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)