Co-organized by the USHMM's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the Centre d'études franco-russes de Moscou, Georgetown University, and the University of Toronto, this interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars in the humanities and social sciences to forge new analytical perspectives on the Holocaust in the East, the Nazi occupation of Soviet territories, and wartime Stalinism.

Panels will address such topics as occupation, complicity and collaboration, the experiences of partisans and POWs, the politics of food in the war effort, displacement and evacuation in the Soviet interior, everyday life on the Soviet home front, postwar investigations of wartime atrocities, gender, and cultural representations of the war and the Holocaust.

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

(Subject to change)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7

10 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks

Paul A. Shapiro, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, USA

Oleg Budnitskii, Director, International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Plenary Session

Moderator: Michael David-Fox, Associate Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA

Paul A. Shapiro: The Holocaust in the Soviet Union: The Context and the Challenge

Oleg Budnitskii:  The Great Patriotic War and Soviet Society 

Aviel Roshwald, Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA : The"European Civil War" and the Soviet Union, 1941–45

1 p.m. Lunch    

2 p.m. Panel I: Metamorphoses of Memory

Galina Zelenina, Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia: Soviet Jewish Memory of the War and the Holocaust: Variations and Modifications 

Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA:  When Stalin Lost His Head: World War II and Memory Wars in Contemporary Ukraine

Per Rudling, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Lund University, Lund, Sweden: The Kliachkivs'kyi Cult in Volhynia: The Invention of a Ukrainian National Hero 

Michaela Pohl, Associate Professor, Department of History, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA: Denial: My German Family and the Holocaust 

4 p.m. Coffee Break

4:30 p.m. Panel II: Gender Relations and Sexual Violence Sexual Violence as"Weapon of War"?

Regina Mühlhäuser, War and Gender Working Group, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Hamburg, Germany : Enforced Nakedness, Sexual Torture, and Rape by German Soldiers during the War of Annihilation, 1941–45

Olena Petrenko, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany: Women, Violence, and the Ukrainian Nationalist Insurgency during World War II 

Anika Walke, Postdoctoral Fellow, International and Area Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, USA : Jewish Youth in Nazi Ghettos in Byelorussia: How Age and Gender Mattered

6:40 p.m. Lives of the Great Patriotic War: Oral History Video Presentation

Julie Chervinsky, Director, Blavatnik Archive Foundation

7:30 p.m. Reception

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8

9 a.m. Panel III: Experiences in Investigating War Crimes

Arkadi Zeltser, Director, Center for Research on the History of Soviet Jews during the Holocaust, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel: The Holocaust in the Eyes of Soviet Non-Jewish Military Personnel during World War II: Were the Victims Just Citizens or Jews? 

Juliette Denis, PhD Candidate, Institut d'histoire du temps présent, Université de Nanterre, Paris, France / Nathalie Moine, Researcher, Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien, et centre-européen, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France: The Osveia Tragedies: A Case Study of Mass Violence against Jewish and Non-Jewish Populations in Occupied Belarus  

Oleksandr Melnyk, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada: Stalinist Justice as a Site of Memory: Anti-Jewish Violence in Kyiv's Podil District in September 1941 through the Prism of Soviet Investigative Documents 

Andrei Muraru, Associate Professor, Department of History, Alexander Ioan Cuza University, Iaşi, Romania: The Fields of Berezovka: Crimes and Abuses against Jews Investigated in the War Criminal Trial of 1949 

Panel IV: Reflections of the War Experience in Literature

Il'ia Kukulin, Associate Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia: The Politics of Forgetting in Soviet Literary Works on World War II as the Result of Interaction between Author and Censorship 

Mariia Maiofis, Deputy Director, Center for Humanities Research, Graduate Institute of Humanitarian Studies, Moscow, Russia: Cranes as a Symbol of Memory of the War in the Soviet Union in the Mid-1950s and 60s: The First Attempts at Working with Trauma 

Gennady Estraikh, Rauch Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, New York, USA: Cossack Valor as an Element of Soviet (Post)Wartime Jewish Identity: Does a Jew Who Sits on a Horse Cease to Be a Jew? 

