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