Tuesday, November 7th
17.00 – 18.00
Registration
18.00
Welcome Remarks
Introduction
Dennis Dierks, Juliane Tomann
18.30
Keynote
Stefan Berger (Bochum): Is There a European Memory of Painful Pasts, Can There Be One and Should There Be One? Some Reflections with Regard to Museum Landscapes in Europe.
Wednesday, November 8th
Part I: Concepts and Approaches
9.00 – 10.30
Approaches to Public and Applied History across Europe I
Chair: Gita Deneckere (Ghent)
Cord Arendes (Heidelberg): Germany
Mirco Carrattieri (Montefiorino): Italy
Elli Lemonidou (Patras): Greece
10.30 – 10.45
Coffee Break
10.45 – 12.15
Approaches to Public and Applied History across Europe II
Chair: Cord Arendes (Heidelberg)
Joanna Wojdon (Wrocław): Poland
Julia Lajus (St. Petersburg): Russia
Jelena Đorđević (Belgrade): History in a Post-truth Society: Serbia
12.15 – 13.15
Lunch
13.15 – 14.15
Conceptual Influences of Public / Applied History
Chair: Juliane Tomann (Jena)
Miloš Ničić (Belgrade): Tourism, Heritage and Public/Applied History: Convergence Points.
Daniel Münch (Jena): How to Call the Use of History in Society? The Three Terms Memorial Culture, Public History and Historical Culture in Comparison.
Part II: Case Studies
Focus I: Narratives, Media and Institutions
14.15- 15.45
Reinterpretations of World War II
Chair: Annette Weinke (Jena)
Chantal Kesteloot (Brussels): 1994-1995. Towards a New World War II Paradigm?
Soňa Mikulová (Berlin): The Cephalonia Massacre in German Memorial Culture: An Elusive Triumph of the Recent Initiatives from Below?
Agata Beata Domachowska (Toruń): Draža Mihailović and Public History in Serbia – Traitor or Hero?
15.45 – 16.15
Coffee break
16.15 – 17.15
How to Reflect and Enlighten Histories of Conflict with Film and TV?
Chair Axel Doßmann (Jena)
Maciej Czerwiński (Kraków): Documentary Movies and New Visions of WWII in the Croatian and Serbian Narratives.
Ana Dević (Novi Sad/Bologna): Film as a Method of Counter Hegemony: Yugoslav Cinema Against Historical and Memory Revisionisms.
17.15 – 18.15
Museums I
Recontextualizations of Afro-European Entanglements
Chair: Dennis Dierks (Jena)
Georgi Verbeeck (Leuven/Maastricht): The Haunting Past of Colonialism in Belgium: From the Lumumba Enquiry to a Refurnished Museum of Central Africa.
Olga Majnolović Pintar (Belgrade): A Time Capsule or the Alternative Discourse: The Museum of African Art in Belgrade.
19.00
Dinner
Thursday, November 9th
9.00 – 10.00
Museums II
Chair: Nataša Jagdhuhn (Jena)
Museums and the Task of Reconciliation
Simone Benazzo (Warsaw): Everything is Not Illuminated Yet: The Quest for Transnational Memory.
Zofia Wóycicka (Berlin): Museums as a Tool of Historical Reconciliation: Negotiating the Past at the German-Russian Museum in Berlin Karlshorst.
Focus II: The Dimension of Space
10.00 – 11.15
Urban Landscapes of Memory: The Example of Sarajevo and Banja Luka
Chair: Damir Arsenijević (Tuzla)
Vera Katz (Sarajevo): The Museum ''Sarajevo 1878-1918'' as a Memorial Site for the Sarajevo Assassination.
Dennis Dierks (Jena): Rethinking the Great War after an Age of Extremes: Two Exhibitions on the Centennial of World War I in Sarajevo and Banja Luka.
Ljubinka Petrović-Ziemer (Cologne): Sarajevo’s Approach to its Pasts in the Context of Elicitive Conflict Transformation.
11.15 – 11.30
Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30
Making History at the Border
Chair: Jelena Đorđević (Belgrade)
Melinda Harlov-Csortán (Budapest): Representations of Academic Research and Memorization of the Iron Curtain Experience: Diverse Approaches of History-Making in Western Hungary.
Marin Pekica (Zagreb) / Mira Artuković (Pula): Is History Written by the Victors? The Influence of Politics on Massmedia in Istria.
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
Focus III: Producing History from the Bottom-up
13.30 – 14.45
Roundtable: Alternative Approaches to History Education
Chair: Ljubinka Petrović –Ziemer (Cologne), Judith Brandt (Sarajevo)
Mišo Dokmanović (Skopje): Can ‘Outsiders’ Teach History? Civil Society’s New Emerging Educational Role – Lessons from the Balkans.
Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić / Lejla Mulalić (Sarajevo): How Can Initiatives from the Classrooms Challenge the Politics and Pedagogies of History and Teacher Education in the Divided Post-war Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Eva Schöck-Quinteros (Bremen) / Nils Steffen (Heidelberg): Fled, Unwanted, Deported – Weimar Republic’s 'Undesirable Aliens' on Stage.
14.45 – 15.45
Discourses and Practices of Popular History: Case Studies from Poland
Chair: Juliane Tomann (Jena)
Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski (Warsaw): Popular History: Between Critical Thinking and Nationalistic Myth.
Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska (Warsaw): Representing the Other and Democratization of History: Polish Reenactors in Nazi Uniforms.
15.45 – 16.15
Coffee Break
16.15 – 17.15 Roundtable: Knowledge Production from the Bottom-up: Oral history, Alternative Archives and Open Museums
Chair: Dennis Dierks (Jena)
Milena Rubleva (Moscow): Personal Memories Projects in the Russian Internet: Digital Archives and Culture of Participation.
Erëmirë Krasniqi (Prishtina): Oral History Kosovo.
Miles Tubb, Heather Robertson (Edinburgh): The Living Memory Association.
17.15 – 17.45
Closing Remarks