Main Exhibition Symposium Film Program Gallery Hours


International Symposium on Military War Crimes: History and Memory

December 3-6, 1999
New School University


The Exhibition "The German Army and Genocide Crimes Against Prisoners of War, Jews and Other Civilians in the East 1939–1944" at the Cooper Union has been postponed. The NYU film program scheduled in conjunction with the exhibition for January 2000 has been postponed as well.

This symposium is held with the support and cooperation of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, the Goethe Institut, The New School University, NYU and the Remarque Institute.




Friday

 

December 3, 1999

Documenting Genocide, Defining War Crimes
1:30–3:30 PM

Chair: Judith Friedlander The New School University

Aryeh Neier Open Society Institute
Robert Rindler The School of Art, Cooper Union
Gilles Peress Photo journalist
Jan Phillip Reemtsma The Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue


Saturday

 

December 4, 1999

Workshop 1: Issues of Photographic Evidence 10 AM–12 PM

chair: Mary Nolan New York University

Bernd Boll The Hamburg Institute f
or Social Research
Hans Safrian U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Marianne Hirsch Dartmouth College
Susan Meiselas
Photo journalist

Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue


Workshop 2:
The Wehrmacht Exhibition Controversy 1:30–3:30 PM

chair: Atina Grossmann The Cooper Union

Jane Kramer The New Yorker Magazine
Klaus Naumann
The Hamburg Institute f
or Social Research
Bernd Greiner The Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue



Ruth Beckermann's film East of War (Jenseits des Krieges) 3:30–5:30 PM
The film will be screened in its entirety.

Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue


Keynote Address 6 PM


Welcome remarks: Judith Friedlander The New School University

Introduction: Anson Rabinbach Princeton Unversity

Keynote Address: Saul Friedländer UCLA, Tel Aviv University.

Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street


Sunday

 

December 5, 1999

Panel 1: Perpetrators and Victims 9:30 AM–12 PM

Chair: Volker Berghahn Columbia University

Omer Bartov Rutgers University
Christopher Browning University of North Carolina
Juergen Foerster Militargeschichtliches Forschungsamt
Hannes Heer
The Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue


Panel 2:
Home Front and Battle Front 1:30–4 PM

Chair: Mary Nolan New York University

David Bankier Hebrew University
Mark Mazower Princeton University
Gudrun Schwarz
The Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Michael Wildt
The Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue


Panel 3: Postwar Memory of the Eastern Front 4:30–7 PM

Chair: Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University

Frank Biess Brown University
Atina Grossmann The Cooper Union
Ulrich Herbert University of Freiburg
Robert Moeller University of California, Irvine

Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue


Monday

 

December 6, 1999

Panel 4:
Remembering and Forgetting: World War II 9:30–12 PM

Chair: Tony Judt New York University

John Dower Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edward Linenthal University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Amir Weiner Stanford University

Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue


Panel 5: Remembering and Forgetting: Algeria, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea 1:30–4 PM

Chair: Vera Zolberg The New School University

Bernd Greiner The Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Benjamin Stora University of Paris 8
Marilyn Young New York University

Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue



Panel 6: Roundtable on Military War Crimes: Politics and Ethics 4:30–7 PM

Chair: Judith Friedlander The New School University

Istvan Deak Columbia University
Michael Geyer University of Chicago
Philip Gourevitch The New Yorker Magazine
Jan Phillip Reemstma
The Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Michael Walzer Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University

Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue


 
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