MONDAY, 16 September 2019
13:30 Welcome: DANIEL BRANDAU and CONSTANZE SEIFERT-HARTZ (Braunschweig)
13:40 Introduction: PHILIPP AUMANN and CHRISTIAN KEHRT (Braunschweig/Peenemünde)
14:00 PANEL 1: NUCLEAR PLACES
Chair: CHRISTIAN KEHRT (Braunschweig)
KARENA KALMBACH (Eindhoven): The Contested Memory of the Nuclear Age
CHRISTIAN GÖTTER (Munich): Lost in Progress? The Displacement of Pre-Technological Perceptions
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Film „Prüfstand 7” and discussion with director ROBERT BRAMKAMP
Chair: PHILIPP AUMANN (Peenemünde)
17:30 Evening Reception
TUESDAY, 17 September 2019
10:00 PANEL 2: MILITARY HERITAGE
Chair: VERENA BUTT (Hannover)
DIRK SCHREIBER (Berlin): The Me 262 at the Technikmuseum Berlin: An Aircraft between Technical Revolution and Forced Labour
BEATE WINZER (Berlin): Infrastructures and Heritage: Segregate Memories at the former Tempelhof Airport
RALF BÜLOW (Paderborn): Bunker and Bauhaus: Lost Places of Computing History
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 PANEL 3: SOUNDS AND IMAGES
Chair: DANIEL BRANDAU (Braunschweig)
ANDREW CROSS (Brighton): An Archaeology of Childhood in Southern England: Rethinking Military Landscape
ANNA G. PIOTROWSKA (Kraków): The Role of Music in the Space of Progress: Revisiting Tron: Legacy
13:00 Lunch
14:00 PANEL 4: TECHNO-UTOPIAS
Chair: CONSTANZE SEIFERT-HARTZ (Braunschweig)
DAVID FREIS (Münster): Hospitals of the Future: The Rise and Fall of the Medical Megastructure in Western Germany
PATRYK WASIAK (Warsaw): Abandoned Sites of Polish Electronics Manufacturing Plants and the Imaginary of an Alternative Socialist Modernity
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 PANEL 5: ROCKET CITIES
Chair: MARTIN LÜCKE (Berlin)
DANIEL BRANDAU / CONSTANZE SEIFERT-HARTZ (Braunschweig): Meta-Peenemünde: Remembering Second World War Technologies in East Germany, from the 1980s to Today
SUSAN MCCLAMROCH (New Orleans): Defying the "Huntsville School": the 2001 & 2010 Mittelbau-Dora Exhibitions in Rocket City, USA
16:30 PANEL 6: (POST)COLONIAL INFRASTRUCTURES
Chair: tba
MAURITS W. ERTSEN (Delft): The Gezira Irrigation Scheme as a Contested Place Of Progress
NORMAN ASELMEYER (Florence): What Sired the Nation? The Uganda Railway and Memory Work in Kenya, 1890–2000
WEDNESDAY, 18 September 2019
10:00 PANEL 7: OUTER SPACES
Chair: MARIE-LUISE HEUSER (Braunschweig)
MICHAEL J. NEUFELD (Washington D.C.): The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and “The Romance of Technological Progress”
RAJENDRA THAKUR (Chandigarh): Space Museum in India: Enduring Memories of Half a Century of Space Initiatives
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 PANEL 8: RESOURCES
Chair: JOACHIM BLOCK (Braunschweig)
ERIK THORSTENSEN (Oslo): Adventure and Tragedy: The Norwegian Petroleum Museum’s Exhibition on Climate Change
KATARZYNA JAROSZ (Wrocław): Mining the Past: Converting Former Mines into Tourist Attractions
12:30 Lunch
13:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: PLACES OF PROGRESS?
RAJENDRA THAKUR / SUSAN MCCLAMROCH / PHILIPP AUMANN / tba
14:30 Coffee