Thursday 22nd November 2018
09.00-09.30 Registration and coffee
09.30-09.50 Conference opening and welcome
Jolanta Gumula, Deputy Director for Programming, POLIN Museum
Christopher Whitehead, Coordinator of CoHERE project
09.50-11.50 Session 1: Dimensions of European Heritage (part 1) Chair: Rhiannon Mason
Christopher Whitehead & Susannah Eckersley, Productions and Omissions of European Heritage
Ayhan Kaya & Lora Sariaslan, Uses of the Past in Populist Political Discourse and Representations of (Post)Colonialism in Museums
Ullrich Kockel, Cultural Forms and Expressions of European Identity
Lunch break
12.50-14.20 Session 2: Spaces of Memory Chair: Rafał Rogulski
Renata Piątkowska, Jewish Heritage and the Collection of the POLIN Museum
Cristina Petrescu, Windows to the Past, Bridges to the Future. The European Heritage of the Former Communist Europe
Roma Sendyka, Non-memory is not Forgetting: Managing Difficult Pasts in Eastern European Communities of Implication
Coffee break
14.40-16.20 Session 3: Performing, Enacting, Remembering Chair: Ian Biddle
Marta Karkowska, Local Narrations about the Past: Whose is This Narrative Actually?
Kerstin Pfeiffer, Borderland Stories: Engaging with the Past in German-Czech Bilingual Theatre
Simon McKerrell, Sound Structure as Political Structure in the European Folk Orchestra: La Banda Europa
Valdis Muktupavels & Ruta Muktupavela, Reflections on European Identity through Musical Heritage: Folk-oratorio “Rivers of our Being”
Visit to POLIN exhibitions
18.30- 20.00 Keynote: Adam Bodnar, Human Rights Doctrine in the Context of Cultural Diversity
Friday 23rd November 2018
09.00-09.10 Opening of the 2nd day of the conference, Christopher Whitehead, Coordinator of CoHERE project
09.10- 11.10 Session 4: Dimensions of European Heritage (part 2) Chair: Christopher Whitehead
Monika Seyfried & Gabi Arrigoni, Imagining Dialogue around Heritage through Digital Design Methods
Troels Myrup Kristensen, Education, Classical Heritage and Identities
Ilaria Porciani, Heritage to Cook
Coffee break
11.30-13.20 Session 5: Europe Musealized? Chair: Włodzimierz Borodziej
Zofia Wóycicka & David Clarke, Negotiating Difficult Heritage at the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst
Paweł Machcewicz, The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk: an Attempt to Combine National and European Narratives of the Second World War
Areti Galani & Gabi Arrigoni, Digital Dialogic Displays and European Narratives: Between Reflexive Processes and Simulated Encounters
Constanze Itzel, Squaring the Circle: Addressing Europe’s Complexity in a Museum Exhibition
Lunch break
14.00-15.50 Session 6: Mapping, Belonging and Othering Chair: Ayhan Kaya
Erica Lehrer, From “Heritage Communities” to “Communities of Implication”: Curating Complexity and Creating New Kin in Subject-Object Relations
Máiréad Nic Craith, Mapping Scots onto the European Heritagescape
Lia Galani & Evangelia Mavrikaki, “How European Do You Feel”? Use Eurocraft (Vid-maps) Serious Game Prototype to Communicate the Notions of European Identity, European Other and Sense of Place
Ayşe Tecmen, Populist Political Rhetoric in Turkey: How Does “the Other” See Europe?
Coffee break
16.10-18.00 Session 7: Critical Heritages of Europe Film presentation (1 hour) followed by round table discussion and closing remarks
Chair: Cornelius Holtorf
Panelists: Joanna Wawrzyniak, Christopher Whitehead, Susannah Eckersley
Coffee break
18.30-20.00 Keynote: Gurminder K. Bhambra, Colonial Histories / Postcolonial Societies: On the Politics of Selective Memory in Europe