Symposium in the framework of the research project funded by the DAAD Center for German Studies:
German Postwar Visual History in a European Framework
Migrating Images – Images of Migration
June 11, 2017 | 9:30 - 18:00 | Room 2605 | Faculty of Humanities
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Mount Scopus
09:30 | Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (DAAD Center for German Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: |
| Migrating Images and Images of Migration – An Introduction |
10:30 | Habbo Knoch (Department of History, University of Cologne): |
| Migrant Mothers – Icons of Expulsion and the Representation of Genocide in the 20th Century |
11:30 | Break |
12:00 | Rebekka Grossmann (Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): |
| Archives of Migration – The Shores of Palestine as Visual Icons of the 1940s |
13:00 | Lunch Break |
14:00 | Screening & Discussion: PASSAGEN (1996, dir. Lisl Ponger, 12 min.), ERASE THEM! – THE IMAGE AS IT IS FALLING APART INTO LOOKS (2013, dir. Brigitta Kuster, 8 min.), and SHARAF (2012, David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn, 13 Min.) |
15:00 | Annette Vowinckel (Contemporary History of Media and Information Society, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam): |
| Medusa’s Raft and the Refugee Crisis of 2015 – The Migration of an Image |
16:00 | Break |
16:30 | Evelyn Runge (The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): |
| The Politics of Visual Securitization - Why the Images of Alan Kurdi went viral – and others don’t |
17:30 | Conclusion |