Speakers
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Eleonora Bergman
Eleonora Bergman, is an author and co-author of over 20 case studies on history and preservation of Polish towns, of five books and about 50 articles. Documentalist and researcher of synagogues of the 19th and 20th centuries. From 1991 in the Jewish Historical Institute. Author, co-author and curator of several versions of exhibition on the Ringelblum Archive (in Germany, USA and France); from 2004 involved in preparing the full edition of the Archive. Deputy director of the Institute 1996/1997, 2001/2006, director from 2007 to 2011.Alicja Białecka
Alicja Białecka, M.A., is a Ph.D. candidate at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland and a curator at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. HEr major field of professional interest is education in Holocaust-related memorial sites, and her academic research focuses on different aspects of Auschwitz's memory as well as its representations in women's literature.Katarzyna Bojarska
Katarzyna Bojarska, M.A., graduated from English and American Studies as well as Cultural Studies at the University of Warsaw, PhD candidate in the Graduate School for Social Research and academic assistant in the Institute for Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Fulbright Alumnus (2009/10). Academic interests include: trauma theory, memory and post-memory studies, contemporary literature and visual art – a comparative perspective, post-colonial studies. Published her works and translations in numerous academic journals.Darcy Buerkle
Darcy Buerkle, Professor, is an Associate Professor of History at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she teaches courses in gender and women’s history and historiography. In 2011-2012 she holds the Walter Benjamin Chair in German Jewish History and Culture at the Humboldt University-Berlin. Professor Buerkle’s research focuses on modern European gender history. Her numerous articles primarily concern German visual culture and its representation of gendered Jewishness of the early twentieth century. Two new articles will appear in 2012, both of these pieces concSusanne Businger
Susanne Businger, M.A., is a scientific assistant in the chair for the history of urban design, ETH Zurch and doctoral student at the institute of social and economic history, university of Zurich (dissertation topic: Rescue operations and refugee work of women in Switzerand, 1938-1947). Her main research interests include gender studies, the history of Switzerland in the Second World War, Jewish history.Aranzazu Calderon Puerta
Aranzazu Calderon Puerta, Bachelor in Slavonic Philology at Complutense University (Madrid). She had classes on Contemporary Spanish Literature at OBTA (Warsaw University). She worked as a teacher of Spanish at the Iberian Studies Institute (Warsaw University) and at the Cervantes Institute of Warsaw. She´s a translator of Polish Literature into Spanish. At present she´s about to take her Ph D degree in European Comparative Literature of the 2nd half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century at the Institute of Literary Research of Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw).Monika Hankova
Monika Hankova, M.A., graduated history studies (social history) with Honors at Charles University in Prague, Philosophical Faculty (2006) with Thesis: History of the Jewish Community in Bohemia and Moravia after World War II. (1945–1956). She is a historical specialist at the Jewish Museum in Prague (from 2003). Her areas of specialization include modern Jewish history, „Aryanisation“, period 1945–1948, 50ties in the context of the history of the Jewish Community in the Czech Lands, oral history method, German Jews in the Czech Lands after World War II., thematics of memories and remembrance.Louise Hecht
Louise Hecht, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in Jewish History at Palacky University, Olomouc, ČR, since 2007; currently senior fellow at IFK (International Research Center for Cultural Studies), Vienna; Fields of specialization: early modern and modern Jewish History of Central Europe, Haskalah, Jewish historiography and education, Jewish press and gender history, holocaust; Main publications: Otto D. Kulka, Eberhard Jäckel, Anne Birkenauer, Andrea Fiedermutz, Georgia Hauber, Louise Hecht, Stefan Kley, Dorthe Seifert (Eds.), Die Juden in den geheimen NS-Stimmungsberichten 1933-1945, SchriftenreKatarina Hradska
Katarina Hradska, Ph.D, is a senior researcher in the Institute of History of Slovakian Academy of Science. She specializes in Jewish question in Slovakia. Her publications include: Nemeckí poradcovia na Slovensku a židovská otázka. Prípad Dieter Wisliceny (Der deutsche Berater in der Slowakei und juedische Frage: Der Fall Wisliceny. Bratislava 1999; Listy Gizy Fleischmann (1942-1944). Briefe von Gizy Fleischmann (1942-1944). Bratislava2003; Ústredňa židov (The Jewish Council). Bratislava 2010; Jozef Tiso. Dokumenty (2002, 2007, 2011).Bożena Karwowska
Bożena Karwowska is an Associate Professor in the Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her scholarly interests include representation of women in Slavic literatures and feminist approaches to literature and culture. She publishes articles in Teksty Drugie, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Przegląd Humanistyczny and Ruch Literacki. In 2000 she published her monograph Recepcja krytyczna Czesława Miłosza and Josifa Brodskiego w krajach języka angielskiego (Wydawnictwo IBL PAN) and in 2008 co edited with Hanna Gosk a volume (Nie)obecność.Bożena Keff
