Monday, 13.05.2024
4.30 p.m. Welcome/Registration
5.00 p.m.– 7.00 p.m.
Introductory remarks: Robert Born, Ewa Manikowska, Beate Störtkuhl

Keynote: Paul Zalewski (Frankfurt/Oder): Ante bellum. Preliminary remarks on heritage and disorder
Moderator: Arnold Bartetzky (Leipzig)

7.00 p.m. Reception

Tuesday, 14.05.2024

9.00 a.m – 10.45 a.m. Comparisons I
Chair: Sigrid Brandt (Salzburg)

Solène Amice (Paris): Protecting French cultural heritage in a European war. A case study
Ceren Abi Mc Greevy-Stafford (Washington): Protection of cultural heritage in the Ottoman Empire and the First World War
Sebastian Willert (Leipzig): Monument protection in conflict. Stakeholders, strategies and structures of the German-Ottoman wartime monument protection between 1912 and 1923

10.45 a.m. – 11.15 a.m. Coffee break

11.15 a.m. – 1.15 p.m. Comparisons II
Beate Störtkuhl (Oldenburg): Structures of “Kunstschutz” in the German General Governorate of Warsaw and in the Austro-Hungarian Military Governorate of Lublin – a comparison
Martina Visentin (Udine) / Michael Wedekind (Bremen): Art historians in wartime operations in Northern Italy: The German and Austrian Art Protection Groups in occupied Friuli 1917–1918
Robert Born (Oldenburg): German and Austrian “Kunstschutz” initiatives and archaeological activities in occupied Ukraine

1.15 p.m. – 2.30 p.m. Lunch-break

2.30 p.m. – 4.15 p.m. The Austro-Hungarian Empire I
Chair: Paul Mahringer (Vienna)

Tomáš Kowalski (Bratislava): The breakthrough in the Carpathians: The impact of the First World War on the territory of present-day Slovakia
Barbara Kristina Murovec (Florence): Protecting lives by protecting bells. The treatment of the cultural heritage during the First World War in Istria, Carniola and Carinthia
Eszter Balázs (Budapest): Did the Hungarians adapt “Kunstschutz” during the First World War in the Dual Monarchy?

4.15 p.m. – 4.45 p.m. Coffee break

4.45 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. The Austro-Hungarian Empire II

Marzena Woźny (Cracow): Protection of the archaeological heritage in Western Galicia during the First World War. Practice and theory of conservation
Olha Zarechnyuk (Lviv): Networks of heritage preservation: The case of Lviv during the First World War

6.30 p.m. – 8 p.m. Panel discussion
The protection of cultural property during armed conflict between national patrimony and transnational cultural heritage: Reflections on the historical and contemporary impact of concepts developed during the First World War

Stefaniia Demchuk (Kyiv), Stephanie Herold (Berlin), Ewa Manikowska (Warsaw)

Moderator: Christian Fuhrmeister (Munich)

Wednesday, 15.05.2024
9.00 a.m. – 10.15 a.m. Propaganda
Chair: Fani Gargova (Frankfurt/Main)

Klāvs Zariņš (Riga): Visualising conquest: German occupation, colonial fantasies, and the Kurland Ausstellung in 1917–1918
Kristina Jõekalda (Tallinn): The afterlives of a 1918 propaganda exhibition: The Livland-Estland-Ausstellung

10.15. a.m. – 13.15 a.m. War and its aftermath
Chair: Beate Störtkuhl (Oldenburg)

Gáspár Salamon (Budapest; Berlin): Preservation or modernization? The reconstruction of war-damaged settlements in Upper Hungary during the Great War
Cosmin Minea (Bucharest; Brno): The creation of national artistic heritage by saving artworks: The activity of Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș (1872–1952) during and after the First World War in Romania

11.30-12.00 a.m. Coffee break

Ewa Manikowska (Warsaw): Inscribing “Kunstschutz” in the history of library heritage preservation
Hilja Droste (Bonn) / Gernot Mayer (Vienna): Trophies – evidence – educational material: The handling of photographs from times of war

1.30 p.m. – 2.00 p.m. Concluding discussion

To support the organization, please register your participation before 10.05.2024 by e-mail at: kunstschutz@europa-uni.de

No conference fee will be charged.