Documenting Nazi Crimes through Film: Soviet Union, 1942–1945
VHH Conference organized by the Centre for Russian, Caucasian Studies and Central European Studies (CERCEC/CNRS) in cooperation with the Mémorial de la Shoah
Thursday, 24.11.2022, 09:30 to Sunday, 27.11.2022, 16:30
Paris
This conference discusses the atrocity films recorded by Soviet cameramen during the liberation of Nazi-occupied territories in Eastern Europe.
Professional Search in Context
Presentation by Allan Hanbury at the University of Queensland
Wednesday, 02.11.2022, 13:00 to Wednesday, 02.11.2022, 14:00
Brisbane
This talk will present some professional search projects that we are working on in the legal, humanities and medical domains.
HISTORIAN: A Large-Scale Historical Film Dataset with Cinematographic Annotation
Poster presentation by Daniel Helm at the 29th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2022
Monday, 17.10.2022, 10:00 to Monday, 17.10.2022, 12:30
Bordeaux, France
In order to develop automated tools for sustainable film preservation of extensive historical film collections, this paper proposes a novel large-scale historical film dataset with cinematographic annotations (HISTORIAN), i.e., shot boundaries, shot types, camera movements.
Migrating Images and Image Migration: How Popular Culture Shapes the Visual History of the Holocaust
VHH Conference organized by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in cooperation with the Jerusalem Cinematheque and the Cardinal Franz König Chair in Austrian Studies
Monday, 12.09.2022, 18:00 to Wednesday, 14.09.2022, 20:00
Jerusalem, Israel
This international conference explores ways of inquiring, searching and curating historical images in film, video art and digital environments.
Visual History of the Holocaust – Projektpräsentation
Präsentation von Ingo Zechner und Michael Loebenstein im Rahmen des Management Meetings im Haus der Geschichte Österreich
Wednesday, 06.07.2022 to Wednesday, 06.07.2022
Online
Visual History of the Holocaust – Project Presentation
Presentation by Ingo Zechner, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann and Noga Stiassny in the course of the seminar "Pferdestallbaracke OKH 260/ 9 OKH @ Gedenkstätte Sachsenhausen"
Monday, 04.07.2022 to Monday, 04.07.2022
Online
Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age
Presentation by Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann at the conference "History, Media, and the Digital Age: New Directions in Research"
Wednesday, 22.06.2022, 14:45 to Wednesday, 22.06.2022, 15:30
Jerusalem
The VHH project’s Media Management and Search Infrastructure (MMSI) offers new ways to explore historical films and relate visual sources depicting the liberation of the concentration camps.
VHH Research Seminar – Session 12: Writing the History of the Holocaust and of Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Kharkiv
Presentation by Thomas Chopard and Irina Tcherneva
Thursday, 16.06.2022, 16:00 to Thursday, 16.06.2022, 18:00
Online
In the 12th session of CERCEC's H2020 "Visual History of the Holocaust" Research Seminar, Thomas Chopard (CREE-Inalco/CEFR) and Irina Tcherneva (CNRS-Eur’ORBEM) talk about visual records of Nazi atrocities in Kharkiv.
VHH Research Seminar – Session 11: By Filming, by Writing. Photographic Testimonies of the Nazi Camps
Presentation by Christophe Cognet
Thursday, 09.06.2022, 16:00 to Thursday, 09.06.2022, 18:00
Online
In the 11th session of CERCEC's H2020 "Visual History of the Holocaust" Research Seminar, Christophe Cognet (film director, screenwriter, author) discusses ethical questions raised by photographs taken in secrecy in the Nazi camps.
Filmer pour l’investigation. Diversité de registres visuels publics et institutionnels dans le documentaire soviétique, 1960–1970
Présentation d'Irina Tcherneva à la conférence "A contretemps. Prise et reprise des images filmées en régime autoritaire"
Tuesday, 07.06.2022, 10:45 to Tuesday, 07.06.2022, 11:30
Paris
La présente contribution porte sur la production de films conçus comme outils d'investigation, consacrés aux crimes nazis en Lettonie soviétique dans les années 1960-1970.
The Visual Walkthrough Method: A Tool for the Analysis of Playful Images in Interactive Digital Media Ecologies
Presentation by Lital Henig, Shir Ventura and Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann at the 72nd Annual ICA Conference
Saturday, 28.05.2022, 11:00 to Saturday, 28.05.2022, 12:15
Paris
Adjusted to visual design and composition, walkthroughs offer innovative opportunities to study and analyze the use of iconic imagery in digital environments.
Relational Anne: The Remediation and Participatory Adaptation of Holocaust Diaries in Digital Media
Presentation by Lital Henig at the conference "Connected Histories: Memories and Narratives of the Holocaust in Digital Space"
Tuesday, 24.05.2022, 14:45 to Tuesday, 24.05.2022, 15:15
Vienna
Digital culture has an important effect on the mediation and experience of Holocaust diaries.
Image documentaire. Méthodes. Historicisation. Apports en histoire sociale
Présentation d'Irina Tcherneva dans le cadre du programme éducatif "Paroles de Chercheuses et de Chercheurs"
Monday, 23.05.2022 to Monday, 23.05.2022
Boulogne-Billancourt
Cette présentation se destine au public scolaire, afin d'éclairer les lycéens sur le métier d'historien et sur les apports des archives filmées à la compréhension du second conflit mondial.
Moving Images from the Archives. Historical Footage of Nazi Crimes in Documentaries
VHH Conference organized by DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum and Justus Liebig University Giessen
Sunday, 08.05.2022, 18:00 to Tuesday, 10.05.2022, 17:00
Frankfurt am Main
Why do we move the Allies’ film images from the archives, make them move on screen, and make them move us?
