The Avalanche project concludes with three days of study in Thessaloniki, a city that represents a significant location within the historical and cultural trajectory of the project. From 21 to 23 April, the programme includes a thematic workshop followed by the international conference Voices of Liberation, during which the lexicon developed within the framework of the project will be presented alongside other academic contributions addressing the theme of Liberation. The detailed programme of the events is available in the attachment.
Conference organised as part of the AVALANCHE Project · Funded by the European Union and ELKE AUTH · Hosted by the Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center (KEDEA)
21 April · Digital Humanities Methods Workshop
Faculty of Philosophy, room 301, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Maria Dermentzi (UVSQ – Université Paris-Saclay) “Transcribing Oral Testimonies with Automatic Speech Recognition
22 April · Conference
Iakovos Michailidis- Welcome Remarks Vice Rector of International Relations and Outreach, Lifelong Learning and Student Care- Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
Giovanni Pietro Vitali & Maria Dermentzi Lexicon of WWII Memory: Computational Approaches to the Language of Testimony in Italy and Greece · Avalanche Project
Maria Pantazi Ruptured Worlds, Enduring Ties: Escape, Survival, and Trajectories of Salonian Jews
Mariangela Chatzistamatiou Liberation and the Politics of Mourning: Jewish Memory through Musical Expression
Effrosyni Mamouni The Experience of Greek Jewish Women as Displaced Persons, 1945–1948
Zacharias Sartzetakis Jewish Identity in Post-War Greece: A Comparative Approach between Thessaloniki and Thessaly
Sara Delmedico Women, Liberation and Rights in Post-War Italy: L’onorevole Angelina (1947) by Luigi Zampa
Daniela Vitagliano Rethinking the Liberation of Occupied Italy: A Southern Perspective through Rita Majerotti’s Voice
Barbara Meazzi Io ho scelto di essere libera. Camilla Ravera Facing her own History
Andrea Cominetti The Shattered Identity After WWII: Różewicz’s ‘The Card Index’ Between Paralysis and Unfinished Liberation
Ramatu Musa ‘Achtung, Gnädiges Fräulein’: Female Vulnerability and Sexual Coercion in Torborg Nedreaas’ Fiction of Nazi-Occupied Norway
Tatiana Liani Performing Survival: Gendered Experiences of Liberation in the Mordo Archive
Screening History: Photograph, Film and the Politics of Memory Round Table discussion
Giorgos Antoniou- Historian
Chryssa Tzelepi- Director, film producer
lassis Vlasidis– Historian
Film Screening, The Last Note (2017) by Pantelis Voulgaris
23 April – Conference
Sasha Colby Telling ‘Liberation’ Differently: Ukrainian Female Forced Labourer Oral History vs. the French POW Story in Cartier-Bresson’s Le Retour
Alexios Ntetorakis Exarchou Beyond the Prison Gates: Greek Testimonies of Liberation from Brandenburg-Görden
Charles Sabatos Slovak Narratives of Wartime Occupation and Liberation
Fani Oflidou Sephardi Women in Auschwitz — A Ladino Testimony of a Traumatic Experience
Evlampia Tsireli ‘The Promise’: Testimony and Post-Liberation Life in a Graphic Novel Metanarrative
Lida-Maria Dodou – Lydia Vlasidou Against Monolingual Memory: Ladino Testimonies and Methodological Issues
Luca Castiglioni Free for All: the Fragmented Liberation(s) of the Italian Dodecanese (1940–1945)
Rosanna Rizzi Silenced Agency: the Spomen Kosturnica of Barletta as a Transnational Site of Yugoslav Testimony
Konstantinos-Michail Foteinis Liberation as a Contested Process: Testimonies of Jewish Survivors from Northwestern Greece between Liberation and ‘Second Occupation