ARRIVAL DAY

12.07.2015

18.00-19.30 Registration and opening

20.00- social dinner

DAY ONE

date: 13.07.2015

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic: Cultural memory, identity, sites of memory. Methodological framework.

instructor(s) Dr. Ilya Dementev

format: Lecture

Objective: during this session participants will be provided with the main concepts of the contemporary memory studies and other similar fields of the humanities

assignments: the students shall prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break

(last 15 minutes of the session)

Break

10.30 – 11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12.30

Topic: The World Wars in the cultural memory in the Soviet Union: trends and controversies

Format: Lecture

Objective: during this session participants will contact with the main topics concerning the Soviet cultural memory and the place of the World Wars’ history in this memory

assignments: the students shall prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break

(last 15 minutes of the session)

Lunch

Time: 12.30 – 13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30 – 15.00

Topic: How do we remember World Wars? The Soviet experience

Format: Free discussion of the topic explored in the first two sessions

Objective: during the session participants will have the opportunity to put questions and to debate with the instructor and with each other the topic presented in the first two sessions.

DAY TWO

date: 14.07.2015

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic: The World Wars in the cultural memory in the post-Soviet Russia: discussing history politics

instructor(s) Dr. Ilya Dementev

format: Lecture

Objective: during this session participants will get the main problems in the Russian post-Soviet history politics and its impact on the cultural memory of Russians.

assignments: the students shall prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break

(last 15 minutes of the session)

Break

10.30 – 11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12.30

Topic: Memory wars, memory laws, politics of identity: it happens everywhere in the post-Soviet space

Format: Lecture, discussion

Objective: during the session participants will contact with some cases of the memory politics and politics of identity in the post-Soviet space

Lunch

Time: 12.30 – 13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30 – 15.00

Topic: “Hard questions” about the World Wars’ history

Format: Lecture, discussion

Objective: during this session participants will contact with the main “hard questions” such as violence and traumas, gender aspects in the war experience and in the Russian cultural memory

assignments: the students shall prepare questions to put to the instructor after the break

(last 15 minutes of the session)

DAY THREE

date: 15.07.2015

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic: Commemorating World War II in Eastern Europe: Monumental Representations and Politics of Memory before and after 1989

instructor(s) Dr. Nikolai Vukov

format: Interactive lecture

assignments:

Break

10.30 – 11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12.30

Topic: Monuments of the Socialist Period in Bulgaria: Public Debates and Visual Transformations after 1989

Format: Discussion

Texts for discussion:

Vukov, N., “Brotherly Help” Representations or “Imperial” Legacy: Monuments to the Soviet Army in Bulgaria before and after 1989. – Ab Imperio, 1, 2006, pp. 267-292.

Vukov, N., Refigured Memories, Unchained Representations: Post-Socialist Monumental Discourse in Bulgaria. – In: Brunnbauer, U., Stefan Troebst (Hg.), Zwischen Nostalgie und Amnesie: Erinnerung an den Kommunismus in Suedosteuropa, Böhlau Verlag, Köln, 2006, pp. 71-86.

Lunch

Time: 12.30 – 13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30 – 15.00

Topic: Representations of Women and Gender Stereotypes in Socialist Monumental Art in Bulgaria

Format: Presentation and discussion

Questions:

How is WWII represented in monuments and public commemorations in Eastern Europe?

How did the political changes of 1989 influence the practices of memory and commemoration?

What new emphases in the memory of WWII appeared after the end of the communist period?

What gender conventions were applied in monumental representation of the communist period?

DAY FOUR

date: 16.07.2015

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic: Forced Labour in Nazi-Occupied Europe: Survivors and Life Stories.

instructor(s) Dr.Ana Luleva

format: Interactive lecture

assignments:

Break

10.30 – 11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12.30

Topic: Memory politics and memory groups in Bulgaria after 1989

Format: Discussion

Texts:

Luleva, A. Politics of memory in post-socialist Bulgaria. – In: Ethnoscripts,Hamburg Universität, 2010, Jg. 12, 1, 77-93.

Adler, N. The returned of the repressed: survival after the Gulag. – In: On Living through Soviet Russia. Edited by Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson and Anna Rotkirch. Routledge, 2003, 212-233.

Ghodsee, K. The Left Side of History. Duke University Press. 2015; 101-126 (13 & 14 chapters).

Lunch

Time: 12.30 – 13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30 – 15.00

Topic: Transitional justice and memory about communist labour camps in post-socialist Bulgaria

Format: Presentation and discussion

Questions:

Is there an European Memory?

What are the main featuresof memory policies in Eastern Europe after 1989?

What is “Transitional Justice”?

Is there a connection between human rights and memory?

Text:

Luleva, A. Collective memory and policy of justice. Post-socialist discourses on memory politics and memory culture in Bulgaria- In: Ethnologia Balkanica, 2011, Vol. 15, 113-134.

