Thursday, 11 June 2026, 2 pm – 9 pm

• Freie Universität Berlin, Lecture Hall B in the Henry Ford Building
  Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem

2:00 – 2:15 pm Welcome

2:15 – 2:45 pm Oral-History.Digital: Interview Portal – Indexing Platform – Research Environment
Cord Pagenstecher (Freie Universität Berlin) and Almut Leh (FernUniversität in Hagen)

2:45 – 3:30 pm A Look into the Archives. Three Interview Collections in Oral-History.Digital

• Dersim 1937/38. Interviews with Those Affected by the Massacres in Turkey at the Time
  Christian Gudehus (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
• Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 1945–1990 – Memories of the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR
  Lars Tschirschwitz (Deputy State Commissioner for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for Coming to Terms with the SED Dictatorship)
• U-CORE – Ukrainian Testimonies of the War
  Machteld Venken (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History)

3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break

4:00 – 5:30 pm Reuse and Analysis

• Scholarly Analysis: Facial Expressions and Body Language in Interviews with Survivors of Nazi Persecution
  Stefan Pfänder (University of Freiburg, Conversation Linguistics) in conversation with Linde Apel (Research Center for Contemporary History Hamburg, Workshop of Remembrance)
• Museum Presentation: Audio and Video Interviews in Collections and Exhibitions
  Tamar Lewinsky (Jewish Museum Berlin, Lanzmann Collection) in conversation with Ewa Kruppa (Friedland Museum, Collection of Narrated Life Stories of People with Experiences of Displacement from 1945 to the Present)
• Digital Interpretation: Oral History, Hermeneutics and Artificial Intelligence
  Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt) in conversation with Dennis Möbus (FernUniversität in Hagen)

5:30 – 6:00 pm Coffee Break

6:00 – 7:00 pm Keynote "Oral History and Its Tools"
Alessandro Portelli (University of Rome)

7:00 pm Buffet and Conversation
Mezzanine/Gallery of the Henry Ford Building

• Live Stream