The First World War, 100 Years on: Transnational cultures of remembrance in interdisciplinary comparison

The First World War, 100 Years on: Transnational cultures of remembrance in interdisciplinary comparison

Organizer
Freie Universität Berlin, Arbeitsbereich Neuere Geschichte; Centre Marc Bloch; Australische Botschaft Berlin
Venue
Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, 10117 Berlin, 7th floor, Germaine-Tillion-Saal
Location
Berlin
Country
Germany
From - Until
08.12.2016 - 09.12.2016
Deadline
01.12.2016
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By
Margit Wunsch Gaarmann

This international workshop will take the occasion of the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War to engage a team of Australian and European researchers from various disciplines (Film studies, History, Literary Studies and Digital Humanities) to analyse current discourses on remembrance in different national contexts and from different kinds of media (film, literature, internet). The distinct French, German, European and Australian/British remembrance cultures will be compared and related to each other in interdisciplinary dialogues between distinguished scholars and young researchers. The workshop will take place within the context of the project „The First World War, 100 Years on: Transnational cultures of remembrance in interdisciplinary comparison“ (http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/fmi/institut/arbeitsbereiche/ab_janz/Forschungsprojekte/Projekt-100-Jahre-1_-Weltkrieg/index.html), which is funded by the DAAD Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme, and in cooperation with the Centre Marc Bloch and the Australian Embassy in Berlin.

Programm

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.

Contact (announcement)

Juliane Hübner

Friedrichstraße 191
D-10117 Berlin

juliane.huebner@cmb.hu-berlin


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