Wednesday, 16 February 2011
15.00 Arrival
15.30 – 16.10 Introduction
Simone Lässig, Director of the Georg Eckert Institute and Project Supervisor
Susanne Kröhnert-Othman, Chair of the Research Area ‘Images of Self and Other’
Matthias Schwerendt, Project Research Fellow
16.15 – 17.45 Block I: European Perspectives
The Crusades as a Master Narrative of the European Memory Culture
Matthias Schwerendt
Commentary: Stefan Berger, Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History (University of Manchester)
Chair: Simone Lässig
18.30 Public Lecture
Jonathan Phillips, Professor of Crusading History (Royal Holloway London)
The Reputation of Saladin – from the Medieval Age to the Twenty-first Century
Discussion
Chair: Inga Niehaus, Research Coordinator
Thursday, 17 February 2011
10.00 – 11.30 Block II: German-French Perspectives
Myths of the Crusades in Germany and France in Comparison
Ines Guhe, Project Research Fellow
Commentary: Stefan Berger
Chair: Romain Faure, Research Fellow
11.45 – 14.00 Block III: The Representation of ‘the Other’ in Crusade Historiography
Describing the Enemy. Images of Islam in Narratives of the Crusades
Ines Guhe & Matthias Schwerendt
The Other at Home? About the Entanglement of Mediaevalism, Orientalism and Occidentalism in Modern Crusade Historiography
Kristin Skottki, Research Fellow in Church History (University of Rostock)
Commentary: Jonathan Phillips
Chair: Kerstin Schwedes, Research Fellow
14.45 – 15.30 Final Discussion, Open Questions and Perspectives
Chair: Susanne Kröhnert-Othman