Solveig Bartusch, Bereich Inland / Referat Zeitgeschichte, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Tuesday, 21 May
10:00, Welcoming speech
Jan Phillip Albrecht, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation (hbs), Berlin
10:15-11:15, Introductory talk: When does contemporary history begin? On the (im)possibility of historicizing the 90s
Claudia Kraft, University of Vienna
Andrii Portnov, Viadrina Centre of Polish and Ukrainian Studies, Frankfurt/O
Chair: Walter Kaufmann, hbs Berlin
11:15-11:45, Break
11:45-13:15, Fishbowl 1: What do we know and what do we not know? Research on the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Yugoslavia
Giorgi Maisuradze, Ilia State University
Ivan Ejub Kostić, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, Center for Contemporary History Potsdam
Moderation: Milan Bogdanović, hbs Belgrade
13:15-14:30, Break
14:30-16:00, Fishbowl 2: Gender aspects of everyday life. How have gender relations transformed in the 90s in social and economic life?
Eli Krasniqi, Independent Scholar, Prishtina
Lenka Krátká, Institute of Contemporary History, Prague
Sona Baldryan, Indep. Researcher, Yerevan
Kateryna Kobchenko, University of Munster
Moderation: Kateryna Kvashnytska, hbs Kyiv
16:00-16:30, Break
16.30-18:00 Presentations: How historical education can be different. Teaching/Communicating the history of the 90s
1) Narek Manukyan, Paradigma Foundation, Yerevan
2) Belgrade: Museum of the 90s (concept stage), Sanja Radović, historian (pre-recorded video presentation) and additional input by Aleksa Gačić, 3rd year history student and volunteer in the "Labyrinth of the 90s" exhibition.
3) Project Transition Dialogue. Nora Korte, Austausch, Berlin
4) Youth Initiative for Human Rights: Pristina initiative to establish the Children of War Museum - Bjeshka Guri, YIHR Kosovo
18:00-20:00, Break
20:00, Book reading and discussion
Nino Haratischwili: The lack of light (Novel about the 90s in Georgia) moderated by Nino Lejava, hbs Belgrade
German with simultaneous translation to English
Wednesday, May 22
10:00-12:00, Fishbowl 3: The imagination of Europe in the 1990s: Ideas, spaces, politics
Florian Peters, University of Jena, Polish Perspective
Nihad KreIševljeković, MESS International Theatre Festival, Bosnian perspective
Victor Jaeschke, University of Munich, Western European Perspective
Jan Philipp Albrecht, hbs Berlin, Political expertise of a former MEP
Moderation: Clara Frysztacka, hbs Berlin