Conference programme
Thursday 13 September 2007
10:30 - 11:15 Registration and coffee
11:30 - 13:00 Parallel sessions I
Panel I: The Study of Memory
Claudia Lenz (Oslo), Collective Memories in Germany
Nina Leonhard (Strausberg) – Between ‘Realms of Memory’ and ‘Memory Culture’: A Study of Memory Studies in France and Germany au deuxième degree
Panel II: Collective Memories in Germany
Liza Candidi (Udine/Berlin) – Building and Erasing Memory in Post-socialist Berlin’s Urban Space
Alexandra Kaiser (Tübingen) – Performing the New German Past: Commemoration Days and Commemorative Rituals in United Germany
Ingrid Manka (Vienna) – The Former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg as a Collective Heritage
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel sessions II
Panel I: The Quest for a European Identity
Katerina Serafeim (Thessaloniki) – A Common European Identity: Seeking Unity in Diversity
Stuart Burch (Nottingham) – The Swedish Lion Memorial in Narva, Estonia
Mark Wagstaff (London) – Critiquing the Stranger, Inventing Europe: Integration and the Fascist Legacy
Panel II: Collective Memory of Victims and Perpetrators
Madelon de Keizer (Amsterdam) – The Europeanisation of Memory1945: Lidice, Oradour, and Putten (Netherlands)“
Laura Jockusch (New York) – A European Jewish Community of Victims? Documenting and Commemorating the Destruction of European Jews in Postwar Europe, 1945-1950
Judith Meddick (London) – Memories of Victimhood and Perpetration in "El lápiz del carpintero" ["The Carpenter’s Pencil"] by Manuel Rivas (1998)
15.30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Plenary
Stephen Welch (Durham): Political Culture and Collective Memory in the new Europe
19.30 Dinner
Friday 14 September 2007
09:30 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions III
Panel I: Identities and Conflicting Memories in Europe
James Koranyi (Exeter) -- The ‘West Europeanisation’ of Memory: The Case of Romanian German Émigrés
Gabriel Koureas (Birkbeck) -- Constructing National and Ethnic Identities through Conflicting Memories: The Case of Cyprus
Colette Lawson (Nottingham) - TBA
Panel II: The Spanish Civil War in Memory
Clare Wydell (Lancaster) – (Per)Forming a Collective Memory: Spanish Civil War Fascicles as Cultural Identity Capital
Mercedes Maroto Camino (Lancaster) — War, Wounds and Women: Collective Memory of the Spanish Civil War from Victor Erice’s "Spirit of the Beehive" (1973) to Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s "Labyrinth" (2006)
Lorraine Ryan (Limerick, IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar) – The Intergenerational Effect:: the Reconceptualisation of the Spanish Civil War in Alfons Cervera’s "La Noche Inmóvil"
11:00 – 11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions IV
Panel I: Contemporary Holocaust Memory in European Societies I
Slawomir Kapralski (Warsaw) -- Holocaust Memory and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Poland
Anton Legerer (Vienna/Florence) – Remembrance and Processing Memory within German Protestantism
Lynne Fallwell (Lubbock, Texas) – Barracks to Beerhalls: Holocaust Memorialization and the Casual Tourist
Panel II: Collective Memories of German Suffering and Perpetration
Jörg Arnold (Southampton) – Kassel, Magdeburg and the Memory of Mass Death in Aerial Warfare from the 1940s to the Present
Jens Nagel (Zeithain) – Remembrance of Prisoners of War as Victims of National Socialist Persecution and Destruction in Post-war Germany
Eric Langenbacher (Washington) – The Memory of German Suffering and the Question of Europe
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Sessions V
Panel I: Contemporary Holocaust Memory in European Societies II
Martina Staats (Celle) – How former prisoners and their relatives recollect their memories of Bergen-Belsen
Robert Knight (Loughborough) Austrian Collective Memory from Holocaust to Jubilee
Annette Seidel-Arpaci (Leeds) - Unaccessible Pasts? On the Construction of Divided Memories in the Context of Migration and Holocaust Memory
Panel II: National, Transnational and Global Memories and Europe
Armin Owzar (Münster) –Thinking of Europe – Thinking of World War: Topoi of the European Memory
Henning Meyer (Paris) -- Other Places, Other Times, Other Memories: The Changing of French Memory Culture of the Second World War and the Idea of ‘Global Memory’
Hans Joachim Hahn (Oxford) – Ach(tung) Europa
15.30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Plenary II (TBA)
19.30 Dinner
Friday 15 September 2007
09:30 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions VI
Panel I: Collective Memories in eastern Europe, Past and Present
Anna Di Lellio-Crawford (New York) – The Battle for Europe on the Field of the Blackbirds
Monika Stromberger (Graz) – European Integration and Yugoslavian Memories: Discourses in Postwar Slovenia
Bill Niven (Nottingham) - TBA
Panel II: Expressing Memory and Identity in Europe
Alec Badenoch (Eindhoven) -- Re-constructing the Big Machine: Transnational Networks and European Memory
Daniela Kneissl (Paris) – Photographing Europe? Visual Memories and Constructions of a European History
Davide M. Artico (Wroclaw) – Why ‘Reconquered Lands’? Definitions of western Poland after WWII
11:00 – 11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions VII
Panel I: Post-Communism and National Memory
Lene Otto (Copenhagen) – The Politics of Post-Socialist Memory
Anselma Gallinat (Newcastle) – Producing Collective Memory of the East German Past
Snezhana Dimitrova (Blagoevgrad) – Imagined Europe in Post-communist Textbooks: Traumatic Places of Collective Memory
Panel II: Constructions/Perceptions of Europe and the Past
Tamara Ehs (Vienna) – How to Fill the Identity Gap: Memory or Action?
Christian Gudehus (Essen) – A European Memory? How Austrians, Germans and Poles Discuss the Past and its Remembrance.
Ruth Wittlinger (Durham): British-German Relations and Collective Memory
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch and Departure