This two-day workshop seeks to provide a comparative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary platform to discuss many cases of how the silenced heritage of the displaced populations in Europe and beyond is being negotiated in the present day.

Prague

9^th – 11^th of June 2021

Institute of Ethnology CAS SAV21 and CEFRES

Presentation

This two-day Workshop seeks to provide a comparative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary platform to discuss many cases of how the silenced heritage of the displaced populations in Europe and beyond is being negotiated in the present day. Breaking away from the traditional nation-centred orientation, we will focus on the memories of displacement, focusing on the people who were forced to abandon their homelands and previous lives and to re-establish their lives and homes elsewhere, as well as on the displaced memories about the violent removal, both symbolic and physical, of the vanquished others from their social spaces.  

Organizing committee

• Michele Baussant (CEFRES, CNRS, ICM), michele.baussant@gmail.com 
• Maria Kokkinou (Charles University, CEFRES), mkokkinou03@yahoo.com 
• Johana Wyss (CAS, CEFRES), wyss@eu.cas.cz

Attendance

Wednesday 9th of June 2021

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Thursday 10th of June 2021 – First day of the Workshop

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Friday 11th of June 2021: Second Day of the Workshop

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Programme

Wednesday 9th of June 2021

Venue: Villa Lanna

• 17:00 – 17:20  Welcome remarks by CAS representatives and CEFRES representatives
• 17:20 – 18:30  Keynote Legacies of Forced Displacements and the Burden of Implication in the 21st Century, Johana Wyss, CAS, CEFRES
• 18:30 – 20:00 Evening reception

Thursday 10th of June 2021

First day of the Workshop

Venue: Villa Lanna

• 8:30 – 9:00 Registration
• 9:00 – 9:10 Welcome by the organizers & housekeeping
• 9:10 – 9:20 Introduction by Michèle Baussant

9:20 – 10:50  Panel 1, Dissonant heritages: victims, bystanders and unrecognized heroes

• Talking about Jews in Poland: An Interactional, Ethnographic Perspective, Thomas Van de Putte, University of Trento Salonica – Thessaloniki: Holocaust Survivors & Memories of Absence, Kateřina Králová, Charles University
• Unrecognized Heroes and Conflicting Historical Heritage, Michal Pavlásek, Czech Academy of Sciences

Chair, Evelyne Ribert, IIAC, CNRS, EHESS, ICM fellow 10:50 – 11:20 Break (30 minutes)

11:20 – 12:30 Panel 2, politics of national identity and vivid memories

• Newcomers in Czech Western Silesia 1945-1960: Between ‘Old’ And ‘New’ Identity, Ondřej Kolář, the Silesian Museum in Opava
• Contested Heritage of Istria. Between Conflict Nationalisation Processes, Identity Foundations and Bridges, Katja Hrobat Virloget, University of Primorska Chair, Rose Smith, Charles University

12:30 – 13:40 Lunch Break (70 minutes)

13:40 – 15:10 Panel 3, Unmaking belonging, making ‘internal strangers’

• Namibian Czechs – Their Identity and Search for Home, Kateřina Mildnerová, Palacký University Olomouc
• Memories and Relationship to Otherness in Contemporary Portuguese Society: The Case of Displaced Populations Following the Independence of African Colonies, Irène Dos Santos, URMIS, CNRS, Université de Paris, ICM Fellow
• ‘And then They All Left’: Recollection of Forced Migration and Negotiation of the Past in Three-Generation Families of Germans in the Czech Republic, Jana Nosková, Czech Academy of Sciences

Chair, Kateřina Čapková, Czech Academy of Sciences 15:10 – 15:30 Break (20 minutes)

15:30 – 17:00 Panel 4, Memoryscapes of displacements

• Landscape and the memory of loss and absence in Germany, Austria, and Czech Republic, Paul Bauer, Charles University
• Contested heritage and progressive nostalgia in the urban centres of northern Istria, Neža Čebron Lipovec, University of Primorska
• Saving German heritage in Central Europe: discourse, praxis, challenges. Mapping patrimonialisation efforts around Podersam/ Podbořany, Catherine Perron, Ceri-Sciences Po

Chair, Anežka Brožová, Charles University

18:30 – 21:00 Evening Reception

Friday 11th of June 2021

Second day of the Workshop

Venue: Villa Lanna

• 9:00 – 9:10 Opening of the second day

9:10 – 10:20 Panel 5, Sites of memory without ‘milieux de mémoire’

• Returning as a Minority Experience? A Comparison Between Albanians and Jews in Greece During the First Decade of the 21st Century, Pierre Sintès, Aix-Marseille Uni, CNRS, TELEMME,
• An Absence That Still Matters: Jews in Egypt and Egypt Inside the Jews, Michèle Baussant, CEFRES, ISP, CNRS, ICM Fellow

Chair, Barbora Spalová, Charles University

10:20 –10:40 Break (20 minutes)

10:40 – 11:50 Panel 6, Relating to the past of displacement: when ‘history’ and remembrance begin with artefacts

• Displacement of the Sources: The Circulation of Historical Documents During the Post-WWII Decades, Máté Zombory, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Greek Exiles, Communist Legacies and Heritages of Waiting in the Czech Republic and Central Europe, Maria Kokkinou, CEFRES, Charles University

Chair, Filip Herza, Czech Academy of Sciences

11:50 – 12:20 Closing remarks Michèle Baussant, Maria Kokkinou, Johana Wyss