Monday, 26 January 2009
14.00 Introduction by Michel Margue, dean of the Faculty
14.30 Michael Lang (University of Maine, USA):
Historical Thought after Globalization
15.00 Anne-Sophie Krossa (Lancaster University, UK):
Beyond “the Local versus the Global”: the Concept of Glocalization
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Tor Einar Fagerland (Norges Teknisk Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondheim, Norway): Stiklestad 1030-2008: A Place of Contested Identity
16.30 Kateryna Ruban (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine):
Habsburg Nostalgia: Attraction to the Local or following the Global?
17.00 Wladimir Fischer (Boltzmann-Institute for Urban History, Vienna, Austria):
"We Want Suffrage in the Human Race" Serbian Memory Strategies and the "Gap" in Balkan History
17.30 Discussion
19.00 Diner
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
9.30 Libora Oates-Indruchova (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary):
Global Perspective, Local Negotiations: Memories of Everyday Practices during State Socialism
10.00 Carol Bergami (Université Paris I-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France and Albert-Ludwig Universität, Freiburg, Germany):
A Capital City for Europe. Success and Failures in Promoting Marginal Cities as Seats of European Institutions
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Louis Avgita (City University London, UK):
Marketing Difference: the Visual Representations of the Balkan Past in the Context of Globalization
11.30 Helene Egeland (Norway):
Reimagining Local Identity
12.00 Sina Lucia Kottmann (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany and University of Grenada, Spain):
"Moors" on Christian Shores - Spain in touch with Past and Present Excitabilities. Local Identity Management in the Face of Global Occurrences
12.30 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Elisabeth Boesen (University of Luxembourg):
Traditionalist Images and Global Constraints. Reflexes of Contradictory Identity Aspects in the Memories of Luxembourgish Farmer Families
14.30 Anna G. Piotrowska (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland):
Between the Local and the Global: the Mediating Nature of the World Music Phenomenon
15.00 Simona Bealcovschi (Institut de la Recherche scientifique, Montréal, Canada)
Internationalizing the Local: Re-structuring Time and Space in Sibiu-Hermanstadt, Romania
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Daniel Habit (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, Institut für Volkskunde / Europäische Ethnologie, Germany):
The Local vs. the Global? European Capital of Cultures, Collective Memories and the Urban Space
16.30 Sara Saleri (University of Bologna, Italy):
The Glocal City? Towards a Common Memory?
17.00 Discussion
17.30 Conclusions