Thursday October 9, 1997
12.15 Opening address: Rector Keijo Virtanen (University of Turku, Finland)
12.30 F.R. Ankersmit (University of Groningen, Holland): "Remembering the Holocaust: Mourning and Melancholia" Comment: Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen (University of Turku, Finland)
14.00 Georg G. Iggers (State University of New York, USA): "The Role of Professional Historical Scholarship in the Creation and Distortion of Memory" Comment: Seppo Hentila (University of Helsinki, Finland)
15.30 Coffee
16.00 Jorma Kalela (University of Turku, Finland): "The Challenge of Oral History" Comment: Jyrki Poysa (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Friday October 10, 1997
9.30 Natalie Zemon Davis (Princeton University, USA): "Who Owns History?" Comment: Marjatta Rahikainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
11.00 Chris Wickham (University of Birmingham, Great Britain): "The Role of the Historians in the Formation of Social Memory" Comment: Pauli Kettunen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Patrick H. Hutton (University of Vermont, USA): "Mentalities, Matrix of Memory" Comment: Ulla-Maija Peltonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
15.00 Coffee
15.30 Veijo Hietala (University of Turku, Finland): "Between Private and Public History - Cinema as Memory" Comment: Henry Bacon (University of Oulu, Finland)