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Program of the conferenceThursday October 26, 201714 :15 Arrival at the Maison de la Chimie, 28 rue Saint-Dominique, 75007 Paris, room 26914:30Welcome Address: Brian Schiff, Director of the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention, American University of ParisIntroduction by Stephen Smith, Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation:&#160;&#8220;The Future of Our Past: The Challenges and Opportunities of Video Testimony in an Evolving Digital Landscape&#8221;15:30 break15:45 Keynote by Noah Shenker (Monash University):&#160;&#8220;Reframing Holocaust Testimony: &#160;The Spaces within and beyond the Camera&#8217;s Frame&#8221;16:35 break17.00&#160;Panel 1: Testimonies, Languages and Local ContextsChair: Judith Lindenberg (CRH-EHESS)Robin Buller (University of North Carolina): &#8220;Communicating Survival: Language and Multilingualism in the Survivor Testimony of Salonican Jews&#8221;Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College, New York): &#8221;Intimate Histories of the Holocaust in Oral Testimonies from Eastern Galicia&#8221;Evgeny Finkel (George Washington University): &#8220;Testimonies across Project, Language, and Space: The Visual History Archive in Comparative Perspective&#8221;18:30 break18:45 Keynote by Christopher Browning (University of North Carolina):&#160;"Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps"Friday October 27, 20179:00 Arrival9:30 Keynote by Annette Wieviorka (SIRICE-CNRS-Universit&#233; Paris 1 Panth&#233;on-Sorbonne):&#160;&#8220;Qu'est-ce qu'un t&#233;moin?&#8221;10:20: break10:30&#160;Panel 2: The Visual History Archive, a Source for History and Memorial ProjectsChair: Laura Hobson Faure (Universit&#233; Sorbonne Nouvelle -Paris 3)Sonia Combe (CNRS /Centre Marc Bloch): &#8220;Le recours &#224; la Visual History Archive pour explorer la pratique de l'&#233;change de victimes dans le camp de Buchenwald&#8221;Patrice Bensimon (Yahad &#8211; In Unum) : "La VHA comme source d'information dans le cadre des enqu&#234;tes men&#233;es sur la Shoah par balles par Yahad - In Unum"Audrey Mallet (Paris I Panth&#233;on-Sorbonne/Concordia University): &#8220;La Visual History Archive, outil de recherche et plateforme de pr&#233;servation&#8221;12:00 lunch13:45&#160;Panel 3: Testifying in TimeChair: Brian Schiff (American University of Paris)Sharon Kangisser Cohen (Yad Vashem): &#8220;Early and Later Holocaust Survivor Testimony&#8221;Bieke Van Camp (Universit&#233; Paul-Val&#233;ry) : &#8220;Vers une homog&#233;n&#233;isation des r&#233;cits / exp&#233;riences de la Shoah ?&#8221;14:45 break15:00&#160;Panel 4: The Visual History Archive, Gender and Women PerspectivesChair: Lissa Lincoln (American University of Paris)Alina Bothe (Freie Universit&#228;t Berlin): &#8220;Gender and the Visual History Archive&#8221;Helene Sinnreich (University of Tennessee): &#8220;Mengele Selected Me and Other Stories We Are Taught to Doubt&#8221;16:00 break16:30 Final keynote by Jeffrey Shandler (Rutger&#8217;s University): &#8220; &#8217;And now I have to read in Jewish something&#8217;: &#160;Yiddish Performances by Holocaust Survivors&#8221;The entire conference will be translated into English and French