Thursday, November 3, 2016
Small Ceremonial Chamber (Kleiner Festsaal), University of Vienna, Main Building, Universitätsstraße1, 1010 Vienna
Stairs open access: right-hand entrance, elevator 1st floor
17:30 - 18:30
Registration and reception
18:30 - 19:00
Welcome addresses
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Theune-Vogt
Dean of the Historical-Cultural Faculty, University of Vienna (tbc)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrike Felt
Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gerhard Benetka
Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna
Ambassador Dr. Gabriele Matzner-Holzer
Board Member of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), Vienna
Dr. Caroline Hornstein Tomić
Head of the Operative Department, Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), Bonn
Dr. Franz Vranitzky
Former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Austria
19:00 - 19:30
Keynote Speech
Ambassador Dr. Wolfgang Petritsch
President of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, Vienna
19:30 - 20:00
Introduction
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Gries
Franz Vranitzky Chair for European Studies, University of Vienna
20:00 - 21:00 Get together
Friday, November 4, 2016
Sky Lounge, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna
9:00 - 11:00
Panel 1: Memory and Collective Amnesia
Chaired by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Oliver Rathkolb
Head of the Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna
Associate Prof. Dr. Bekim Baliqi
Department of Political Science, University of Prishtina, Kosovo
"Divided Memories – Divided Youth: How Does War Remembrance Affect Ethnic Identities and Political Attitudes Among Youths in Kosovo?"
Anke Giesen, M.A.
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
"‘USSR 2.0’ or a ‘Normal E uropean Country’? Socio-Political Visions of Russia‘s ‘Children of Transition’ Exemplified by Two Russian Youth
Organizations in Perm/Urals"
Mgr. Tomáš Karger, Ph.D. & Mgr. Jan Kalenda, Ph.D.
Faculty of Humanities, Tomáš Bat‘a University in Zlín, Czech Republic
"Remembering While Forgetting: How Young Czechs Grow Into Collective Memory"
Sandra Matthäus, M.A.
Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin, Department of the History of
Medicine and Science Studies, Lübeck University
"The Worth of East German Identity. On the Intersection of Meaning, Worth and Affect, and its Potential for Analyzing the East"
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00
Poster Session
Chaired by Dr. Silvia Nadjivan
Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), Vienna
Andreea Elena Cârstea, Ph.D.
Civic Academy Foundation – The International Center for Studies into Communism, Bucharest, Romania
"The Young Generation and the Temptation of Extremism. The 2000 Elections in Romania"
Assistant Prof. Vanni D’Alessio, Ph.D. & Mag. Bert Preiss
Department of History, University of Rijeka, Croatia / Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria
"Youth Rocks? Youth Leisure and Engagement in Transcending and Reinforcing Urban Ethno-National Divides in Former Yugoslavia"
Kathleen Heft, Dipl.-Kult.
Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
"Between Germanness and Othering – The Process of ‘Ossifizierung’"
Alma Jeftić, M.A.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Psychology Program, International University of
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
"Children of 1992–1995 War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: One Generation, Several Subgroups and Different Memories"
Dr. Islam Jusufi
Department of Political Science and International Relations, Epoka University, Tirana, Albania
"The Use of Social Media by Youth in Contemporary Albania and its Impact on Their Perceptions of the World"
Bojana Miodragović, M.A.
Senior Teaching Assistant Department of Sociology, Faculty of Political Sciences,
University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
"Importance of the Family and Tradition for Second Generation of Migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina in Constructing of Migrant Networks"
Jovana Papović, M.A.
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, EHESS, Paris, France
"Growing Up During the ‘Transition’ in Serbia – Between Precarity and Creativity"
Małgorzata Pawlak, M.M.A.
PhD Candidate at Collegium of Socio-Economics, Warsaw School of Economics
"Polish and Czech Students: Financial Literacy and Political Opinions Related to the Economic Issues"
Olena Pravylo, Amanda Groschke, Polina Philippova & Christine Wetzel, M.A.
Congress of Cultural Activists Kiev, Ukraine / Author, Berlin / Sakharov Center Moscow, Russian Federation / German Russian Exchange
"Breaking the Silence: Results from Inter-Generation Talks on Transition in Germany, Russia and Ukraine"
Dr. Natasha Sardzoska
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany, independent researcher, Skopje, Macedonia
"Regimes of Forgetting and Homogenization of Memory: From Erasure of Socialist Symbols Towards Collective Amnesia and Urbicide of the Spactial – Historical Landscape of the City of Skopje"
Mgr. Victoria Shmidt, Ph.D.
