Keynote Speakers
Elena Pirazzoli
Elena Pirazzoli is an independent researcher working on visual culture, memory studies, difficult heritage, and public history. Since May 2025, she has been the director of the Fondazione Museo per la Memoria di Ustica (Bologna). From 2019 to 2023, she was Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Universität zu Köln for the project “NS-Täter in Italien 1943–45.” She is currently collaborating with the PRIN project at the Università di Genova, “Conceptualising and Representing the Other in the Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish and Yiddish Cultural Fields,” particularly on the development of an online exhibition about extermination camps in Poland. Among her publications are the monograph A partire da ciò che resta. Forme memoriali dal 1945 alle macerie del Muro di Berlino (Diabasis, Reggio Emilia 2010); the curated volume Teatro di Marte. Il Cimitero militare germanico del passo della Futa (Archiviozeta, Firenzuola [FI] 2019); and, together with Chiara Conterno, the co-curated volume Libri in fuga. Leggere e studiare mentre il mondo brucia. Europa, Italia 1939–1945 (Il Mulino, Bologna 2024).
Laura Fontana Fourel
Laura Fontana is a historian of the Shoah and an expert in Holocaust education. Since 2009, she has served as scientific advisor and head of Italian projects for the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris. For many years, she has been engaged in teaching at universities and in conducting training seminars for Italian and European audiences.
Author of numerous scholarly and popular essays in Italian, French, and English, she co-edited with Georges Bensoussan two issues of the Revue d’histoire de la Shoah dedicated to Italy, titled "L’Italie et la Shoah" (Le fascisme et les Juifs, 2016; Représentations, usages politiques et mémoire, 2017). Since 1994, she has been curating the Attività di Educazione alla Memoria for the Municipality of Rimini.
Among her most recent works are Gli Italiani ad Auschwitz. Deportazioni, Soluzione finale, lavoro forzato. Un mosaico di vittime (Museo Statale di Auschwitz, 2021) and Fotografare la Shoah. Comprendere le immagini della distruzione degli ebrei (Einaudi, 2025).
Sylvie Lindeperg
Sylvie Lindeperg is Professor at the Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne and Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. A historian of the Second World War, justice, and visual culture, she has written and edited around twenty books, including Les Écrans de l’ombre. La Seconde guerre dans le cinéma français; Clio de 5 à 7; Nuit et brouillard. Un film dans l’histoire; La Voie des images; Le Moment Eichmann (with Annette Wieviorka); and Nuremberg. La bataille des images, which has been translated into several languages.
Her most recent publications include Paris brûle-t-il ? Quand le cinéma réinvente la Libération (Paris-Musée, 2024) and Archéologie d’un procès. Juger les attentats du 13 novembre 2015 (Verdier, 2025).
Sylvie Lindeperg is also the author of several documentary films, among them Face aux fantômes by Jean-Louis Comolli and Après la nuit. Traces filmées de la résistance by Ginette Lavigne.
Events
CASA DEL CINEMA
Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1, 00197 Roma
November 18, 9:00 PM
Holofiction
Michał Kosakowski, 2025, 102'
In the presence of the director. Free entry while seats last.
In collaboration with CiakPolska Film Festival – 13th edition.
Download the Festival Program in PDF format.
Comprised of thousands of fragments from over 3,000 films and television series made between 1938 and the present, Holofiction is an experimental film that explores the visual representation of the Holocaust in fictional cinema, analyzing how images and narrative motifs related to the Holocaust have been codified and reproduced over time. The film questions the possibilities and limits of cinematic storytelling, inviting reflection on ethics, collective memory, and the responsibility of the gaze.
BIO
Michał Kosakowski is a Polish-German filmmaker and multimedia artist. He studied film at Fabrica, Benetton's communications research center, collaborating with Oliviero Toscani on cultural and political projects. His work moves between documentary, fiction, and experimental cinema, questioning moral and social boundaries through innovative forms of storytelling. Among his best-known works are Zero Killed (2012), which won an award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, and German Angst (2015), which has been screened at over 40 international festivals. His latest film, Holofiction , is part of the multimedia project "Dark Tourism," which explores contemporary forms of collective memory.
Program
November 17th
Fondazione Museo della Shoah
(via del Portico di Ottavia 29 )
For Roma Tre students only: arrive at 9:30 a.m. to register.
