An Online Workshop: Emotions and Holocaust Studies
September 13th and 14th, 2022
REGISTER on Zoom:
https://psu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sd-mhqjgvEtYI4agZYF79FosW_pSY4dKK
Concept and Organization: Stefanie Fischer and Kobi Kabalek in collaboration with the Buber-Resenzweig Institute (Goethe University Frankfurt), Center for the Study of Antisemitism (Technical University, Berlin), Fritz Bauer Institute (Goethe University Frankfurt), and Penn State University.
Programm
Tuesday – September 13th, 202213:30 CETIntroductory RemarksStefanie Fischer (Goethe University Frankfurt / Technical University Berlin), Christian Wiese (Goethe University Frankfurt), Veronika Duma (Goethe University Frankfurt), Kobi Kabalek (Penn State University)
13:45 – 14:55First Encounters: Disbelief and DisgustChair: Mark Roseman (Indiana University)Jeff Koerber (Chapman University): “Grodno, Soviet Belarus, 22 June 1941: Shock and Disbelief in Response to the German Invasion”Mark Celinscak (University of Nebraska at Omaha): “Right Off the Emotional Scale: Anger and Disgust in Liberators’ Accounts”
15:05 – 16:15Writing EmotionsChair: Amos Goldberg (Hebrew University)Amy Simon (Michigan State University): “The Deepening Darkness: Emotions in Yiddish Holocaust Diaries”Sara Ann Sewell (Virginia Wesleyan University): “Screams: Embodied Affective Expressions in Holocaust Soundscapes”
16:30 – 18:00Intimacy and LoveChair: Kerry Wallach (Gettysburg College)Judd Robin (Ohio State University): “‘Pushing Away the Memories’: Remembrances of Love and Grief in the Postwar Homes of Holocaust Survivor/Allied Veteran Families”Paul O’Shea (University of Leicester): “Friendships as ‘Spaces’ of Emotional Refuge in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp”Lisa Peschel (University of York): “Positive Emotion and Memories of Theatre in the Terezín Ghetto”
18:10 – 19:20Arousing Empathy in TestimonyChair: Esra Özyürek (University of Cambridge)Rebekah Slodounik (Bucknell University): “The Cultivation of Empathy in the Holocaust Diaries of Anne Frank and Renia Spiegel”Rachel Perry (Haifa University) and Ella Falldorf (Jena University): “Empathic Unsettlement in Art from the Holocaust?”
Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
13:50 Welcome
14:00-15:10Spaces and Places of EmotionChair: Uffa Jensen (Technical University Berlin)Therkel Stræde (University of Southern Denmark): “Places of Fear in the Theresienstadt Ghetto”Tim Cole (University of Bristol) and Alberto Giordano (Texas State University): “Emotional Geographies of the Holocaust: Methods and Representations”
15:20-16:30Escaping HitlerChair: Irit Dekel (Indiana University)Charlie Knight (University of Southampton): “‘Please will you tell me […] Why is she not writing?:
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