Demarcation and entanglement: Historic border experiences in Europe

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1 Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe Evangelical Academy Berlin Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany German War Grave Commission Wroclaw Remembrance and Future Center 15 th East-West-European Memorial Seminar, Krzyżowa/Kreisau March 29 th 1 st 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 20 th 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.

2 Programme Wednesday, March 29 th, 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, manager of the memorail department of Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe 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 Thursday, March 30 th, 2017 Followed by free time for talks and exchange 10:00 12:00 The border area Görlitz / Zgorzelec in the collective memory and as a symbolic place in the European memory culture (working title) 12:00 13:00 Lunch Dominik Trutkowski, Humboldt-University Berlin (tbc) With commentary by: Dr. Robert Zurek, board member of Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe Moderation: Dr. Jacqueline Boysen, Evangelical Academy Berlin 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

3 16:30 Coffee break 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 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 31 th, :00 11:00 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? 11:00 11:15 Coffee break 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 Emilio Silva Barrera, Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (ARMH), Madrid "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

4 11:15 13:15 Project presentations - part II 13:15 14:00 Lunch The Soviet monument in Berlin Treptower Park as a symbol of German-Russian understanding, Boris Stamenić, Berlin Coping of Challenge of Memorialisation and Teaching on Newest and New History in Croatia and other post- Yugoslav countries, Vesna Teršelič, Documenta Centre for Dealing with the Past Kroatien, Zagreb European memoy culture by means of Crowdsourcing Europeana and Transcribathon.eu, Frank Drauschke, Facts & Files, Berlin International lexicon of Dissidents Markus Pieper, Federal Foundation Berlin Moderation: Luiza Konczyk, German War Grave Commission 14:00 Excursion: Church of Peace, Świdnica, Guide: Waldemar Pytel, Bischop of Wrocław diocese (tbc) Transfer to Wrocław Centrum Historii Zajezdnia Wrocław new museum Wrocław , Remembrance and Future Institute Wrocław, Guide : N.N. ca. 20:00 ca. 22:00 Dinner, Centennial Hall in Breslau Return to Krzyżowa Saturday, April 1 st, :30 11:00 Project presentations part III Migration in Museums, Dr. Claudia Augustat, Wiener Weltmuseum Cross-border educational projects, Dorota Makrutzki, Pommersches Landesmuseum, Greifswald Educational project In Between?, Karolina Dziełak European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, Warszawa Dolly Constanza Rodríguez

5 11:00 12:00 Final discussion Moderation: Anna v. Arnim-Rosenthal, Federal Foundation Berlin