International Symposium - From Entebbe to Mogadishu: Terrorism in the 1970s and its History, Memory and Legacy

Mon, 16/01/2017 to Tue, 17/01/2017

Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 501 & Mishkenot Sha´ananim Conference Center, Gilbert de Botton Auditorium

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Program

Monday, 16. January 2017

Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 501

 

 

09:00

Opening remarks

 

 

09:30

Keynote Lecture

 

Chair:

Manuela Consonni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

Martin Jander, Freie Universität Berlin / Stanford University:

 

 

Open Secrets – German Historiography and Non-State Terrorism in Germany after 1945

 

 

10:30

Coffee Break

 

 

11:00

Historical Perspectives on Terrorism

 

Chair:

Francesco Di Palma, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Freie Universität Berlin

 

 

Ido Zelkowitz, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel:

 

 

Palestinian Students in Western Germany 1962-1972 – The Creation of Armed Struggle in a Safe Academic Space

 

 

Daniel Aschheim, The Hebrew University Jerusalem of Jerusalem:

 

 

European Leaders and the Terrorist Threat during the 1970s – The Case of Bruno Kreisky and Willy Brandt

 

 

12:00

Lunch Break

 

 

13:30

After Entebbe

 

Chair:

Ofer Ashkenazi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

Omri Adomi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

 

 

From Students to Partners – 1970's Counter-Terrorism and the Shift in the Military Relations between Israel and West Germany

 

 

Giora Goodman, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee / Tony Shaw, University of Hertfordshire:

 

 

Cinematic Depictions of the Raid on Entebbe – Israel and Hollywood

 

 

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

 

 

Entebbe after Entebbe – An Entangled History of Violence, Media and Memory

 

Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Gilbert de Botton Ausditorium

15:45

Reception

16:15

Greetings

 

H.E. Ambassador Dr. Clemens von Goetze, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Tamir Sheafer, Dean of the Faulty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Noam Shoval, Head of the DAAD Center for German Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

16:30

Conversation with Dieter Fox (Germany), Deputy Commander of the German Counter-terrorist Unit GSG 9

 

Chair:

Gisela Dachs, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Die Zeit

 

 

17:00

Memories from Entebbe and Mogadishu Panel Discussion

 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

 

Chair:

Gisela Dachs, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Die Zeit

 

 

Gabriele von Lutzau (Germany) Survivor from Mogadishu

 

 

Matan Vilnai (Israel) – Deputy Commander of Operation Thunderbolt

 

 

Benny Davidson (Israel) – Survivor from Entebbe

 

 

Avner Avraham (Israel) – Curator and Expert on Operation Thunderbolt

 

 

18:30

Break

 

 

19:00

Keynote Lecture

 

Chair:

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland, College Park:

 

 

Munich, Entebbe, Mogadishu – The West German Radical Left, the “Jewish Question”, and Israel

 

Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Maiersdorf Faculty Club, Room 501

  

10:00

Keynote Lecture

 

Chair:

Moshe Zimmermann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

Annette Vowinckel, Zentrum für Zeitgeschichtliche Forschung, Potsdam:

 

 

Airworld Narratives – Framing the History of Skyjacking

 

 

11:00

Break

 

 

11:30

Entangled Histories – Traumatic Memories

 

Chair:

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

 

 

Marc Brüggemann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

 

 

The Munich Olympic Attack in German-Israeli Collective Memory

 

 

Yael Ben Moshe, University of Haifa:

 

 

The Concept of Terrorism and the Void of Trauma – Trans-generational Perspectives in Contemporary German Films

 

 

12:30

Lunch Break

  

14.00

Commemorating Terrorism and its Victims – Panel Discussion

 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

 

Chair:

Amichai Magen, IDC Herzliya

 

Ankie Spitzer (Israel) – Commemorating the Victims from Munich 1972

 

Avner Avraham (Israel) – Commemorating the Entebbe Raid

 

Eyal Boers (Israel) – Commemorating the Victims from Entebbe

 

Martin Rupps (Germany) – Commemorating Mogadischu and RAF Terrorism in Germany

 

 

15:30

Break

 

 

16:00

Entebbe and the “German Autumn” in Israeli and German Visual Memory Panel Discussion

 

Chair:

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Paul Frosh, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Raya Morag, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Tony Shaw, University of Hertfordshire

 

Gisela Dachs, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Die Zeit