International Committee of Memorial Museums for the Remembrance of Victims of Public Crimes (IC MEMO) and Wewelsburg District Museum in co-operation with Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism at the Dresden University of Technology and Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Nordrhein-Westfalen;
Convenors: Vojtech Blodig (Terezín Memorial), Kirsten John-Stucke (Wewelsburg District Museum), Jan Erik Schulte (Hannah Arendt Institute), Büren-Wewelsburg 06.10.2010-09.10.2010, Kreismuseum Wewelsburg, Am Burgwall 19, 33142 Büren-Wewelsburg
Deadline: 01.10.2010
International Conference/IC MEMO Conference 2010
Perpetrators: Challenges and Chances of Presentations in Memorial Museums
Conference Fee 30,- EUR (non IC MEMO members), (lunch, coffee; no accomodation or other meals included)
Registration: Beate Meier, Kreismuseum Wewelsburg, <meierb@kreis-paderborn.de>
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ProgramWednesday, October 6, 2010
19:00
Public Lecture (in German)
Vojtech Blodig, Terezín Memorial, Czech Republic "Verfolgung und Deportation der europäischen Juden - Das Beispiel Theresienstadt"
Bus transfer to Paderborn
Thursday, October 7, 2010
9:00
Bus transfer from Paderborn
Location: Burgsaal, Wewelsburg District Museum
10:00
Welcome to the Conference
Vojtech Blodig, Chairperson IC MEMO
Heinz Köhler, Kreisdirektor, District Administration Paderborn Wulff E. Brebeck, Director Wewelsburg District Museum
Memorial Museum "Wewelsburg 1933-1945": exhibition, historical location and educational approaches
10:15
Visit of the new permanent Exhibition "Ideology and Terror of the SS"
(Wulff E. Brebeck, Kirsten John-Stucke, Markus Moors, Jan Erik Schulte)
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Visit of the former Niederhagen Concentration Camp area and of the former SS shooting range (Wulff E. Brebeck, Kirsten John-Stucke, Markus Moors)
15:00
Coffee break
15:30
Presentation of Wewelsburg Learning Center and pedagogical approaches to the new permanent exhibition (Kirsten John-Stucke, Katharina Dehlinger, Norbert Ellermann)
18:00
Dinner
Bus transfer to Paderborn
20:00
Evening leasurly walk through medivial Paderborn
Friday, October 8, 2010
9:00
Bus transfer from Paderborn
Location: Burgsaal, Wewelsburg District Museum
10:00
Perpetrator Representation in Memorial Museums
Chair: Jan Erik Schulte
Thomas Lutz, Topography of Terror Foundation, Germany: "Memorial Museums in Germany - Specifically Dealing with perpetratiors. Overview and Question"
Heiki Ahonen, Kistler-Ritso Estonian Foundation, Estonia "Dealing with the recent past in Baltic countries: Between Red Star and Black Swastika - difficult choices"
12:15
Lunch
13:15
Educational Approaches
Chair: Kirsten John-Stucke
Karen Franklin, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, U.S.A.
"Educational Aporaches at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: Keeping History Center, the Morgenthaus, and Research on Rescue - The Lehman Family"
Christine Pieper, Dresdner Geschichtsbüro, Germany "Dealing with Nazi-Perpetrators in Dresden. An East-German City 20 Years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain"
Tom Wulf, Geschichtsort Villa ten Hompel, Germany "Educating about Perpetrators at a former Perpetrator Location: The Villa ten Hompel in Muenster, Germany" (preliminary title)
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
Return to Paderborn
16:30
Memorial Museums I
Location: Aspethera-Hotel, Paderborn
Angelle Ginebra, Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance, Dominican Republic "Memorial Museums in the Dominican Republic and in Latin America" (preliminary title)
17:00
IC MEMO membership meeting and board election
20:00
Reception by the Landrat of the District of Paderborn (only IC MEMO members and speakers)
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Location: Aspethera-Hotel, Paderborn
9:00
Memorial Museums II
Günther Morsch, Concentration Camp Memorial Sachsenhausen, Germany "A Memorial Museum Charta"
12:00
end of conference