Berlin, 26 March 2015

At the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Entrance: Markgrafenstraße at Gendarmenmarkt 

PROGRAMME

This event is by invitation only.

The event takes place at the Leibniz Hall of the Berlin-Brandenburger Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The Leibniz Hall is reached from the historical portal on Markgrafenstraße at Gendarmenmarkt.

Morning programme

9.00-10.00 am

Arrival and registration

Moderator of the day: Prof. Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

10.00-11.15 am

Part 1: A research infrastructure for the Holocaust: social and scientific relevance

Welcome and introduction by Conny Kristel, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Netherlands

Speech by Aliki Arouh, from the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki Archives

Official opening of the EHRI Portal by:

Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

Followed by the premiere of the third EHRI documentary film

Speeches by:

• Sander Dekker, State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands
• Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
• Prof. Marek Ratajczak, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland
• Prof. Günter Stock, President of ALLEA (All European Academies), and of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany

11.15-11.45 am Coffee

11.45-12.30 am

Part 2: The future of Holocaust research

Keynote speech by Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Director of the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung in Berlin, Germany

12.30-2.00 pm Lunch

Lunchtime programme:

• Meet the EHRI partner institutions
• Explore the EHRI portal and the EHRI Online Course in Holocaust Studies
• Talk to EHRI staff, fellows and summer school participants
• Watch the EHRI films

Afternoon Programme

2.00-3.15 pm

Part 3: EHRI at work

Interviews on results: human & digital networking:

• Frank Bajohr, Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien am Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Germany
• Tobias Blanke, King’s College London, UK (moderator)
• Michal Frankl, Jewish Museum Prague, Czech Republic
• Haim Gertner, Yad Vashem, Israel (moderator)
• Andrea Löw, Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien am Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Germany
• Mike Priddy, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), the Netherlands
• Reto Speck, NIOD, the Netherlands, and King’s College London, UK
• Veerle Vanden Daelen, Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (Cegesoma), Belgium

3.15-3.45 pm Tea

3.45-5.00 pm

Part 4: Open Access, Transfer of Knowledge and Holocaust Research

Panel discussion:

• Diana Dumitru, Department of World History, Ion Creangǎ State University, Moldova
• Elizabeth Emmerson, Chief Archivist at Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals / International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the Netherlands
• Edyta Gawron, Assistant Professor at the Department of Jewish Studies, and Head of the Centre for the Study on the History and Culture of Krakow Jews, Jagiellonian University, Poland
• Prof. Eric Ketelaar, Professor Emeritus of Archivistics at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Prof. Dieter Pohl, Department of History, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
• Prof. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Director of the Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung in Berlin, Germany

5.00-7.00 Reception

The event takes place at the Leibniz Hall of the Berlin-Brandenburger Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The Leibniz Hall is reached from the historical portal on Markgrafenstraße at Gendarmenmarkt.