DAY FIVE

date: 17.07.2015

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic: Museum, Museum Effect, Museum Gaze, Museumification. History vs. Memory at the Museum. The Museumification of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989.

instructor(s) Dr. Svetla Kazalarska

format: Lecture

Objective:

Reading: Bennett, T. (1998). Pedagogic Objects, Clean Eyes, and Popular Instruction: On Sensory Regimes and Museum Didactics. In: Configurations, vol. 6, no. 3, 345–371.

Hutton, P. (2000). Recent Scholarship on Memory and History. In: The History Teacher, vol. 33, no. 4, 533–548.

Kansteiner, W. (2002). Finding Meaning in Memory: A Methodological Critique of Collective Memory Studies. In: History & Theory, no. 41, 179–197.

Break

10.30 – 11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12.30

Topic: Museumification Strategies: Normalization, Demonization and Disneyfication of Communism at the Museum. Case Studies and Discussion.

Format: Lecture, discussion

Reading: Rév, I. (2008). The Terror of the House. In: Ostow, R. (ed.) (Re)visualizing National History: Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 47–89.

Vukov, N. (2006). Visualizations of the Past in Transition: Monuments and Museums in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria after 1989. In: Kiossev, A. & Kabaktchieva, P. (eds.) Roles, Identities, and Hybrids (Working Papers). Sofia: Centre for Advanced Studies (http://www.cas.bg/uploads/files/Nikolai%20Vukov.pdf).

Berdahl, D. (2005). Expressions of Experience and Experiences of Expression: Museum Re-Presentations of GDR History. In: Anthropology & Humanism, vol. 30, no. 2, 156–170.

Lunch

Time: 12.30 – 13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30 – 15.00

Topic: The Museumification of Communism in Bulgaria after 1989. The Museum “from Above” and the Museum “from Below”. Case Studies and Discussion.

Format: Lecture, discussion

Reading: Vukov, N. (2008). The “Unmemorable” and the “Unforgettable”: “Museumizing” the Socialist Past in Post-1989 Bulgaria. In: Sarkisova, O., Apor, P. (eds.). Past for the Eyes. East European Representations of Socialism in Cinema and Museums after 1989. Budapest, New York: CEU Press.

Guentcheva, R. (2012). Past Contested: The Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia. In: National Museums and the Negotiation of Difficult Pasts. Conference Proceedings from EuNaMus, Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen, Brussels 26-27 January 2012. Dominique Poulot, José María Lanzarote Guiral & Felicity Bodenstein (eds.). EuNaMus Report No. 8 (http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp_home/index.en.aspx?issue=082).

DAY SIX

WEEKEND

date: 18.07.2015

9.30-18.00

Excursion to the Aladzha Monastery and the Stone Forest

DAY SEVEN

WEEKEND

date: 19.07.2015

9.30-18.00

Excursion to Nessebar

DAY EIGHT

date: 20.07.2015

Commemoration culture and Legacies of WW1 in Germany and Austria

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic: How does our historical memory affect international relations in the present?

instructor(s) Dr. Ingrid Sharp

format: Interactive lecture

Objective: introduce the topic and identify research questions.

memory, commemoration and international relations

assignments:

Break

10.30 – 11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12.30

Topic: Reevaluating WW1 2014-18

- Legacies and commemoration of WW1 in Germany and Austria

- The continued problem of war commemoration in perpetrator nations

Reclaiming wartime suffering

Assignments: discussion of the film of Erich Maria Remarque (1929) All Quiet on the Western Front Film 1930, Lewis Milestone

Objective:

Lunch

Time: 12.30 – 13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30 – 15.00

Topic: Reclaiming German wartime heroism:

Format: introductory lecture and film discussion

Objective:

Reading and viewing: Film: The Red Baron (2008) Nikolai Műllerschön

Manfred von Richthofen: The Red Fighter Pilot (memoirs, 1917)

Jones, Heather, (2014) Goodbye to all that? Memory and meaning in the commemoration of the First World War Juncture Volume 20 issue 4 287-291.

Available at: http://www.ippr.org/juncture/memory-and-meaning-in-the-commemoration-of-the-first-world-war

Winter, Jay (2001) "The Generation of Memory: Reflections on the “Memory Boom” in Contemporary Historical Studies," Canadian Military History: Vol. 10: Iss. 3, Article 5.

Available at: http://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh/vol10/iss3/5 http://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1329&context=cmh

DAY NINE

date: 21.07.2015

Commemoration culture and Legacies of WW2 in Germany and Austria

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic: Memories of WW2 in Germany and Austria: Confronting a difficult past.

instructor(s) Dr. Ingrid Sharp

format: Lecture

Objective:

assignments:

Break

10.30 – 11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12.30

Topic: The Holocaust

Discussion topic: dealing with a traumatic past

Format: Lecture, discussion

Objective:

Reading: Stuart Taberner (Exhibition) Germany’s confrontation with the Holocaust in a Global context http://transnationalholocaustmemory.org/

Lunch

Time: 12.30 – 13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30 – 15.00

Topic: Holocaust memory and memorials in Germany and Austria today

Format: Discussion

Should Germany serve as a model for atoning for historical guilt?

