Events 2022

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

This event poster shows a photograph shot secretly through the gas chamber's doorway or window and showing the cremation of corpses in a fire pit.

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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

This event poster shows a film still depicting the front of the store of a Jewish hatter in the Nazi Province of East Prussia

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