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Commemorating Migrants and Migrations:
Towards New Interpretations of European History

Fourth Conference on Contemporary European Migration History
organized by Network Migration in Europe e.V. in cooperation with Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris, Heinrich Böll Foundation and Génériques (Paris)

Date: November 15-16, 2004
Conference Venue: Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris (8, rue Parc-Royal)

The event will be financially supported by the Werner-Reimers-Stiftung, the Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.

Program

Sunday, November 14 (6-8pm)
Informal meeting over dinner and drinks at "Le Klein Hollande", Rue du Roi de Sicile
(Metro Saint Paul)

 

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.-10.45 am
Opening Lecture

Migration Between Commemoration and Historical Reconstruction

Philippe Rygiel (Panthéon-Sorbonne/Laboratoire de sciences sociales de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure)

10.45-11.15 am
Coffee Break

11.15 am-12.45 pm
Panel 1: Migrants, Migrations and Plurality in Early Modern Europe

Alexander Schunka (University of Stuttgart, History): Historical Representations and Collective Memory of Bohemian Migrants in Saxony

Hanna Helena Sonkajärvi (European University Institute/Florence, History): 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 Southhampton): Making French Migrants Loyal Germans: Huguenots in Hamburg (1685-1985)

Chair: Mareike König (DHI Paris)

12.45-2.30 pm
Lunch Break

2.30-3.30 pm
Panel 2: 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 Budryté (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: Mareike König (DHI Paris)

3.30-4.00 pm
Coffee Break

4.00-5.30 pm
Panel 3: 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)

8.00 pm
Dinner

 

Tuesday, November 16

9.00-10.30 am
Panel 4: Migrants in the Public Sphere: Representation and Commemoration
Practices (1)

Enrica Capussotti (University of Siena): Remembering Lamerica: Emigration, Immigration and 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)

10.30-11.00 am
Coffee Break

11.00 am-12.30 pm
Panel 5: 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): Men and Women With(out) History? Looking for Lieux de Mémoire in Germany’s Immigration Society

Chair: Michael Esch (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)

12.30-2.00 pm
Lunch

2.00-3.30 pm
Panel 6: 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

Chair: Susanne Schwalgin (University of Münster)

3.30-4.30 pm
Panel 7: Representing and Displaying Migration History: Museums and Exhibitions (1)

Sorina Capp and Antoinette Reuter (Institut Européen des Itinéraires culturels/Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines, Luxemburg): Europeanizing Migra-tion 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'E-cole Normale Supérieure) 

4.30-5.00 pm
Coffee Break

5.00-6.30 pm
Panel 8: Representing and Displaying Migration History: Museums and Exhibitions (2)

Joachim Baur (University of Tübingen): Commemorating Immigration in the Immi-grant 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