CAGR2014 Conference Panels
Panels
Panel: Digital Archives and Teaching about Genocide Victory Room A | ||
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| Chair: Todd Presner, University of California, Los Angeles | ||
| Christina Isabel Bruning | University of Education, Freiberg | Meeting the survivors? – Challenges of using VHA testimonies in lower secondary education |
| DJ Johnson | University of Southern California | Case Studies in Research or Teaching with Media Archives |
| Roy Schwartzman | University of North Carolina, Greensboro | Eternal Survivors in Ephemeral Memory: Toward a Digital Poetics of Holocaust Survivor Testimony |
Panel: Early Mediations of the Holocaust Victory Room B | ||
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| Chair: Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University | ||
| David Shneer | Colorado University, Boulder | The Performance of Testimony: Past, Present, and Future |
| Rachel Deblinger | University of California, Santa Cruz | On Air: Listening to Holocaust Survivor Narratives on Postwar American Radio |
| Olga Gershenson | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | The First Film of the Holocaust: The Unvanquished (1945) |
Panel: The Dynamics of Oral Histories of War and Genocide: The Case of Indonesia Victory Room B | ||
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| Chair: Geoffrey Robinson, University of California, Los Angeles | ||
| Stef Scagliola | Erasmus University, Rotterdam | Oral history archives and disclosures on alleged war crimes; a case study from the Dutch-Indonesian decolonization war (1945-1949) |
| Amy Rothschild | University of California, San Diego | The Santa Cruz Massacre: Resistance, Media and Memory in East Timor |
| Viola Lasmana | University of Southern California | Remixing Archives of Injustice and Genocide |
Panel: Oral History and Mediation Victory Room A | ||
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| Chair: Karen Jungblut, University of Southern California | ||
| Peg LeVine | University of Melbourne | Accounting for Ritualcide in the Cambodian Genocide: Abduction of Children’s Imaginations in a Spirit-based Culture (Film Ethnography) |
| Mark Zaurov | University of Hamburg | Deaf Holocaust Survivors on Visual Media |
| Christa Whitney | Director, Wexler Oral History Project, Yiddish Book Center | How to Gracefully Conclude a Life Story for the Camera?: Issues of Identity Transmission, Narrative, and Ethics in the Last Five Minutes of Filmed Oral Histories |
Panel: Social Engagements with Holocaust Remembrance in New Media Victory Room A | ||
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| Chair: Johanna Blakley, University of Southern California | ||
| Rachel Baum | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee | Reframing Testimony: Holograms and the Future of Witnessing |
| Aya Yadlin-Segal | Texas A&M | “It Happened Before and it Will Happen Again”: Online User Comments as a Non-commemorative Site of Holocaust Remembrance |
| Paris Papamichos Chronakis | University of Illinois | Bonds of Survival. Reconstructing the Social Networks of Holocaust Survivors |
Panel: Place and Media in Remembering Genocide Victory Room B | ||
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| Chair: Marianne Hirsch, Columbia | ||
| Edyta Gawron | Jagiellonian University | Memory, history and politics: Whose Story should be shown in Schindler’s Factory? |
| Andras Lenart | Open Society Archive | Yellow-star houses - Landmarks of public memory using new media |
| Michelle Caswell | University of California, Los Angeles | Lasting Traces, Digital Reuses: Tuol Sleng’s Photographic Archive and the Commodification of Memory in Cambodia |
Roundtables
Roundtable: Digital Pedagogy, Education, Human Rights and Violence Studies Grand Ballroom | |
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| Moderator: Kori Street, USC Shoah Foundation | |
| Henry Jenkins | University of Southern California |
| Ethel Brooks | Rutgers University |
| Andrea Peto | Central European University |
Roundtable: Digital Archives in Research and Public Engagement Grand Ballroom | |
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| Moderator: Wendy Lower, Claremont McKenna College | |
| Yves Kamuronsi | Aegis Trust |
| Francesco Spagnolo | University of California, Berkeley |
| Douglas Greenberg | Rutgers University |
| Stef Scagliola | Erasmus University, Rotterdam |
Future Directions: Genocide Studies and Digital Media Archives Grand Ballroom | |
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| Moderator: Stephen Smith, USC Shoah Foundation | |
| Zachary Kaufman | US Supreme Court/Yale Law School |
| Mukesh Kapila | University of Manchester |
| Andi Gitow | United Nations, USC Shoah Foundation Visiting Fellow |