Thursday, June 26
19.00: Welcome Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
19.15: On Individual Initiative; Keynote by Gitta Sereny, journalist and writer, United Kingdom
20.00: Reception
Friday, June 27
09.30: A Battleground of Memory and Justice. Chile since the 1973 Coup; Keynote by David Sugarman, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Panel 1: SILENCE/SILENCING AND CENSORSHIP: MEMORY AND MEDIA
10.30: Historical Scholarship, Politics of the Public Past, and (Semi-) Private Memory; Mitchell Ash, University of Vienna, Austria
10.50: Considering the Violence of Voicelessness: Censorship and Self-Censorship Related to the South African TRC Process;
Christine Anthonissen, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
11.10: Discussion
11.40: Coffee break
12.00: Creating Acceptable Meanings for the Present: Some Discourse Analytic Reflections on Verbal Commemorative
Practices, Titus Ensink, University of Groningen, Netherlands
12.20: Transforming the Holocaust. Remarks after the Beginning of the 21st Century; Dirk Rupnow, University of Vienna, Austria
12.40: Discussion
Panel 2: THE POLITICS OF A ‘CLEAN’ BREAK?
15.00: Justice, Truth, or Internal Peace: Advantages and Disadvantages of Three Different Options Anton Pelinka, Central
European University, Hungary
15.20: Clean Break and Usable History. The Hungarian Debate of the Historians; Andras Kovács, Central European University, Hungary
16.00: Discussion
16.30: Coffee break
17.00: Israel’s Prenatal Memory: Born in 1948 – Traumatized in 1938; Moshe Zimmermann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
17.20: Spoken Silence – Bridging Breaks. The Discursive Construction of Historical Continuities and Turning Points in Austrian Commemorative Speeches; Martin Reisigl, University of Vienna, Austria
17.40: Discussion
Saturday, June 28
Panel 3: COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL TRAUMA: CONFRONTING WAR CRIMES
09.30: Constructing Memories of War. The Case of Poland; Jan Gross, Princeton University, USA
09.50: Spain between Amnesia and Political Instrumentalization of the Recent Past; Walther Bernecker, University of Erlangen, Germany
10.10: The Legacy of the Holocaust and Scandinavian Small-State Foreign Policy; Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark
10.30: Discussion
11.10: Coffee Break
11.30: Confronting War Crimes of the “Wehrmacht”; Walter Manoschek, University of Vienna, Austria
11.50: Images of the "Other" and Danish Politics of the Past: Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and the Dream of Cultural and Ethnic
Homogeneity; Thorsten Wagner, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
12.10: From Collective Violence to a Common Future: Four Models of Dealing with a Traumatic Past; Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz, Germany
12.30: Discussion