Institute for Research of Inclusive Education, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University,
Czech Republic
"The Young Roma Females in the Czech Republic: Between (Post)Socialist Surveillance and Fast-Track Integration"
Associate Prof. Nataša Simeunović Bajić, Ph.D.
Faculty of Culture and Media, John Naisbitt University, Belgrade, Serbia
"Cultural Memory and Childhood: Do Young Adults From Former Yugoslav Republics Still Watch Yugoslav TV Programs?"
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch break and Poster viewing
14:00 - 16:00
Panel 2: From Migration to Integration
Chaired by Prof. Pavel Kolář, Ph.D.
Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy
Assistant Prof. Kire Babanoski, Ph.D.
Faculty of Security Sciences, MIT University – Skopje, Macedonia
"Macedonia’s Lost Generation Between Transitional Crises and New Perspectives"
Katharina Blumberg-Stankiewicz, Dipl.-Kult. & Elisabeth Kirndörfer, Ph.D.
European University Viadrina, Frankfurt, Germany
"Sounding Repercussions: Reflections on Post-1989 and Post-Migration"
Iva Kopraleva, M.A., Rafaela Tripalo, M.A. & Louisa Slavkova, M.A.
Sofia Platform, Bulgaria / Stiftung Wissen am Werk, Croatia / European Council on Foreign Relations
"The Good, the Bad and the Eastern European – Refugees and the Communist Past"
Kristina Malbašić, M.A.
Independent researcher, Zagreb
"In 1992 – Bosnian War Refugees, Today – Modern Migrants"
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 - 18:30
Panel 3: Social Practices and Political Participation
Chaired by Prof. Dr. Sanja Milutinović Bojanić
Center for Advanced Studies – South Eastern Europe, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Merita Meçe, M.A., M.Sc.
Clemson University, South Carolina, USA
Trapped into Inherited Norms: Victimization of Children and Young "Adults Because of Vitalization of Blood Feud in Albanian Post-Socialist Society"
Assistant Prof. Ivana Milovanović, Ph.D.
Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
"Young Women and (In)Security of Daily Life in the Divided City of Mitrovica, Kosovska Mitrovica"
Raili Nugin, Ph.D.
Estonian Institute of Humanities, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Tallinn University,
Estonia
"Generation on the Doorstep? How to Define an Age Group Shaped by the Changes?"
Oleskandr Svyetlov, Ph.D.
‘Memorial’ / Public Institute of Historical Memory / Museum of Soviet Occupation, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Generation of Consensus or of Protest? Ukraine´s Children of Transition. The Orange Revolution and Beyond"
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Sky Lounge, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna
9:00 - 10:00
Revisions of Transitions
Chaired by Johannes Piepenbrink, M.A.
Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), Bonn
10:00 - 12:00
Panel 4: Between Europeanness and Nationalisms
Chaired by Dr. Hans-Georg Golz
Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), Bonn
Ulrike Gerhardt, M.A.
Leuphana University Lüneburg Institute for Philosophy and Visual Studies, Germany
"Overcoming Metaphysical Homelessness. Cultural Memory of the ‘Generation Transformation’ in Post-Socialist Video Art"
Daniel Kubiak, M.A. & Christian Nestler, M.A.
Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany / Department of Political and Public Administrative Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany
"When I think of Europe … Wendekinder as a Diverse Generation of Transformation"
Mihai Stelian Rusu, Ph.D.
Department of Journalism, Public Relations, Sociology and Psychology, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
"Civilizing the Transitional Generation: The Politics of Civic Education in Post-Communist Romania"
Mary Kate Schneider, M.A.
Department of Political Science, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, USA
"Defining a Generation, Redefining the Nation: Coming of Age in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina"
12:00 - 12:30
Coffee break & Fingerfood
12:30 - 14:00
Conclusion: Lessons Learned and Prospects for Civic Education in Europe
Chaired by Dr. Caroline Hornstein Tomić
Head of the Operative Department, Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), Bonn
Dr. Hans-Georg Golz
Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb), Bonn
Prof. Dr. Sanja Milutinović Bojanić
Center for Advanced Studies – South Eastern Europe, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Oliver Rathkolb
Head of the Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna
Prof. Pavel Kolář, Ph.D.
Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy
14:00
Departure