The Empathy of an Outsider – A Symposium on the Photography of Chim (David Seymour) A symposium to celebrate the opening of the exhibition “Capturing History: The Photography of Chim” at Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of the Jewish People Tuesday, November 21, 2017, at Bnai Zion Auditorium, Beit Hatfutsot 13:00 Guided Tour of the exhibition “Capturing History: The Photography of Chim (David Seymour)” with Asaf Galay, exhibition curator 14:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks Dr. Orit Shaham-Gover, Chief Curator of Beit Hatfutsot Prof. Milette Shamir, Vice Dean of the Humanities for Academic Affairs, Tel Aviv University 14:30-16:00 Session One: Photographing the Children of World War II Chair: Prof. Yael Darr, Children and Youth Culture Studies, Tel Aviv University Carole Naggar, Author and Photography Researcher - Chim’s Photographs of the Children of Europe after World War II Prof. Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, University of Tübingen: The Idea of a Better World – Photographs of Children by Chim (David Seymour), Anna Riwkin-Brick and Tim Gidal 16:00-16:30 Break and Refreshments 16:30-18:15 Session Two: The Spanish Civil War through the Eyes of Documentary Photographers Prof. Raanan Rein, Vice President of Tel Aviv University - The Ghosts of the Spanish Civil War: Beyond the Negatives 18:30-19:30 Screening of the documentary film The Mexican Suitcase (2011), director Trisha Ziff, on the discovery of Spanish Civil War negatives taken by Chim, Gerda Taro and Robert Capa The symposium will be in English and Hebrew with simultaneous translation The public is invited Information and Registration: 03-7457880 | [email protected] The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities www.bh.org.il Beit Hatfustot, Tel Aviv University campus Gate 2, Klausner Street, Ramat Aviv Children playing among the wreckage of the D-Day invasion, Normandy, France, 1947 David Seymour (CHIM) Estate / Magnum ©