Cycle of online conferences on the Adolf Eichmann Case
A series of online conferences on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the sentencing of Adolf Eichmann will run from October 18 to December 6, 2021. This series of events is organised by one of the DAAD assistantships at the University of São Paulo (USP) and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), as well as the Walter Benjamin Chair at the UBA, in partnership with CAPAZ and the Göthe Institut.
The series begins on Monday, October 18 at 3:00 p.m. (Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires time) and 5:00 p.m. (Bogotá time) with a
keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Winter from Marburg University, entitled “The historical and the legal, the aesthetic and the media: how the Eichmann case has changed the way we look at our history“. The event will be held in German with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish.
The project is designed as a space for transnational and transmedia analysis of the Eichmann case and proposes to “explore the ways in which the political-historical, legal-normative, philosophical-anthropological and cultural-aesthetic discourses” of the case intersect, as stated by the project organizers. While these issues will be discussed in the virtual meetings, an on-site workshop in Buenos Aires next year will serve to analyse multiple cinematographic and literary narratives of the Eichmann case.
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