Admission is free, but registration is required. Please email K.Menig@niod.knaw.nl by October 25, 2024 to register.

13:30 Welcome

13:40 – 14:10 Keynote: “Witness(es) for the Future: The Texture of Testimony since 1945”
Robert J. Williams, Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Chair, USC Shoah Foundation; UNESCO Chair on Antisemitism and Holocaust Research; Advisor, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

14:10 – 15:10 Panel 1: Past Lessons from Listening to Eyewitness Testimonies
Moderator: Nanci Adler, Professor of Memory, History, and Transitional Justice at the NIOD/University of Amsterdam; Senior Researcher, NIOD
Participants:

• Selma Leydesdorff, em. Professor of Oral History and Culture, University of Amsterdam

• Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish relations at the University of Southampton

15:10 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:40 Panel 2: Testimony as a Resource for Research and Remembrance
Moderator: Karel Berkhoff, Senior Researcher, NIOD and Co-Director, EHRI
Participants:

• Stephen Naron, Director, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

• Dienke Hondius, Associate Professor of History, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities

• Gelinada Grinchenko, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany/Dnipro National University, Ukraine

16:40 – 17:30 Round Table and Q&A: Past and New Opportunities for Engaging with Audio-Visual Testimony
Moderators: Jennifer Rodgers, Director of Academic Programs, USC Shoah Foundation and Reto Speck, Senior Researcher, NIOD and Co-Director, EHRI.
Participants:

• Selma Leydesdorff

• Tony Kushner

• Stephen Naron

• Dienke Hondius

• Gelinada Grinchenko

17:30 – 18:30 Drinks