Bożena Keff, Ph.D., is a poet, arite and columnist. She wrote her dissertation Portraits of Jewish Women in Polish Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century till the Beginning of the Second World War in 2001, currently she is an Assistant Professor in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and a lecturer of Warsaw University (Institute of Applied Social Science, Gender Studies) and Warsaw School of Social Science and Humanities (Departments of Social Psychology, Social Cross Cultural Psychology, Culture and Social Communication). She is also freelance author writing on filHannah Kliger
Hannah Kliger, Ph.D., is Senior Adviser to the Chancellor, and Professor of Communication and Jewish Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, The Abington College, where she has also been Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Kliger also served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication and as Associate Dean for Education at MCP Hahnemann University (now Drexel) School of Public Health. From 1985 until 1997, she was a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Kliger’s publications focus on the communicYehudit Kol-Inbar
Yehudit Kol-Inbar is a Director of the Museums Division at Yad Vashem and Curator-in-Charge of the exhibition in the new Holocaust History Museum. Currently she is a curator of the exhibition at the new Jewish Pavilion at Auschwitz (to be opened in May 2012). In addition, she is working on the planning and research for a new Children’s Exhibition at Yad Vashem.Eliška Žeraviková
Eliška Žeraviková, M.A., was born in 1986 in Czechoslovakia. She studied philosophy at the University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, where she gained her master degree. Currently she studies Jewish studies at the Palacký University in Olomouc. The topic of the conference paper summarises the subject of her diploma thesis. She is focused on Czech and Slovak Jewish literature and history of Antisemitism. Her interest in philosophy is mainly oriented to the Enlightenment and its critics. She works as a lecturer of logic. You can meet her on a halfway between Slovakia and the Czech RIvana Koutníková
Ivana Koutníková, Bc. et Bc. , has been studying Jewish and German studies at Palacký University in Olomouc. She completed her Bachelor’s degree programs in History and German language. During her studies she spent one year studying history at the Karl-Franzes University in Graz. In addition, she studied one semester of Jewish studies at the CET Academic Program in Prague and also worked as a trainee at NGO Centropa in Vienna. NGO Centropa is a unique company, which deals with Holocaustic memories collected from all over Europe. Currently she is preparing a movie section for DEleonore Lappin-Eppel
Eleonore Lappin-Eppel, Ph.D., Graz University. My main research interests are: German-Jewish Literature and Journalism in Austria in the Context of WWI, Nazi persecution of Austrian Jews, Social History of Austrian Jews of the Interwar period (1918-1938). Selected publications:Hungarian Jewish Slave Laborers in Austria (1944/45), Nazi persecution of Austrian Jews, Hungarian Jewish Slave Laborers in Austria (1944/45), Nazi persecution of Austrian Jews (1938-1945), German-Jewish Literature and Journalism in Austria in the Context of WWI, Autobiographies of Jewish Austrians; Jüdische Moderne zwisGintare Malinauskaite
Gintare Malinauskaite, M.A., is a PhD Student in History at Humboldt University of Berlin. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. She received her first M.A. in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies at Free University of Berlin in 2009, where she has worked on the culture of remembrance in Latin America. In 2010, she obtained her second M.A. in Political Science at Central European University, in Hungary. Currently, she is a PhD student at Humboldt University of Berlin where she writes her dissertation on the Lithuanian cinematicJoanna B. Michlic
Joanna B. Michlic, Ph.D., is a social and cultural historian and Director of HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust at Brandeis University. Until December 2008 Michlic was an Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Holocaust and Ethical Values at Lehigh University, Bethlehem Pennsylvania. Her major publications include Neighbors Respond: The Controversy about Jedwabne (2004; co-edited with Antony Polonsky) and Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present (hardback 2006, paperback 2008, Polish translation 2012, HebDana Mihăilescu
Dana Mihăilescu, Ph.D., is a Lecturer of English/American Studies, at the University of Bucharest. She earned her Ph.D. in Philology at the University of Bucharest in January 2010, with a dissertation entitled Ethical Dilemmas and Reconfigurations of Identity in Early Twentieth Century Eastern European Jewish American Narratives. Her main research interests include ethnic studies – Jewish American identities, ethics and witnessing, trauma and memory. She is co-editor of Romanian Culture in the Global Age (2010), and author of articles and book chapters in international publications.Monika Mikušová
Monika Mikušová studied history and theory of art (MA) and film science (Ph.D.) in Bratislava. Currently she works as a freelance curator and publicist, a lecturer at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and a programme buyer and editor for the Slovak Television.Radosław Filip Muniak
