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---------------------------------------------- Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research International Committee of Memorial Museums for the Remembrance of Victims of Public Crimes Foundation Topography of Terror Learning and Remembering: The Holocaust and Genocide in the Twentieth Century March 12 to 15, 2003 Location: Vertretung des Landes Niedersachsen beim Bund In den Ministergaerten 10 10117 Berlin Program * Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Arrival of Participants 4:00 p.m. Museum Visits (Topography of Terror and Site of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Jewish Museum respectively) Location: "Weltsaal", Federal Foreign Office, Berlin: 6:00 Buffet 7:30 p.m. Opening of the Conference Welcome Keynote: Genocide, State-organized Crimes and Reconciliation in the 20th Century Jorge Semprún (to be confirmed) Reception * Thursday, March 13 9:00 a.m. Session 1: Comparing Genocide Introduction and Chair: Falk Pingel (Georg Eckert Institute) Case Studies of Genocide and State-organized Crime before and after the Holocaust (exact title to be announced) Armenia Fikret Adanir (University of Bochum) (exact title to be announced) Cambodia Henri Locard (Royal Academy, Phnom Penh) (exact title to be announced) Ruanda Jean-Pierre Chrétien (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) Discussion 11:15 a.m. Coffee 11:45 a.m. Comparative Genocide Research Dan Diner (University of Leipzig) 1:30 p.m. Lunch 3:00 p.m. Session II: Public Remembrance of Genocide Chair: Thomas Lutz (Topography of Terror) Locations of Memory and Remembrance Jonathan Webber (Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford) Case Studies (exact title to be announced) Cambodia Youk Chhang (Documentation Center Phnom Penh) not yet confirmed (exact title to be announced) Poland Adam Krzeminski (Journal Polytika, Warsaw) Discussion 4:45 p.m. Coffee 5:15 p.m. Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide Falk Pingel (Georg Eckert Institute) Case Studies (exact title to be announced) The Example of Ruanda Jean-Damascéne Gasanabo (Geneva) (exact title to be announced) The Example of South Africa Tami Tisani (History Ministerial Committee, Cape Town) (exact title to be announced) Examples from Europe Carol Reich (Council of Europe, Strasbourg) Discussion *Friday, March 14 Session III: Workshops Pedagogical Concepts 8:30 a.m. Departure from the Hotel to The Memorial and Educational Site: House of the Wannsee Conference Introduction and Chair: Wolf Kaiser (House of the Wannsee Conference) Case Studies (exact title to be announced) The Ugandan Example: Working with Youths Uwe Bergmeier (Fellowship of Reconciliation Uganda) (exact title to be announced) The Example of Ruanda: GTZ-Projects Peter Pieck (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, GTZ) Memorials 8:15 a.m. Departure from the Hotel to Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum Introduction and Chair: Günter Morsch (Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum) Case Studies (exact title to be announced) Trostenec. An Example of Belarus Leonid Levin (Minsk) (exact title to be announced) Jasenovac. An Example from Croatia Ivo Goldstein (University of Zagreb) Schooling 8:30 a.m. Departure from the Hotel to Sophie-Scholl-Oberschule (workshop 1) and Leonardo da Vinci OG (workshop 2) Workshop 1 Class Observation Moderator: Bodo Förster (Sophie-Scholl-Oberschule) How can the Holocaust be Presented in Teaching Materials? Introduction and Chair: Helmut Meyer (Lehrmittelverlag Kanton Zurich) Workshop 2 Class Observation Moderator: Heidi Sow (Leonardo da Vinci OG) How do Children Cope? Difficulties with Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide Introduction and Chair Heike Deckert-Peaceman (Fritz-Bauer-Institute, Frankfurt/M) Media 8:30 a.m. Departure from the Hotel to the Bundespresseamt Media and Genocide Introduction and Chair: Frank Chalk (Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies) Case Studies Media and War (exact title to be announced) Freimut Duve (OSCE, Wien) not yet confirmed Roland Brunner (Medienhilfe Ex-Jugoslawien, Zurich) not yet confirmed Independent Broadcasting in Countries of Civil War (exact title to be announced) N.N. (Foundation Hirondelle, Lausanne) 1:30 p.m. Lunch and Return to Conference Site 2:30 p.m. Press Conference 4:30 p.m. Session IV: Perceptions and Prevention of Genocide Introduction and Chair: Gregory Stanton (Genocide Watch, USA) Panel Volkmar Deile (Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, Berlin) Mihran Dabag (Institut für Diaspora- und Völkermordforschung, Bochum) Marie-Janine Calic (The German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin) Irena Brezná (Basel) Yves Ternon (Paris) *Samstag, March 15 9:00 a.m Session V: Denial or Confrontation? Dealing with Genocide and State-organized Crime Introduction and Chair: Carla del Ponte (International Court of Justice, The Hague) not yet confirmed Panel Jacob Finci (Association Truth and Reconciliation, Sarajevo) Gerd Hankel (Hamburg Institute for Social Research) Wolfgang Höpken (Georg-Eckert-Institute) Fatuma Ndangiza Nyirakobwa (National Unity and Reconciliation Commission, Kigali) Irina Scherbakova (Memorial Moscow) N.N. Kvinna Till Kvinna (Stockholm) not yet confirmed 11:15 a.m. Coffee 11.45 Holocaust and Genocide and the Power of Definition Eric Weitz (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) (title to be announced) Representative of the German Foreign Office 1:00 p.m. End of Conference Thomas Lutz -- Stiftung Topographie des Terrors Topography of Terror Foundation Budapester Str. 40, D-10787 Berlin t.: +49 - (0)30 - 254509 / 15 f.: +49 - (0)30 - 2613002 eMail: lutz@topographie.de http://www.topographie.de/gedenkstaettenforum -- H-MUSEUM H-Net Network for Museum Professionals E -Mail: h-museum@h-net.msu.edu WWW: http://www.h-museum.net
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