Nuclear Heritage in East-Central Europe

Nuclear Heritage in East-Central Europe

Veranstalter
Juliane Tomann (Public History, Univ. Regensburg), Magdalena Banaszkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) in cooperation with Corinne Geering (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)) and Torsten Meyer (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Leibniz Research Museum for Geo-resources)
Veranstaltungsort
Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History
Gefördert durch
Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past”
PLZ
14467
Ort
Potsdam
Land
Deutschland
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In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
06.12.2023 - 07.12.2023
Von
Juliane Tomann, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Regensburg

Contemporary scholars have termed processes of re-appropriation, re-use and re-shaping of defunct or decommissioned sites of nuclear production as nuclear cultural heritage (Rindzevičiūtė 2022, 2019). With this workshop we would like to contribute to and further develop this emerging field of research by proposing a focus on former nuclear-related facilities in East-Central Europe.

Nuclear Heritage in East-Central Europe

Nuclear heritage sites and landscapes share many commonalities with other post-industrial sites, although the questions of contamination and the "legacy" of pollution have other long-term dimensions and weight (Holtorf and Högberg 2018). With this workshop we would like to contribute to and further develop the emerging field of research on nuclear heritage by proposing a focus on former nuclear-related facilities in East-Central Europe. This regional focus will help to narrow down the variety of possible research objects which could include both urban and landscape formations as well as institutions and even encompass entire communities inclusive of technological and research institutes, testing grounds, power plants, military or medical facilities, atomic cities and other locales (Rindzevičiūtė, 2019; Wendland, 2015). Focusing on case studies documenting the formation of nuclear cultural heritage sites in East-Central Europe we aim to develop a more coherent empirical base to discuss this newly emerging field and enhance comparisons of heritagization process within the region.

Programm

Thursday, 7 December

14:00 – 14:30 Official Opening, welcome notes

Achim Saupe (Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past”)
Torsten Meyer & Corinne Geering (Research Lab “Valorisation and Commodification”)

Short input & organizational remarks

Juliane Tomann & Magdalena Banaszkiewicz (University of Regensburg - Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

Short self-introduction by the participants

14:30 – 16:00 Nuclear cultural heritage and national politics of memory
Chair: Juliane Tomann (University of Regensburg)

Speakers:
Anna Veronika Wendland (Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg): Creating nuclear heritage in Ukraine: Zhovti Vody, Chornobyl, and Zaporizhzhia NPP 1945–2023

Olya Feldberg (University of Virginia): Memory of Industry vs. Industry of Memory: VDNKh as “urban palimpsest” of nuclear heritage in Russia (online)

Anne Peiter (Université de La Réunion): Of wax figures, invisible rays and Hiroshima. Reflections on the museum concepts of the nuclear bunker in Budapest (online)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 – 18:00 Nuclear cultural heritage – locality and perception
Chair: Corinne Geering (GWZO Leipzig)

Speakers:
Grit Ruhland (Dresden University of Technology): A utopic nuclear marker for Halde Stolzenberg

Magdalena Banaszkiewicz (Jagiellonian University in Krakow): Just an old mine? Performing past with tourists in the former uranium mine in Kletno (Poland)

Nikolaos Olma (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)): A silent legacy: Dealing with the atomic past in a former uranium mining town in Kyrgyzstan

Friday, 8 December

9:00 – 10:30 Nuclear cultural heritage in urban landscapes
Chair: Karin Bürkert (Ludwig Uhland Institute, Tübingen University)

Speakers:
Saara Mildeberg (Tallinn University): What remains: The legacy and heritage of nuclear urbanism in Sillamäe

Liliana Iuga - Oana Țiganea (RWTH Aachen - Politecnico di Milano): Nuclear heritage in Romania: Silenced narratives at the periphery of the Soviet nuclear infrastructure

Alwin J. Cubasch - Christian Kassung - Anna-Lena Schubert - Heike Weber (Humboldt University of Berlin - TU Berlin): Oranienburg – a radioactive environment?

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 Symbolic heritage? Atomic bunkers between commodification and narration
Chair: Magdalena Banaszkiewicz (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

Speakers:
Jovana Janinovic (University of Montenegro): Mainstreaming the underground: Burying and exhuming the nuclear history from Cold War bunkers in CEE

Kinga Gajda (Jagiellonian University in Krakow): Anti-nuclear shelters in Central and Eastern Europe: Narratives about nuclear heritage

12:00 – 13:00 Final discussion
concluding remarks by Jenny Hagemann (Serbski institut, Cottbus)

Kontakt

Juliane Tomann
juliane.tomann@ur.de

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