Symposium: Museums and the Memory of Nazi-Fascism, the Holocaust and World War II: Toward a Shared European History?

This event is part of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Click here for the complete program.
Click here for information about the morning session open only to students and faculty.

The program will explore a specific aspect of European efforts to foster the shaping of a shared historical landscape: museums of memory and history. Speakers will take into consideration various museums, analyzing the circumstances in which each was planned and realized, derailed, abandoned or kept in a limbo. Is there a common thread in the rush to portray history as museum display and the crisis that have affected various museums?

Participants:
Guri Schwarz (University of Pisa)
Aline Sierp (University of Maastricht)
Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa)
Laure Neumayer (University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
Gabor Sonkoly (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
Anna Di Lellio (The New School)
Daniel Levy (Stony Brook University)
Mark Weitzman (Simon Wiesenthal Center, IHRA)

Advisory committee:
Ruth Ben-Ghiat (New York University)
Silvana Patriarca (Fordham University)
Ernest Ialongo (Hostos Community College)
in collaboration with Natalia Indrimi and Alessandro Cassin (Centro Primo Levi)

Organized by the Consulate General of Italy, Centro Primo Levi, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, the Calandra Institute at CUNY, the Alliance of Columbia University and the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the Consulate General of Germany and the Consulate General of France.

This program is part of Centro Primo Levi’s cooperation with the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan and its journal Quest, Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, whose latest issue Holocaust Intersections in 21st-Century Europe, curated by Robert Gordon and Emiliano Perra, explores memory politics and their implementations.

In ENGLISH.

From Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò.