Conference

Lessons and Legacies Knoxville Interim Meeting
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
November 4–6, 2021

Please note that all sessions will be available live online.

Thursday, November 4, 2021, Room 270, University of Tennessee Student Union
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm – Welcome and Introductory Comments,
Helene Sinnreich (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Daniel H. Magilow (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Sarah Cushman (Holocaust Education Foundation of Northwestern University)

2:15 pm – 3:45 pm – Composing the Holocaust

• “Music as Spatial Representation and Legacy,” Kellie D. Brown (Milligan University)
• “Composing a Jewish Identity: Viktor Ullmann’s Choral Arrangements in Theresienstadt,” James A. Grymes, (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
• “The Composer as Intellectual: Biblical Interpretation in Alexandre Tansman’s Isaïe le prophète,” (Nicolette van den Bogerd, Indiana University)

3:45 pm – 4:00pm – Break

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Food and Entertainment Culture in Polish Ghettos

• “The fashionable crowd at the Café Sztuka”: Entertainment, Privilege, and Sexuality in The Warsaw Ghetto’s Cafés and Cabarets,” Julia Riegel (Hollins University)
•  “Hunger in a Polish Ghetto,” Helene Sinnreich (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Friday, November 5, 2021, Room 169, University of Tennessee Student Union
9:00 am – 10:30am – Roundtable – Digital Interactive Testimonies: Exploring Different Formats of Presentation

• Daniel Kolb
• Florian Duda
• Ernst Hüttl
• Frauke Teichmann
• Fabian Heindl

10:30am – 11:00am –Break

11:00am – 12:00pm – Looking at the European Genocide From Afar
Moderator: Daniel H. Magilow (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• “‘Where is the World’s Conscience?’: Addressing American Views Towards Collective Guilt Since the Second World War (1937),” Samantha Hinckley (Gratz College)
• “Imperial Performativity and Survival During the Shoah: The Philippine Rescue of Central European Jews Reconsidered,” Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (Appalachian State University)

12:00pm – 1:30pm – Lunch Break

1:30pm – 3:00pm – French Holocaust Histories in France and Beyond
Moderator: Matthew Brauer (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• “The Vel d’Hiv Round-Up: The Largest Mass Arrest in Wartime in French History,” Eileen M. Angelini (SUNY Empire State College)
• “The Implicated Subject: Colonial Atrocity, Harki Identity, and an Ontology of the In-Between,” Brigitte Stepanov (Georgia Tech)
• “The Final Verdict: The Trial of Klaus Barbie in the Memoirs of Witnesses Simone Lagrange and Sabine Zlatin,” Ashley Valanzola (Middle Tennessee State University)

3:00pm – 3:15pm – Break

3:15pm – 4:15pm – Works-In-Progress Discussion
Moderator: Monica Black (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• “The Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau as Representatives of Male Jews during the Holocaust,” Christin Zühlke (Technical University Berlin / University of California, Berkeley)

Saturday, November 6, 2021, Room 169, University of Tennessee Student Union
9:00am – 10:30am – Space, Ideology, and Ethnicity
Moderator: Helene Sinnreich (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

• “Cleansing” Germany: Ideology, Space, and the Nazi Consolidation of Power in Cities,” Teresa Walch (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
• “‘An Epoch-Defining Social Reform:’” Local Agency and Romanianization Policies in the Jiu Valley, 1938-1943,” Anca Glont (University of Dayton)
• “Invoking Eternity: Religion and Temporality in the National Socialist Narrative,” Madeline Levy (Harvard University)

10:30am – 11:00am – Break

11:00am – 12:00pm – Sights and Sounds at Memory Sites

• “Taking Selfies at Holocaust Memorials,” Daniel H. Magilow (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• “Babel’s Sonic Sensorium: Reception and Description in Holocaust Testimonies and Written,” Kathryn Huether (American University)