Center for Austrian and German Studies Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Zentrum für österreichische und deutsche Studien Ben-Gurion Universität des Negev ‫מרכז ללימודים אוסטריים וגרמניים‬ ‫גוריון בנגב‬-‫אוניברסיטת בן‬ Study Day How to Remember Trauma. Concepts and Case Studies Date: Location: May 20, 2014 Building 28, Room 302 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Organizer: Michael Elm (DAAD/BGU) Tanja Seider (CAGS/TU-Berlin) Focus and topics:  What is post-memory? What is cultural trauma? Concepts and theoretical models. How are they applied to individuals, groups, generations, societies or nations?  Models and concepts of post-memory and cultural trauma and their use in cinema.  Possibilities of representing trauma in memory culture. Schedule Panel 1: Representations of Cultural Trauma in film 16:00 - 17:45 Introduction and Lecture by Dr. Michael Elm (DAAD/BGU) & Tanja Seider (CAGS/TU-Berlin): Case studies between cultural trauma and post-memory Lecture by Dr. Yael Ben-Moshe (Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society/University of Haifa): Leaving the trauma or living in post-trauma: films after 9/11 in Germany, Israel and America” Panel 2: Representing trauma in memorial sites and museums 18:00 – 19:00 Lecture by Dr. Cornelia Geissler (Yad Vashem): Representing Trauma in German and Israeli Holocaust Museums Comment Dr. Jackie Feldman (BGU) P.O.B. 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel Phone: +972-8-6461148 Fax: +972-8-6472835 Email: [email protected] http://www.bgu.ac.il/german