Locatie
• CREA
Datum/Tijd
• 17 april 2019 van 09:45 - 17:30
“The Camera as a Witness: Photography and Memory”, is a one day symposium during which the photograph as a historical source is examined.
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09:45-10:15 Registration
10:15-10:30 Welcome
10:30-12:00 Panel 1: The Photograph as a Historical Source
Frank van Vree (Director of NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam )
“Grounding Images. Visual evidence of Nazi atrocities”
Annette Vowinckel (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam)
“ ‘Image Agents’. Photographic action in the 20th century”
Christoph Kreutzmüller (Educational Department, House of the Wannsee-Conference, Berlin)
“Breaking News? Publicizing deportation in 1943”
LUNCH BREAK
13:00-14:30 Panel 2: Photographs and Post-Memory
Lukas Meissel (PhD candidate, Haifa University)
“The Perpetrators’ Gaze. SS Photos from concentration camps”
Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier (Art Histories Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin)
“Pictures of the Cambodian genocide: toward a photopolitics of Khmer Rouge memory”
Lovro Kralj (PhD candidate, Central European University, Budapest)
“Re-imagening Genocide: WWII mass atrocities photographs as propaganda instruments during the Yugoslav wars”
COFFEE BREAK
15:00-16:30 Panel 3: Photographs, Trials and Transitional Justice
Lawrence Douglas (Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst College)
“Images of Atrocity: the legal framing of Holocaust photos”
Thijs Bouwknegt (Researcher NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam)
“Transitional justice and photography on the Congo Free State, Namibia, Cambodia”
Christoph Flügge (Permanent Judge International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY)
“The importance of photographs as evidence in war crimes trials of the ICTY”
16:30 -17:30 Drinks