Workshop | Debating Holocaust and Colonial Memory Culture: Historikerstreit 2.0
German and Dutch Perspectives
| Veranstaltung des Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam |
|
|---|---|
| Datum: | Donnerstag 29 Juni 2023 um 14:00 Uhr bis 16:00 Uhr |
| Ort: | NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Herengracht 380, Amsterdam |
| Information: | Voertaal: Engels |
| Zugang: | Gratis. Aanmelden via e-mail aan h.j.jurgens@uva.nl |
In 2021 ontbrandde een verhit debat over wat de Australische historicus A. Dirk Moses "The German Catechism" noemde. Moses bekritiseerde de Duitse consensus over de uniciteit van de Holocaust. Tegelijkertijd lijken Duitse intellectuelen de koloniale context van de Duitse wreedheden in Oost-Europa over het hoofd te zien, evenals bredere debatten over uiteenlopende herinneringsculturen. Een workshop i.s.m. NIOD, met een keynote door de Duitse historicus Michael Wildt.
With A. Dirk Moses’s criticism on the progressive consensus on the place of the Holocaust in German history, new debates have evolved on the topicality of genocide studies, human rights violations and on German self-understanding. Michael Wildt is one of the leading German historians who took up the gauntlet in the edited volume Historiker Streiten, published together with Susan Neiman, in which the different angles of the debate are discussed. Wildt pleads for a thorough re-evaluation of German colonial atrocities. If we want to act in a future-oriented and sustainable way in a globalized world, the knowledge of colonial history should be aligned to the high level of Holocaust research, he states.
With contributions from:
Michael Wildt (Berlin), Keynote
Hanco Jürgens (DIA), Beyond German and Dutch memory cultures: a multi-layered approach
Uğur Ümit Üngör (NIOD), On the use and necessity of comparative Genocide Studies
Anne van Mourik, Inclusive history and the Holocaust; the representation of the Herero and Nama genocide and the integration of migrants in German schoolbooks (1990-2020)
Register via h.j.jurgens@uva.nl
Duitsland Instituut in cooperation with NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies