MEMORIA

MEMORIA – Memorial Site Working Group

• Communicating the importance of preserving and creating places of remembrance for society as a whole

• Further developing the pedagogical mission of places of remembrance

• Promoting the importance of protecting individual, legal, economic, social and cultural human rights as part of a processual development of awareness based on past experiences

• Further developing methods and strategies of communicating autocratic and conflictual pasts

• Discourse on new scientific approaches in dealing with the past in a time where contemporary witnesses can no longer give their accounts, e.g., augmented and virtual reality

• Broadening intercultural competence within the culture of remembrance

• Exchange of experiences from the daily routine of memorial sites and places of learning, and concerning specific national or individual problem areas

• Presentation of Best Practice projects

• Language of communication: Spanish

MEMBERS

Moderation
Thomas Fischer, PhD, Chair of the History of Latin America at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany and Director of the Central Institute for Latin American Studies (ZILAS). 2016-2020 Chair of the German Latin American Studies Association (ADLAF), since 2020 Member of the ADLAF Board. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Iberoamericana. América Latina, España y Portugal”.

Elke Gryglewski, PhD, managing director of the foundation of the lower Saxony Memorials and Director of the Bergen Belsen Memorial. Member of the bilateral expert commission appointed by Chile and Germany for the creation of a Documentation and memorial concept for Colonia Dignidad.

Evelyn Hevia Jordán, Psychologist and doctoral student in history at the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany. Research associate at the Dignity and Human Rights Working Group at Silva Henríquez Catholic University.

Alejandra Naftal, Museologist. Curator of the museological project and executive director of the Museum of Memory ESMA – Ex Centro Clandestino de Detención, Tortura y Exterminio. Argentina (2012-2022). She is currently a consultant for research projects related to museums.

María Luisa Ortiz Rojas, Head of collections and research, Museo de la Memoria y de los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile.

Patricia Prieto Soto, DESS (M.A.). Physics and Archaeology (Michel de Montaigne, University, Bordeaux, France). Responsible for the areas Inclusion and Diversity at the Education Department of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site.

Protocol
David Graaf David Graaff is a political scientist and historian specializing in Latin America. As a journalist and researcher, he accompanied the peace process in Colombia and regularly translates texts of political philosophy. He currently works at the Alexander von Humboldt Cultural Institute in Medellín. He speaks German, Spanish and English at an advanced level.

• The working group is contributing to the dialog on practical and scientific issues in the field of international criminal law processing of crimes against humanity

• Development of new international approaches in the legal processing of crimes against humanity

• New impulses for German and Argentinian judicature and jurisprudence

• Intercultural understanding and intensification of German-Argentinian cooperation 

• Promotion of democratic culture and social peace

• Protection of human rights

• Language of communication: English

MEMBERS

Dr. Natalia Barbero, professor of Criminal Law, Human Rights and International Criminal Law at the University of Buenos Aires, professor at the National Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Silvina Andrea Alonso, lawyer graduated at University of Buenos Aires, PhD student in Criminal Law at University of Salvador in Buenos Aires, Master’s degree student of Criminal Mediation at University of Valencia, Spain, specialist in Criminal Law at University of Buenos Aires, professor at the Law School, University of Buenos Aires.

Stefanie Bock, PhD, Professor at Philipps-Universität Marburg – Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, International Criminal Law and Comparative Law. Director of the International Research and Documentation Center War Crimes Trials, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.

Boris Burghardt, PhD, Professor of Criminal Law, Contemporary Legal History and Philosophy of Law, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. Member of the Board of the Society for Civil Rights since 2017.

Julia Geneuss, PhD, LL.M. (NYU), Professor for German and International Criminal Law, Criminal Procedural Law and Comparative Law, University of Bremen, Germany.

Dr. Alberto Zuppi, former Robert & Pamela Martin Professor of Law, Louisiana State University, teaching various subjects, including Public International Law and International Criminal Law, professor of Public International Law, CEMA University, and professor of International Criminal Law, Palermo University, Buenos Aires.