Speakers

Sara J. Bloomfield has led the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for more than a decade, working to build a global institution that raises Holocaust awareness, confronts Holocaust denial, and advances genocide prevention. An adviser to museums around the world, she is a member of the International Auschwitz Council and serves on the board of the International Council of Museums/USA. She...

Professor Rebecca Boehling is Director of the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. Professor Boehling, a US national, was until December 2012 Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) which promotes interdisciplinary research in the humanities. She is also Professor for History and Affiliate Professor both for Jewish...

Astrid Frohloff is a German TV moderator and journalist. Since 2009 she is hosting the well-reputed investigative TV magazine “Kontraste” at ARD, the first public channel. Before she hosted the talkshow “Im Palais. Zu Gast bei Astrid Frohloff” at German Tv RBB and she has been chief-anchorwoman of the nationwide “18:30”-news show in SAT.1.

Astrid Frohloff is executive member of the...

Yossi Matias

Yossi Matias is a Senior Engineering Director in Google's Search. He is also the managing director of Google R&D Center in Israel, with overall responsibility for Google research, development, and technology innovation in Israel. Under his leadership, the Israeli center has developed visible and core technologies in the areas of Search, Data Analytics, Gmail, YouTube, and Internet scale...

Angelika Menne-Haritz

Professor, PhD Angelika Menne-Haritz has been Vice President of the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv) since 2006. She is also Director of Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR which is functionally attached to the Bundesarchiv. In 1994-2001 Menne-Haritz was Director of the famous Marburg Archives School.

Angelika Menne-Haritz studied German and history in...

Jane Ohlmeyer is Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History and Vice-President for Global Relations at Trinity College Dublin. She has also taught at the UCSB, Yale and the University of Aberdeen. A passionate teacher and an internationally established scholar of early modern Irish history, she was the founding Head of the School of Histories and Humanities and a driving force behind the...

Professor Dina Porat, head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, served as head of the Chaim Rosenberg School for Jewish Studies (2004-2008), of the Department of Jewish History  (2000-2003), and of The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism (1992-2010) and is incumbent of the Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Racism and...

Ralph Schroeder is Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. He is director of research at the Institute and director of its Master’s degree in ‘Social Science of the Internet’. His books include Rethinking Science, Technology and Social Change (Stanford University Press 2007) and Being there Together: Social Interaction in Virtual Environments (...

Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Dr. phil. was born in Hamburg, Germany. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Bochum in 1993. Since 2011 she is Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin.

She is the author of Die jüdische Minderheit in Königsberg/Pr. 1871-1945 (1996); Krieg und Fliegen. Die Legion Condor im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg (2010); co-editor with...

Georgi Verbeeck is professor of German history at the KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium) and associate professor at Maastricht University (The Netherlands). He is a former fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Wassenaar (The Netherlands) and is currently coordinating the international research project Terrorscapes -...

Chris Wolf

Chris Wolf is a practicing lawyer in Washington, DC with the law firm of Hogan Lovells US LLP, where he leads the global Privacy and Information Management practice. Chris also is a lay leader of the Anti-Defamation League, where he chairs the National Civil Rights Committee. He has focused on denial and distortion of the Holocaust online for many years in his work against online hate, and...