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 Bădescu, 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