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Du 9 au 11 novembre prochain l'Université de Boston accueillera dans ses murs la conférence : Dispossession. The Plundering of German Jewry, 1933-1945 and Beyond.A noter, des interventions concernant l'après-guerre. Une intervention (de Jonathan Petropoulos) portera sur le trafic des oeuvres d'art spoliées avant et après 1945. Le dernier panel de la conférence sera consacré à la question des restitutions ; ses intervenants parleront entre autres de la restitution à Berlin de biens juifs - afin d'illustrer les politiques de propriété pendant la Guerre froide (Eva Balz), de  l'"aryanisation" et de son héritage (restitution, mémoire et déni) dans l'Allemagne d'après-guerre (Benno Nietzel)  et des restitutions des biens juifs en Autriche (Lisa Silverman).9-11 novembre 2011Florence and Chafetz Hillel HouseBoston University213 Bay State RoadBoston MA 02215Présentation de la conférence par ses organisateurs Jonathan Zatlin (Université de Boston) et Christoph Kreutzmüller (Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz)"Among the stereotypes about Jews circulating in Nazi Germany, perhaps the most prominent portrayed Jews not simply as rich, but as enriching themselves at the expense of ordinary Germans. It is one of the cruelest of ironies, however, that the Nazis were the real economic predators, robbing Europe’s Jews before murdering them. Within twelve short years, the Nazis managed to dispossess Germany’s Jews, taking away first their rights, then their property, and finally their lives.Despite the enormity of the crime, however, the dispossession of the Jews has only recently become the focus of scholarly attention. This conference brings together scholars from a variety of countries working on the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft of assets owned by Jews. Panels range from the methods by which Jews were robbed, including the legal technologies and bureaucratic actors, to the kinds of assets stolen, from liquid assets to art, and the difficult process of restitution after 1945."&#160;Programme de la conférence(disponible sur le site H-Net)Dimanche 9 Novembre 201417h : Mot de bienvenue : Consul General Rolf Schütte (German Consulate, Boston), Michael Zank (Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, BU), Hartmut Berghoff (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC)Introduction: Jonathan Zatlin (Boston University)Keynote Address: Christoph Kreutzmüller (Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, Berlin) : Kristallnacht and the Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity in GermanyLundi 10 Novembre8h30-9h30 : Economic BackgroundPrésident de séance : Jonathan Zatlin (Boston University)Albrecht Ritschl (London School of Economics) : Financial Destruction. Confiscatory Taxation of Jewish Property and Income in Nazi GermanyJonathan Wiesen (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), A Jew-Free Marketplace: The Ideologies and Economics of Thievery&#160;9h30-11h : The German-Jewish Commercial PresencePrésident de séance : Eugene Sheppard (Brandeis University)Dorothea Hauser (Warburg Archiv, Hamburg) : Too Involved and Too Engaged: The Warburg Bank's Late SurrenderStefanie Mahrer (Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) : Fighting the Thieves. Salman Schocken’s Strategies to Save His PossessionsPamela Swett (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario) : Salesmen, Salesmanship, and Dispossession in the Retail Context11h30-13h : Bureaucracy and Dispossession - IPrésident de séance : Hartmut Berghoff (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC)Ingo Loose (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, München-Berlin) : The Reich Ministry of Economy and Its Role in the Institutional Competition of Plundering European JewsJohannes Beermann (University of Bremen) : Taking Advantage: German Freight Forwarders and the Theft of Jewish Property, 1938-1945Christine Schoenmakers (Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg) : The "Legal" Theft of Jewish Assets: A Closer Look at the Key Actors and Mechanisms of Expropriation between 1933 and 194514h30-16h : Bureaucracy and Dispossession -  IIPrésident de séance : Devin Pendas (Boston College)Jonathan Zatlin (Boston University) : "Retiring" to Theresienstadt: The Heimeinkaufsverträge and the Dispossession of the ElderlyStefan Hördler (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC) : Administered Plundering: Gefangenen-Eigentums-Verwaltungen in the Nazi Camp SystemAlfred C. Mierzejewski (University of North Texas, Denton) : Taking from the Weak, Giving to the StrongMardi 11 Novembre8h30-10h : The German “Model” in European ContextPrésident de séance : Jeffrey Diefendorf (University of New Hampshire, Durham)Tal Bruttman (City of Grenoble/Memorial de la Shoah, Paris) : Identifying "Jewish Assets" in Vichy FranceDavid Crowe (Elon University, Elon, North Carolina) : Plunder and Theft of Jewish Property in the General GovernmentMirna Zakić (Ohio University, Athens) : Volksdeutsche, Aryanization, and the Holocaust: The Case of the Serbian Banat10h30-12h: Art and Visual RepresentationPrésidente de séance : Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire)Michael Berkowitz (University of London) : Coming to Terms with a Lost Cohort:  Recalling and Restoring the Legacy of Jews and PhotographyCharles Dellheim (Boston University) : Traffic in Significant Symbols: The Meaning of Looted ArtJonathan Petropoulos (Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California) : Art Dealers in Nazi Germany: Trafficking in Looted Art Before and After 194513h30-15h: RestitutionPrésidente de séance : Abigail Gilman (Boston University)Eva Balz (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) : The Politics of Property in the Cold War. The Restitution of Jewish Assets in BerlinBenno Nietzel (University of Bielefeld) : Restitution, Memory, and Denial: Assessing the Legacy of "Aryanization" in Postwar GermanyLisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) : Repossession and Return: Madame d'Ora and the Restitution of Jewish Property in Austria after the HolocaustAnna Rubin (Department of Financial Services, New York State) : The Nazi Regime and Legal Spoliation15h-16h : ConclusionsLaura Meier-Ewert (La Commission d’indemnisation des victimes de spoliations intervenues du fait des législations antisémites en vigueur pendant l’Occupation, French Embassy, Berlin)Christoph Kreutzmüller (Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, Berlin)Albrecht Ritschl (London School of Economics)Jonathan Wiesen (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)Jonathan Zatlin (Boston University)