Programm
Sunday, November 14 (evening)
Informal meeting over dinner and drinks
Monday, November 15
9.00-9.15 am
Welcome
Werner Paravicini (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris)
9.15-9.45 am
Short Introduction
Driss El Yazami (Génériques) and Rainer Ohliger (Network Migration in Europe)
9.45.-11.00 am
Opening Session: Panel Discussion
Migration Between Commemoration and Historical Reconstruction
Etienne François (Technical University of Berlin) and Philippe Rygiel (Panthéon-Sorbonne/Laboratoire de sciences sociales de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure)
11.00-11.30 am
Coffee Break
11.30 am-1.00 pm
Panel 1: Migrants, Migrations and Plurality in Early Modern Europe
Alexander Schunka (University of Stuttgart): Historical Representations and Collective Memory of Bohemian Migrants in Saxony
Hanna Helena Sonkajärvi (European University Institute/Florence): Early Modern Citizenship versus the Denationalization of the Foreigner: Some Methodological Considerations Related to a Study of étrangers in the 18th Century Strasbourg
Klaus Weber (University of London): Memory as a Mirror of Shifting Identities: Huguenots in Hamburg, Hamburg Hosting Huguenots (1685-1985)
Chair: Mareike König (DHI Paris)
1.00-2.30 pm
Lunch Break
2.30-4.00 pm
Panel 2: Social Memory and the Historiography of Immigration
Wladimir Fischer (Univ. of Vienna): Proposing an Historiographic Strategy for ‘Former Yugoslav Migrations’ to (and from) Vienna
Patrick Farges (Université de Paris VIII – Saint Denis): Between the Cracks of the Canadian Mosaic: Culture and Identity of German-speaking Exiles in Canada, 1933-2003
Vassiliki Lalioti (Hellenic Open University/Crete): ‘Only We Have the Right to Bear the Flag’: Social Memory, Immigrants, and Greek Ethnic Identity
Chair: Susanne Schwalgin (University of Münster)
4.00-4.30 pm
Coffee Break
4.30-6.00 pm
Panel 3: Troubled Memories: Predicaments of Migration and Migration History (1)
Anna Lipphardt (Univ. of Potsdam): Reconstructing Vilne, "The Most Yiddish City in the World" in New York, Israel and Vilnius after the Holocaust
Dovile Budryte (Brenau University/USA): Commemorating Forced Migration in the Baltic States
Manuela Bojadzijev (Frankfurt University) and Michael Esch (Centre Marc Bloch): Migration History – Migrant History: Considerations on Autonomy of Migration and Appropiation
Chair: Dirk Hoerder (University of Bremen)
8.00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday, November 16
9.00-10.30 am
Panel 4: Troubled Memories: Predicaments of Migration and Migration History (2)
Alexander Freund (The University of Winnipeg): Troubling Memories After Migration: Germans in North America Since 1945
Daniel Cohen (Rice University/USA): Remembering Post-War Displaced Persons: From Omission to Resurrection
Pierre de Trégomain (University of Paris III): Constructing Authenticity: The Case of the Transylvanian Saxons in West Germany’s Early Years
Chair: Dirk Hoerder (University of Bremen)
10.30-11.00 am
Coffee Break
11.00 am-12.30 pm
Panel 5: Migrants in the Public Sphere: Representation and Commemoration Practices (1)
Enrica Capussotti (University of Siena): Remembering Lamerica: Emigration, Immigration and the Italian position in Europe
Sarah Vanessa Losego (University of Trier): "La parole aux immigrés": The History of a Radio Programme (Longwy 1979)
Lavinia Snejana Stan (Univ. of Cluj-Napoca): We Have an Exile - What to Do With It? The Image of Romanian Exiles in the Romanian Media before and after 1989
Chair: Rainer Ohliger (Network Migration in Europe)
12.30-2.00 pm
Lunch
2.00-3.30 pm
Panel 6: Migrants in the Public Sphere: Representation and Commemoration Practices (2)
Myriam Cherti (University of Sussex in Brighton): Reconstruction Moroccan Migration History in Britain: An Oral History Approach
Heike Bungert (Univ. of Cologne/Univ. of Bremen): Festivals of Migrants as a Medium of Ethnic Memory
Rainer Ohliger (Network Migration in Europe) and Jan Motte (LZZ Solingen): Commemorating Immigration History: The German Case
Chair: Michael Esch (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)
3.30-5.00 pm
Panel 7: Representing and Displaying Migration History: Museums and Exhibitions (1)
Sorina Capp and Antoinette Reuter (Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines, Luxemburg): Europeanizing Migration History: The European Project of a Transnational Migration Route
Driss El Yazami (Génériques Paris): Towards a French Migration Museum: Debates, Concepts, Projects
Brigitte Jelen (University of California, Irvine):«Leur histoire est notre histoire»: Immigrant Culture in France between Visibility and Invisibility
Chair: Philippe Rygiel (Panthéon-Sorbonne/Laboratoire de sciences sociales de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure)
5.00-5.15 pm
Coffee Break
5.15-6.45 pm
Panel 8: Representing and Displaying Migration History: Museums and Exhibitions (2)
Joachim Baur (University of Tübingen): Commemorating Immigration in the Immigrant Society: Alternative Approaches in three New York Museums
Dagmar Kift (Westphalian Industrial Museum, Dortmund): Representing Migrants and Migration in an Industrial Museum: Issues and Practices
Udo Gößwald (City Museum Berlin-Neukölln): Born in Europe – New Identities: Cultural History of Migrants in the Work of Regional Museums
Chair: Driss El Yazami (Génériques)
7.00 pm
Dinner Buffet
8.15 pm
Concluding Evening Keynote Speech (Public)
Dirk Hoerder (University of Bremen): Europe's Many Worlds and Their Global Interconnections