Thursday 2 June
9.45 Conference opening
10.00 Welcome Note
Mario Crecente (EHTTA)
10.15 Opening Keynote
Oliver Sukrow (Vienna):
From Saratoga Springs to Nauheim and back
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 Panel one: Spas as Social, Cultural or Political laboratory
Christian Noack (Amsterdam, Chair)
Dean Vuletić (Vienna):
The Cold War Politics of Popular Music Contests in Eastern European Spa Towns
Cosmin-Ştefan Dogaru (Bucharest):
Spa-Tourism, Leisure and Sociability in Interwar-Romania:
Encounters between Old and New Elites
Milan Balaban, Irena Balaban-Cakirpaloglu (Zlin):
Yugoslav Tourists in Czechoslovak Spas during the Interwar Period
13.30 Lunch break
15.00 Panel two: The Ugly Spa
Wiebke Kolbe (Lund, Chair)
Jonathan Voges (Hannover):
Bad Pyrmont's Ugly History. Writing the History of a Spa Town under Nation-Socialism
Kelly Hignett (Leeds):
Jáchymov: A Small Bohemian Spa Town with a Big History.
Katrin Sippel (Vienna):
“Unwanted Holidays”. Portuguese Spas as Places of Abode for Refugees during WW II
17.00 Guided tour through poster exhibition
19.00 Dinner
Friday 3 June
10.00 Panel three (pt 1): The Transnational Literary Spa Text
Bill Bell (Cardiff, Chair)
Olga Kulishkina & Larisa Poluboyarinova (St Petersburg): online
Literary Spa Narratives of the long 19th Century as Map and Network
Yana Lyapova (Insbruck):
Primal Scenes of the “Sanatorial text”: Decoding the Spa Workers Gaze in the Swimming Pool Scenes of Bohumil Hrabal and Milan Kundera
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 Panel three (pt 2)
Barbara Schaff (Göttingen):
“Bad” behaviour: Emancipation and Female Regulation in Spa Literature around 1900.
Karolina Watroba (Oxford):
Gore Verbinski’s “A cure for Wellness”: A modern Magic Mountain?
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Panel four: Current Concerns in and for Spas
Henrike Schmidt (Berlin, Chair)
Kristina Afrić Rakitovac (Pula):
Implementation of Sustainability Issues in European Spas
Nataša Urošević (Pula):
The Great Spas of Europe. Revitalization Models for Croatian Historic Spas
Séan Williams (Sheffield):
Wellness for Locals? The Case of Switzerland
Susan Ingram (Toronto):
Reviving the Magic Mountains: Wellness and Kultur in the Austrian Alps
16.30 Coffee break
17.00 Round table: The HERA European Spas project
18.00 Closing Keynote:
Sara Bédard-Goulet (Tartu) & Bruno Goosse (Bruxelles)
Sanatorium Atmosphere: An Artistic Approach to Tracing Changes in Spa Uses
20.00 Dinner