Thursday March 7
13.30 WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
Martin Sabrow, Miloš Řezník, Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, Sabine Stach
14.15 – 15.45 CITY BRANDING
Teresa Walch (Jerusalem): The ‘Liberated City’: Transforming Berlin from Red to Brown in 1933
Gruia Bădescu (Konstanz): Towards Syncretic Place-Making: Urban Interventions in Post-War Sarajevo between Cosmopolitan and Antagonistic Imaginaries
Brent McKenzie (Guelph): Reval to Tallinn to Talsinki: The (Dark) Evolution of Estonia’s ‘Capital Brand’
Panel Discussion, Host: Annika Wienert (Warsaw)
15.45-16.15 Coffee Break
16.15 – 17.15 POSTCOLONIAL SPACES
Nigel Bond (Auckland): Emperor’s New Clothes: Museums as In Populo sites of Dark Tourism
Arunima Ghoshal (Delhi): Redefining Colonial Spatialities through the Everyday Experience of Postcolonial Heritage Practices.
Panel Discussion, Host: Stefanie Eisenhuth (Potsdam)
18.00 DARK PUBLIC HISTORY. HOW WE DEAL WITH PAINFUL PASTS
Public Evening Event
Philip Stone, Jörg Skriebeleit, Jessica Moody, Dorota Sajewska
Host: Hanno Hochmuth
Reception
Friday March 8
09:00 – 10.15
Astrid Erll: Shadow Places of Migration (Keynote)
Host: Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 11.45 ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE OF PENAL SYSTEMS Henriette Bertram (Kassel): Shadow Places in the Post-Conflict City: Transforming Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast
Julie Deschepper (Paris)/Margaret Comer (Cambridge): The House of the Chekists in Yekatarinburg: ‘Dark’ Past and Unique Architecture. How to Deal with Shadow Heritage?
Panel Discussion, Host: Achim Saupe (Potsdam)
11.45 – 12.45 CONVERTING PRISONS
Felix Ackermann (Warsaw): The Afterlife of Prisons: Reusing Infrastructures of Solitary Confinement in Barcelona, Warsaw, and Lviv
Ciprian Niţu (Timişoara): Dark Tourism in Romania. The Cases of Sighet and Piteşti Prison Memorials
Panel Discussion, Host: Achim Saupe (Potsdam)
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch Break
13:45 – 15:15 TOURIST PERFORMANCES
Siri Driessen (Rotterdam): Summers of War. Volunteer Tourism to Former War Sites in Europe
Corinne Geering (Leipzig): Lingering Heroin Dust in European Cities: Urban Tourism and the Public Trauma of Drug Abuse in the 1980-90s
Elisabeth Carnegie/Jerzy Kociatkiewicz (Sheffield): Dances with Despots: Reinterpretation and Recontextualization of Urban Monuments and the Conflicted Role of the Engaged Tourist
Panel Discussion, Host: Sabine Stach (Warsaw)
Quick Coffee
15.30 Excursions
Saturday March 9
9.00 – 10.30 POST-WAR SPACES
Peter Pirker/Philipp Rhode (Vienna): From Palimpsest to Me-moiré: Exploring Urban Memorial Landscapes of Political Violence
Roma Sendyka (Cracow): Landscape of Manhunts: Designing Commemorations for KL Płaszów in Krakow
Scott Laderman (Duluth): Imagined Memory. Tourists and Painful Pasts in Postwar Vietnam
Panel Discussion, Host: Felix Ackermann (Warsaw)
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30 DIVIDED SPACES
Emily Mannheimer (Rotterdam): Space and Politics in Troubles Tourism Representation in Belfast
Hanno Hochmuth (Potsdam): Berlin’s Shadow Places: Authenticity and Histotainment in the ‘Rome of Contemporary History’
Susanne Muhle (Berlin): Constructing Historical Places of the Cold War Era: The Examples of Bernauer Straße and Checkpoint Charlie
Panel Discussion, Host: Irmgard Zündorf (Potsdam)
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch Break
13.30 – 14.30 POST-CATASTROPHIC SPACES
Magdalena Banaszkiewicz (Cracow): Haunted Heritage of Pripyat. Space Interventions in the City of Ghost
Simon Yin (Hefei): Post-Earthquake Wenchuan as a Shadow Place. Focusing on Conflicting Narratives
Panel Discussion, Host: Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (Warsaw)
14.30 – 15.30 WRAP-UP DISCUSSION
Host: Hanno Hochmuth & Stefanie Eisenhuth (Potsdam)