10.00 AM - 10.45 AM
Keynote Address
Chair: Manuele Gianfrancesco
Elena Pirazzoli (Ustica Memorial Museum Foundation)
Icona, monito, documento. Dall’esposizione della vittima all’intenzione del carnefice: le funzioni delle immagini nei musei memoriali della deportazione e della Shoah
11.00 AM - 1.00 PM
Immagini intelligenti? Contemporaneità, digital turn e storia visuale
Valentina Domenici (University of Rome Tre) and Lorenzo Denicolai (University of Turin)
Educare lo sguardo. Una proposta di Visual Literacy per riflettere sulla Shoah nell’iconosfera contemporanea
Vincenzo Altobelli (University of Rome Tre)
Vergangenheit. Il progetto Zeugen der Shoah in Germania
Samuel Antichi (University of Calabria)
Restituire lo sguardo. Per una topografia della testimonianza in From Where They Stood di Christophe Cognet
Marta Perrotta (University of Rome Three)
Diaspora e voce: il podcast come spazio di testimonianza e mediazione storica
1.00 PM - 2.30 PM
LUNCH BREAK
2.30 PM - 3.30 PM
Keynote Address
Chair: Ivelise Perniola
Laura Fontana (Fondation Mémorial de la Shoah)
«Schöne Zeiten»: la prospettiva dei carnefici attraverso gli album fotografici dei comandanti di Sobibór, Treblinka e Auschwitz.
3.45 PM - 5.00 PM
Immagini nella Storia. Storia mediale, storia culturale, storiografia (1)
Chair: Stefania Parigi
Manuela Pacillo (Scuola Normale Superiore)
Norimberga in prima pagina: immagini e giustizia nella stampa italiana
Tomaso Subini (University of Milan) and Gianluca Della Maggiore (International Telematic University Uninettuno)
I silenzi di Pio XII e le immagini sui campi di Guerra alla guerra
Gabriele Gimmelli (University of Bergamo)
It's All True. Le immagini della Shoah in The Stranger di Orson Welles
Vittorio Pavoncello (independent researcher)
Parlare e tacere la Shoah
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
BREAK
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Le immagini per dire. Esporre, comparare, studiare le immagini della Shoah
Chair: Lorenzo Marmo
Marcell Sebők (Central European University)
Come and See - Visualizing and Mapping Holocaust Images
Alexander Zöller (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
Traces from the Archives: a German Propaganda Film about the Warsaw Ghetto
November 18th
University of Rome Tre
(Via Ostiense 139)
For Roma Tre students only: arrive at 9:00 a.m. to register.
9.30 AM - 10.00 AM (room 2.14, second floor)
Institutional greetings
10.00 AM - 11.00 AM
Keynote Address
Chair: Francesco Pitassio. Discussant: Anna Lisa Tota
Sylvie Lindeperg (Université Panthéon Sorbonne)
Nuremberg: The Battle of Images, the Sensitive Experience
11.00 AM - 11.15 AM
BREAK
11.15 AM - 1.00 PM
Le immagini per dire. Esporre, comparare, studiare le immagini della Shoah
Chair: Claudia Hassan
Taylor Dwyer (University of Southern California)
Naming and Displaying Genocide in Early Jewish Curated Exhibitions
Blandine Landau (Zentrum fir politesch Bildung, Luxembourg - École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words: What the Photograph of the Volunteers of the 101st Battalion Tells Us of the Understanding of the Shoah in Luxembourg
Ekaterina Vikulina (Potsdam Universität - Museum of the Riga Ghetto and Holocaust in Latvia)
Visual Memory of the Riga Ghetto: Between Archive and Reconstruction
1.00 - 2.00 PM
LUNCH BREAK
2.00 PM - 3.45 PM (room 6, ground floor)
La struttura dello sguardo. Visione, analisi, comprensione
Chair: Damiano Garofalo
Manuele Gianfrancesco (Sapienza University of Rome)
Le immagini della fine dei lager: progetti, usi, traiettorie
Carolina Caterina Minguzzi (independent researcher)
The First Italian Cinematic Representation of Nazi Extermination Camps: The Wandering Jew by Goffredo Alessandrini
Margherita Giabelli (University of Siena)
Prima e dopo Nuit et Brouillard (Resnais, 1955). Genesi e destino di ‘un film dans l’histoire’
Vanessa Roghi (LUMSA University of Rome)
Frammenti di memoria. Il riuso delle immagini nei film di montaggio della TV italiana
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Prima e dopo Shoah di Claude Lanzmann
Livio Lepratto (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
L’“evento Shoah” in Italia. Itinerari distributivi e critici del capolavoro di Lanzmann nel panorama italiano
Lóránt Bódi (Fondation Mémorial de la Shoah) and Daniel Schuch (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Testimony, Trauma, and Tourism: Shoah, Package Tour, and the Cinematic Pilgrimage to Holocaust Sites
Rebecca Ora (University of Birmingham)
Probing the Limits of Holocaust Cinema Viewership: Schindler's List is not Shoah is not Spielberg's List
Freya Glomb (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
Videographic criticism: Re-reading Holocaust footage and/as archive material. The video essay as media literacy tool for research and teaching
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Conclusion
9:00 PM | CASA DEL CINEMA
Holofiction Screening
Michał Kosakowski, 2025, 102'
In the presence of the director
Information
Fondazione Museo della Shoah
Via del Portico d'Ottavia, 29, 00186 Rome RM
(Closest public transport stop: Petroselli)
University of Rome Tre
Via Ostiense, 139, 00154 Rome RM
(Metro: B line, stop: Garbatella or San Paolo)
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