THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8
2:00-4:30 pm
Workshop
Location: Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, 10117 Berlin, 7th floor, room: Germaine-Tillion-Saal
2:00 pm
Coffee
2:10 pm
Welcome Address: Prof. Dr. Catherine Gousseff
2:20 pm
Introduction: Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz
2:30-4:30 pm
Section I: The Centenary in the Internet
Chair: OLIVER JANZ
NICOLAI BURBASS: Online Comments on Historical Debates in Germany and Australia: The Debates about Clark's Sleepwalkers and the Australian History Wars in Comparison
TOM SEAR: ‘We are the Dead’: Poppies, postdigital visualisations and Vergissmeinnicht in the centenary commemorations of the First World War
5:15-7:30 pm
Public Evening Lecture / Reception at the Australian Embassy
Location: Australian Embassy Berlin, Wallstraße 76-79, 10179 Berlin
N.B.: Please bring a photo ID with you and report to the embassy’s reception desk upon arrival.
5:15 pm
Welcome by H.E. Ms Lynette Wood
5:20 pm
Evening Lecture
Introduction: OLIVER JANZ
JOHN CONNOR: A commemorative culture in overdrive? Australia and the Centenary of the First World War
Reception
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9
9:15 am-4.00 pm
Workshop
Location: Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, 10117 Berlin, 7th floor, room: Germaine-Tillion-Saal
9:15 am-1:00 pm
Section II: National perspectives
Chair: ÉTIENNE FRANÇOIS
MARTIN BAYER: Of Myths and Blinkers: The First World War in British and German Museums
ANDREI ZAMOISKI: “In the shadow of the tragic 20th century“: Remembrance Cultures in Eastern Europe
10:45-11:00 am
Coffee
ALEXANDRE LAFON: The Centenary Commemorations in France: Mission du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale
NICOLAS OFFENSTADT: The Centenary in France – between histotainment and master narrative
1:00-2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00-3:30 pm
Section III: The Centenary in Literature and Film
CHAIR: NICOLAS OFFENSTADT
CHRISTINA SPITTEL: Centenary Fictions: The First World War in Contemporary British, Australian and German Novels
MICHAEL ELM: What is new in WWI cinema? New genre patterns in centenary productions of the Great War
3:30-4:00 pm
Final Discussion
Please register for the workshop and/or the evening lecture with Juliane Hübner at juliane.huebner@cmb.hu-berlin.de by 1 December 2016. The registration is free.