Friday, August 1st, 2014
From
2:00pm Arrival, Coffee in Foyer
3:30pm Welcome
Michael MAYER
Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing
Volker BENKERT
Arizona State University, Tempe
4:00pm War and Atrocity during the World Wars
Setting British and Russian Territory Alight. German Intelligence and the Holy War in Afghanistan, Iran and Caucasus, 1914 to 1918
Michael MAYER
Continuities? Deliberations on Lithuania and Germany, 1918 to 1945
Christoph DIECKMANN
Keele University
5:00pm Break
5:30pm Nation and Past
Writing the Nation. National and Transnational Perspectives on War and Atrocity
Stefan BERGER
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
„Terrorscapes“ and Transnational Memory
Georgi VERBEECK
Maastricht University
6:30pm Dinner
Saturday, August 2nd, 2014
8:15am Breakfast
9:00am Nation State and Violence
Empires, Nation-States and Violence:
The First World War in Perspective
Jörn LEONHARD
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
10:30am Break
11:00am War and Atrocity in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe as an Arena of Terror in the 20th Century
Felix SCHNELL
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jazz and Total War on the Eastern Front
Ben BERESFORD
Arizona State University, Tempe
12:30pm Lunch
3:00pm Temporal Continuities of War and Atrocity in 20th Century Europe
Search and Identification: The Corpses of French Deportees in Germany, 1945 to 1969
Jean-Marc DREYFUS
University of Manchester
European Memory Culture and the Nazi Past
Heidemarie UHL
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
4:30pm Coffee Break
5:00pm Colonial Violence – Decolonization Violence
Continuities between Violence in Europe and Colonial/Postcolonial Violence
Bart LUTTIKHUIS
European University Institute, Florence
Violence and Decolonization in Protectorate Morocco
Chouki el HAMEL
Arizona State University, Tempe
6:30pm Dinner
Sunday, August 3rd, 2014
8:15am Breakfast
9:00am Transnational Memory of War and Atrocity
Criminalization of Marginalized Communities in Former Habsburg Lands in the First Half of the 20th Century
Ursula MINDLER
Andrassy University Budapest
German and Dutch Memory Cultures since 1945
Ilse Raajimakers, Maastricht University
10:15am Break
10:30am Gender Perspectives on War and Atrocity
Private Lives in Wartime France:
Desertion, Divorce, and Deprivation
Rachel FUCHS
Arizona State University, Tempe
The Home Front from a Regional Perspective: Female Labor in the Mining Industries of the Ruhr during the Great War
Ute CHAMBERLIN
Western Illinois University
11:45am End of Session
12:00pm Lunch – Afternoon at Leisure
Monday, August 4th, 2014
8:15am Breakfast
9:00am Traces of the Past: Survivors, Displaced Persons and Forced Migrants in Germany and Poland
Jewish Survivors in the „Recovered Territories“ after World War II Poland
Anna CICHOPEK-GAJRAJ
Arizona State University, Tempe
Forgotten Holocaust Victims. How Germany Remembers the Roma
Nadine BLUMER
University of Toronto
10:15am Break
10:30am German TV and Cinema Memory Production
Apologia and Redemption. Despite Addressing the Complicity of Ordinary Germans in Nazi Atrocities, Contemporary German Filmmakers Still Turn Perpetrators into Victims
Volker BENKERT
Creating the Nation on TV. ZDF and German Memory
Wulf KANSTEINER
Aarhus University/Binghamton University (SUNY)
11:45am Final Remarks; End of Conference
12:00pm Lunch; Departure