12:00
Welcome address

Rafał Rogulski, Jan Rydel

12:15
Introduction

Ferenc Laczó
Franka Maubach
Joanna Wawrzyniak

13:15
Keynote speech by James Wertsch: Mnemonic Communities and Habits

Chair: Krzysztof Koseła

14:30
Coffe break

15:30
Keynote speech by Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik: The Politics of Memory and Commemoration

Chair: Danilo Facca

17:00
Coffe break

17:30
Horizons of Expectation and Spaces of Experience: Between Accident, Hope and Trauma

Joachim von Puttkamer:
Making Sense of the Unexpected: How the Reshaping of the Polish Power Apparatus in 1989 is Being Remembered
Tomasz Stryjek:
What Does 1991 Mean for Ukrainians?
Rauf R. Garagozov:
Collapse of the Soviet Union as Cultural Trauma and Russian Collective Memory

Chair: Gertrud Pickhan
Commentator: Padraic Kenney

9:00
Individual and Collective Memories Entangled

Katharine White:
Shifts in East Germans Spatial Imaginaries
Ina Alber:
Narrating the “Transition to Democracy“: on the Interdependency of Discourses and Biographies
Natalia Cojocaru:
1989-91 in Moldova: Memory, Discourse and Representation

Chair: Ferenc Laczó
Commentator: Kaja Kaźmierska

11:00
Coffe break

11:30
Generational Experiences and Memories

Ljubica Spaskovska:
The Last Yugoslav Generation: Making Sense of Post-Socialism and the End of Yugoslavia
Deanna Wooley:
“We Were the Generation of Unspoken Assumptions”: Generational Identity and the “Velvet Revolution”

Chair: Burkhard Olschowsky
Commentator: Lars Breuer

13:30
Coffe break

14:30
Oral History in Post-war Humanities West and East: International Travelogue

Introduction: Włodzimierz Borodziej
Lutz Niethammer interviewed by Piotr Filipkowski and Franka Maubach

16:00
Coffe break

16:30
Oral History Today and Tomorrow

Chairs: Alexander von Plato and Franka Maubach
Discussion:
Lutz Niethammer
Miroslav Vaněk
Dorothee Wierling
Piotr Filipkowski

9:00
Parallel session. Recalling and Constructing Key Historical Events

Katja Doose:
“Here, Everything Tumbled Down Much Earlier”: Colliding Memories of the Soviet Collapse and the Armenian Earthquake
Andrea Brait:
About the Interpretation of 1989 as an Epoch Year in Austria
Valentina Nedelcheva:
The “Sudden Death” Syndrome: Reminiscence of the Bulgarian 10th of November 1989
Constantin Schmidt:
The Transnational Remembrance of the Paneuropean Picknick

Chair: Burkhard Olschowsky
Commentators: Dobrochna Kałwa and Jan Kubik

9:00
Parallel session. Master Narratives in the Making

Ben Gook:
Nachträglichkeit: Belatedness and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Barbara Gawęda:
Anti‐Feminism of Transformation: a Narrative about Sidelining Women’s Issues
Jens Boysen:
Forcing the Reds out of the National Remembrance
Sylvia Balgarinov:
Whose History Should we Teach to our Children?
Alina Thiemann:
The Romanian Revolution: from Heroic Moment to Tragedy and then to Farce

Chair: Ferenc Laczó
Commentators: Marcin Napiórkowski and Jeffrey K. Olick

9:00
Parallel session. The Agents and Impact of Economic Change

Jannis Panagiotidis:
Horizons of Transition: Economic Experts and the Making of the “Long Year 1989”
Agnès Arp:
A Second Nationalization of the Private Entrepreneurs from the GDR, 1989-90?
Kamil Lipiński:
Sailing to the “Islands of Normal”: 1989-91 in the Eyes of Polish Business Elite
Karolina Mikołajewska:
Remembering Privatization in the Polish Food Industry

Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak
Commentators: Maciej Gdula and Joachim von Puttkamer

9:00
Parallel session. Religion, Ethnicity and Memory

Denise Thorpe:
Sifting and Shifting Memory: Lithuanian Vėlinės Practices as the Performance and Construction of Memory
Vera Klyueva, Roman Poplavsky:
A Time to Sow: Last Soviet Years in the Memories of Contemporary Believers
Dagmara Dudek:
Church and the Political Change of 1989. The Making of Memory in Germany
Toria Malkhaz:
Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict in the Recollections of Internally Displaced Historians
Mimoza Telaku:
Collective Narrative of the Interethnic Conflict in Kosovo
László Szabolcs:
The Hopeful December and the Black March: Documentary Films as Collective Memory Projects in Romania

Chair: Małgorzata Pakier
Commentators: Lutz Niethammer and James Wertsch

9:00
Parallel session. Experiences, Discourses and Biographies

Adam Mielczarek:
Experience and Memory of Polish Solidarity Movement
Kirsti Jõesalu, Raili Nugin:
Mediated Experiences of “ Freedom” in Museums and Biographies
Joakim Glaser:
Football Clubs and Identity Change in Eastern Germany
Cătălin Parfene:
Football, Writing and Politics in the Memory of an Ethnic Hungarian in Romania

Chair: Piotr Filipkowski
Commentators: Olena Ivanova and Miroslav Vaněk

9:00
Parallel session. Group and Generational Memories

Magdalena Wnuk:
The 1989 Dilemma: “To Stay Abroad or to Return to Poland?”
Elena Bogomyagkova:
Russian Students Remembering 1993
Kaja Kaźmierska:
Experience of the Process of Transformation in Poland in Generational Perspective
Jolanta Steciuk:
Voices of the 1970–75 Generation in Poland
Grażyna Kubica-Heller, Agnieszka Król:
Trajectories of Polish Transformation: Biographical Narratives of 1989’ Generation
Manuela B. Rajevic:
Politics Of Memory in Latin American Post Dictatorship Societies: The Re-Emergence of Resistance Discourses in New Generations

Chair: Franka Maubach
Commentators: Alexander von Plato and Ljubica Spasovska

12:00
Coffe break

13:00
1989-1991 in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives

Burkhard Olschowsky:
1989 as a Lieu de Mémoire in Poland and Germany
Lars Breuer, Anna Delius:
Ordinary Europeans’ View on 1989
Aline Sierp:
Bridging the Gap: Framing Memory Debate in the EU

Chair: Piotr Filipkowski
Commentator: Michael Bernhard

15:00
Coffe break

15:30
Final discussion

Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak
Workshops results summaries
General comments by Jeffrey K. Olick
Free discussion