Key Note Speech von Markus Meckel beim Internationalen Forum: Dialog, Erinnerung und Solidarität in Europa

https://www.kulturforum.info/de/termine/veranstaltungen/1024267-whats-the-point-of-history-if-we-never-learn-dialog-erinnerung-und-solidaritaet-in-europa

Programm in English look below

deutsches Programm: https://www.bkge.de/Veranstaltungen/Kalender/3837-internationales-forum-dialog-erinnerung-und-solidaritaet-in-eu.html

‘What’s the Point of History … If We Never Learn?’
Dialogue, Remembrance and Solidarity in Europe
New Challenges for Public History and Historical Education
Organisers:
European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS)
Federal Institute for History and Culture of the Germans in
Eastern Europe (BKGE)
in collaboration with the Humboldt Forum, Berlin
Berlin, 16–17 October 2023
Venue: Humboldt Forum
Panels and sessions will be simultaneously
translated into English and German.

16 October 2023
14.00–14.30
Opening and Welcome Speeches
Prof. Hartmut Dorgerloh, Humboldt Forum, Berlin
Rafał Rogulski, ENRS, Warsaw
Prof. Matthias Weber, BKGE, Oldenburg
Speech
Claudia Roth, Member of Parliament, German Minister of State
for Culture and the Media
2
14.30–14.45
Film Screening: Sound in the Silence
14.45–16.30
Panel Discussion 1: ‘Do We Ever Learn from History? Challenges
for the 21st Century’
Johannes Schraps, Member of German Parliament, Berlin
Villano Qiriazi, Council of Europe, Education Department,
Strasbourg
Dan Wolf, Musician, Playwright, Artistic Director of ‘Sound in the
Silence’, Berkeley (online)
Prof Lale Yildirim, Osnabrück University, Institute for Migration
Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück
Alexandra Mészáros, participant in ‘Sound in the Silence’ 2022 in
Kaunas, Budapest
Moderation: Marek Zając, journalist and publicist, International
Auschwitz Council, Warsaw
16.30–17.00
Coffee Break
17.00–19.00
Panel Discussion 2: ‘Migration Societies and European Memory’
Patrick Simon, French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED),
Paris
Agnieszka Kosowicz, Polish Migration Forum Foundation,
Warsaw
Naoimh McNamee, Glencree Centre for Peace and
Reconciliation, Glencree
Dima Albitar Kalaji, Author, Journalist, wearedoingit, Damascus/
Berlin
3
Moderation: to be confirmed
19.00–22.00 Reception
German–Ukrainian JazzTrio, Hamburg
Christopher Olesch (vibraphone), Rostyslav Voitko (saxophone),
Magnus Bodzin (double bass)
Speeches
Prof. Hartmut Dorgerloh, Humboldt Forum, Berlin
Markus Meckel, Former Foreign Minister, Former Member and
Chair of the Advisory Board of ENRS, Berlin

17 October 2023
10.00–10.30
Opening lecture followed by discussion: ‘Remembrance and
Solidarity in Europe: Challenges of Antagonistic Memories’
Prof. Georgiy Kassianov, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University,
Lublin
10.30–12.15
Panel Discussion 3: ‘National Interests and Transnational
Solidarity’
Prof. Luigi Cajani, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome
Dr Eva-Clarita Pettai, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena
Dr Aurora Ailincai, Council of Europe, Observatory on History
Teaching in Europe, Strasbourg
Géraldine Schwarz, journalist and author, Berlin
Prof. Jan Rydel, Pedagogical University, Kraków, ENRS Steering
Committee, Kraków
4 Moderation: Dr Paul Ingendaay, journalist FAZ, Berlin
12.15–13.15
Lunch Break
13.15–14.45
Parallel Sessions
Experts’ talks and meeting with practitioners working in the field
of historic education and memorial places
Session 1: ‘Remembrance and Education on the Internet and in
Other Media’
Paweł Sawicki, Auschwitz Memorial, Katowice
Marlene Wöckinger, TikTok creator, educator, Mauthausen
Memorial, Linz
Prof. Vjeran Pavlaković, University Rijeka, Department of Cultural
Studies, Zagreb
Alina Gorlova, film director and producer, Kyiv
Moderation: Ulrich Herrmann, author and commissioning editor
SWR, Baden-Baden
Session 2: ‘Remembrance at Sites of Memory and in Urban
Spaces’
Prof. Axel Klausmeier, Berlin Wall Foundation, Berlin
Dr Chantal Kesteloot, Cegesoma/State Archives, Brussels
Prof. Robert Kostro, Polish History Museum Warsaw, Warsaw
Moderation: Dr Constanze Itzel, House of European History,
Brussels
Session 3: ‘Remembrance and Dealing with Conflicted Topics
and Parties’
Oriol López-Badell, European Observatory on Memories
(EUROM), Barcelona
5 Prof. Valérie Rosoux, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-
Neuve
Prof. Łukasz Kamiński, Ossolineum Library Wrocław, Wrocław
Dr Ladislav Kudrna, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian
Regimes (ÚSTR), Prague
Moderation: Dr Andrea Despot, Foundation Remembrance,
Responsibility and Future (EVZ), Berlin
14.45–15.15
Coffee Break
15.15–16.15
Presentation of the Sessions by the Moderators and Closing
Remarks
Prof. Matthias Weber, BKGE, Oldenburg
Rafał Rogulski, ENRS, Warsaw
Organisers:
In cooperation with:
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Partners:
The ENRS is funded by:
The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity is an international initiative whose aim is to
research, document and enhance the public’s knowledge of 20th-century European history and the
European cultures of remembrance, with particular emphasis on periods of dictatorship, war and
resistance to political violence. The members of the network are Germany, Hungary, Poland,
Romania and Slovakia, with representatives from Albania, Austria, the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia and Lithuania present on its advisory bodies. www.enrs.eu