Day 2: Between Techniques, Politics, and Memory: The Identification of Dead Bodies of Violence (19th–21th Century)

Friday 23 January

Programme

08:45-09:15 Coffee
09:15-10:30 The Dead of the Second World War
Chair: Benoit Pouget (Sciences Po Aix, Mesopolhis)
Laura Tradii (University of Kent), Mobility and Malpractice – Exhuming and Identifying the Wehrmacht dead in the German Democratic Republic (1945-1990)
Taline Garibian (University of Geneva), Naming as a Process: Administrative and Memorial Practices of Identification in Post-War France
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Memorialisation
Chair: Mark Harrison (University of Oxford)
Jeanne Teboul (University of Strasbourg), “Names behind numbers”. From identification to memorialization of the 86 Jewish victims of a Nazi crime (Alsace, 1943)
Halina Suwalowska (University of Oxford), Resting in Display: Ethical Dilemmas and Identification of Human Remains in Museums
12:15 Conclusive Remarks: Elisabeth Anstett (CNRS, ADES)
13:15 Lunch at the MFO