Provisional Programme:
20th October
10.00-10.45: Arrival
10:45-11.00: Welcome (Bill Niven)
11.00-12.00: Keynote Lecture : K. Erik Franzen (Munich), Germany’s Story of Flight, Expulsion, Integration after 1989: Back to the Future?
12.00-12.30: Lunch
12.30-14.30: Session 1: Museums
Cornelia Eisler (Oldenburg) From ‘Unforgotten Heimat’ to ‘Flight and Expulsion’ – Representations of Refugees and Expellees in Germany’s Regional Museums
Arddun Hedydd Arwyn (Aberystwyth), East and West Prussian Heimat Museums in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1950-2010
Tim Voelkering (Berlin), Die Themen „Flucht, Vertreibung und Integration“ in historischen Wander- und Sonderausstellungen
14.30-14.45: Tea and Coffee
14.45-16.45: Session II: Literature
Michael Ennis (Cincinatti), Toward a Critical Empathy: The Literary History of the ‘Wilhelm Gustloff’
Charlton Payne (Erfurt), Fictions of the Autobiographical in Contemporary German Literature of ‘Flucht und Vertreibung’
Carola Hähnel-Mesnard (Lille), Flucht und Vertreibung im Werk zeitgenössischer ostdeutscher Autoren zwischen Opferdiskurs und Distanzierung
16.45-18:45: Session III: Film
Christian Haase (Nottingham), ‘Riding West’: Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, ‘Die Flucht’ and the Memorialisation of the Expulsion of the East Prussian Aristocracy
Andrew Wormald (Sheffield), ‘Die Flucht’ (2007): Vergangenheitsbewältigung or ‘Vertriebenen-Melodram’?
Kirsten Moeller (Berlin), ‘Unkenrufe’ or Flight and Expulsion as a topic of German-Polish Understanding
19:30 Dinner
21st October
9.00-11.00: Session IV: Memorials
Stephan Scholz (Oldenburg), Öffentliches Gedenken an Flucht und Vertreibung. Vertriebenendenkmäler in der Berliner Republik
Jen Grogan (Nottingham), Passive Victim or Active agent? The Female Form in Four Monuments to Expelled ‘ethnic Germans’, 1952-2001
Jeffrey Luppes (Michigan), Commemorating the lost Heimat: Germans as Kulturträger on the Monuments of the Danube Swabians
11.00-11.15: Tea and Coffee
11.15-14.00: Session V: Case Study: Romania
Ioana Duta (Timisoara), ‘Everything I own I carry with me’: Flight and Expulsion in the Collective Imaginary
James Koranyi (St. Andrews), ‘The only Ethnic Victims in Romania’: Ethnic Germans and the Legacy of Deportations
Smaranda Vultur (Timisoara), Heimat – Lieux de mémoire and Identity in the German Refugees from the Banat in 1944 – 1945
Brigid Haines (Swansea), Return from the Archipelago: Herta Müller's ‘Atemschaukel’ as Soft Memory
14.00-14.30: Lunch
14.30-16.00: Session VI: Legacies
Ingo Eser (Cologne), A ‘Century of Expulsions’ and ‘Ethnic Cleansing’? The German Debate on the Historical Place of ‘Flight and Expulsion’
Inge Weber-Newth (London), The Burden of the Past: Psychological Impact of Flight and Expulsion as a Socio-cultural Phenomenon
16:00 Conference closes