Thursday, 23. November 2023

09:00–09:15 Uhr
Welcome
Hans-Rudolf Meier, Ulrike Kuch

09:15-09:30 Uhr
Introduction
Fridtjof Florian Dossin, Niloufar Tajeri, Juan Carlos Barrientos

09:30-13:30 Uhr
PANEL I "Transformative Spaces"
Moderation: Fridtjof Florian Dossin, Niloufar Tajeri
Identity construction is currently understood as an ambivalent and fluid collective process of appropriating space, remembering and inheriting. Through the social appropriation of space, resistant, diasporic, or ‘peripheral’ communities become visible, and alterity and difference become negotiable. In dissociating from a constitutive, hegemonic spatial order, processes of empowerment and transformation take place that produce new narratives and spatial practices. What understanding of ‘identity’ do these processes bring to light, and how do the communities within them transform their prevailing notions of cultural heritage?

09:30
Kirsten Angermann, Franka Fetzer, Ulrike Kuch: "Ton, Steine, Erben – What Remains of Squatted Buildings in Berlin?

10:10
Jae-Young E. Lee: "Local Identity Constructions in Digital Transformation: At the ‘Peripheries’ of a Globalized World“

10:50
Ana Maria Rodriguez Bisbicus:
"Tracing Nepantla"

Keynote 1
12:00
Gilad Baram, Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari:
"(Not So) Difficult Heritage (Anymore). On Documen ting Nuremberg’s Transforming Nazi Party Rally Grounds
Lecture-screening of "Making Good Again" – a feature documentary film in development
Moderation: Wolfram Höhne

15:00-17:00
PANEL II " Conflicted (Concepts of) Heritage"
Moderation: Juan Carlos Barrientos, Olga Zenker
This panel offers insights into the multifaceted relationship between heritage conservation, identity, and inherent cultural narratives, with each lecture shedding light on a particular facet of this complex subject area. From controversies surrounding historic religious art to enduring legacies of the Soviet era and intricate identity politics in urban planning, the discussions will illuminate how modern societies in diverse cultural contexts grapple with their conflicted heritage. The following presentations will allow us to delve into the challenges and nuances of preserving as well as redefining our shared pasts.

15:00
Galit Noga-Banai: "If This Wall Could Talk: The Judensau in Wittenberg"

15:40
Solmaz Yadollahi: "Negotiating Tehran’s Identity: The Spatial-Discursive Assemblage Around the Reconstruction of Baladiyeh"

16:20
Yevheniia Moliar: "Sovietness as Part of the Identity of Modern Ukrainian Cities"

17:30
Keynote 2
Adrian Daub: "The Disidentified Subject: On the Critique of the Critique of Identity Politics"
Moderation: Nikolai Roskamm

Friday, 24. November 2023

09:00
Introduction
Nadja Bournonville, Nicola Groß, Olga Zenker

09:15–13:00
PANEL III "(De)constructed Spaces of Colonial Identity"
Moderation: Niloufar Tajeri, Florian Dossin
Looking behind established views of places, cities and landscapes exposes colonial identity constructions and heritage politics in many places. The origins of today's attributions, however, continue to appear underexposed and not grasped in their complexity. On this questionable knowledge base, public spaces are still maintained, developed, and marketed to this day. Moreover, the underlying political negotiation processes are not only historically one-dimensional but also indicate numerous colonially conditioned power asymmetries between the actors. An in-depth analysis enables a precise differentiation of these processes in terms of which mechanisms are used to create places that supposedly ‘convey a sense of identity’ and under which conditions the (re)appropriation and shaping of these spaces by hitherto underrepresented heritage communities can succeed.

09:15
Philipp Krüpe: "Vibe and Violence: Picturesque Architecture and Urban Planning in the English and GermanSpeaking World Since the 18th Century. An Aesthetic Concept of Affective Control and (Social) Spatial Segregation"

09:55
Leon Biela: "Notions of a Historically Determined City Identity and an Exclusive Politics of Memory in the ‘Naval City’ Wilhelmshaven"

10:35
Gabriela Iracema Randig: "Notions of a Historically Determined City Identity and an Exclusive Politics of Memory in the ‘Naval City’ Wilhelmshaven"

11:45–13:00
PANEL IV: "Visibility Through Museum Practices"
Moderation: Nadja Bournonville, Nicola Groß
As spaces of history, museums are engaged with the memory culture of communities and are deeply rooted in the construction of power-asymmetric narratives and relationships. Significantly enmeshed in socio-political movements, they are at the centre of current debates on different approaches to cultural heritage. These debates increasingly incorporate the positionalities of museum employees and marginalized, hitherto excluded minorities. The following contributions discuss how museum practices can be used intentionally as an instrument of resistance, to counteract a presumed objectivity that often prevails in museums. In doing so, they raise questions about the current and future shaping of visibility and inclusion and engage with the construction of identities in relation to processes of empowerment, constellations of power and processes of negotiation in museum contexts.

11:45
Nushin Atmaca, Susanne Boersma: "Positionalities and Identities in the Museum. Our Path Towards a More Personal and Reflexive Institutional Praxis"

12:25
Erica de Abreu Malchow: "Brazilian Social Museology, Identity, and Resistance"

15:00–17:00
PANEL V "Identity and Empowerment"
Moderation: Juan Carlos Barrientos, Olga Zenker
The contributions to this panel examine different perspectives of marginalised groups who have been denied the possibility of articulating history, memory, and knowledge themselves. In this context, the recourse to concepts of identity and identity formation is a prerequisite for rejecting identity ascriptions on the one hand and for demanding a right to exist on the other. These processes of empowerment not only take place in social and political spaces but are also expressed or reflected in the debates on the construction of physical spaces and cultural heritage. All critical considerations of the concept of identity or identities prompt the question of the viability of identity-reinforcing processes and how ‘identity’ can be created or changed.
15:00
Dhara Patel: "Hidden Heritage, Segregated Spaces: Uncovering Socio-Spatial Negotiations of Highly Skilled Indian Migrants in Frankfurt am Main"

15:40
Halil Emre Ucar: "Mosque Communities on the Way to Postmigration: Negotiations of Tradition, Transformation and Identity"

16:20
Nina Gribling: "'We Are Already Standing Here a Few Hundred Years': Negotiating Heritage and Identity in Amsterdam’s Red-Light District"

17:30
Keynote 3
Regine Hess: "The Research and Mediation Project 'A Future for whose Past? The Heritage of Minorities, Fringe Groups and People without a Lobby' for the 50th Anniversary'"
Moderation: Daniela Spiegel

18:30
Summary and Closing Remarks
Stephanie Herold

Further information: wolfram.hoehne@uni-weimar.de