Kreisau program 2017 - Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED

Foundation Kreisau
in cooperation with
Kreisau-Initiative
Berlin e. V.
Evangelical
Academy Berlin
Federal Foundation for the
Study of the Communist
Dictatorship in Eastern
Germany
German War Grave
Commission
Ośrodek Pamięć
i Przyszłość
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15th East-West-European Memorial Seminar, Krzyżowa/Kreisau
March 29th – 1st April, 2017, International Meeting Place Krzyżowa/Kreisau
Demarcation and entanglement: Historic border experiences in Europe
The East-West European Memorial Seminar in Krzyżowa/Kreisau addresses professionals from
different European institutions like memory places, museums, memorials, educational centres,
human rights organisations, scientific and educational institutions. The main aim of the
seminar is to get know each other’s institutions and professional activities, to exchange
knowledge about different ways of presenting history in national and local narratives and to
discuss bilateral and multilateral questions, which influence the memory about the 20th
century. The organizers hope that this free exchange between participants from many
countries is a small contribution to more understanding and reconciliation between different
nations in Europe. As hosts of this meanwhile traditional meeting we are glad to invite our
participants to discuss about their perspectives, remembrances and ways of presenting
history in the east and west European countries.
Borders pervade Europe, fences encompass nations and walls separate people from each
other. Boundary lines were fought over, relocated, defended, redefined – and eventually
opened. European history is a history of overcoming borders. Migration and multiethnic reality
are experienced by Europeans across barriers and gates, along with coexistence and conflict
of religions. Invisible borders encompassed ethnic, religious and political minorities; excluded
groups were disenfranchised, persecuted and murdered. Aside from national isolation, there
was coexistence, respect for diversity and mutual cultural enrichment. The memorial
conference addresses the influence of this complex on national narratives.
Each year an important part of the seminar is a section “project presentations”, which are
delivered by the participants. We would like to have an opportunity to learn about current
projects, which have the topic of resistance and/ or collaboration as their core element. As
the seminar is very practically oriented and is not a traditional scientific conference we do
offer other opportunities for informal exchange: an open space for conversation and
reflection at the evening. In this year there will be a translation into Polish, Russian, English and
German.
Programme
Wednesday, March 29th, 2017
12 o’clock
For all participants travelling via Berlin: Bus departure
from Bundesstfitung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur in
Berlin-Mitte, Kronenstraße 5
until 18:00
Arrival and registration
18:00 – 19:00
Dinner
19:00 – 19:20
Opening by Dominik Kretschmann as host for Krzyżowa
Foundation
Opening by the team of organizers and introduction to
the seminar, presentation of seminar’s aims and topics
Technical remarks by Dominik Kretschmann
19:20 - 20:30
Introduction of the participants, short interactive round
Followed by free time for talks and exchange
Thursday, March 30th, 2017
10:00 – 12:00
Key note lecture: Definitons, perceptions and concepts
of “others” in (trans)national perspectives in Europe in
the 20th century and its consequences until today
Dr. Gundula Bavendamm, director of the Foundation
Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation (tbc)
With commentary by: Dr. Robert Zurek, Krzyżowa
Foundation
Moderation: Dr. Jacqueline Boysen, Evangelical
Academy Berlin
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 14:30
Guided tour: Memorial site Kreisau/Krzyżowa as a place
of reconciliation with the past?
Guide: Dominik Kretschmann
14:30 – 16:30
Panel discussion: Demarcation and entanglement in
(trans)national contextes
Austro-Hungarian Empire as a successful multiethnic
community model?, Johannes Feichtinger, Austrian
Academy of Sciences, Vienna
„Balkan“Experiences,
Prof. Aleksandar Jakir, University of Split
Saxon-Czech border area: Processes of entanglement
since 1989 and ist impact on the identity of the border
residents, Prof. Dr. Miloš Řezník, Direktor des German
Historical Institute Warsaw
Moderation: Dr. Jacqueline Boysen
16:30
Coffee break
17:00 – 19:30
Interactive Workshop about the history of Kreisau –
Dominik Kretschmann
19:30
Dinner
after
Open space for reflection, conversations and discussions
Friday, March 31th, 2017
09:00 – 10:30
Inclusion and/or Exclusion? How to deal with different
approaches and concepts of integration and
acceptance of different social, cultural, political and
ethnics groups in public narratives in museums,
exhibitions and memorial places?
Project presentations – part I
"Where is ‘at home’?" The Problems of Adaptation and
Integration of Ethnic Germans Emigrated from Romania
Before and After the Fall of the Communist Regime,
Cosmin Budeancă, The Institute for the Investigation of
Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian
Exile
Sandra Vokk, Unitas Foundation, Tallinn
"The last address", the development of the project as a
practice of de-Stalinization and in view of the russian
coming to terms with the past,
Nikolay Ivanov, St. Petersburg
Moderation: Markus Pieper, Federal Foundation Berlin
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
Project presentations - part II
Coping of Challenge of Memorialisation and Teaching
on Newest and New History in Croatia and other postYugoslav countries, Vesna Teršelič, Documenta – Centre
for Dealing with the Past Kroatien, Zagreb
Migration in Museums,
Dr. Claudia Augustat, Wiener Weltmuseum
Cross-border educational projects,
Dorota Makrutzki, Pommersches Landesmuseum,
Greifswald
Moderation: Anna v. Arnim-Rosenthal, Federal
Foundation Berlin
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
14:00
Excursion:
Friedenskirche Schweidnitz and the Centrum Historii
Zajezdnia Wroclaw – new museum „Breslau 1945-2016“
Moderation and guide: Waldemar Pytel, Bischof der
Diözese Breslau (tbc) und N.N.
ca. 20:00
Dinner, Centennial Hall in Breslau
ca. 22:00
Return to Krzyżowa
Saturday, April 1st, 2017
09:30 – 11:00
Project presentations – part III
The Soviet monument in Berlin Treptower Park as a
symbol of German-Russian understanding,
Boris Stamenić, Berlin
Digitization of European cultural heritage,
Dr. Frank Drauschke/Ad Pollé, Europeana, den Haag
International lexicon of Dissidents www.dissidenten.eu,
Markus Pieper, Federal Foundation Berlin
Moderation: Luiza Konczyk, German War Grave
Commission Breslau
11:00 – 12:00
Final discussion

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