Bones Never Lie? Unearthing Europe's Age of Terror in the Age of Memory

Workshops & Conventions The research plans and projects by the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) require continuous discussion and in-depth academic consideration and fine-tuning. VWI workshops provide a forum for the in-depth discussion of the core research areas named by the International Academic Board in its position paper. The workshops are organized as required and as advised by the Academic Board. However, topics and ideas may also be proposed to the institute from outsiders. The first workshop took place in close cooperation with the "büro trafo.K" and Dirk Rupnow from the University of Innsbruck's Institute of Contemporary History in November 2011. Entitled "Holocaust Education in Post-Nazi Societies", the workshop focused on the discussion of the challenges posed to traditional Holocaust education in terms of educational measures and content and the issue of dealing with the historical narratives of pupils from a „migration background“. A further workshop, organized by the VWI alone, was organized with reference to one of the core areas named in the International Academic Board position paper, "Antisemitism at selected European higher education institutions and universities 1918-1939". The workshop was entitled "Alma mater antisemitica" and was held at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in June 2012. The next workshop is planned for June 2013. It is being organized together with the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Cultural Science and History of Theatre and the Rothchild Foundation. It will address "The Legacy of the Holocaust in Jewish Archives and Documentation. An International Comparison“. Print EMAILWorkshop The Forensic Turn in Holocaust Studies? (Re-)Thinking the Past Through Materiality From Thursday, 25. June 2015 - 12:00To Friday, 26. June 2015 - 19:30Bruno Kreisky Forum für internationalen Dialog, Armbrustergasse 15, 1190 Wien Einladung-Forsenic-TurnProgramme In Holocaust Studies, a new turn seems to advance: after the era of classical written source based historiography and ‘the era of the witness’ characterised by the paradigmatic role of survivor testimony in Holocaust research and remembrance, a forensic approach comes to the foreground nowadays. In recent years, the sites of the former concentration and extermination camps, as well as the mass graves at the ‘killing sites’, have become the objects of archaeological research contributing to the development of ‘Holocaust archaeology’ as a new subdiscipline. Centred on material traces of genocidal violence, such as spatial structures, physical remnants, mass graves and human remains, the ‚forensic turn‘ could be seen as a response to the gradual passing away of Holocaust victims. At the same time, it reflects broader changes in practical and conceptual approaches to legacies of (genocidal) violence across cultures and geographies brought about by the urge for historiographical, historical, ancestral and personal clarifications, quests for justice or processes of reconciliation in its aftermath. While acknowledging its unquestionable importance for fostering historical research on post-Holocaust landscapes, this workshop seeks to investigate the theoretical, methodological, political and practical implications of the ‘forensic turn’ for their investigation, memorialisation and experience. Taking as a vantage point debates surrounding archaeological research at post-Holocaust landscapes, the workshop also aims to provide a comparative view of Holocaust and genocidal archaeologies within a broader framework of the ‘forensic turn’ in Europe and beyond. The interest in materialities and spatialities of genocidal violence opens, therefore, space for new theoretical and ethical questions, methodological perspectives and research topics. Programme: Thursday, 25 June 2015 12:00Lunch 13:00Keynote Ewa Domańska (Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu/Stanford University)Corpus Delicti, Non-Human Witnesses and Post-Secular Turn Chair: Éva Kovács (Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien, VWI) 14:00Coffee BreakArcheology as Political Practice Chair: Juliane Wetzel (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Berlin) 14:30Francisco Ferrándiz/Luis Ríos (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – Spanish National Research Council, Madrid)Scientific Rituals in Contemporary Spanish Civil War Exhumations 14:55Robert Jan van Pelt (University of Waterloo, Ontario)Brick by Brick 15:20Keith K. Silika (Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent)Forensic Archaeology and Politics in Zimbabwe 15:45Małgorzata Wosińska (Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu)Turning to Present. Forensic Methods in Holocaust Studies as a Practical Approach in Modern Post-Conflict Societies 16:10Discussion 16:30Coffee Break Contested Methodologies Chair: Dominique Trimbur (Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris) 17:00Caroline Studry Colls (Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent)To Dig or not to Dig, “That Is the Question”. Reconsidering Archaeological Approaches to Holocaust Landscapes 17:25Ivar Schute (RAAP Archeologisch Adviesbureau, Leiden)The Archaeological Excavations at the Sobibor Extermination Camp. An Example of the Forensic Approach in Holocaust Studies 17:50Claudia Theune-Vogt (Universität Wien)Fragestellungen – Quellen – Methoden – Erkenntnisgewinn 18:15Thomas Pototschnig (Wien)Zeitgeschichtliche Archäologie und forensische Methodik im Dienst der Holocaustforschung 18:40Discussion 19:00Dinner Evening Programme 20:00”If that‘s so then I‘m a murderer ...” (Walter Manoschek, A 2012, 65 minutes) followed by a discussion with the director and Éva Kovács Friday, 26 June 2015 12:00Lunch 13:00Keynote Robert van der Laarse (Universiteit van Amsterdam)Bones Never Lie? Unearthing Europe’s Age of Terror in the Age of Memory Chair: Éva Kovács (Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien, VWI) 14:00Coffee Break Research, Preservation, Memorialisation Chair: Brigitte Bailer (Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstands) 14:30Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester)Corpses in Societies. A General Reflexion on the Reinscription of Human Remains in Societies after Mass Violence and the Holocaust 14:55Francesco Mazzuchellli (Università di Bologna)From the Era of the Witness to an Era of Traces. An Epistemic Turn in Traumatic Memories 15:20Roma Sendyka (Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków)Forensic Memorials. Memorialisations on Non-Sites of Memory 15:45Borbala Kriza (Budapest)What to Do With a Mass Grave? Significance and Insignificance of Holocaust Victims’ Mass Graves in Kőszeg to the Local and National Memory in Hungary 16:10Discussion 16:30Coffee Break Ethics and Aesthetics Chair: Béla Rásky (Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien, VWI) 17:00Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths University of London)Violence at the Threshold of Detectability 17:25Layla Renshaw (Kingston University, London)The Forensic Gaze: Reading Bodies and Objects as Evidence 17:50Zuzanna Dziuban (Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien, VWI)Human Remains and the Politics of Survivance 18:15Johanne Helbo Bøndergaard (Aarhus Universitet)Forensic Memory Culture and Literature after Testimony 18:40Stephenie A. Young (Salem State University)Bodies of Evidence. Forensics, Photography and the Post-Yugoslav Document 19:05Discussion

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