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
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