Moderator: Jos Bazelmans, Head of the Department of Archaeological Heritage of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
Thursday 1 December 2016
08:30-09:30 Registration-coffee
Opening Session
09:30-09:55 Anke Spoorendonk, Minister for Justice, Cultural and European Affairs of the State of Schleswig-Holstein; opening of the symposium
09:55-10:00 Heinz Maurus, Chairman of the County Council of Nordfriesland, opening statement
10:00-10:05 Jouke van Dijk, Director of the Waddenacademie, opening statement
10:05-10:10 Jeppe Nevers, Director of the Centre for Maritime and Business History, University of Southern Denmark, opening statement
10:10-10:30 Thomas Steensen, director Nordfriisk Instituut: North Frisia and the Wadden Sea
10:30-11:00 Coffee break/Press conference
Setting the scene
11:00-11:30 Meindert Schroor (Waddenacademie): Waddenland: concoction or reality? Defining the Waddenland in a geographical and historic context
11:30-12:00 Hans Renes (University of Utrecht): The Wadden Sea region as a cultural landscape - history, heritage, management
Session 1: The Relationship between Natural and Cultural Heritage in the Wadden Sea Region
12:00-12:25 Ludwig Fischer (University of Hamburg), Karsten Reise (Alfred Wegner Institute, Sylt) and Jens Enemark (Waddenacademie): On the Natural and Cultural Landscape Heritage of the Wadden Sea. The need for an integration - protecting the Wadden Region in the Anthropocene
12:25-13:25 Lunch break
13:25-13:50 Jan Kolen (University of Leiden): Does the natural landscape exist?
13:50-14:15 Hans-Ulrich Rösner (WWF): Is an existing natural landscape a problem for cultural landscapes?
14:15-14:30 Discussion
Session 2: Palaeography and Archaeology of the Wadden landscape
14:30-15:00 Gilles de Langen (University of Groningen) & Hauke Jöns (Lower Saxon Institute for Historic Coastal Research): Research and Management of the Archaeological Heritage of the Wadden Sea - on both sides of the dike (Key note)
15:00-15:20 Martina Karle & Felix Bittmann (Lower Saxon Institute for Historic Coastal Research): Discover the traces of the past in the Wadden Sea - Presentation of two consecutive joint-venture projects
15:20-15:40 Coffee break
15:40-16:00 Hanna Hadler & Andreas Vött (University of Mainz): Drowned by the Grote Mandränke in 1362 AD - new geo-archaeological research on the late medieval trading centre Rungholt (North Frisia)
16:00-16:20 Mans Schepers (University of Groningen): Why all the rush? How terp archaeology will benefit from a nuanced view of past landscapes and peoples role therein
16:20-16:40 Marco Bakker (University of Groningen): Exploitation and settlement dynamics of the Frisian coastal peat zone during the Iron Age and Roman Age
16:40-17:00 Johan Nicolay (University of Groningen): Early-medieval kingship around the southern North Sea
17:00-17:20 Martin Segschneider (Lower Saxon Institute for Historic Coastal Research) & Morten Søvsø (Museum of Southwest Jutland): Between Groothusen and Ribe. Key sites of early-medieval Wadden sea trade in the light of current research
17:20-17:45 Discussion
Symposium dinner
19:30-22:00 Official Symposium dinner in the “HandwerkerHaus”
Opening statement by Dieter Harrsen, Head of the County of Nordfriesland. Entertainment by Norma Schulz, Frisian Musician from the island of Föhr.
