Wednesday, September 26

14.00 (Optional)
Guided city tour, ERICH RATHFELDER, war correspondent of the German newspaper “die tageszeitung”

20.00 OPENING
WENDY LOWER (Maryland/ USA)
Possibilities and pitfalls of comparative violence research - case studies of Eastern Europe

Thursday, September 27

8.30 INTRODUCTION

9.00-10.45 EXPLAINIG VIOLENCE: THEORIES

DORIS GOEDL (Salzburg/ Austria)
About the absence of violence: Non-violent and violent system changes
ELISSA MAILAENDER KOSLOV (Paris/ France)
Power relations, violence, and cruelty: a new perspective on perpetrators and Nazi concentration camps

11.15-13.00 CREATING VIOLENCE: DISCOURSES

CARL BETHKE (Berlin/ Germany)
Does history repeat? The Second World War and the war in Bosnia 1992-1995
STANISLAS BIGIRIMANA (Mutare/ Zimbabwe)
The fraternal twins in war: Exploring the narratives that shape the ethnic consciousness of the Hutu and the Tutsi of Burundi and Rwanda leading to the “Rationalisation of collective violence”

13.00 Lunch

15.15-17.00 DOING VIOLENCE: DYNAMICS

FRANK WOLFF (Cologne/ Germany)
From Odessa to Kielce? Comparing pogroms and anti-Jewish violence, 1881-1946
KAREN KRÜGER (Berlin/ Germany)
„They are not different from us, they just look different“: Colonial Stereotypes and the ethnic dimension of violence in Rwanda 1994

18.00 Dinner

20.00 CINEMA AND COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE
“We are all neighbours”, Norway 1993, 52 min. Director: Tone Bringa (Bergen/Norway). Tone Bringa, anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, will be present for a discussion after the screening.

Friday, September 28
EXCURSION to Srebrenica and Potocari
MERCED SMAILOVIC and ANNE BITTERBERG, Guided Tour and Lecture.

Saturday, September 29

9.00-10.45 WOMEN, MEN AND VIOLENCE:
PERCEPTIONS, ROLES AND SUFFERINGS

DOREEN ESCHINGER (Budapest/ Hungary)
Women killing Women: Women Concentration Camps in national-socialistic Germany and the Perception of the female Victim
OLIVERA SIMIC (Melbourne/ Australia)
Gender side of Reconciliation: Women in the Aftermath

11.15-13.00 REMEMBERING VIOLENCE (I): MEMORIALS

NIKOLAI VUKOV (Sofia/ Bulgaria)
The signs of violence and the violence of signs: memorials to victims of mass atrocities in Eastern Europe after 1945
NADIA CAPUZZO DERKOVIC (Geneva/ Switzerland)
(Non)Existence of monuments dedicated to the siege in Sarajevo

13.00 Lunch

14.30 REMEMBERING VIOLENCE (II): WORDS

MONIKA PALMBERGER (Oxford/ England)
The transmission and silencing of collective violence in the divided town of Mostar
STEFAN IONESCO (Massachusetts/ USA)
The dynamic concept of resistance in post-genocide remembrance: Revisiting the narratives of holocaust and gulag survivors from Romania
SABINA CEHAJIC (Sussex/ England)
Dealing with the past and facing the future: social-psychological precursors of intergroup reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

17.00 FINAL DISCUSSION
Comment: GABI BABIC (Konstanz/ Germany), DANIEL UZIEL (Jerusalem/ Israel)

18.00-19.00 PERSPECTIVES? Follow-up-Workshop and Networking

19.00 Dinner

20.30 AFTER THE WAR: THE PRESENCE OF THE MISSING PEOPLE

MIRSAD TOKACA (Research and Documentation Center Sarajevo, Director)
KATHERYNE BOMBERGER (International Commission on Missing Persons, Director)