Venue:
Topography of Terror Foundation
Niederkirchnerstraße 8
Berlin, Germany
To register, please email veranstaltungen@topographie.de.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
6:00 p.m.
Welcoming Address
Andreas Nachama, Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Uwe Neumärker, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Norbert Kampe, House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Educational Site, Berlin, Germany
Welcoming Speech
Walter Momper, Chairman of the Berlin House of Representatives, Germany
Keynote Lecture: The Eichmann Trial: A Perspective after 50 Years
Deborah E. Lipstadt, Emory University, Atlanta, United States
Chair: Paul A. Shapiro, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
9:00 a.m.
Registration
9:30 a.m.
Welcome remarks
Andreas Nachama, Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin, Germany
10:00 a.m.
Lecture: Reflections on the Glass Booth
Lawrence Douglas, Amherst College, United States
Chair: Andreas Nachama, Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin, Germany
11:00 a.m.
Coffee break
11:30 a.m.
Panel: Legal Implications of the Trial
Valerie Hébert, Lakehead University at Orillia, Canada, Justice in Transition from Nuremberg to Kigali: Turning Points in the Legal Responses to Genocide
Leora Bilsky, Tel Aviv University, Israel, The Eichmann Trial and the Legacy of Jurisdiction
Jürgen Matthäus, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., The Eichmann Trial and the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes in West Germany
Gerd Hankel, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany, The Implications of Eichmann’s Conviction for Contemporary Criminals against the State
Chair: Lawrence Douglas, Amherst College, United States
1:00 p.m.
Lunch
2:00 p.m.
Panel: International Reception of the Trial in the 1960s
Annette Weinke, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany, Between Working Through and Covering Up: The Eichmann Trial and the Adenauer Government
Hanna Yablonka, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, A Trauma Unfolded: Nazi-Era Trials and the Israelis
Gilbert Achcar, University of London, Great Britain, Reception of the Eichmann Trial in Arab Countries
Chair: Michael Wildt, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
4:30 p.m.
Coffee break
5:00 p.m.
Introduction to and Tour of the Exhibition: “Facing Justice: Adolf Eichmann on Trial” at the Topography of Terror Documentation Center
Ulrich Baumann, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Lisa Hauff, Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Thursday, May 26, 2011
9:00 a.m.
Lecture: Eichmann and Zionism: From Acquaintance to Opportunism, Vengeance to Justice
Michael Berkowitz, University College London, Great Britain
Chair: Jürgen Matthäus, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.
9:45 a.m.
Panel: The Eichmann Trial as Media Event
Klaus Bölling, ARD correspondent at the Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem, Germany, The Eichmann Trial in Contemporary German Media
Steven Alan Carr, Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne, United States, Eichmann TV and the Globalization of Holocaust Memory
Peter Krause, University of Konstanz, Germany, The Eichmann Trial and the Cold War Press Coverage in East and West Germany
Chair: Thomas Lutz, Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin, Germany
11:15 a.m.
Coffee break
11:45 a.m.
Roundtable Discussion: The Eichmann Trial in Contemporary Perspective
Hans Mommsen, Ruhr University Bochum (Emeritus), Germany
Hanna Yablonka, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
David Tolbert, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, United States [invited]
David Cesarani, University of London, Great Britain
Chair: Wolf Kaiser, House of the Wannsee Conference Memorial and Educational Site, Berlin, Germany
1:15 p.m.
Conference close
