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The Cité de la Mer in Cherbourg recently published on its website the contents of the “Titanic and Emigration” conference, which took place from 8th to 10th November 2012. Both short video-comments of the speakers about the exhibition, and the audio files of the talks, are now available.
The speakers were Sinead Sheppard (major of Cobh), Aislinn Merz (Deutsches Auswandererhaus, Bremerhaven), Marie-Charlotte Le Bailly (Red Star Line, Antwerp), Seamus Rooney (Belfast City Council), Pierangelo Campodonico (Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa), Hans Storhaug ( Norwegian Emigration Center, Stavanger ; President of AEMI).
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MeLa-PoliMi participated in the international conference Museum Policies in Europe 1990-2010: Negotiating professional and political utopia, organized by the European research project EuNaMus on June 27-29. The conference was held in Norway at the University of Oslo. Focused on the impact of policies on today’s national museums, the conference addressed crucial themes of the contemporary museum debate, as migration, diverse social groups, minorities, conflicting demands and cultural cohesiveness. Over the three days, invited speakers and EuNaMus contributors debated the following questions:
- What are the practical functions of national museums?
- Is the national narrative (still) too strong?
- What are the limits/limitations of politics for national museums?
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Susannah Eckersley of ICCHS, Newcastle University (MeLA RF 1) attended the two-day conference “Visualisierte Minderheiten. Probleme und Möglichkeiten der musealen Präsentation von ethnischen bzw. nationalen Minderheiten” (Visualised minorities. Problems and opportunities of the museal presentation of ethnic or national minorities) in Dresden on 30th and 31st March 2012.
Expand the page to read the report.
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Dealing with a complex historical legacy: German-Polish relations at the beginning of the 21st century.
With Dr. Hans Martin Sieg, Foreign Policy Adviser to the German Bundestag and discussant Professor Karl Cordell, University of Plymouth. Introduced by Professor Stefan Wolff, Birmingham University.
Susannah Eckersley of Newcastle University attended this event organised by the Institute of German Studies at Birmingham University, as part of their DAAD funded project: Zeitgeist. What does it mean to be German in the 21st Century?
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Report from the Bruxelles meeting on 09.02.2012
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN IDENTITIES: POLICY AND RESEARCH ISSUES. Insights from European Research supported under the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes
Promoted by European Commission
Main questions • Is a common European identity or are several diverging European identities emerging, and if yes, what shape(s) does it, do they, take? • What (policy and research) implications does the development of a European identity, European identities have for the European Union?
The meeting was arranged in the following 4 thematic sessions • Session 1: Dimensions, definitions, problems of European identity/identities • Session 2: Political Europe • Session 3: Transnational mobilità • Session 4: Tendencies toward homogenizing and diversifying Europe
They were articulated in 1 key speach, a roundtable with a panel of invited discussants and 20 min open plenary discussion.
Target participants (between 30 and 50 along the long day) • representatives from [...]
Susannah Eckersley of UNEW attended the EUNAMUS conference ‘Great historical narratives in Europe’s National Museums’ in Paris in November 2011. The conference was grouped into four themed sessions: Constructing narratives in the museum; Traditions of national identity construction; Intersecting territories and narratives; Historical revisions and contested heritage. Each session included a number of very interesting and informative presentations by speakers from both universities and museums exploring topics from across the full breadth of Europe. Presentations were given in English, French and Spanish.
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On 3rd February 2012 Susannah Eckersley of UNEW attended one of the Zeitgeist seminars organised by the Institute for German Studies at Birmingham University. The topic of the seminar was ‘Multiculturalism and Germanness’, with a paper presented by Dr Birgit zur Nieden of the Institut fuer Sozialwissenschaften’s Diversity and Social Conflict Team at the Humboldt University, Berlin and Simon Green, Professor of Politics at Aston University and Co-Director of the Aston Centre for Europe as discussant. The seminar provided a wide-ranging and thorough exploration of the intellectual discourses and everyday realities of multiculturalism in contemporary Germany, with particular reference to how the question of ‘Germanness’ is, and has been, perceived in the public realm.
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