International Conference, Kraków, 1-3 June, 2023
Organiser: Kamil Ruszała (kamil.ruszala@uj.edu.pl)
Keynote Lectures: Jay Winter (Yale University), Aaron J. Cohen (California State University, Sacramento)
From June 1st to 3rd, 2023, the Jagiellonian University will be hosting an international scientific conference "Commemoration and Heritage: First World War Memorials and Cemeteries." This event will bring together researchers from more than 20 institutions representing several countries including the USA, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Austria, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Italy, Estonia, Netherlands, Lithuania, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic. The conference aims to provide a platform for these scholars to present their research and insights on the heritage of the First World War and the commemorative practices for the fallen soldiers in Europe.
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Jay Winter from Yale University and Aaron J. Cohen from California State University, Sacramento. This conference is organized by the research group "Heritage of War 1914-1918" with Kamil Ruszała as the Principal Investigator and Research Group coordinator. The event is part of the Critical Heritage Studies Hub's Flagship Project, which is funded by the Research University – Excellence Initiative.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 1 June 2023
Venue: Collegium Novum (Gołębia 24), Hall 56
09:00–09:30 Opening Session
Kamil Ruszała
Maciej Mikuła
09:30–10:30 Opening Lecture
Jay Winter, Palimpsests: War Memorials as a Sites of Multiple Memories
10:30–11:00 – Coffee&Tea
11:00–13:00 Panel 1: Commemoration and Memorials on Western Front
Chair: Pieter Trogh
Jan Vermeiren, Site of Memory and Reconciliation: Changing Narratives and Meanings of Verdun
Edward Madigan, The Not-So Silent Cities: Discordant Familial Grief in the Personal Inscriptions on Imperial War Graves Commission Headstones
Megan Kelleher, ‘A “Dog in the Manger” Kind of Treatment’: The Commemoration and Care of First World War Dead in the United Kingdom by the Imperial War Graves Commission
Laurence van Ypersele, The Return of the Fallen WWI, Belgium 1914–1923
Discussion
13:00–14:30 Break
14:30–16:30 Panel 2: Military Cemeteries and War Monuments in Central & South Europe
Chair: Tamara Scheer
Ljiljana Dobrovšak, The Military Cemeteries and Memorials of the Great War in Croatia
Vlasis Vlasidis, Buildings Cemeteries in Foreign Land and Paying Tribute to the Almost Forgotten Fallen Soldiers of the Salonika Front
Nenand Lajbenšperger, WW1 Cemeteries and Monuments in Serbia – Characteristics during Arrangement and Protection (1918–2018)
Mihael Uršič, Military Cemeteries on the Isonzo Front
Discussion
16:30–17:00 Coffee&Tea
17:00–19:00 Roundtable: Museums and Representation
Chair: Petra Svoljšak
Francesco Frizzera, Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra di Rovereto,
Pieter Trogh, In Flanders Field Museum,
Mari-Leen Tammela, Estonian War Museum,
Maša Klavora, Fundacija Poti miru v Posočju/Walk of Peace in Soca Region.
Friday, 2 June 2023
Venue: Collegium Novum (Gołębia 24), Hall 56
09:30–10:30 Opening Lecture
Aaron J. Cohen, Beyond Good and Evil: World War I Memorials as Objects in Space and Time
10:30–11:00 – Coffee&Tea
11:00–13:00 Panel 3: Heritage of Conflict/Conflict of Heritage?
Chair: Jan Vermeiren
Hannah Malone, Fascist Italy’s military cemeteries of the First World War as a challenging heritage
Laima Laučkaitė, German War Memorials in Vilnius: Two Cases with Different Fate
Kamil Ruszała, When the Battlefield Speaks: Galicia and WW1 Military Cemeteries as a Conflict/Cultural Landscape
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Sleeping German Soldier or a Virgin Mary? Recycling of the German Great War Memorials in Post-Displacement Slavic Central Europe
Discussion
13:00–14:30 Break
14:30–16:30 Panel 4: Public Space & Politics of Memory
Chair: Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska
Snezhana Dimitrova, Memorial Policy and Mourning Culture, 1917–1948: Bulgarian Case
Emmanuel Debruyne, Memory of the Fallen in an Occupied Capital City
Christina Theodosiou, Remembering a „Forgotten Front”: Marseille and the French Commemorations of the Macedonian Front (1925–1935)
Discussion
16:30–17:00 – Coffee&Tea
17:00–19:00 Panel 5: Finding the Fallen and (Re)constructing Memory
Chair: Hannah Malone
Tamara Scheer, From the Scratch: Turning a Forgotten Burial Place of 450 Austro-Hungarian Soldiers in Rome into a European Memorial
Damjana Fortunat Černilogar, Javorca Memorial Church and its Cultural Landscape – Place of European Remembrance
Danilo Sarenac, Serbia’s Great War Dead and Archeology. Burying, Exhuming and Burying Again
Marcin Czarnowicz, Barbara Witkowska, Martin Vojas, The Heritage of War from an Archaeological Perspective. Discovering the history of Carpathian War Cemeteries
Final Discussion and Closing Remarks
Saturday, 03 June 2023
Field trip: Heritage of WW1 in Lesser-Poland (Małopolska)