Preliminary Programme
19 November 2018
9:00 Transnationalisation of Holocaust Sources
Keynote Addresses
Speakers:
Stephen Naron (Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies)
Michal Frankl (EHRI/VWI)
Wolfgang Schellenbacher (EHRI/DÖW) https://blog.ehri-project.eu/
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Transnationalisation – Case Studies
The workshop will not reduce the question of translatability to a mere linguistic problem (i.e. that smaller languages have more difficulties in getting to be heard), but understands this as a metaphor of ‘translating’ concepts, cultures, languages, legal frameworks, and educational strategies. This panel will address the manageable interfaces or gateways to be produced between infrastructures such as EHRI and local or regional initiatives, and will discuss best practices of connecting local archives with global networks and of relocalising or ‘translating’ – with all its meanings – transnational/multilingual collections for and to local, ‘home-grown’ environments. It will finally shed light on the legal aspects relating to the following processes:
- institutionalisation of project-based networks and archives,
- dealing with inequalities and/or gaps (centre/periphery, language, etc.),
- political aspects.
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00 Beyond the Archives: Taking Collections into the Public Space
Panel (Short presentations and discussion)
The aim of this panel is to discuss the current policies of ‘classical’ archives in the age of new digital technologies and the strong and natural need of public interventions to use historical sources. It will address the questions of how EHRI can facilitate the co-operation between the two groups of agents; how it can help discover and reactivate hidden or forgotten sources and vice versa: how archives can learn about public interventions and preserve their collected sources.
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Project to Archive: The History of the Mauthausen Interview Collection
Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Albert Lichtblau
Using Austria as a case study, this roundtable will consist of the protagonists of the Austrian flagship project Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project and representatives of the Archive of the Mauthausen Memorial. This discussion will aim to understand how the institutions and scholars in question have dealt with the discrepancy between the project-based, large-scale, digital testimony production and the later preservation of this huge collection.
18:00 Book Presentation
Interactions. Internationale Erkundungen guter Praxis in der Bildungsarbeit mit Video-Zeugnissen von Opfern des Nationalsozialismus (mit Moritz Wein/erinnern.at)
20 November 2018
10:00-12:00 Collecting by Learning – Learning by Collecting
World Café
Hundreds of interviews and local historical sources were collected by school classes and local initiatives in the framework of various educational and commemoration activities. This panel will focus on how these educational programmes could use EHRI in curriculum development and vice versa how EHRI could implement the newly collected historical sources and knowledge in its network. The panel will focus on the following question:
- What are the traps and pitfalls of using and producing historical sources in education?
- What happens to the content produced in these small initiatives?
- How can the content be kept alive?
- How can the collected knowledge be implemented in public history?
- How can educational programmes be linked to the EHRI infrastructure?
Examples: Yellow Star Houses, Ungarisch-Jüdische Zwangsarbeit in Wien, Letter to the Stars, etc.
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Local Meets Transnational
World Café
As a result of the European Holocaust Remembrance Day and the decades-long mainstreaming of Holocaust education, local commemoration initiatives are flourishing in Europe. The aim of this panel is to understand how these initiatives can be integrated into larger networks or infrastructures, such as EHRI. It will focus on the following questions:
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of visibility and unlimited access?
- How can the ‘the beauty of the local’ be kept alive?
- Who ‘owns’ the projects and initiatives once they are completed?
- How can local initiatives be made sustainable and visible?
16:30 Final Discussion