6 NOVEMBER (THURSDAY)
12:00-12:30 Welcome

12:30-13:15
Introduction
Ferenc Laczó, Franka Maubach and Joanna Wawrzyniak

13:15-14:30
Keynote Speech:
James Wertsch, Mnemonic Communities and Habits

15:30-17:00
Keynote Speech
Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik, The Politics of Memory and Commemoration

17:30-19:30
Horizons of Expectation and Spaces of Experience: Between Accident, Hope and Trauma
Chair: Gertrud Pickhan
Joachim von Puttkamer, Making Sense of the Unexpected: How the Reshaping of the Polish Power Apparatus in 1989 is Being Remembered
Nadezhda Galabova, The Political Meaning of Chance: Socialist Life Stories From the Town of Koprivshitsa, Bulgaria
Rauf R. Garagozov, Collapse of the Soviet Union as Cultural Trauma
Discussant: Padraic Kenney

7 NOVEMBER (FRIDAY)

9:00-11:00
Individual and Collective Memories Entangled
Chair: Ferenc Laczó
Hanna Haag, Commemoration of the German “Wende”: East German Families Remember the Socialist Collapse
Gelinada Grinchenko, The Memory of 1991 in Contemporary Ukraine: Collective Prescriptions and Individual Perceptions
Natalia Cojocaru, 1989-1991 in Moldova: Memory, Discourse and Representation
Discussant: Kaja Kaźmierska

11:30-13:30
Generational Experiences and Memories
Chair: Burkhard Olschowsky
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”
Kersten Gerland, Memories and Generational Belongings: Independent Youth Movements of the 1980s in the GDR and People`s Republic of Poland
Discussant: tba

14:30-16:00
Event session: Oral history in Post-war Humanities West and East: International Travelogue
Introduction: Włodzimierz Borodziej
Lutz Niethammer interviewed by Piotr Filipkowski and Franka Maubach
16:15-17:45 Oral history today and tomorrow
Chair: Alexander von Plato
Discussion: Lutz Niethammer, Luisa Passerini, Irina Sherbakova, Miroslav Vaněk, Dorothee Wierling

8 NOVEMBER (SATURDAY)
9:00-12:00 Parallel sessions

1. Recalling and Constructing Key Historical Events
2. Master Narratives in the Making
3. The Agents and Impact of Economic Change
4. Religion, Ethnicity and Memory
5. Experiences, Discourses and Biographies
6. Generational and Group Memories
(see sessions program below)

13:00-15:00
1989-1991 in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
Chair: Piotr Filipkowski
Burkhard Olschowsky, 1989 as a Lieu de Mémoire in Poland and Germany
Lars Breuer, Anna Leidinger Ordinary Europeans’ View on 1989
Aline Sierp, Bridging the Gap: Framing Memory Debate in the EU
Discussant: Michael Bernhard

15:30-17:00 Final discussion
Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak
Workshops results summaries
General comments by Jeffrey K. Olick
Free discussion

PARALLEL SESSIONS (SATURDAY: 9:00-12:00)

Recalling and Constructing Key Historical Events
Chair: Burkhard Olschowsky
Katja Doose, “Here, Everything Tumbled Down Much Earlier”: Colliding Memories of the Soviet Collapse and the Armenian Earthquake
Constanza Calabretta, 1989/2014: Germany. Memories of the Peaceful Revolution
Andrea Brait, About the Interpretation of 1989 as an Epoch Year in Austria
Irena Šutinienė Nostalgia for a “Singing Revolution” in Lithuanian Life Stories
Valentina Nedelcheva, The “Sudden Death” Syndrome: Reminiscence of the Bulgarian 10th of November 1989
Boçi Sonila, The Collapse of the Berlin Wall and Democratic Transformation in Albania
Constantin Schmidt, The Transnational Remembrance of the Paneuropean Picknick
First discussants: Gelinada Grinchenko and Jan Kubik

Master Narratives in the Making
Chair: Ferenc Laczó
Ben Gook, Nachträglichkeit: Belatedness and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Katharine White, Shifts in East Germans Spatial Imaginaries
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
First discussants: Marcin Napiórkowski and Jeffrey K. Olick

The Agents and Impact of Economic Change
Chair: Joanna Wawrzyniak
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, 1989-1990?
Kamil Lipiński Sailing to the “Islands of Normal”: 1989-1991 in the Eyes of Polish Business Elite
Karolina Mikołajewska Remembering Privatization in the Polish Food Industry
Eszter Z. Tóth 1989-1991 Remembered in Hungarian and Eastern German Factories
First discussants: Joachim von Puttkamer and tba

Religion, Ethnicity and Memory
Chair: Małgorzata Pakier
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 Persons
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
First discussants: Lutz Niethammer and James Wertsch

Experiences, Discourses and Biographies
Chair: Piotr Filipkowski
Ina Alber, Narrating the “Transition to Democracy“: on the Interdependency of 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
Catalin Parfene, Football, Writing and Politics in the Memory of an Ethnic Hungarian in Romania
First discussants: Olga Ivanova and Miroslav Vaněk

Group and Generational Memories
Chair: Franka Maubach
Izabella Wagner, ‘By Correspondence’ Revolution: the 1989 Memory among Polish Scientists in the US
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
First discussants: Alexander von Plato and Ljubica Spasovska