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SUMMARY:Session 5 – Othering\, Occupation\, Violence\, and Denial
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the IHRA Webinar Series\, in collaboration with the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre (JHGC)\, Eastern European Holocaust Studies: Interdisciplinary Journal of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (EEHS)\, Ukraina Moderna website (UM)\, and Austrian Service Abroad (ASA) on the theme of “Othering\, Occupation\, Violence\, and Denial”. Topics that will be engaged with under the central theme include the way in which historical analogies and presentism in studying the history of the Holocaust are used to foster deeper understanding and critical thinking about the Holocaust\, current armed conflicts and the rise of hate speech. Ways in which oversimplifications\, misrepresentations\, distortions\, and denial of these topics can be challenged and safeguarded against will also be grappled with\, alongside testimonies\, resistance\, education\, remembrance\, and the collection and preservation of history. \n\n\n\nThis fifth webinar in the series deals with the theme of Testimonies featuring speakers: Dr Catherine Clark on “‘Othering’ and the Survivor Testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute”\, Prof Gelinada Grinchenko on “Oral history of war\, occupation\, and liberation: Kharkiv 1941-1945”\, Prof Kerry Whigham on “Testimonial spaces and practices: the power of art and memorials in testifying to past harm”\, and Paul Salmons on “The testimony of artefacts: what stories can we find in everyday objects?” \n\n\n\nCatherine E. Clark\, PhD\, is the Senior Director of Programs at the USC Shoah Foundation. Trained as a historian of modern Europe\, Clark joined the Shoah Foundation in 2024 after serving at MIT\, where she remains a tenured Associate Professor of History and French Studies. From 2022-2024\, she served as the Faculty Director of MIT’s Programs in the Digital Humanities. Clark is the author of Paris and the Cliché of History (Oxford University Press\, 2018)\, which won the 2018-2019 Laurence Wylie Prize for the best book in French cultural studies authored by a resident of North America\, as well as numerous articles about French history and culture in publications including the American Historical Review\, the Journal of Visual Culture\, and Representations. She brings her expertise in history\, visual culture\, and computational methods in the Humanities to her role at the USC Shoah Foundation. Clark is dedicated to strengthening the Institute’s educational\, academic\, and public programs and fostering impactful partnerships. \n\n\n\nProf. Dr. Gelinada Grinchenko is an Associated Researcher at the Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich\, Germany\, and a Professor at the Department of World History at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University\, Ukraine (until 2023\, she was a Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Studies at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University\, Ukraine). She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Ukraina Moderna\, Co-Chair of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission\, and Co-Chair of the Ukrainian Oral History Association. Her research interests include Oral History\, the history and remembrance of World War II\, Memory Studies\, and Holocaust and genocide research. She is the author of numerous publications on these topics\, including: Reclaiming the Personal: Oral History in Post-Socialist Europe\, edited by N. Khanenko-Friesen and G. Grinchenko\, University of Toronto Press\, Scholarly Publishing Division\, 2015\,Traitors\, Collaborators\, and Deserters in Contemporary European Politics of Memory: Formulas of Betrayal\, edited by G. Grinchenko and E. Narvselius\, Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies\, 2018\, and Grinchenko\, Gelinada; Venger\, Albert (2024): Archival Case Files Regarding the Killings of Psychiatric Hospital Patients in Occupied Dnipropetrovs’k Region: Historical Sources\, People\, and Memory (in Ukrainian). She has taught as a Visiting Professor at Bochum and Giessen Universities (Germany) and was a fellow at numerous foundations and institutions\, including: Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung\, Philipp Schwartz Initiative for At-Risk-Scholars (2023–24)\, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (2022\, 2023)\, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (2022\, 2021\, 2006\, 2004)\, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena (2019–20)\, Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich (2018)\, The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Brandeis-Genesis Institute for Russian Jewry\, Brandeis University\, USA (2015)\, Gerda Henkel Stiftung (2012\, 2004–06)\, The Center for Advanced Study and Education (2010\, 2009)\, and the American Council of Learned Societies (2008\, 2003). \n\n\n\nKerry Whigham is Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University and Co-Director of its Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP). His first book\, Resonant Violence: Affect\, Memory\, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies\, is published