Dear colleagues,
enclosed with this e mail you will find the program of the ICMemo annual
conference at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim, Poland
(October 6-8, 2008).
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the end of June 2008. Please note how many nights you would like to stay at
the Hotel. You will receive further instructions concerning the hotel
reservation once the list of participants is closed. There will be an extra
fee for non ICMemo/ICOM members of 10 EURO p. person.
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Looking forward to meeting you at the conference in October.
Regards
Dr. Norbert Haase
Secretary/Treasurer
ICMemo
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International Committee of Memorial Museums for the Remembrance of Victims
of Public Crimes (IC MEMO)
c/o Dr. Vojtěch Blodig, Chairperson IC MEMO
Památník Terezín/Terezín Memorial/Gedenkstätte Theresienstadt
Principova alej 304, 41155 Terezín, Czech Republic
homepage: www.ic-memo.org
History and Presentation: The Places of Nazi Crimes
Program of the IC MEMO Conference in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in
Oswiecim, Poland, on October 6-8,2008
Day 1, October 6
8,00 - 8,30 - Breakfast
9,00 - 10,15 - KL Auschwitz in the Nazi Program of the Mass Murder of
European Jews and the Extermination of Poles on the Basis of the Archive
Collections (lecture and discussion, Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, Poland)
10,15 - 10,30 - Coffee Break
10,30 - 11,00 - Preparation for Genocide in Poland: Concentration Camps,
Forced Labour and the SS "Settlement of the East" in 1941/42 (lecture Jan
Erik Schulte, Germany)
11,00 - 11,30 - Foreign Perpetrators of the Genocide of Jews (lecture Ruth
Bettina Birn, Netherlands - requested)
11,30 - 12,00 - Discussion
12,00 - 12,30 - KL Majdanek and the Presentation of its History Today. The
Majdanek State Museum (lecture Andrzej Plewik, Poland)
12,30 - 13,00 - Presentation of the History of KL Neuengamme. The
Neuengamme Memorial (lecture Reimer Möller, Germany)
13,00 - 13,30 - Discussion
13,30 - 15,00 - Lunch
15,00 - 18,30 - Guided study visit of the former camp Auschwitz I
Evening free or continuation of the discussion after the dinner.
Day 2, October 7
8,00 - 8,30 - Breakfast
9,00 - 12,30 - Guided study visit of the former camp Auschwitz II -
Birkenau
12,30 - 14,00 - Break for Lunch
14,00 - 15,30 - Educational Implications of Visiting Memorial Sites
(workshop, Alicja Bialecka, Poland)
15,30 - 16,00 - Coffee Break
16,00 - 17,15 - Significance of Auschwitz as a Memorial Site - Complexity of
Memories, Remembrances, Commemoration and Symbolism (lecture and discussion,
Tereza ¦wiebocka, Poland)
17,15 - 17,30 - Break
17,30 - 18,00 - IC MEMO: the new homepage (presented by Aashild Karevold,
Norway)
18,00 - 19,30 - IC MEMO Membership Meeting
19,30 - Evening free
Day 3, October 8
8,00 - 8,30 - Breakfast
9,00 - 10,15 - Functions and Meanings of Art that was made in KL Auschwitz
(workshop in the Collections Department of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State
Museum, Igor Bartosik, Poland)
10,15 - 10,45 - Coffee Break
10,45 - 11,15 - Art During the Holocaust - Documentation vs. Spiritual
Resistance (lecture Pnina Rosenberg, Israel)
11,15 - 11,45 - Art Against Death. The Heritage of the Culture in the
Terezín Ghetto (lecture Vojtech Blodig, Czech Republic)
11,45 - 12,30 - Discussion and Conclusion of the Conference
Reservations:
Dr. Norbert Haase, Secretary/Treasurer IC MEMO, e-mail:
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