Life Behind Fences

24 November 2022 at 3.30 pm

Artistic Production and Coping Mechanisms in Ghettos and Camps during the Second World War

Thursday 24 November afternoon

the Museum will host the third session of the International Conference

organized by Festival Viktor Ullmann & Department of Humanities, University of Trieste

in collaboration with the Museum of the Jewish Community of Trieste “Carlo and Vera Wagner”.

LIFE BEHIND FENCES

Artistic Production and Coping Mechanisms
in Ghettos and Camps during the Second World War

15:30/ 16:10
Keynote Address

Guri Schwarz – University of Genoa
Italian Holocaust Memorials in the XXIst Century

16:10/16:30
Q&A

Panel 3  Testimonies and Remembrance

Testimonies and Remembrance

Chair & Discussant:

Nina Valbousquet – École française de Rome

16:30/16:50

Stephen Naron – Fortunoff Archive, Yale University

The Fortunoff Video Archive’s Songs from Testimonies as Contemporary Commemoration and Ethnomusicological Research Project

16:50/17:00
Coffee Break

17:00/17:10
Olga Stefan (PhD Student, University of Iasi, Romania)
Art of the Holocaust in Romania: Vapniarka as a Case Study

17:10/17:20
Stefania Zezza (PhD Student – University of Rome Tor Vergata)
We had to learn all the languages. We had to talk with our feet, our eyes, and our hands:
Linguistic issues in testimonies about the camps. The case of Greek Jews

17:20/17:40
Tehila Darmon Malka (Herzog College – Jerusalem)
Fatherhood as Resistance – Models of Fatherhood during the Holocaust

17.40/18.00
Q&A

18:30/19:00

Music Concert – Ensemble Mark Rothko

Live streaming:  https://www.youtube.com/user/MusicaLiberaTV

Info:  behindfencesconference@gmail.com