Conférence internationale – “To tear these images from time”: Exploring Visual Representations from Nazi Camps, Ghettos, and the Holocaust
Chères et chers collègues,
Je me permets de partager avec vous le programme de la conférence internationale organisée par la Chair of Art History, Friedrich Schiller University Jena en collaboration avec le Buchenwald and Mittlebau-Dora Memorials Foundation, “To tear these images from time”: Exploring Visual Representations from Nazi Camps, Ghettos, and the Holocaust. La conference aura lieu du 9 au 12 octobre 2023.
Bien cordialement,
Monday, Oct. 9 (Kleiner Rosensaal): 16:00 Arrival of guests and registration Approaching Art from Nazi Camps, Ghettos, and the Holocaust Chair: Daniel Schuch (Frederich Schiller University Jena) 16:30 Welcoming Remarks and Introduction Verena Krieger/Ella Falldorf (FSU Jena): 17:00 Visible, invisible, absent. On the Structure of Artifacts from Concentration Camps Michaela Haibl (Technische Universiät Dortmund): 17:45 Visual Representations of the Holocaust Reality: on the Problem of the Authenticity Giedrė Jankevičiūtė and Nerijus Šepetys (Vilnius University)
Tuesday, Oct. 10 (Kleiner Rosensaal): Perspectives on Art created in Concentration Camps Chair: Mackenzie Lake (Buchenwald Memorial) 9:30 Getting the picture: Social relations and their representations in concentration camps Christiane Heß (Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte) 10:15 Artists that survived the Nazi camps and how their work of testimony and memory has been received in France after 1945 Julie Constant (Montpellier) 11:00 Coffee break 11:30 On the Educational Use of Drawings from the Camps: The Case of the Mémorial de la Shoah of Paris Anna Paola Bellini (Mémorial de la Shoah Paris / Sorbonne Université): 12:15 “Ich will und kann nicht alles berichten, was ich erlebt und angesehen habe.” – Herbert Sandberg’s Graphic Series “A Friendship” (1944/1946) as Early Contribution to the Development of an Iconography of Holocaust in GDR Katrin Schmidt (Potsdam) 13:00 Lunch break 30 Years after Depiction and Interpretation Chair : Ella Falldorf
14:00 Conversation with Ziva Amishai-Maisels (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Challenging Art History – Challenging Holocaust Art Chair: Naemi Haar (FSU Jena) 15:00 Rhetorics of representation: expressionism, metonomy and displacement in Holocaust representation in France Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
15:45 Coffee break 16:15 Towards the decolonial? Thinking the Holocaust, ‘camp art’, and art historical analysis in the global context Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier (University of Nottingham) 17:00 The Aesthetic and the Familiar in the Work of Sara Gliksman-Fajtlowicz Agata Pietrasik (Freie Universität Berlin) Wednesday, Oct. 11 (Kleiner Rosensaal): Artistic Testimonies from Hell Chair: Louisa Maier (FSU Jena) 09:30 In the heart of the Holocaust: Artistic testimonies from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943) in comparative perspective Piotr Słodkowski (Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw): 10:15 Sketches from the Periphery of Hell: The Works of Józef Richter as Testimonial Objects Hannah Wilson (Nottingham Trent University) 11:00 Coffee break 11:30 “Ein Ausdruck des Wehs“: Pain and Horror in Artworks of Holocaust Survivors Kobi Kabalek (Pennsylvania State University) 12:15 Monsters and Montages: Early Post-war Responses to the Holocaust Dániel Véri (Central European Institute for Art History, Budapest): 13:00 Lunch break Combining Image and Text – between Private and Public Chair: Axel Doßmann (FSU Jena) 14:00. Pushing the Envelope: Artistic Postcards of the Holocaust in Transit Rachel Perry (Haifa University / Tel Aviv University) 14:45 Souvenir albums, propaganda posters, and industrial exhibitions: Comparative analysis of Judenrat’s visual politics Paweł Michna (Jagiellonian University, Kraków): 15:30 Coffee break 16:00 Visual Representation of the Jewish Labor Service in Hungary András Szécsényi (Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security, Budapest) 16:45 Camp Diaries: Visual and Textual Elements of Survivors’ Narratives Heléna Huhák (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023 (Buchenwald Memorial): 8:30. Trip to the Buchenwald Memorial 9:45 Welcoming remarks Jens-Christian Wagner (Buchenwald Memorial / FSU Jena) Exhibiting Art from Nazi Camps and the Holocaust Chair: Markus Wegewitz (Buchenwald Memorial) 10:00 Visit to the art exhibition Mackenzie Lake (Buchenwald Memorial) 11:00 Trip to the seminar building/coffee break 11:30 Artistic production as antifascist resistance in the camp of death Olga Stefan (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) 12:15 gezeichnet. From Buchenwald to Switzerland-A Seiler of 39 Images drawn by Kalman Landau Manuel Fabritz (Zurich University of Arts)
13:00 Lunch break at the seminar building 14:00 Exhibiting Holocaust Art – Discussion with Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem), Jürgen Kaumkötter (Zentrum für Verfolgte Künste, Solingen), Michael Morris (Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center) Chair: Elle Falldorf 15:30 End of the conference – trip back to Jena
Contact and registration : ella.falldorf@uni-jena.de <mailto:ella.falldorf@uni-jena.de>
Anna Paola Bellini Doctorante à Sorbonne Université Lettres avec le soutien de la Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah apaola.bellini@gmail.com
Je me permets de partager avec vous le programme de la conférence internationale organisée par la Chair of Art History, Friedrich Schiller University Jena en collaboration avec le Buchenwald and Mittlebau-Dora Memorials Foundation, “To tear these images from time”: Exploring Visual Representations from Nazi Camps, Ghettos, and the Holocaust. La conference aura lieu du 9 au 12 octobre 2023.
Bien cordialement,
Monday, Oct. 9 (Kleiner Rosensaal): 16:00 Arrival of guests and registration Approaching Art from Nazi Camps, Ghettos, and the Holocaust Chair: Daniel Schuch (Frederich Schiller University Jena) 16:30 Welcoming Remarks and Introduction Verena Krieger/Ella Falldorf (FSU Jena): 17:00 Visible, invisible, absent. On the Structure of Artifacts from Concentration Camps Michaela Haibl (Technische Universiät Dortmund): 17:45 Visual Representations of the Holocaust Reality: on the Problem of the Authenticity Giedrė Jankevičiūtė and Nerijus Šepetys (Vilnius University)
Tuesday, Oct. 10 (Kleiner Rosensaal): Perspectives on Art created in Concentration Camps Chair: Mackenzie Lake (Buchenwald Memorial) 9:30 Getting the picture: Social relations and their representations in concentration camps Christiane Heß (Stiftung Hamburger Gedenkstätten und Lernorte) 10:15 Artists that survived the Nazi camps and how their work of testimony and memory has been received in France after 1945 Julie Constant (Montpellier) 11:00 Coffee break 11:30 On the Educational Use of Drawings from the Camps: The Case of the Mémorial de la Shoah of Paris Anna Paola Bellini (Mémorial de la Shoah Paris / Sorbonne Université): 12:15 “Ich will und kann nicht alles berichten, was ich erlebt und angesehen habe.” – Herbert Sandberg’s Graphic Series “A Friendship” (1944/1946) as Early Contribution to the Development of an Iconography of Holocaust in GDR Katrin Schmidt (Potsdam) 13:00 Lunch break 30 Years after Depiction and Interpretation Chair : Ella Falldorf
14:00 Conversation with Ziva Amishai-Maisels (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Challenging Art History – Challenging Holocaust Art Chair: Naemi Haar (FSU Jena) 15:00 Rhetorics of representation: expressionism, metonomy and displacement in Holocaust representation in France Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
15:45 Coffee break 16:15 Towards the decolonial? Thinking the Holocaust, ‘camp art’, and art historical analysis in the global context Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier (University of Nottingham) 17:00 The Aesthetic and the Familiar in the Work of Sara Gliksman-Fajtlowicz Agata Pietrasik (Freie Universität Berlin) Wednesday, Oct. 11 (Kleiner Rosensaal): Artistic Testimonies from Hell Chair: Louisa Maier (FSU Jena) 09:30 In the heart of the Holocaust: Artistic testimonies from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943) in comparative perspective Piotr Słodkowski (Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw): 10:15 Sketches from the Periphery of Hell: The Works of Józef Richter as Testimonial Objects Hannah Wilson (Nottingham Trent University) 11:00 Coffee break 11:30 “Ein Ausdruck des Wehs“: Pain and Horror in Artworks of Holocaust Survivors Kobi Kabalek (Pennsylvania State University) 12:15 Monsters and Montages: Early Post-war Responses to the Holocaust Dániel Véri (Central European Institute for Art History, Budapest): 13:00 Lunch break Combining Image and Text – between Private and Public Chair: Axel Doßmann (FSU Jena) 14:00. Pushing the Envelope: Artistic Postcards of the Holocaust in Transit Rachel Perry (Haifa University / Tel Aviv University) 14:45 Souvenir albums, propaganda posters, and industrial exhibitions: Comparative analysis of Judenrat’s visual politics Paweł Michna (Jagiellonian University, Kraków): 15:30 Coffee break 16:00 Visual Representation of the Jewish Labor Service in Hungary András Szécsényi (Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security, Budapest) 16:45 Camp Diaries: Visual and Textual Elements of Survivors’ Narratives Heléna Huhák (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023 (Buchenwald Memorial): 8:30. Trip to the Buchenwald Memorial 9:45 Welcoming remarks Jens-Christian Wagner (Buchenwald Memorial / FSU Jena) Exhibiting Art from Nazi Camps and the Holocaust Chair: Markus Wegewitz (Buchenwald Memorial) 10:00 Visit to the art exhibition Mackenzie Lake (Buchenwald Memorial) 11:00 Trip to the seminar building/coffee break 11:30 Artistic production as antifascist resistance in the camp of death Olga Stefan (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania) 12:15 gezeichnet. From Buchenwald to Switzerland-A Seiler of 39 Images drawn by Kalman Landau Manuel Fabritz (Zurich University of Arts)
13:00 Lunch break at the seminar building 14:00 Exhibiting Holocaust Art – Discussion with Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem), Jürgen Kaumkötter (Zentrum für Verfolgte Künste, Solingen), Michael Morris (Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center) Chair: Elle Falldorf 15:30 End of the conference – trip back to Jena
Contact and registration : ella.falldorf@uni-jena.de <mailto:ella.falldorf@uni-jena.de>
Anna Paola Bellini Doctorante à Sorbonne Université Lettres avec le soutien de la Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah apaola.bellini@gmail.com