Lille, 28 February 2014
15:00 Opening of the workshop
Joachim v. Puttkamer (Jena)
15:15 Keynote lecture:
Sociology and its role in current theoretical discourses on violence
Lecturer: Wolfgang Knöbl (Gießen)
16:45 Coffee/ Tea break
17:15 Introduction
Volkhard Knigge (Jena/ Weimar)
17:30 Panel:
The historical development of exhibiting violence – traditions and forms of representation
Chair: Volkhard Knigge (Jena/ Weimar)
Panelists: Thomas Thiemeyer (Tübingen), Christine Brocks (Sheffield); Piet Chielens (Ieper)
Péronne, 1 March 2014
8:30 Bus transfer to Péronne
10:00 Official welcome in Péronne
10:15 Guided tour through Le Historial de la Grande Guerre Péronne and discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:00 A new ethics of visualizing violence?/ An ethics of things I
Chair: Dorothea Warneck (Jena)
Wiebke Ahrndt (Bremen): Recommendations regarding the use of human remains in collections and museums of the German Museum Association
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek( Vienna):
The Viennese exhibition “Masks. Approaching the Shoah“ (1997). The problem of finding an ethical approach to human objects from the National Socialist period in exhibitions
Petra Bopp (Hamburg): A new sensibility? Photographs of violence in the Wehrmachtsausstellung and Focus on Strangers: Photo Albums of World War II
16:30 A new ethics of visualizing violence?/ An ethics of things II
Chair: Włodzimierz Borodziej (Warsaw/ Jena)
Adrian Cioflâncă (Iaşi): Researching and exhibiting: how forensic photographs of mass graves are handled in exhibitions
Ioana Boca (Bukarest): Approaches to historically sensitive places: Specifics of exhibiting Socialist Violence
Łukasz Myszala (Lublin): Approaches to historically sensitive places: The ash memorial and the gas chambers at the Majdanek State Museum
Richard Benjamin (Liverpool): Exhibiting objects with a sensitive history. The International Slavery Museum Liverpool
18:30 General Discussion
Joachim v. Puttkamer (Jena), Volkhard Knigge (Jena/ Weimar)