Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Venue: Town Hall, Gemeinderatssaal
10am Welcome and Introduction, presentation round
10.30 City Walk: Baden-Baden and its heritage in a European perspective, guided by Heike Kronenwett and Lisa Poetschki
12am Lunch
2pm Workshop: Uses of the Past: Past and Present of Spas and Seaside Resorts in Historical and Literary Scholarship
2pm Panel one: Tracing Paradigm Shifts
2pm Wiebke Kolbe: Health and Leisure in the Seaside Resort: the De-medicalisation of Discourse and Practice
2.30 Astrid Köhler: Changing the Setting in early 20th-century Novels: From the Spa to the Sanatorium
3pm Discussion
3.30 Coffee break
4pm Panel two: Experiences from the Margins
4pm Christian Noack: Stalin‘ s Spas: Reinventing ‚Feudal‘ and ‚Bourgeois‘ Bathing Practices under Socialism
4.30 Henrike Schmidt: Lost Paradises. Health Resorts in Post-Soviet Literature as Settings for Political and Social Transformation
5pm Discussion
5.30 Break
6pm Public reading with Dubravka Ugrešić from her novel ‘Baba Yaga Laid an Egg’, a spa novel introducing a female perspective on the history and culture of the European health resort. (Venue: Alter Ratssaal des Rathauses Baden-Baden, with German translation)
7.30 Dinner
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Venue: Town Hall, Gemeinderatssaal
10am Launch of ‚theeuropeanspa.eu‘ website
10.30 Workshop: Curating spa/resort heritage in the 21th century: regional and transnational approaches
Closed session (upon invitation)
Reports from the APs: My spa and its cultural heritage (museums in Harrogate (UK), Sopot (PL), Norderney (D), Baden-Baden (D), Bad-Wildungen (D), Opatija (HR) and Brijuni (HR); European Association of Historic Thermal Towns
12.30 Lunch
2pm Presentation and discussion of concept for the exhibition modules
Closed session (upon invitation)
4pm Coffee break
4.30 Public panel discussion: Looking for the future in the past? History and Heritage in Spa and Resort Development. Participants: Lisa Poetschki (Department of World Heritage nomination and Urban design of the City of Baden-Baden), Paul Simons (Scientific Committee of the European Association of Historical Thermal Towns), Dr Nataša Urošević (Juraj Dobrila University, Pula) (town hall, Alter Ratssaal)
6pm End of workshop
Participation in the workshop is open and free of charge for all interested scholars and practitioners in the field, except for the closed sessions on thursday morning and afternoon. Please register until Friday, 11 October 2019 by sending an email to Wiebke Kolbe: wiebke.kolbe@hist.lu.se