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With apologies for cross posting. Registration is now open for the 'Shared Spaces, Shared Memories, Shared Visions: Contemporary Visual Representation of the Second World War in German Cities' workshop to be held at Newcastle University on 5th November 2015. The workshop programme and registration form are attached to this message. The deadline for registrations is 19th October 2015. To register please send name and title; institution/affiliation; address for correspondence; email and/or phone number; and any dietary requirements to Gary Jenkins on [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 19th October. Shared Spaces, Shared Memories, Shared Visions: Contemporary Visual Representations of the Second World War in German Cities Newcastle University, School of Modern Languages, Research Beehive Room 2.20, 5th November 2015 Workshop Programme 10:00 - 10:30am: Registration, Coffee, and Welcome 10:30 - 11:00am: The Artwork as Countermonument: Nazi Period Commemoration and Memory in Contemporary Art Domingo Martinez Rosario, Independent Scholar 11:00 - 11:30am: The German Jewish Victim Elise Bath, Newcastle University 11:30 - 12:00noon: Remembering German victims in the 'Memorial and Information Centre for the Victims of the Nazi Euthanasia Programme' in Berlin and the 'Virtual Memorial gedenkort-T4.eu' Teresa Ludden, Newcastle University 12:00 -12:30pm: Troubled Sites: Shifting Architectural Approaches and Narratives of Perpetration and Victimhood in Berlin's Topographie des Terrors. Gruia Badescu, University of Cambridge 12:30 - 2:00pm: Lunch and visit to the 'Germany's Confrontation with the Holocaust in a Global Context' Exhibition, Newcastle City Library 2:00 - 2:30pm: Imagining Place as a Metonym for Values in Cultural Representations of the Rosenstaße Protest Hilary Potter, Cardiff University 2:30 - 3:00pm: Rats and Hawks, and Squirrels. The 'Visual Inversion' of Victims and Perpetrators in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009) Alma Melchers, University of St Andrews 3:00 - 3:30pm: Victims and Perpetrators: Shared Spaces and Public Memory in Michael Verhoeven's The Unknown Soldier (2006). Gary Jenkins, Newcastle University 3:30 - 4:00pm: Coffee 4:00 - 5:00: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of 'Impact' Stuart Taberner, University of Leeds Newcastle University, School of Modern Languages' Research Seminar Series