11 a.m. Panel V: War and Cinema

Oksana Bulgakova, Professor, Department of Film Studies, Johannes Gutenburg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany: Brutal Realism and Female Bodies

Valérie Pozner, Researcher, Atelier de recherche sur l'intermédialité et les arts du spectacle, Paris, France:"At Six O'Clock in the Evening after the War": Memory and the Expectation of Peace in Wartime Soviet Cinema

Vanessa Voisin, Deputy Director, Centre franco-russe de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales, Moscow, Russia: Another War behind the War? Soviet Attempts to Capture the Film Market of the Allied States, 1942–45 

Elena Baraban, Assistant Professor, Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada: Representations of World War II in the First Soviet Films of the Cold War 

Panel VI: The Genocide of Roma in the Former Soviet Union

Moderator: Krista Hegburg, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, USA

Andrej Kotljarchuk, University Lecturer, School of Gender, Culture, and History, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden : Memory of the Holocaust of Roma in Contemporary Ukraine and Belarus: Mass Graves and the Politics of Commemoration

Piotr Wawrzeniuk, Senior Lecturer, School of Gender, Culture, and History, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden: The Genocide of Roma in Reichskommissariat Ukraine and Galicia in the Testimonies of Survivors in the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive and in the Occupation Press

Martin Holler, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany : The Nazi Persecution of Soviet"Gypsies" in the Militarily Administered Parts of Army Group North, 1941–44

David Gaunt, Professor, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden : Representations of the Genocide of Roma

1 p.m. Lunch

2 p.m. Panel VII: Complicity and Collaboration with German Occupiers

Moderator: Sergei Kudriashov, German Historical Institute Moscow, Moscow, Russia

Vladimir Solonari, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA: From Collaboration to Perpetration: On the Ways Some Local Residents of South Ukraine Became Perpetrators of Crimes against Humanity 

Olga Baranova, Professor, Gonzaga University, Florence, and Florence University of the Arts, Florence, Italy: Nationalism, Anti-Bolshevism, or the Will to Survive: Forms of Belorussian Interaction with the German Occupation Authorities, 1941–44 

Steven Maddox, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Canisius College, Buffalo, USA: Punitive Brigades in Occupied Leningrad Oblast 

Johannes Enstad, PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Norway: A Political Mission? The Pskov Orthodox Mission and German Power in the German-Occupied Leningrad Province

Panel VIII: Interactions of Victims, Killers, and Witnesses in the Occupied Territories

Diana Dumitru, Associate Professor, World History Department, Moldova State Pedagogical University, Chisinau, Moldova: Bringing the Soviet Population into the Story: Civilian Attitudes toward Jews during the Holocaust in Transnistria 

Tarik Cyril Amar, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbia University, New York, USA: Ruptures and Continuities, Extremes and Exceptions: Ukrainian Responses to the Holocaust in Lviv, 1941–44 

Waitman Beorn, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Nebraska–Omaha, Omaha, USA : Personal Holocausts: The Messy Intersection of Germans, Jews, and Non-Jews in the Soviet Union, 1941–44

4 p.m. Coffee Break

4:30 p.m. Panel IX: Everyday Life on the Soviet Home Front

Erina Megowan, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA: Culture Victorious: Evacuated Cultural Institutions, the Intelligentsia, and Mobilization during World War II 

Oleg Leibovich, Lead Researcher, Laboratory for the Study of Soviet Everyday Life, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Perm, Russia: Antisemitism on the Soviet Home Front 

Anna Kimerling, Lead Researcher and Project Manager, Laboratory for the Study of Soviet Everyday Life, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Perm, Russia: Long Way Home: The Unknown Soldiers of the Soviet Labor Front 

Panel X: Roundtable on New Sources

Paul A. Shapiro: The International Tracing Service Archives

Johanna Lehr, Associate Researcher, Yahad-In Unum, Paris, France : Yahad–In Unum's Testimony Collection

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9

9 a.m. Panel XI: Atrocities and Law in the Occupied Territories

Gesine Gerhard, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of the Pacific, Stockton, USA: The War on the Eastern Front: Food, Starvation, and Genocide 

