Training course "Art and the Shoah, creating to resist"

Wednesday, November 16, 2022 

Theme: Before the Holocaust

• 9:30-11:00: Paris and Berlin in the Jewish imagination of the interwar period/ Dorothea Bohnekamp, University Professor of Contemporary History

• 11h15 -12h45: Life, death and resurrection of Yiddish cinema, Ophir Levy, Senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Paris 8 – Vincennes – Saint-Denis

• 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Kafka and Milena, Léa Veinstein, philosopher and radio program producer

• 3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.: Reading: letters from Kafka-Milena/ Compagnie Roquetta

Thursday, 17 November 2022

Theme: The Shoah and beyond

• 9:30-11:00: The language of Hitler at the service of Nazi ideology, Olivier Baisez, Senior Lecturer, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis

• 11h15-12h45 : Otto Freundlich, Shoah painter, Danièle Cohn, philosopher and lecturer

• 2:00-3:30 pm: A topography of terror: internment camps, concentration camps, killing centers, Philippe Boukara, coordinator at the Shoah Memorial Training Department

• 3:45 pm – 5:15 pm: "Reversals" / Arno Gisinger, photographer

Wednesday, 18 November 2022

Theme: Resisting

• 9:30-11:00: Guided tour, expo church, Caroline François, coordinator of cultural activities, Shoah Memorial

• 11h15-13h00: “Entartete Musik”: music banned under the Third Reich, Elise Petit, lecturer in musicology