Books, Libraries, and Modern War: A Symposium

The symposium is free and open to the public, but please register by e-mailing Eric Lindquist.

Schedule

9:30-10:30: Keynote Address

• Patricia Kennedy Grimsted (Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, and International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), "War on Books, Books on War, and the Making of Historical Memory"

• Eric Lindquist (University of Maryland Libraries), "Two Libraries and the Great War"
• Michael Olmert (English Department, University of Maryland), "'Nevermind the Pity. Poetry is in the Printing Too': The Great War and the Special Case of Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)"

11:45-12:45: World War II and Books and Publishing in East Asia

• Zhang Zhiqiang (Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University), "Struggle for Culture: Chinese Publishing Houses and Libraries during the War with Japan"
• Eiko Sakaguchi (University of Maryland Libraries), "Censorship and Publication: The Japanese Publishing Industry after World War II"

2:15-3:45: World War II in Europe and the Holocaust

• Steven Luckert (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), "The War on Books: Nazi and Allied Policies towards Politically Undesirable Literature in Germany"
• Robert Waite (Office of Special Investigations, United States Department of Justice), "Books as Casualties of War: The Nazi Looting of Jewish Libraries and Post-War Restitution"
• Michlean Amir (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), "Books as Memorials: The Creation of Yizkor Books to Commemorate the Victims of the Holocaust"

4:00-5:30: The Later Twentieth Century and Beyond

• Nevenka Zdravkovska (University of Maryland Libraries), "Culture and the War of the 1990s in the Balkans"
• Peter Wien (History Department, University of Maryland), title to be announced
• Irene Munster, "Dirty Lasting Memories: Argentine Publishing in a Time of Repression"