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80 years after the Liberation: remembering, teaching and passing on

Wednesday 4 December 2024, 6.30pm

Lieu d'Europe

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Liberation, the City of Strasbourg, in partnership with the Observatoire de l'enseignement de l'histoire en Europe and MIRA-Cinématique régionale numérique, is organising a public conference at the Lieu d'Europe (8, rue Boecklin) on Wednesday 4 December at 6.30pm.

What meaning should be given to the commemorations that are being organised? What memories do we have of the events that made up this founding moment of a new political order, on a national, European and international scale, at a time when the era of witnesses is giving way to history? Is there a shared post-war narrative in Europe, a continent split in two during the Cold War? To what extent can Strasbourg and Alsace, which were deeply scarred and marked by this period and which have become the breeding ground for the institutions that have shaped the Europe of renewed peace, still be a symbol for Europeans?

Several themes will be addressed using videos produced by MIRA-Cinémathèque régionale numérique:

1)-The Liberation of territories occupied militarily by Germany: how to construct a narrative and promote a living history and memory of the liberation of Strasbourg and Alsace?

2)-The liberation of the concentration and extermination camps set up in Nazi Europe: how can this memory be passed on and how can this history be taught today at a time when the fight against anti-Semitism is once again a major issue in the political debate?

3)-Freeing minds from the grip of totalitarian regimes: how can we combat today, through knowledge, information and remembrance, the return of nationalist, xenophobic and authoritarian ideologies that are once again on the rise in Europe?

Welcome address :

-Anne Mistler, Deputy Mayor in charge of arts and culture

Speakers:

-Laura Cassarino, Director, MIRA - Cinémathèque régionale numérique

-Nicolas Buchheit, history and geography teacher at the Lycée Marc Bloch (Schiltigheim)

Tal Bruttmann, historian, specialist in the Shoah and anti-Semitism

-Emmanuel Droit, professor of contemporary history at Sciences Po Strasbourg

-Camille Mahé, lecturer in contemporary history at Sciences Po Strasbourg

Moderated by

-William Irigoyen, journalist, ARTE