Thursday, 05 June 2014

13.30-14.30: Registration

14.30-15.00: Welcome address: Aline Sierp (Maastricht University) and Eugen Pfister (Universität Wien), Conference Organizers (GG80-82 1.003)

15.00-17.00: Panel 1 (GG80-82 1.003) & Panel 2 (GG80-82 0.035)

Panel 1: Memories of Human Rights Violations
Discussant: Kiran Patel (Maastricht University)

Arnd Bauerkämper (Freie Universität Berlin)
The experience of the Holocaust and the European Convention on Human Rights

Dovid Katz (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Freedom of European Thought, History of the Holocaust, and Current State-Sponsored Efforts at (an Orwellian) “Reconciliation of Histories”

Katja Wezel (University of Pittsburgh)
The European Day of Remembrance of Victims of Stalinism and Nazism – Eastern European Perceptions and the Quest for a Common European Memory Politics

Panel 2: Memory, Identity and Culture
Discussant: Wolfram Kaiser (University of Portsmouth)

Jaap Verheul (New York University)
Merry Christmas: European Film Policy and the Politics of Remembering the First World War

Karina Oborune (University of Latvia)
Becoming more EUropean or European after ERASMUS?

Monica-Ioana Balan (University of Bucharest)
Between Orient and Occident: Romania’s Endeavour to Assert its European Identity as Portrayed in the Journal „Ideea Europeană” (“The European Idea”), 1919-1928

17.00-18.30: Film: Abenteuer Europa (Adventure Europe) (GG80-82 1.003)
Introduction by Gabriele Clemens (Universität Hamburg)

19.00 : Dinner

Friday, 06 June 2014

9.00-10.00: Keynote Lecture 2: Heidemarie Uhl (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) (GG80-82 1.003)
Chair: Eugen Pfister (Universität Wien)

10.00-12.00: Panel 3 (GG80-82 1.003) & Panel 4 (GG80-82 0.035)

Panel 3: A European Memory?
Discussant: Oriane Calligaro (Maastricht University)

Sonja Dinter (Universität Kassel)
The remembrance of colonial slavery: Between national, transatlantic and European realms of memory

Inna Siutkina (Udmurt State University)
From a national to a European memory through the dialogical remembering

Gregor Feindt (Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz)
Towards Impartial Memory? Europe as Arbitrator in Remembering Mass Violence

Panel 4: Identity Constructions in Post-War Europe
Discussant: Sebastian Büttner (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Quincy R. Cloet (College of Europe, Natolin)
Mapping the Interwar European Debate: The European Movement and the Shape of a Common Identity (1918-1939)

Matias Gardin (University of Luxembourg)
Patriotism contained: reflections on European identity, education and citizenship in Luxembourg from 1914 to 1918

Mathias Schütz (Universität Hamburg)
Preparing Memory: European Unification Movements and the “German Problem”, 1946–1952

12.00-13.00: Lunch

13.00-14.00: Keynote Lecture 3: Pavel Tychtl (European Commission) (GG80-82 1.003)
Chair: Aline Sierp (Maastricht University)

14.00-16.00: Panel 5 (GG80-82 1.003) & Panel 6 (GG80-82 0.035)

Panel 5: Memories of Expulsion and Deportation
Discussant: Oliver Plessow (Universität Kassel)

Alfons Aragoneses (University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona)
The hiding of the deportation of Spaniards to the Nazi camps and the lack of a European antifascist memory in Spain

Steven B. Davis (Universität Oldenburg)
Tales of Expulsion in Middle Europe: Expellees, the Czech Undeground and the Rewriting of Expulsion Morality, 1970-1989

Markus Stadtrecher (Universität Augsburg)
Fighting for Europe – Fighting for “Heimat”

Panel 6: Heritage and Identity
Discussant: Eleonora Narvselius (Lund University)

Heli Meistersohn ( Universität Leipzig)
European Capitals of Culture and the Trouble with their „European Dimension“. The Case of the „Stories of the Seashore“ of Tallinn 2011

Elsa Duval (Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz)
Constructing a European Heritage in a Global World? The Aachen Cathedral Site and the beginnings of the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Timo Saalmann (Bamberg)
European Rivers. Exhibitions and identity modeling since the 1990s

16.00-16.30: Coffee

16.30-18.30: Panel 7 (GG80-82 1.003) & Panel 8 (GG80-82 0.035)

Panel 7: Nationalism vs Europeanism
Discussant: Christian Salm (University of Portsmouth)

Emilian Colceru-Mihul (University of Bucharest)
From National to European History in Romanian Schools

Anne Dippel (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
The Adventure of „thinking European“ in the Austrian Nation State

Hanco Jürgens (Duitslandinstituut Amsterdam)
The Social Market Economy and the Poldermodel: national competences, transnational debates and European responsibilities.

Panel 8: Memory, Identity and Religion
Discussant: Amanda Kluveld (Maastricht University)

Anya Topolski (University of Leuven)
A Genealogy of the ‘Judeo-Christian’ Signifier: A Tale of Europe’s identity Crisis

Gustavo Alares (European University Institute)
Charles the Emperor (1958). The Nostalgia for a united Catholic Europe

Ursula Pekala (Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz)
The Impact of Identity and Memory on the Reconciliation after the Second World War as exemplified by Catholic Church in Germany, France and Poland

18.30-19.00: Closing address: Aline Sierp (Maastricht University) and Eugen Pfister (Universität Wien), Conference Organizers (GG80-82 1.003)