Rachel Moore (2014) ‘Critical Memory Culture and the rise of the ‘Counter-monument’. The memorialisation of the Holocaust in Germany and Austria.’ Dissertation, University of Leeds

Reading: Assmann, Jan ‘Collective Memory and Cultural identity’ originally published in Jan Assmann and Tonio Hölscher eds 1988 Kultur und Gedächtnis 9-19 http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/201/articles/95AssmannCollMemNGC.pdf

DAY TEN

date: 22.07.2015

Cultural memories of the traumatic past in Austria and Germany

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic: Creating cultural memories

instructor(s) Dr. Ingrid Sharp

format: Lecture

Objective:

assignments:

Break

10.30 – 11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12.30

Topic: Historical truth and popular culture

What can be problematic about the combination of popular success with sensitive historical issues?

Format: Lecture, discussion

Objective:

Lunch

Time: 12.30 – 13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30 – 15.00

Topic: The suffering of the perpetrators

(How) can perpetrator suffering be represented in popular culture?

Format: Lecture, discussion

Case study (Film) Dresden (2006) Roland Suso Richter

How does Dresden establish its claim to historical accuracy?

What elements of history documentary are present in the film?

What elements of Hollywood production does Paul Cooke identify in the film?

Is this combination problematic?

To what extent does the film contribute to overcoming the traumatic past?

How do you understand the film’s ending?

Reading: Cooke, Paul (2008) 'Dresden (2006), TeamWorx and Titanic (1997): German Wartime Suffering as Hollywood Disaster Movie', in German Life and Letters, 61, 279-294, 2008.

Cohen-Pfister, Laurel (2005) ‘The Suffering of the Perpetrators: unleashing collective memory in German literature of the 21^st century’ Forum of Modern Language Studies Vol 41 No 2 123-135

Wormald, Andrew (2011) ‘Between History and Melodrama: Authenticity in TeamWorx’s “Event Movies”on the National Socialist Past’ New Readings 11 pp. 49–65.

DAY ELEVEN

date:23 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

Introduction: Wars from a gender aspect. Pacifist voices in WW1. International feminism, WILPF, initiatives in the Leage of Nations

instructor(s) Judit Acsády (HAS, Sociology, Budapest)

format: Lecture

Objective: The participants will be introduced to an understanding of gender aspect in social history. What are the different gendered war experiences? What was the reaction of organized women’s movements during WW1?( With power point illustrations).

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Changes of Gender roles during WW1. Peace treaties. Role of Women’s organizations in cultural de- and remobilization in Hungary. Examples of other countries.

Format: Lecture and free discussion of the topics

Objective: During the session the focus will be on the specialized subject of women’s movements and activities during and after WW1. How did the labour market change at the home front during the war and what were the challenges of gender relations after the war. What were the contribution of women’s organizations to the peace treaties? (With power point illustrations) Participants are welcome to share knowledge about women’s organizations in their country, and show power point illustrations.

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Representation of war in literature and arts. Representation of gender relations. Victims and survivors. Heroes, and the battered ones. Attitudes, strategies, changed morals.

Format: Seminar, discussion based on suggested readings

The student are required to bring an example of a novel or a piece of art about the war in their countries and present it shortly to the participants.

Suggested further readings:

Polcz Alain, One Woman on the Front. Central Europe University Press.

Bertha von Stuttner,  Die Waffen nieder! (Down with Arms!)

DAY TWELVE

date:24 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

Topic(s): 1945 and after – experiences of WW1 through the communist lenses. What changed in the interpretations after 1990? 1948 – Changes of social order: the one party system. Policy of emancipation.

instructor(s) Judit Acsády (HAS, Sociology, Budapest).

format: Lecture and sicussion

Objective: This session will discuss what changed in the interpretations of war experiences after 1990? There will be information shared about the social changes after 1948 (the one party system, policy of emancipation) .

Overview of women’s role in armed conflicts and oppositional movements during state socialism (1956. 1968. Solidarnosc, Charta 77 etc)

Students are required to bring examples of their own countries and share knowledge about the themes.

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Discussion of the topics explored in the first session of the day

Format: Free discussion of the topic explored in the first part of the session

Objective: Discuss the different examples of women’s activities and also discussion of cultural representations of women in army and women with weapons recently in popular culture. Students are required to bring examples.

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-16.30

Round-table “Europe and Russia in World Wars: Gender Aspects”

19.00- Closing ceremony and social dinner

DAY THIRTEEN

date: 25.07.2015

FREE DAY

Excursion to Balchik or Cape Kaliakra