by Rutgers University Press. He has also published articles in Genocide Studies and Prevention\, Memory Studies\, Public Administration Review\, Public Administration and Development\, and The International Journal of Transitional Justice\, and has written chapters for several edited volumes. He served as a Fulbright Specialist at UNESCO and regularly trains government agencies on atrocity prevention policy and practice. He received a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University. In addition to his academic work\, he is the Director of Research and Online Education at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities\, an international non-governmental organisation that works with over 90 countries around the world on creating public policy for the protection of vulnerable groups and the prevention of mass atrocities. \n\n\n\nPaul Salmons specialises in difficult\, challenging histories\, exploring the continued relevance of the past in today’s complex world. He is Director of the exhibition and education company\, Paul Salmons Associates\, Chief Curator of the travelling exhibition\, Seeing Auschwitz (produced by Musealia for UNESCO and the United Nations)\, and co-curator of Musealia’s international award-winning Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. He was consulting curator on two new permanent Holocaust exhibitions in New York City and St Louis\, Missouri\, and helped to create the major new international travelling exhibition The Berlin Wall: Living in a Divided World\, currently on display in Paris. Previously\, Paul helped create the United Kingdom’s national Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum; co-founded the Centre for Holocaust Education at University College London; and for 20 years played a leading role in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. He is also the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s first Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Fellow\, contributing to a range of the Museum’s international and educational projects.
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SUMMARY:Session 6 – Othering\, Occupation\, Violence\, and Denial
DESCRIPTION:Studies: Interdisciplinary Journal of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (EEHS)\, Ukraina Moderna website (UM)\, and Austrian Service Abroad (ASA) on the theme of “Othering\, Occupation\, Violence\, and Denial”. Topics that will be engaged with under the central theme include the way in which historical analogies and presentism in studying the history of the Holocaust are used to foster deeper understanding and critical thinking about the Holocaust\, current armed conflicts and the rise of hate speech. Ways in which oversimplifications\, misrepresentations\, distortions\, and denial of these topics can be challenged and safeguarded against will also be grappled with\, alongside testimonies\, resistance\, education\, remembrance\, and the collection and preservation of history. \n\n\n\nThis sixth and final webinar in the series deals with the theme of Education about Denial featuring speakers: Dr Lorrie Lynn King on “Genocide Education as Transformative Justice Against Denial: A Mainstreaming Case Study”\, Jakub Nowakowski on “Distorted Narratives: Misrepresentation and Propaganda in the Discourse About the Holocaust in Poland Since 1989″\, Richard Newell on “Making Sense of Holocaust and Genocide Denial in the Former Yugoslavia”\, and Thomas Köhler and Peter Römer (Villa ten Hompel Memorial & Museum) “Narrating gender perspectives in educational settings on the Holocaust by Bullets”. \n\n\n\nFor nearly thirty years\, Dr. Lorrie Lynn King has worked across applied\, academic\, and philanthropic sectors in global health and humanitarian aid. Her career spans 40 countries and fifteen Indigenous nations\, collaborating with organizations like CARE International\, the American Red Cross\, the Carter Center\, and UMCOR. Her community health programs\, including HIV/AIDS Case Management Training in post-genocide Rwanda and Coffee Klatch Psychosocial Support for survivors of sexual violence\, have been recognized by the Rwandan Ministry of Health and the CDC.  Lorrie’s pioneering work in menstrual equity earned her a spot in CNN’s Top Ten Inspiring Women of 2014 (“The Stigma Stopper”)\, along with honors from the Georgia State House of Representatives\, Rotary International\, and Global Menstrual Hygiene Day. As a PhD scholar in Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, she researches global resistance and reparation\, Nazi resettlement in the U.S.\, and Jewish Drag and Gangsterism. She teaches Public Health\, Social Justice\, and Religion at Emory University and Agnes Scott College\, serving as faculty advisor for the Jewish Student Union\, “The Jew Crew”. Lorrie holds a BA in International Development from Oglethorpe University\, an MPH from the University of Liverpool\, and is completing her PhD at Gratz College. She has certifications in Health and Human Rights from Harvard\, Health in Prisons from Johns Hopkins\, and Mental Health First Aid. Additionally\, she is a certified yoga teacher and ordained by the Universal Life Church. In her spare time\, she enjoys reading\, film\, black coffee\, red wine\, and laughter.  \n\n\n\nJakub Nowakowski was born and raised in Kazimierz\, the former Jewish district of Kraków. Coming from a non-Jewish family that lived in Kazimierz for generations\, from an early age he was compelled to research the history of his neighbourhood. In 2007 he graduated from the Department of Jewish Studies at the Jagiellonian University\, where he wrote a thesis on Jewish resistance in Kraków during the Second World War. His interest in Jewish history and Polish-Jewish relations led him to become a student volunteer and a member of Polish-American-Jewish Alliance for Youth Action (PAJA). The goal of the organisation was to create opportunities for dialogue between young Poles\, Jews and Americans. In 2005 Nowakowski joined the staff of the newly open (2004) Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków. In 2006 he joined the Museum’s Education Department\, and in 2008 he became its manager. In 2010\, after an international competition\, Nowakowski was appointed as the director of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków\, Poland. He served in this role for 13 years. In 2023 he was appointed as the director of the Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre. Jakub Nowakowski is the co-author of a number of Museum publications\, including Poland: A Jewish Matter\, and the proceedings of a symposium exploring contemporary Jewish life in Poland\, marking the close of Jewish programming for Polska! Year. He is also a curator of the Museum exhibitions including “Fighting for Dignity”\, “Jewish Resistance in Kraków\, A City Not Forgotten”\, “Memories of Jewish Lwów and the Holocaust”\, “The Girl in the Diary”\, and “Searching for Rywka from Łódź ghetto”. The exhibitions he has curated have been presented in Poland and internationally. \n\n\n\nRichard Newell is a PhD candidate\, based in Sarajevo\, studying at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Austria). His previous research and publications have been on the memory conflicts surrounding the genocide in Srebrenica and Rwanda. His current research is focused on the memorialisation of WWII in the Balkans\, with particular focus on the Jasenovac Concentration Camp. He is co-producer of the Aegis Trust’s “Peace at Risk in Bosnia” podcast and member of the Sarajevo Security Conference.  \n\n\n\nThomas Köhler is the second deputy director of the Villa ten Hompel Memorial and Museum in Münster(Germany) and an associate researcher at the University of Münster. His research\, education and exhibitions focus on the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust\, police history in the 20th century and the culture of remembrance after 1945.  As a partner of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, D.C.\, he is developing educational outreach programs for their German-language traveling exhibition “Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration and Complicity in the Holocaust.” Together with the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem\, he co-developed the didactic folder “Entscheiden und Handeln” regarding the synagogue massacre in the eastern Polish city of Bialystok in June 1941. He is writing his doctoral thesis on the ideological radicalization of Nazi police officers  and is the author and (co-)editor of An der Seite der SS. Die deutsche Polizei im Dritten Reich (expected to be published in 2025)\, Polizei und Holocaust. Eine Generation nach Christopher Brownings Ordinary Men (2023)\, Lublin-Majdanek. Das Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager im Spiegel von Zeugenaussagen\, 2nd edition (2014)\, ‘Nicht durch formale Schranken gehemmt’. Die deutsche Polizei im Nationalsozialismus (2012). \n\n\n\nBorn in Hamburg in 1984\, Peter Römer moved to Münster to study political science\, modern and contemporary history\, and public law at the University of Münster. His experience abroad at the University of Warsaw sensitized him to issues of memory culture and political history. He graduated with a Master of Arts degree. He has worked as a as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia and the German Police University and at the University of Münster. Römer completed his traineeship at the Villa ten Hompel memorial and museum from 2016 to 2018 and has been working here as an educational and Research Associate since 2019. He conceived and planned the international conference “Facing Police and Holocaust” (2019). He was project manager for the projects “Den Tätern auf der Spur” (On the Trail of the Perpetrators) (2020-2022) and “Das geht mich ja was an!” (That’s My Business!) (2021-2022)\, both funded by the EVZ Foundation. He is responsible for the content and organization of education of adults at Villa ten Hompel (particularly in the area of professional training for police\, fire department\, and judicial personnel\, students\, and multipliers). He therefore designs projects for democracy and human rights education\, anti-Semitism prevention\, the history of the police under National Socialism\, and the current development of the executive and judicial branches. He also conducts research on police history and how people become perpetrators. Römer has been deputy director of the historical site since 2023.
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