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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
Date:
23 January 2026, 8:45
Venue:
Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Speakers:
Laura Tradii (Kent),
Taline Garibian (Geneva),
Jeunne Teboul (Strasbourg),
Halina Suwalowska (Oxford),
Elisabeth Anstett (CNRS, ADES),
Chair: Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix, Mesopolhis),
Chair: Mark Harrison (Oxford)
Part of:
International 2-Day Workshop: Between Techniques, Politics, and Memory: The Identification of Dead Bodies of Violence (19th–21th Century)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
