Thursday 7.4.
18.00-20.00 Opening lecture by Gerard Delanty (University of Sussex, GB): After the end of the Grand Narratives: Representing European Heritage. Introduction: Kersti Bale (Norwegian Research Council). Comment and Discussion: Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo)
Friday 8.4.
9.00-9.15 Introduction
9.15-10.45 Panel „Biographies“: Wolfram Kaiser (GB): From Great Men to Ordinary citizens? The Biographical Approach to Narrating European Integration History in Museums, Steffi de Jong (NO): The Figure of the Witness in Second World War Museums, Ines Keske (D): How a Swabian Dynasty became European. The two German so-called Staufer Exhibitions of 1977 and 2010 in Comparison
11.15-12.45 Panel „Biographies“: Anne Overbeck (D): Is Everything that Moves a European? On the Chances and Risks of Using a Biographical Approach to Display Abstract Phenomena; Panel „Biographies“: Comments and Discussion, introduced by Guido Vaglio (Museo Diffuso, I) and Wolfgang Kaschuba (Humboldt University Berlin, GER)
14.30-16.00 Panel „Center and Periphery“: Kerstin Poehls (D): Europe, blurred: Migration, Margins and the Museum, Ljiljana Radonic (A): Croatia – Exhibiting memory and history on the ‘shores of Europe’, Gabriela Nicolescu (RO): Insertions: Experiments of Art in an Ethnographical Museum
16.30-18.00 Panel „Center and Periphery“: Torgeir Bangstad (NO): A Future in Ruins: Post-Industrial Landscapes as Deterritorialized Heritage; Panel „Center and Periphery“: Comments and Discussion, introduced by Nikolai Vukov (Bulgarian Institute of Folk Culture, BUL) and Klas Grinell (Museum of World Cultures, SE)
Saturday 9.4.
9.15-10.45 Panel „Objects“: Stefan Krankenhagen (NO): Collecting Europe. Strategies and Aporia of Collecting Today, Waltraud Bayer (A): Europe – Russia – Europe, Alec Badenoch (NL): Harmonized Spaces, Dissonant Objects, Making Europe? National and Local Collections in a Collaborative digital Platform.
11.15-11.45 Panel „Objects”: Nanna Thylstrup (DK): Europeana and the differences between public and commercial digitization in Europe.
11.45-12.45 Panel „Objects”: Comments and Discussion, introduced by Brita Brenna (University of Oslo, NO) and Isabelle Benoit (Musée de l’Europe, B)
13.15 Guided tour through the museum