Thursday 23rd June
9:30 Arriving, coffee and welcome
10:00 -12.00
Jan Willem Duyvendak (Amsterdam / Paris IEA): Remembering migration past in Amsterdam and the Netherlands
Discussant: Paolo Boccagni
Christophe Bertossi (Paris): History and moral boundaries in contemporary debates about French citizenship
Discussant: Catherine Perron
12:15 Nancy Foner (New York): The US as a classic immigration country: the uses and abuses of history
Discussant: Tibor Dessewffy
14:30 - 17:45
Paolo Boccagni (Trento): Giving migrants' biographical history its place - through home studies. A case-study from Italy
Discussant: Paul Mepschen
Yannick Coenders (Amsterdam): Disconnecting uncomfortable pasts: explaining the blackness of blackface in the Dutch Sinterklaas tradition
Discussant: Olivier Esteves
Tibor Dessewffy (Budapest): Dreaming homogeneous – the alternate currents of history in Hungarian public discourse
Discussant: Christophe Bertossi
General discussion
Friday 24th
9:30 - 13:15
Oliver Esteves (Lille): The centrality of the American ghetto motif in British race relations debates: a confusing continuum
Discussant: Yannick Coenders
Paul Mepschen (Leiden): The genesis of Dutch autochthony. Displacement, nostalgia and respectability
Discussant: Nancy Foner
Catherine Perron (Paris): Baden-Württemberg, ein Einwanderungsland ? Uses and absuses of the history of emigration and immigration to South-West Germany
Discussant: Jan Willem Duyvendak
14:30 Lecture by Nancy Foner:
"The Not So Good Old Days: How the US Became a Multicultural Society”