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 History, Memory and European Identity - Maastricht06/14------------------------------------------------------------------------Dr. Aline Sierp, Maastricht University; Dr. Eugen Pfister, UniversitätWien05.06.2014-06.06.2014, Maastricht, Maastricht University, Faculty ofArts and Social Sciences (FASoS) , Grote Gracht 80-82The 10th annual conference of the History of European IntegrationResearch Society (HEIRS) will take place at Maastricht University (NL)from 5-6 June 2014. Twenty-five scholars and practitioners will cometogether to contribute to on-going debates on cultural and politicalidentity in Europe. They will investigate efforts made by differentpolitical and social actors since the 1950s to generate a sense ofbelonging to the European Union.Attempts to generate a European cultural or political identity arealmost as old as the European integration project itself. Officialidentity politics on the other hand are a fairly new phenomenon. Despitethe fact that social scientists have invested considerable efforts intrying to analyse the latter, historical approaches are stillunderrepresented. This conference aims at understanding the on-goingdebates on cultural and political identity. It will investigate effortsmade by different political and social actors since the 1950s togenerate a sense of belonging to the European Union. Main questions tobe addressed during the conference are: How did early attempts offostering a European identity look like? Who were the actors and agents?Is a common identity dependent on the actions of classical politicalactors? Which elements of European history have been harnessed in orderto provide a basis for a common identity?Conference Website/Programme: http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/heirsThe conference is open to all interested, however registration isrequired. To register please send an e-mail toaline.sierp@maastrichtuniversity.nl.------------------------------------------------------------------------Thursday, 05 June 201413.30-14.30: Registration14.30-15.00: Welcome address: Aline Sierp (Maastricht University) andEugen Pfister (Universität Wien), Conference Organizers (GG80-82 1.003)15.00-17.00: Panel 1 (GG80-82 1.003) &#38; Panel 2 (GG80-82 0.035)Panel 1: Memories of Human Rights ViolationsDiscussant: Kiran Patel (Maastricht University)Arnd Bauerkämper (Freie Universität Berlin)The experience of the Holocaust and the European Convention on HumanRightsDovid Katz (Vilnius, Lithuania)Freedom of European Thought, History of the Holocaust, and CurrentState-Sponsored Efforts at (an Orwellian) "Reconciliation of Histories"Katja Wezel (University of Pittsburgh)The European Day of Remembrance of Victims of Stalinism and Nazism -Eastern European Perceptions and the Quest for a Common European MemoryPoliticsPanel 2: Memory, Identity and CultureDiscussant: Wolfram Kaiser (University of Portsmouth)Jaap Verheul (New York University)Merry Christmas: European Film Policy and the Politics of Rememberingthe First World WarKarina Oborune (University of Latvia)Becoming more EUropean or European after ERASMUS?Monica-Ioana Balan (University of Bucharest)Between Orient and Occident: Romania's Endeavour to Assert its EuropeanIdentity as Portrayed in the Journal "Ideea Europeana" ("The EuropeanIdea"), 1919-192817.00-18.30: Film: Abenteuer Europa (Adventure Europe) (GG80-82 1.003)Introduction by Gabriele Clemens (Universität Hamburg)19.00  : DinnerFriday, 06 June 20149.00-10.00: Keynote Lecture 2: Heidemarie Uhl (Österreichische Akademieder Wissenschaften) (GG80-82 1.003)Chair: Eugen Pfister (Universität Wien)10.00-12.00: Panel 3 (GG80-82 1.003) &#38; Panel 4 (GG80-82 0.035)Panel 3: A European Memory?Discussant: Oriane Calligaro (Maastricht University)Sonja Dinter (Universität Kassel)The remembrance of colonial slavery: Between national, transatlantic andEuropean realms of memoryInna Siutkina (Udmurt State University)From a national to a European memory through the dialogical rememberingGregor Feindt (Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz)Towards Impartial Memory? Europe as Arbitrator in Remembering MassViolencePanel 4: Identity Constructions in Post-War EuropeDiscussant: Sebastian Büttner (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)Quincy R. Cloet (College of Europe, Natolin)Mapping the Interwar European Debate: The European Movement and theShape of a Common Identity (1918-1939)Matias Gardin (University of Luxembourg)Patriotism contained: reflections on European identity, education andcitizenship in Luxembourg from 1914 to 1918Mathias Schütz (Universität Hamburg)Preparing Memory: European Unification Movements and the "GermanProblem", 1946-195212.00-13.00: Lunch13.00-14.00: Keynote Lecture 3: Pavel Tychtl (European Commission)(GG80-82 1.003)Chair: Aline Sierp (Maastricht University)14.00-16.00: Panel 5 (GG80-82 1.003) &#38; Panel 6 (GG80-82 0.035)Panel 5: Memories of Expulsion and DeportationDiscussant: Oliver Plessow (Universität Kassel)Alfons Aragoneses (University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona)The hiding of the deportation of Spaniards to the Nazi camps and the lack of a European antifascist memory in SpainSteven B. Davis (Universität Oldenburg)Tales of Expulsion in Middle Europe: Expellees, the Czech Undeground and the Rewriting of Expulsion Morality, 1970-1989Markus Stadtrecher (Universität Augsburg)Fighting for Europe - Fighting for "Heimat"Panel 6: Heritage and IdentityDiscussant: Eleonora Narvselius (Lund University)Heli Meistersohn ( Universität Leipzig)European Capitals of Culture and the Trouble with their "EuropeanDimension". The Case of the "Stories of the Seashore" of Tallinn 2011Elsa Duval (Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz)Constructing a European Heritage in a Global World? The Aachen CathedralSite and the beginnings of the UNESCO World Heritage List.Timo Saalmann (Bamberg)European Rivers. Exhibitions and identity modeling since the 1990s16.00-16.30: Coffee16.30-18.30: Panel 7 (GG80-82 1.003) &#38; Panel 8 (GG80-82 0.035)Panel 7: Nationalism vs EuropeanismDiscussant: Christian Salm (University of Portsmouth)Emilian Colceru-Mihul (University of Bucharest)From National to European History in Romanian SchoolsAnne Dippel (Humboldt Universität Berlin)The Adventure of "thinking European" in the Austrian Nation StateHanco Jürgens (Duitslandinstituut Amsterdam)The Social Market Economy and the Poldermodel: national competences, transnational debates and European responsibilities.Panel 8: Memory, Identity and ReligionDiscussant: Amanda Kluveld (Maastricht University)Anya Topolski (University of Leuven)A Genealogy of the 'Judeo-Christian' Signifier: A Tale of Europe'sidentity CrisisGustavo Alares (European University Institute)Charles the Emperor (1958). The Nostalgia for a united Catholic EuropeUrsula Pekala (Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz)The Impact of Identity and Memory on the Reconciliation after the Second World War as exemplified by Catholic Church in Germany, France and Poland18.30-19.00: Closing address: Aline Sierp (Maastricht University) and Eugen Pfister (Universität Wien), Conference Organizers (GG80-82 1.003)