Friday 2 December 2016
Session 3: The Immaterial Heritage
09:00-09:25 Ludwig Fischer (University of Hamburg): Victory over the sea. Dutch diking technics in the 17th – 18th century and the impact on the Europe´s history of mentality (Key note)
09:25-09:50 Nina Hinrichs (University of Paderborn): The Wadden Sea in visual art as projection platform for ideologies in national socialism
09:50-10:10 Anne Marie Overgaard (Museum South Jutland): Living with water in the coastal marsh areas of the Tøndermarsk and Gotteskoog
10:10-10:35 Otto Knottnerus (Haren): Political boundaries and cultural crosslinks in the Wadden Sea Region
10:35-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:25 Goffe Jensma (University of Groningen): Frisian myth and reality
11:25-11:50 Norbert Fischer (University of Hamburg): Death, Landscape and Memory. Case Studies on the Wadden Sea Coast and the Islands
11:50-12:15 Discussion
Poster Exhibition
12:15-13:00 Guided tour of the poster exhibition
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
Session 4: The History of Waddenland in a political, social-economic and cultural context
14:00-14:30 Meindert Schroor (Waddenacademie): Waddenland: Insular society and precursor of the European economic and socio-cultural crisis (Key note)
14:30-14:55 Mette Guldberg (Fisheries and Maritime Museum Esbjerg): Contacts along the Wadden Sea Coast (1600-1800) – Local communities and regional economies with a global touch
14:55-15:20 Martin Rheinheimer (University of Southern Denmark): Maritime traffic and local societies in the Wadden Sea Region (1600-1900)
15:20-15:50 Coffee break
15:50-16:15 Jan Oberg (University of Bremen): Was there a maritime culture in Bremen in the 19th century? Ethno-historical notes on coastal societies
16:15-16:40 Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen (University of Aarhus): Capitalists, peasants and landless. The different social models of the early modern rural societies in the Waddenland parts of Schleswig
16:40-17:05 Anna-Katharina Wöbse (University of Giessen): Reinterpreting nature: The history of conservation in the Wadden Sea Region
17:05-17:30 Discussion
Evening free for meetings and networking
For interested:
19:00-20:00 The exhibition on „Rungholt - rätselhaft und widersprüchlich“ at the NordseeMuseum Husum. Guided tour through the exhibition by Tanja Brümmer of the Museum.
20:00-20:30 Lecture by Albert Panten: Rungholt und das nordfriesische Wattenmeer als Forschungsproblem
Saturday 3 December 2016
Session 5: Political, economic and social challenges for the handling of the cultural heritage in the Waddenland
09:00-09:15 Manfred Vollmer (Wadden Sea Forum): Learning from the Lancewad projects. Challenges and the regional approaches in a trans-boundary context
09:15-09:30 Ulf Ickerodt & Matthias Maluck (State Archaeological Authority Schleswig-Holstein): Energy Transition, a challenge for the management of the landscape heritage
09:30-09:45 Peter Südbeck (Wadden Sea National Park Authority Lower Saxony): The Lower Saxon Biosphere Reserve Programme. Engaging with inhabitants and stakeholders for a sustainable development
09:45-10:00 Beate Ratter & Martin Döring (Helmholz Centre/University of Hamburg): Sense of place in the Wadden Sea - Leverage local consciousness and knowledge for sustainable development
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-10:45 Karsten Reise (Alfred Wegner Institute): Climate change: Accommodating more water at the North Sea coast
10:45-11:00 Linde Egberts (Free University, Amsterdam): A Future for Cultural History of the Dutch Wadden Region: Challenges and Policies in a Maritime Cultural Landscape
11:00-11:15 Anne-Mette Hjalager (University of Southern Denmark): Big Nature, Big Data: Digital alignment of leisure and conservation
11:15-12:15 Concluding forum discussion with Claus Carnap-Bornheim, Schleswig-Holstein, Director of the Foundation of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf; Jouke van Dijk, chairman of the Waddenacademie; Janne Liburd, chairman of the National Park Board; Co Verdaas, chairman of the Wadden Sea Board - with interventions/statements from the speakers and the audience
Closing Session
12:15-12:25 Jos Bazelmans: Summing up - Navigating the Future
12:25-12:30 Thomas Steensen: Closing Remarks on behalf of the organizers
12:30- Lunch
Excursion
13:15-16:30 Post conference excursion to Eiderstedt: A landscape heritage in the change of times.