Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Location: CEU
1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15. / N15, room 101
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09.00–09.30h Registration
09.30–10.00h András Kovács, Michael L. Miller (CEU): Welcoming remarks
Agata Pietrasik (Freie Universität, Berlin), Daniel Véri (CEU/KEMKI): Introduction
10.00–11.00h Keynote lecture
Rachel Perry (University of Haifa): Graphic Witnessing “After Auschwitz”: The Album as Medium
11.00–11.30h Coffee break
11.30–13.00h PANEL I: WARTIME AND EARLY POSTWAR ARTISTIC PRACTICES
Chair: Agata Pietrasik (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Paweł Michna (Jagiellonian University, Kraków): "Excellent tables and photomontages clearly illustrate all aspects of ghetto life." Visual Communication Strategies of the Łódź Ghetto
Katharina Langolf (University of Potsdam): Mark Zhitnitski in the Gulag: Drawing the Shoah in “a Remote Corner of the Country”
Ella Falldorf (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena): More than Symbols of Resistance? Images of Solidarity in Concentration Camps and their Transformation in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
13.00–14.15h Lunch break
14.15–15.45h PANEL II: WARTIME AND EARLY POSTWAR ARTISTIC PRACTICES AND EXHIBITIONS
Chair: Lóránt Bódi (HAS, RCH Institute of History, Budapest)
Anastasia Simferovska (Northwestern University, Chicago): “I Inscribe Myself into the Book”: Visitors Respond to Poland’s First Holocaust Art Shows
Olga Stefan (University Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iași): Art of the Holocaust in Romania: Vapniarka as a Case Study
Yelena Lembersky (The Uniterra Foundation, Arlington): Felix Lembersky's Babyn Yars. The Paintings and How Soviets Suppressed the Art of the Holocaust
15.45–16.15h Coffee break
16.15–17.45h PANEL III: REPRESENTING THE HOLOCAUST IN FOLK AND VERNACULAR ART
Chair: Kristóf Nagy (CEU/KEMKI)
Roma Sendyka (Jagiellonian University, Kraków), Erica Lehrer (Concordia University, Montreal): Holocaust-Themed Folk (Naïve) Art in Poland (1945–1989)
Magdalena Waligórska (Humboldt University, Berlin): Transactions over Polish Holocaust-Themed Folk Art in West and East Germany as a Mode of Polish–German Reconciliation
Magdalena Zych (Kraków Ethnographic Museum): Vernacular Memory of the Holocaust. The Art of Włodzimierz Chajec (1904–1985) and Józef Piłat (1900–1971)
19.00h Dinner for the participants
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Location:
KEMKI
1135 Budapest, Szabolcs u. 33–35.
OMRRK campus, building C
Web: https://goo.gl/maps/HGdEmcuTiKGbqTJK8
10.00–10.15h Dávid Fehér, Emese Kürti (KEMKI): Welcoming remarks
10.15–11.45h PANEL IV: HOLOCAUST REPRESENTATIONS DURING THE COLD WAR
Chair: Dávid Fehér (KEMKI)
Mariann Farkas (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan): Representation of the Holocaust by Hungarian Israeli Artists before 1989: Comparative Case Study of Hédi Tarján’s Works
Piotr Słodkowski (Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw): Informel and the Fight for the Memory of the Holocaust. Figures by Marek Oberländer as Totems
Eckhart J. Gillen (Filmuniversität Potsdam-Babelsberg): Boris Lurie: Searching for Truth in Images on the German Genocide of European Jews
11.45–12.00h Coffee break
12.00–13.30h PANEL V: HOLOCAUST REPRESENTATIONS DURING THE COLD WAR
Chair: Agata Pietrasik (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Mirjam Rajner (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan): Adolf Weiller’s “Martyrdom Cycle”: Official and Unofficial Holocaust Art in Socialist Yugoslavia
Asta Vrečko (University of Ljubljana): Depicting Suffering in Concentration Camps: Slovenian Artists Based in Socialist Yugoslavia and in the West
Nataša Ivanović (Lah Contemporary Research Centre, Ljubljana/Bled): Tomorrow May Be Too Late: Landscape of Holocaust in Zoran Mušič’s Oeuvre
13.30–14.30h Lunch break
14.30–16.30h PANEL VI: THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE HOLOCAUST IN EASTERN EUROPE AND BEYOND
Chair: Daniel Véri (CEU/KEMKI)
Tamara Kohn (Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires): Art and the Holocaust in Argentina before the Institutionalization of Memory
Amelia Miholca (Arizona State University, Phoenix): Romanian Holocaust Art
Eva Janáčová (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague): Art of the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia: Fritz Lederer and Leo Haas
Jürgen Joseph Kaumkötter (Center for Persecuted Arts, Solingen): Places and Meanings. The Iconography of Holocaust Art in East and West Europe
16.30–17.00h Coffee break
17.00–17.15h Daniel Véri (CEU/KEMKI): Recycled Memory: Hungarian Exhibitions in Auschwitz (on-site visit at KEMKI)
Friday, June 10, 2022
Location: CEU
1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15. / N15, room 101
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10.00–11.30h PANEL VII: WARTIME AND EARLY POSTWAR ARTISTIC PRACTICES AND EXHIBITIONS
Chair: Rachel Perry (University of Haifa)
Galina Lochekhina (University of Haifa): Representation of Sexualized Violence in Women’s Graphic Novels: Naomi Judkowski and Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya
Klara Jackl (University of Haifa): The Pictorial Diary of Dr. Henryk Beck
Paul Bernard-Nouraud (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University): Post-Holocaust Art and Post-Memory Art: a Reevaluation
11.30–12.00h Coffee break
12.00–13.30h PANEL VIII: OFFICIAL COMMEMORATIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST
Chair: Zoltán Kékesi (Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin)
Samuel D. Gruber (Syracuse University / International Survey of Jewish Monuments, Syracuse): Humanizing the Holocaust: The Search for a Figurative Memorial Language
Eirene Campagna (IULM University, Milan): The Representation of the Shoah before 1989: the Case of the Museum Monument to the Deportee (Carpi) and the Memorial to the Italians in Auschwitz (Block 21)
Olga Ungar (independent researcher, Givatayim): The Remembrance Triangle: The Case Study of Holocaust Memorials in Novi Sad, Serbia
13.30h Lunch