Svenja Bethke, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany: The Jewish Police in the Vilna and Pinsk Ghettos during           World War II 

Martin Dean, Applied Research Scholar, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, USA: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945: New Findings on Camps and Ghettos in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union 

David W. Wildermuth, Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Shippensburg State University, Shippensburg, USA : Anatomy of an Atrocity: German Soldiers and the"Pacification" of Lida in the Holocaust's"First Hour"

Panel XII: Strategies and Practices of Resistance

Zvi Gitelman, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA : Jewish Partisans in Belorussia and Ukraine: Context, Conflict, and Comparison

Evgeny Finkel, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA: Party Politics in Hell: Ghetto Uprisings during the Holocaust 

Masha Cerovic, PhD Candidate, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France: Soviet Warlords: Partisan Rule under German Occupation, 1941–44 

Matthias Kaltenbrunner, Research Assistant, Center of Modern and Contemporary History, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, Austria:"Kugel-Prisoners" and the"Mühlviertler Hasenjagd": The Mass Escape of Soviet POWs from Mauthausen 

11 a.m. Panel XIII: Feeding the Front and the Rear: Food and the Soviet War Effort during World War II

Donald Filtzer, Professor of Russian History, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University of East London, London, UK: Starvation Mortality in Home-Front Industrial Regions during World War II 

Wendy Goldman, Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA: Not By Bread Alone: Food, Workers, and the State on the Home Front 

Brandon Schechter, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, USA: The State's Pot and the Soldier's Spoon: Payok as a Social Contract 

Sergei Iarov, Lead Researcher, St. Petersburg Institute of the History of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia : A Blockade Cookbook

Panel XIV: Evacuation: Identities in Change

Eliyana Adler, Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA: Gan Eden or Gehennom?: Polish Jewish Refugees Reflect on Life in the USSR on the Brink of War 

Aleksandr Chashchukhin, Senior Researcher, Laboratory of the Study of Soviet Everyday Life, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Perm, Russia : Evacuated, Deported, Wounded: A Study of Images of Outsiders and the Everyday Life of the Soviet Home Front

Anna Shternshis, Al and Malka Green Associate Professor in Yiddish Studies, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada: On a Journey from a Soviet Citizen to a Jewish Refugee: The Jewish Perceptions of the First Months of the Great Patriotic War 

Vladislav Shabalin, Senior Researcher, Laboratory of the Study of Soviet Everyday Life, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Perm, Russia: Communities of Nomenclature on the Soviet Home Front: Social Adaptation to Life during World War II 

1 p.m. Lunch

2 p.m. Panel XV: POWs in Documentary and Narrative Sources

Moderator: Catherine Gousseff, Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien, et centre-européen, École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, France

Oleksandr Marinchenko, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Oles Gonchar University, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine : Soviet POWs in Nazi Calculations during Operatio: n Barbarossa on the Territory of Ukraine: Ideology, Improvisation, Contradictions

David Rich, Senior Historian, US Department of Justice, Washington, DC, USA A"Double Persecution"? Postwar Soviet POWs' Accounts of Incarceration and Collaboration

Stanislav Aristov, Head of the Department of Humanities and Natural Sciences, Moscow Regional Institute for the Humanities, Podolsk, Russia: Nazi Concentration Camps in the Occupied Territory of Ukraine 

Tat'iana Pastushenko, Research Associate, Institute of History of Ukraine, Department of History of Ukraine during World War II, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine: Not a Stranger's Tragedy: Memories of Soviet Prisoners of War from the Kyiv Encirclement about the Destruction of the Jews 

Panel XVI: Roundtable on Historiography

Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

New Literaray Observer

Rossiiskaya Istoriia

Excursion to the Russian-Jewish Museum of Tolerance

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The conference will be conducted in English and Russian. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

When:

Friday, December 7, 2012 - Sunday, December 9, 2012

Where:

National Research University

Higher School of Economics

20 Myasnitskaya ul.

Moscow, Russia

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Registration:

http://www.cvent.com/events/international-scholarly-conference-world-war...

Contact:

For further information, please contact

Krista Hegburg,

Program Officer,

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies,

at

khegburg@ushmm.org.