Thursday 15 October 2009

09h30 Introduction

09h45 Keynote speaker: Geoffrey Cubitt (the University of York)

10h30 Session 1: Local Heroes

Alan Nash , Not Set in Stone: Scale and Memory in Colonial Cemeteries - a Case Study of the Ochterlonys in the Caribbean, Canada and India, from 1765 to the Present

Joachim Berger , National Heroes vs. Local Memories: Hero-worship in Western European Freemasonry

Gerald Greenfield , Remembering Padre Cícero: Regional Memory in Northeastern Brasil

Michael Wert , The Last Bannerman: Taking a Local Hero to the National Stage

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Session 2: Monuments & Memories

Marta Kurkowska , Jedwabne and Wizna: Monuments and Memory in the Łomża Region, Poland

Tuuli Lähdesmäki , Nationalization of Local Memory – Localization of NationalMemory. ContemporaryMonument Sculpture as a Contested Space of Reminiscence

Georgeta Nazarska , Local Memory vs. Nation-State: the Renaming of Place Names in Bulgaria (1930s-1940s)

Chantal Kesteloot , War in Street Names: Names Coming from the Second World War

12h45 Lunch

14h00 Keynote Speaker: Claudia Lenz (HL-Senteret, Oslo)

14h45 Session 3.1: Memories & Destinations I: Migration
Rogé Eichenberger,From Consumer to Producer of Myths?

Norah Karrouche , Who owns Abdelkrim Al-Khattabi? “Berber” and “Arab” Memories in Rotterdam and Antwerp

Martin Fromm , Corporeal Memory, Spatial Politics: the Gendered Topography of a Migrant’s Journey

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Session 3.2: Narrated Memories I: Museums

Thomas Cauvin , The Significance of “Local Memories” within National and Transnational Frameworks? Remembering the 1798 Rebellion in Wexford (1948-1998)

Laurence Gourievidis , The Highland Clearances in Scottish National and LocalMuseums: from Local Resistance to Celebration of Scottish Migration

Stuart Oglethorpe , ‘Vita Contadina’ in Central Italy: Museums, Collections, and Local Memories of Peasant Life

16h30 Session 4.1: Memories & Destinations II: Travelling& Tourism

Katharina Hering , Searching for Ancestral Homes Overseas: Practices of Commemoration of the Local and the Beginnings of Heritage Tourism among Pennsylvania-German Local and Family Historians from the late 19th Century until the 1950s

Anne Murphy , Touring the Sikh Past: The Construction and Experience of Multi-local Discourses of Sikh History

Gerrit Verhoeven , Visiting the Theatre of War: Battlefield Tourism and the Forging of a Regional Identity in the Austrian Netherlands (1715-1775)

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Session 4.2: Narrated Memories II: Local Historiography

Forrest Pass , Nationalizing Local Memory: The Shift from Regionalism to Nationalism in the Historical Writing of M.S. Wade

Daniel Poitras , Lived Memories, Collective Memory, and the Experience of Time in the Québec Sociologist Fernand Dumont

Matthias Seiter , German Jews between Heimat and Nation: Regional Historiography and the Construction of a German-Jewish Identity

Friday 16 October 2009

09h45 Keynote Speaker: Willem Frijhoff (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

10h30 Session 5: Constructing Spaces: Districts, Cities, Regions

Harold Bérubé , (Re)imagined Communities: Suburban Identities in Montreal

Brecht Deseure , The River Scheldt Closed and Opened. The Paradoxical Representation of Antwerp’s Past in French Revolutionary Discourse

Kevin Grace , Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine and the Community Extension of Ethnic Memory

Merle Massie , “If you’re not from the prairie…”: Canadian Regionalism and Local History

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Session 6: Constructing Groups

Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Untransposable Experience: the Memory Politics of the German Jewish Youth Movement 'Blau-Weiss' (1912-1926)

Lorraine Dennis , The Prisons’ Memory Archive: challenging Collective Memories?

Matthew McDowell , Supporting the (Global) Village Club: an Examination of Scottish Football Literature and Historiography, 1865-2009

Carolien Van Loon , Conflicting references to the Antwerp political past during election time, 1919-1936

12h45 Lunch

14h00 Keynote speaker: Karl Qualls (Dickinson College)

14h45 Session 7.1: Contact & Conflict I: Border Zones

Barbara Beckers , 13, 309 or 3000. Commemorating the Second World War in Roermond

Anna Magnussen , Uses of the Past in a Transnational Community: Gonzales, Texas, 1900-1912

Tom Williams , Local Memories in a European Borderland: the Shifting Boundaries of Commemoration in Strasbourg , 1918-1949

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Session 7.2: Shared & Performed Memories I: Memorial Practices

Jeannette Bastian , Play Mas’, Play Memory; Carnival, a Cultural Archive in a Caribbean Community

Anja Brunner , Back to the Village! Local Memory in Dance Music in Urban Southern Cameroon in the 1980’s

Andrea Hajek , Models of Resistance: the Local Memory of Protest Movements in Contemporary Italian Society

16h30 Session 8.1: Contact & Conflict II:Contested Regions

Barbara Borkowska , The Lost Memory. Process of creating the New History of Former German Towns in Poland after World War II

Noga Kadman , Local Memories of Former Locals. Palestinian Depopulated Villages as Part of the Collective Memory of Jewish Communities Established on their Sites

Agnieszka Pasieka , Conflicting Memories in a Rural Locality: a Case Study

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Session 8.2: Shared & Performed Memories II: Historical Culture

Marina Loskutova , Remembering Local Nature and Landscape in the Late Imperial – Early Sovjet Russia

Arnold Lubbers , Reading Against the Tide? Local Societies in a Nationalizing Kingdom 1815-1830

Pieter Plas , Folk Discourse, Uses of the Past and Historical Articulations of Local Identity: Lessons from Early Croatian Ethnography (1896-1918)

Conference diner (optional)

Saturday 17 October 2009

09h45 Keynote Speaker: Anne-Marie Thiesse (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)

10h30 Session 9.1: World War II Memories

Mathias Berek, The Interaction between National and Local Memory: Dresden

Christine Gundermann , Venray, a DutchTown with a GermanWarCemetery: Remembrance of the Second World War between Local and (Inter)national Areas of Conflict 1945-2000

Katharina Hoffman , The Transmission of Repressed Local Memories into Canonised Public Memories

Nico Wouters ,The War on Memory (1944-2008): the Construction of Flemish Local WW II-memory vs. National and European Identity

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Session 9.2: Constructing Spaces II: Architecture

Inge Bertels , Constructed Identities. Nineteenth-centuryPublicCityBuilding and the Reference to the Past.

Rien Emmery , Agriculture and Identity Construction in Post-war Rural Flanders: the Presence of Local Heritage in Farm Beautification Projects

John Patrick Farrell , A Look at Memory through the Activities of Local Branches of the All-Russian Society for the Preservation of Monuments of History and Culture

Ellen Van Impe ,The National and the Local in Belgian Architectural Historiography: Edmond Reusens and the Local Archaeological Research

12h45 Conclusion

13h00 Lunch