VHH Research Seminar – Session 10: Between Fiction and History: Ethical Questions during the Historical Research for Son of Saul
Presentation by Clara Royer
Thursday, 28.04.2022, 16:00 to Thursday, 28.04.2022, 18:00
Online
In the tenth session of CERCEC's H2020 "Visual History of the Holocaust" Research Seminar, Clara Royer (Sorbonne University) discusses ethical questions raised during historical research for a film project.
Tracing Visual Evidence of the Holocaust: Challenges of the Digital Curation of Liberation Footage across Archives and Disciplines
Presentations by VHH team members at the symposium of the 2022 FIAF Congress
Tuesday, 26.04.2022, 09:00 to Tuesday, 26.04.2022, 10:30
Budapest
Archivists, curators, and scholars discuss curatorial, ethical, technical, and conceptual considerations and approaches of working with atrocity footage.
Digitales Kuratieren
Presentation by Sema Colpan at the conference "14. Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag 2022. Risse in der Zeitgeschichte"
Thursday, 21.04.2022, 10:30 to Thursday, 21.04.2022, 12:00
Salzburg, Austria
What changes does the digital turn bring for historiography, and do digital technologies really provide the means for realizing a radically egalitarian information utopia?
La propagande soviétique dans les années 1930 et 1940: deux études de cas
Présentation d'Anna Shapovalova, Valérie Pozner et Irina Tcherneva dans le cadre du séminaire de recherche "Les pratiques d'influence aux XXe et XXIe siècles"
Tuesday, 05.04.2022, 14:00 to Tuesday, 05.04.2022, 17:00
Paris
Ma présentation porte sur le cinéma comme outil de mobilisation en temps de guerre en URSS: pratiques de filmage, diffusion, esthétique, diversité de modes de communication avec les publics.
Ce dont les images témoignent: films et photos documentaires sur les crimes nazis (URSS, 1942–1945)
Présentation d'Irina Tcherneva dans le cadre du séminaire du CERCEC "Mondes russe, caucasien, centre-asiatique et centre-européen: témoigner sous contrainte (XXe-XXIe siècles)"
Monday, 28.03.2022, 16:30 to Monday, 28.03.2022, 18:30
Aubervilliers
Cette présentation explore le corpus filmique réuni dans le cadre du projet Visual History of the Holocaust: ses traces documentaires et ses silences, son éclatement entre lieux de conservation des archives, les techniques de filmage pour les enquêteurs, la grande distribution, le NKVD, et analyse les frontières mouvantes entre la sphère publique, les sphères institutionnelles et privées.
A Time-Optimized Content Creation Workflow for Remote Teaching
Presentation by Allan Hanbury, Sophia Althammer, Sebastian Hofstätter and Mete Sertkan at the 53rd SIGCSE conference
Saturday, 05.03.2022, 11:15 to Saturday, 05.03.2022, 12:30
Providence
Presentation of a workflow to create an engaging remote learning experience for a university course, while minimizing the post-production time of the educators.
Automatisierte Bilderkennung und Methoden des digitalen Kuratierens im Projekt Visual History of the Holocaust
Präsentation von Ingo Zechner und Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann im Rahmen des Workshops "#LastSeen – Bilder der NS-Deportationen"
Wednesday, 23.02.2022 to Wednesday, 23.02.2022
Online
Visual History of the Holocaust – Projektpräsentation
Präsentation von Ingo Zechner im Rahmen des Seminars "Sammeln, Aufbewahren, Kuratieren: Zur Praxis von Film- und Medienarchiven"
Wednesday, 09.02.2022 to Wednesday, 09.02.2022
Wien
Graph-based Shot Type Classification in Large Historical Film Archives
Presentation by Daniel Helm at the "17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications"
Monday, 07.02.2022, 16:45 to Monday, 07.02.2022, 18:30
Online
To analyze films and documentaries (indexing, content understanding), a shot type classification is needed.
HistShot: A Shot Type Dataset based on Historical Documentation during WWII
Presentation by Daniel Helm at the "11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods"
Thursday, 03.02.2022, 15:00 to Thursday, 03.02.2022, 16:15
Online
Automated shot type classification plays a significant role in film preservation and indexing of film datasets.
VHH Research Seminar – Session 9: Soviet Footage of War Crimes, between Propaganda and Judicial Evidence, 1941–1946
Presentation by Vanessa Voisin
Thursday, 13.01.2022, 16:00 to Thursday, 13.01.2022, 18:00
Online
In the ninth session of CERCEC's H2020 "Visual History of the Holocaust" Research Seminar, Vanessa Voisin (Bologna University/Alma Mater Studiorum) discusses the Soviet authorities' policy of producing and showing film footage of Nazi crimes.
VHH Research Seminar – Session 8: Analyzing visual “text” – films taken by German soldiers in Poland
Presentation by Efrat Komisar
Wednesday, 05.01.2022, 16:00 to Wednesday, 05.01.2022, 18:00
Online
In the eighth session of CERCEC's H2020 "Visual History of the Holocaust" Research Seminar, Efrat Komisar (Yad Vashem) demonstrates how to analyze Holocaust-related archival films, focusing on German soldiers' 'private' films recorded in Poland.
Die Todesmühlen (1945)
Film-Screening von "Die Todesmühlen" (R.: Hanus Burger, 1945) mit einer Einführung von Ingo Zechner
Wednesday, 05.01.2022 to Wednesday, 05.01.2022
Wien
