Wednesday, 23 November 2016
16:00 – Registration
17:15-19:00 – Keynote Lecture by Astrid Swenson (London): When is Heritage? Temporality and Transnational History
Moderation: Katharina Stornig (Giessen)
Thursday 24 November
09:00 – Introduction
Eszter Gantner (Marburg), Corinne Geering (Giessen)
09:30-11:00 – Panel 1: Socialist Interpretations of Heritage
Chair: Markus Krzoska (Giessen)
Melinda Harlov (Budapest): Vernacular Heritage in Hungary, a Category that Fitted to the Socialist Ideology
Alexandra Urdea (Sussex): The Museum of the Village - the Politics of Patrimony in Ceauşescu's Romania
Nele-Hendrikje Lehmann (Freiberg): Industrial Heritage in the GDR, 1949-1989
Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 – Panel 2: Heritage Actors
Chair: Nicole Immig (Jena/Giessen)
Bianka Trötschel-Daniels (Dortmund): The 'Heritage Council' in the GDR
Alicja Gzowska (Warsaw): Socialist Fraternal Assistance or Commercial Success? International Activities of Polish State Workshops for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Olga Olkheft (St. Petersburg): "We are the Rare Place Where the 'Iron Curtain' Played a Positive Role": The Conservative Tradition of the State Hermitage Restoration
Lunch at Mensa
14:15-15:15 – Keynote Lecture by Michael Falser (Heidelberg): “Saving Angkor” during the last Breath of Cold War Politics. Heritage Studies in a Transcultural Perspective
Moderation: James Mark (Exeter)
Coffee Break
15:30-16:30 – Panel 3: Heritage and Communist Internationalism
Chair: Stella Basinyi (Giessen)
Nelly Bekus (Exeter): Tracing Multiple Logics in Soviet Heritage-Making: pan-Soviet, National and International Agencies of Cultural Power
Svetlana Boltovskaja (Marburg): Soviet Heritage and Communist Internationalism: Eastern European and African encounters
Coffee Break
16:45-18:15 – Panel 4: International Organisations
Chair: Corinne Geering (Giessen)
Kerstin Stamm (Bonn): The New Internationale? East and West at the International Council of Monuments and Sites, ICOMOS
Julia Röttjer (Darmstadt): Committees of International Experts and Sites of National Martyrdom: Socialist Poland's Contribution to the Early World Heritage Program
Diána Vonnák (Halle): UNESCO on the Ground in the Restoration of the Golden Rose Synagogue in Lviv
Friday, 25 November 2016
9:15-10:30 – Panel 5: The Revalorisation of Socialist Heritage
Chair: Immo Rebitschek (Jena)
Emanuela Grama (Pittsburgh): Heritage-Making and State-Unmaking in Postsocialist Romania
Andreas Schönle (London): Appropriating Stalinist Heritage: State Rhetoric in the Repurposing of VDNKh
Ewa Ciszewska (Łódź): Socialist Film Animation Heritage in the Service of Contemporary Polish Animation Production and Museum Practices
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 – Keynote Lecture by Vladimir Levin (Jerusalem): Jewish Heritage in the Soviet Union
Moderation: Antje Coburger (Marburg)
Lunch at Mensa
13:15-14:45 – Panel 6: Urban Planning and the Historic City
Chair: Eszter Gantner (Marburg)
Liliana Iuga (Budapest): "Every Town Has a Historical Past, yet not Every Historical Past is Valuable" - Approaches to the Concept and Management of the Historic Town in Socialist Romania
Čeněk Pýcha (Prague): Socialist Heritage Preservation in Northern Bohemia. Making Sense in the Public Space
Biljana Stefanovska (Darmstadt): Semantic Shift in Architectural Language: Remodelling the City Center of Skopje
Coffee Break
15:15-16:15 – Panel 7: Memory and Heritage
Chair: Paul Vickers (Giessen)
Iryna Sklokina (Lviv): Traveling in the Soviet Ukraine: the Making of the National Memory Canon through Heritage Tourism Practices
Ewa Stańczyk (Amsterdam): Transnational Heritage: On the Uses of Jewish Photographs
16:15-17:00 Concluding Discussion