Program

Read the special Program Lunch Presentations

09.00 - 10.00
Arrival and Registration

Moderator for the day: Astrid Frohloff, TV-host and journalist

10.00 - 10.10
Welcome and Introduction by Conny Kristel, co-organizer of the conference

 

Policies for Public History and Research Infrastructures

10.10 - 10.25
Johanna Wanka, Federal Minister of Education and Research

10.25 - 10.40 
Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

Public History of the Holocaust

10.40 - 10.45
Video Introduction to Public History of the Holocaust

10.45 - 11.15 
Georgi Verbeeck, Professor of German History at the University of Leuven, Belgium

11.15 - 11.35
Coffee Break

 

Practicing Public History, Part 1

11.35 - 11.50   
Dina Porat, Chief Historian of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel

11.50 - 12.05
Sara Bloomfield, Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC

12.05 - 12.35
Discussion

 

12.35 - 14.25
Lunch (Conference Room, on the second floor) & Project Presentations (Glashof)

 

Practicing Public History, Part 2

14.25 - 14.40
Rebecca Boehling, Director of International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen, Germany

14.40 - 14.55
Angelika Menne-Haritz , Vice President Bundesarchiv - German Federal Archives

14.55 - 15.10
Discussion

 

15.10 - 15.45
Tea/coffee break

 

History in the Digital Public Space - Opportunities and Challenges

15.45 - 17.00
Panel discussion

 

  • Yossi Matias, Managing Director Israel R&D Center, and Senior Director, Search, Google 
  • Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History, Trinity College, Dublin
  • Ralph Schroeder, Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford
  • Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University Berlin
  • Georgi Verbeeck, Professor of German History at the University of Leuven, Belgium
  • Christopher Wolf, Hogan Lovells' Privacy and Information Management practice group, Washington DC

17.00
Reception