The fifth session: Forensic Environments of the Holocaust and its Memory is a continuation of the journey into the depths of local landscapes. During the meeting, we look at all aspects fundamental to the development of Holocaust memory - the environmental perspective (including forensic and biological). An inspiring lecture by Professor Ewa Domańska, prepared in collaboration with a research team (Mikołaj Smykowski, PhD, Jacek Małczyński, PhD) and entitled The Environmental History of the Holocaust: Chances and Challenges help to pose a question (interestingly developed by successive panellists) about the universal relevance of humanistic research on a physical landscape marked by death.
Leaving the local landscape and its empirical and environmentally sound cognitive perspectives, in the sixth session entitled, Translation and Travel of Holocaust Memory between Europe and Israel, we move towards space where the Holocaust memory is of particular significance. With the introductory lecture by Professor Jackie Feldman from Ben Gurion University of the Negev (The Vanishing Body of the Witness: Transmission of the Shoah in a Digital Generation), together with the panellists, we pose questions
contemporary trends in Holocaust education, in which periods, the direct inter-generational
transmission is dominated by new media and the virtual world.
The seventh session: Holocaust Memory: Diagnosing the Global Effect is when our conference journey symbolically "circles round", allowing us to return to questions fundamental to contemporary and future studies on the Holocaust and memory education. The introductory lecture by Professor Daniel Levy entitled Mnemonics and its Discontents: Between Integration and Contestation, which in a way corresponds with Piotr Cywiński, PhD, initial reflections for our event, proposes a critical diagnosis of the opportunities and threats resulting from the universalisation of the experience of the Shoah in the globalised XXI century. Levy's reflections were also explored in-depth and critically by successive panellists.
The last event of the conference the Holocaust between global and local perspectives - which we particularly encourage you to acquaint yourself with, as it enables you to listen to our keynotes in the form of active dialogue - is the debate: Holocaust Memory and Research in the 21st Century: Between the Global and the Local, recapitulating our deliberations (but also inspiring us to pose new questions). The final meeting is led by Małgorzata Pakier (ENRS), and her guests are Ewa Domańska, Éva Kovács, Jackie Feldman and Daniel Levy.