution, Purposes and Actions (1942–1945)

Paper 2
Dr. Elia di Fonzo (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy): The Order Police in Italy

Paper 3
Prof. Dr. Claus Bungard Christensen (Roskilde University, Denmark): Danish Nazi Parties

Paper 4
Dr. Henrik Lundtofte (Sydvestjyske Museer, Ribe, Denmark): Ideology in the “Special Case” – German Security Police, HSSPF and Hilfspolizei in Denmark 1943–1945

Discussion
Panel Chair
Prof. Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt
Touro University, New York/Berlin, USA/Germany

17.30–19.00h
Panel IX

Paper 1
Dr. Lisa Gottschall (Independent Researcher formerly University of Vienna, Austria): The Marburg Institute for Psychological Anthropology and Racial Psychological Pilot Studies in Occupied Poland (1942)

Paper 2
Dr. Mathias Schmidt (Uniklinik Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany): Ideology in the SS-Medical Service: Theory and Practice

Paper 3
Dr. Roland Leikauf (Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia): Insane Asylums between "Nazi Euthanasia" and Psychiatric Reform - the Ideological Transformations of the Asylum in Weilmünster

Discussion
Panel Chair
Dr. Thomas Clausen (Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit, Berlin, Germany)