Radosław Filip Muniak – philosopher and debuting writer; assistant professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. M.A. in philosophy (Warsaw University), Ph.D. in Culture Studies (SWPS). Vice-chairman of “Literacje” Association, trustee of Polish Cultural Studies Society. Has published in numerous polish cultural journals. Subeditor of literary quarterly LiteRacje. Author of the book The Puppet Effect (Universitas, 2010). Focus: philosophy of culture, anthropology and aesthetics. Currently workingAgnieszka Nikliborc
Agnieszka Nikliborc holds MA in sociology and MA in political science, and is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Holocaust Studies. Selected publications: a book – Imprisoned in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau. Female experiences mirrored in personal documents (2010); a chapter in a book – Undiscovered stories of Polish women. Theoretical and methodological significance of female autobiographies for gender studies (2010). Her academic interests focus on: genocide, gender and ethical issues of research. She is an associate member of The European Association for Holocaust Studies. She is currently researLenore J. Weitzman
Lenore J. Weitzman, has been a Professor at Stanford University, the University of California, George Mason University, and Harvard University, where she received Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa distinguished teaching award. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies. She has published 5 books including the award-winning The Divorce Revolution: The Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in America (1985), which led to the passage of 14 new laws. Her more recent work fDalia Ofer
Dalia Ofer, is Max and Rita Haber Professor of Holocaust and East European studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (emerita). She was Head of the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry (from 2003 to 2007); and of the Vidal Sassoon International Research Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism (from 1995 to 2002.) She has been a Visiting Professor at Brandeis, Harvard, Maryland, and Yale University in the U.S.; and at Sydney University in Australia. She also served on the academic committee of the International Research Center of Yad Vashem, and was a Fellow at theKatalin Pécsi-Pollner
Dr. Katalin Pécsi-Pollner is a resercher and a lecturer in the field of contemporary Jewish literature and film – and numerous issues related to the Holocaust. She is an lecturer at the Rabbinical School-Jewish University, Budapest, and works as a researcher on different Holocaust&Women topics, in collaboration with the Memorial Center of the German Resistence (GDW), Berlin and with the International Auschwitz Committee (IAK), Berlin. Her current project: an exhibition, an educational material and a book - all based on a research made with Hungarian Jewish women – acAndrea Pető
Prof. Dr. habil. Andrea Pető is an Associate Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University. She edited twelve volumes in English, six volumes in Hungarian, two in Russian. Her works appeared in different languages, including Bulgarian, Croatian, English, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian and Serbian. Her books include: Women in Hungarian Politics 1945-1951 (Columbia University Press/East European Monographs New York, 2003), Geschlecht, Politik und Stalinismus in Ungarn. Eine Biographie von Júlia Rajk. Studien zur Geschichte Ungarns, Bd. 12. (GaLea Prais
Lea Prais wrote her Ph.D. dissertation at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her thesis dealt with the impact of the refugee problem in the city of Warsaw and in the Ghetto (1939-1942). Among the other Fields of interest and research are: The daily life of East Europeans Jews during World War II and personal writings of Jews during the Holocaust. She has published 15 articles and reviews. Dr. Prais currently leads two research projects at the International Institute for Holocaust Research of Yad Vashem: "The Untold Stories" – murder sites of Jews in theSarah Rosen
Sarah Rosen, Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She writes her dissertation "The factors and characteristics effects on the survival of the Jewish family in the ghettoes of Transnistria" under supoervision of Prof. Dalia Ofer.Pnina Rosenberg
Pnina Rosenberg, Ph. D., is an art historian specializing in the art and legacy of the Holocaust. She has presented numerous papers and published books and articles on various aspects of art/memory of the Holocaust, including “Portrait of a Family Album” (2011), “Women Artists in the Camps/Depictions of Women” (2003) and L’art des indésirables: l’art visuel dans les camps français (2003). She has contributed to the Encyclopaedia Judaica and the Jewish Women Historical Encyclopedia. She is the art editor of Prism: Journal for Holocaust Educators, Yeshiva University, NY.Johanna Schüller
Johanna Schüller, M.A., is a student of Jewish Studies, Polish Studies and Media Science in my 7th year at the University of Potsdam. She specializesin East European Jewish history with a special emphasize on Polish Jewish history at the time of the Polish Partitions, the Second Polish Republic (1918 to 1939) and the Holocaust.Joanna Stöcker-Sobelman
