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The Latenium is closed

The patrimonialisation of camps

 

Christine Glauning is a historian and exhibition organiser. For many years she has been interested in the history of forced labour under National Socialism, the post-war period and the cultures of memory. Since 2006, she has been the director of the Documentation Centre on Nazi Forced Labour in Berlin-Schöneweide, which is located on the site of an almost completely preserved forced labour camp and provides information on Nazi forced labour as a pervasive mass phenomenon and social crime through exhibitions, events and numerous training courses.

 

Pierre Dufour is architecte en chef des Monuments historiques in East of France. Within the framework of his functions, he directs the studies and works as the architect in charge of the site of the former concentration camp of Natzweiler-Struthof. In this context, he directs the studies and works related to the architectural restoration of the camp and its valorisation for the public.

 

Laurent Olivier is an archaeologist in charge of the Celtic and Gaulish collections at the Musée d’Archéologie nationale in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. For several years now, his research has led him to question the relationship between material remains – including those from the recent past – memory and the landscape.

 

Samuel Verdan is a specialist in Greek archaeology. He is involved in the research carried out by the Swiss Archaeological School in Greece on the sites of Eretria and Amarynthos. In 2019, as part of a collaboration between the EPFL and the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva, he supervised a team of students working on a Gulag camp in the Far North of Siberia.