"Ambivalent Legacies: Memory and Amnesia in Post-Habsburg and Post-Ottoman Cities"

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Day One (Wednesday, April 26th)

09:00-10:30 Greeting, Opening Remarks, Coffee

10:30-12:30 Panel One: Cultivating Pasts

• Sotirios Dimitriadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
  Rediscovering the Past as Future: The Ottoman Legacy as Part of Public Discourse in Greek Macedonia
• Kimberly Hart (SUNY Buffalo State)
  Istanbul’s Intangible Cultural Heritage as Embodied by Street Animals
• Miloš Jovanović (MPI-MMG)
  Whitewashed Empire: Historical Narrative and Place Marketing in Vienna
• Olga Orlić and Anita Sujoldzic (Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb)
  From Agram to Zagreb: the Austro-Hungarian Legacy in Tourism Discourses of the Croatian Capital
• Discussant: Neena Mahadev (MPI-MMG)

12:30-13:20 Lunch (for participants)

13:30-15:00 Keynote

• Larry Wolff (New York University)
  Galicia after Galicia: Phantoms and Fantasies of Remembrance

19:00 Dinner (for participants)

Day Two (Thursday, April 27th)

09:00-11:00 Panel Two: Curating Heritage

• Giulia Carabelli (MPI-MMG)
  Coffee Culture in the Shadow of the Empire
• Annika Kirbis (MPI-MMG)
  Weltstadt without Migrants? Navigating Post-Imperial Nostalgia and Transnational Memories in Vienna
• Emily Neumeier (Ohio State University)
  Mediating Memories of Empire in the Post-Imperial Museum
• Zsuzsanna Varga (Central European University)
  “...With This Artificial Asia We Will Achieve Better Results”: The Turkish Theme Park at the Millennium Exhibition of 1896, Budapest
• Discussant: Julia Moses (University of Sheffield and Georg August University of Göttingen, Institute for Sociology)

11:00-11:15 Coffee

11:15-13:15 Panel Three: Mediated Refractions

• Srđan Atanasovski (Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade)
  Artists, Amateurs and Bureaucrats at Work: Sonic Inclusion and “Die [Gast]Arbeiter von Wien”
• Melinda Harlov-Csortán (Hungarian ICOMOS)
  Sissi was Hungarian: The Role of the Habsburg Empress in the Urban Formation of Hungarian National Memory in the Capital
• Irena Šentevska (University of Arts, Belgrade)
  Crni Gruja in Belgrade: The Early De-Ottomanization of Serbia in a TV Sitcom
• Jeremy Walton (MPI-MMG)
  Heroes Without Villains? The Croatian Count, the Repressed Sultan, and the Post-Imperial Fashioning of Nationalism(s)
• Discussant: Patrick Eisenlohr (Georg August University of Göttingen, Centre for Modern Indian Studies)

13:15-14:00 Lunch (for participants)

14:00-16:00 Panel Four: Unsettling Histories

• Gruia Badescu (University of Oxford / Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe, University of Rijeka)
  Cosmopolitan Heritage? Post-War Reconstruction and Imperial Memory in Sarajevo and Beirut
• Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
  An Ottoman Legacy of Violence: The Assassination of Hrant Dink in Kurtuluş, İstanbul on 19 January 2007
• Liora Halperin (University of Colorado Boulder)
  Making Migrant Memory: Jewish Colonists from the Habsburg and Russian Empires in Ottoman Palestine and the Ambivalence of Imperial Legacies”
• Piro Rexhepi (MPI-MMG)
  The Politics of Postcolonial Erasure in Sarajevo
• Discussant: Matthias Koenig (MPI-MMG and Georg August University of Göttingen)

16:00-16:15 Coffee

16:15-18:00 Opera Panel

• Tatjana Marković (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna),
  Adam Mestyan (Duke University, USA), and
  Larry Wolff (New York University).
• Moderator: Miloš Jovanović (MPI-MMG)

19:00 Dinner (for participants)

Day Three (Friday, April 28th)

09:00-11:30 Panel Five: Contested Materialities

• Borut Klabjan (European University Institute / Science and Research Centre Koper)
  “Relocating Sissi”: The Afterlife of Habsburg Landscape in Trieste
• Panagiotis Kontolaimos (National Technical University of Athens - Kaloutsiani Mosque Restoration Project)
  The So-Called “White Tower” and the City of Thessaloniki: A Piece of Ottoman Heritage Reclaimed
• Dunja Resanović (Boğaziçi University, Department of History)
  From Three Ottoman Gates to Three Serbian Realms of Memory: Urbanistic and
  Performative Rewriting of Belgrade from 1878 until Today
• Behar Sadriu (SOAS, University of London)
  Shrine Diplomacy: Turkey’s Quest for a Post-Kemalist Identity
• Merita Zekovic
  Vijećnica – The Chameleon of Sarajevo
• Discussant: Michalis Moutselos (MPI-MMG)

11:30-11:45 Coffee

11:45-13:15 Plenary

• Amy Mills (University of South Carolina)
  Making the Urban Afterlife of Empire: Memory and Cultural Geopolitics in Post-WWI Istanbul

13:15-13:45 Lunch (for participants)

13:45-15:00 Roundtable Discussion

19:00 Dinner (for participants)