Joanna Stöcker-Sobelman, Ph.D. in Hummanities at the Jagiellonian University, teacher, cooperates with the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Jagiellonian University, the Institute of European Studies JU in the framework of ‘the International Summer School for Teachers’ (2011, 2007, 2006) and Gender Studies IBL PAN (2011/2012). Academic interest: women at wartime. Publications, among others in: ‘Studia nad Faszyzmem’, ‘Czasopismo Prawno-Polityczne’, ‘Autoportret’.Kazimiera Szczuka
Kazimiera Szczuka, M.A., Institute for Literary Research, Polish Academy of Science. Kazimiera Szczuka is a literary historian and critic at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is a writer, TV and radio journalist, and a member of Krytyka Polityczna quarterly, a Polish left-wing intellectual journal and publishing house. She is a women’s rights activist, co-founder of the 8th of March Women’s Agreement, which organizes feminist events in Poland. Kazimiera also lectures on Gender Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Warsaw TheaterHedvig Turai
Hedvig Turai, Ph.D., is an art historian, working in Ludwig Museum, Budapest. Her special interest is Holocaust representation, gender and contemporary art. She co-organized two conferences on the Memory of the Holocaust in art in the Goethe Institute , Budapest (2004), another one on Exposed Memory: family photography in public and private memory (2008, selection of papers published under the same title, in 2010). She edited two special issues of the Hungarian journal, Enigma dedicated to Holocaust representation and theory. She is the author of a book on the painter Margit Anna.Aleksandra Ubertowska
Dr hab. Aleksandra Ubertowska is currently an Associate Professor at the University in Gdańsk; she published books and articles on a wide range of topics, including holocaust literature, theory of the literature, gender studies ("Testimony-Trauma-Voice. Literary Representation of Holocaust", Kraków 2007). She was an visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2008-2009.Michal Unger
Michal Unger, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in modern Jewish history at the Ashkelon Academic College, Israel. Her main publications are: Łódź: The Last Ghetto in Poland, Yad Vashem, 2005 (Hebrew). The English edition of the book will be published by Alabama University Press;"The Status and Plight of Women in the Łódź Ghetto", Women in the Holocaust, Dalia Ofer and Lenore J. Weitzman (eds.),New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998); "Reassessment of the Image of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski," Search and Research Lectures and Papers, The International Institute for Holocaust Research at YaMonika Vrzgulová
Monika Vrzgulová, Ph.D., is an ethnologist at the Institute of the Ethnology, SAS (since 1987) and Director of the Holocaust Documentation Center (since 2005). 1995 – 1997 she was involved in Oral History: Fates of Those Who Survived the Holocaust project realised in cooperation with Milan Šimečka Foundation (MŠF) in Bratislava and Yale University, USA. From 2003 until 2005 - program manager of the Holocaust Education Programme in MŠF. Research and teaching interests - the social identity dynamics, intercultural relations, memory in the urban areas, and the Holocaust in Slovakia.Agnieszka Weseli
Agnieszka Weseli, independent historian. Specializes in history of sexuality, women and queer history. Researched such topics as prostitution in pre-war Poland, sexual education in XIXth century, sexuality in totalitarianism (i.a. first Polish research on forced prostitution and homosexuality in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp), presence of lesbians, bisexual women and transgender people in Polish past and present. Carried out research and educational projects in queer sexuality. Queer activist, artist and performer. Editor, translator, writer.Jolanta Żyndul
Jolanta Żyndul, is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of History, University of Warsaw and the Head of the Mordechai Anielewicz Center for the Study and Teaching of the History and Culture of Jews in Poland. She published Zajścia antyżydowskie w Polsce w latach 1935-1937 (Antisemitic Riots in Poland Between 1935 and 1937), Autonomia narodowo-kulturalna w Europie Środkowowschodniej w XX wieku (National-Cultural Autonomy in Central-Eastern Europe in the 20th Century), and edited Apolinary Hartglas, Na pograniczu dwóch światów (Sonja M. Hedgepeth
Dr. Sonja M. Hedgepeth is the co-editor of Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust (University Press of New England/Brandeis University, November 2010). She is Professor of German at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), where she has taught courses on the Holocaust since 1989, including a course entitled “Women and the Holocaust” in the Women’s Studies Program. She has been in the Women’s Studies Program at her university since 1988. She has taught related classes on the exile of Jewish intellectuals from Nazi Germany, including important GermanRochelle G. Saidel
Dr. Rochelle G. Saidel, co-editor of Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust (Brandeis University/University Press of New England, 2010), is founder and executive director of Remember the Women Institute, New York City. She is the author of The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004) and Mielec, Poland: The Shtetl That Became a Nazi Concentration Camp (Gefen Publishers, 2012). She is also editor of Fiorello's Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story (Syracuse University Press, 200
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