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An International Conference co-organized by Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archaeology & Deutsches Haus in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut New York, and the Jewish Museum, New York

Admission is free for registered participants. Please register online at www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/ghosts.

February 19th, 6:30 – 8:00PMJewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street

February 20th, 9:00-1:00pmColumbia University, 501 Schermerhorn Hall

February 21st, 9:00-6:00pmColumbia University, Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th Street

February 19 - 21, 2015A keynote lecture byProf. Olaf Peters will open the conference: �ursday, February 19th, 2015, 6:30 pm at the Jewish Museum. For further information please visit the Jewish Museum website.

Photo Credit: American soldiers in front of Manet’s Wintergarten (at present National Gallery in Berlin) April 25, 1945. National Archives Washington

hist ry D E P A R T M E N T O F

Konstantin AkinshaGuest Fellow, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt

Gish AmitMandel Leadership Institute, Jerusalem

Stephanie BarronLos Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles

Ruth BeeschJewish Museum, New York

Mary Kate ClearyThe Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

Christian FuhrmeisterZentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich

Uwe HartmannStaatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin

Meike HoffmannFreie Universität, Berlin

Meike HoppZentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich

Lawrence M. KayeArt Law Group at Herrick, Feinstein LLP, New York

Marc MasurovskyHolocaust Art Restitution Project, Washington

Olaf PetersMartin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg

Jonathan PetropoulosClaremont McKenna College

Julia VossFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt

Ghosts of the Past: Nazi-Looted Art and Its Legacies

Generous funding has been provided by:The Samuel H. Kress FoundationInstitute for Israel and Jewish StudiesDeutscher Akademischer AustauschdienstNew German Critique

The conference is cosponsored by: The Heyman Center for the HumanitiesDepartment of HistoryThe University Seminar on Cultural MemoryThe Middle East Institute, Columbia University

Organized by:Andreas Huyssen, Columbia UniversityHolger A. Klein, Columbia UniversityAvinoam Shalem, Columbia University