Programme Narratives of War

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PROGRAMME

Wednesday 24 February 2016

11.30-13.00 (Doelenzaal)

Registration, light lunch


Welcome by Michael Wintle, Director of the Huizinga Institute

Opening by Frank van Vree, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at theUniversity of Amsterdam and Director-designate of NIOD

Keynote address by John Horne (Trinity College Dublin): Narrating battle in

the Great War

14.15-14.30

Break

14.30-16.00

Parallel sessions

1. War Narratives in the Museum (Doelenzaal)

Andrea Brait (Universität Innsbruck): Mediation of the end of thewar in 1945 in national military museums

Pieter de Bruijn (Open University of the Netherlands): World WarII on display: the construction of narratives in a museum context

Martijn Eickhoff (NIOD Amsterdam): Dutch Indies veteransand/in the Dutch museological landscape

2. Transitional Justice and Reconciliation I (Belle van Zuylenzaal)

Isabella Insolvibile (German Historical Institute Rome): The lateand partial transitional justice in Italy: the denied memory in the

Kefalonia case and trial

María Angélica Nieto (Erasmus University Rotterdam):Narratives of victims in the collective reparations process to

journalists in Colombia

Marieke Zoodsma (NIOD Amsterdam): Then we came to

understand that I was hurt and you were hurt too. The role of

religion and competing narratives in the reconciliation process inBosnia and Herzegovina


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Nena Močnik (University of Ljubljana): Srebrenica aestheticized.

Ethics and aesthetics of docu-art narratives at the 20th

anniversary commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide

Jan Julia Zurné (Ghent University): ‘Only by force of our love of theFatherland and our moral prestige’: the role of narrative in the

postwar (self) image of the Belgian judiciary

17.45-18.30 (Restaurant De Brakke Grond)

Drinks

18.30 (Restaurant De Brakke Grond)

Conference dinner for paper-givers

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Thursday 25 February 2016

9.45-11.15

Parallel sessions

7.

Positive Images of War (Doelenzaal)

Pinella Di Gregorio (University of Catania): Italian Futurism, a

narrative of the “joyful” war

Lucio Valent (University of Milan): Luigi Bartolini and his Return

to Carso

Jan Jacob Hoffmann (University of Bergen): Modernism,

masculinity and the gendering of narration. A comparison of battle

scenes in novels on the First World War

8. Remembering a Difficult Past (Vondelzaal)

Aleksandra Kubica (King’s College London) and Thomas van dePutte (University of Bern): Re-enacting the Holocaust? Copingwith memory of occupation, war and genocide for inhabitants of

Oświęcim

Liesbeth Hoeven (Tilburg University): Writing the future: a plea for the development of counterstories and public authorship

Karla Vanraepenbusch (Université catholique de Louvain): The

struggle over war narratives and memory in the cityscapes of

occupied Belgium


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11.15-11.30

Break

11.30-13.00

Parallel sessions

9. Afterlife Through Story-telling: WWI (Potgieterzaal)

Annika Werkman (Utrecht University): Alfred & Emily by Doris

Lessing

Sabine van Wesemael (University of Amsterdam): Les âmes

grises ( Grey Souls ) by Philippe Claudel (2005)

Jan Vermeiren (University of East Anglia): The Tannenberg Myth

in history and literature, 1914-1945

10. Popular Culture: WWII (Doelenzaal)

Kees Ribbens (NIOD Amsterdam): Wikipedia’s World War II:Fragmenting the narrative?

Laurie Slegtenhorst (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Hero orbad guy? Making choices in WWII musicals

Pieter Van den Heede (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Playingthe ‘Good War’? World War II -themed digital games and theirnarratives

11. Techniques of Narrative Construction (Vondelzaal)

Katherine Roseau (Purdue University, Indiana): The diary and thenon-narrative (the wait)

Jeroen Jansen (University of Amsterdam): Explaining or arguinghistory? P.C. Hooft's Dutch History (1642)

David A. Norris (University of Nottingham): Comedy in war is nolaughing matter: NATO bombing of 1999 in Serbian literature

Ester Lo Biundo (University of Reading): The BBC’s broadcasts inItaly during World War Two

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-15.30

Parallel sessions


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12. Veterans’ Memoires (Doelenzaal)

Dunja Dušanić (University of Belgrade): Whose 1914? Veteran

memory and the war books controversy in Europe

Rebecca van Raamsdonk (University of Amsterdam): The imageof the enemy in Henri Barbusse ( Le feu , 1916) and Erich MariaRemarque ( Im Westen nichts neues , 1929)

Matilda Greig (European University Institute Florence): Thestories the First World War inherited: the changing meanings and

uses of Napoleonic veterans’ memoirs from Spain, Britain and

France, 1814-1914

13. The Role of War in Narrative (Vondelzaal)

Adriano Vinale (University of Salerno): Simone Weil and thedestituent narrative of Europe

Tristana Dini (University of Salerno): Force and pain: perceptions

of war in the works of Simone Weil and Marguerite Duras

15.30-15.45

Break

15.45-17.15

Parallel sessions

14. Reinventing the West after WWII (Vondelzaal)

George Blaustein (University of Amsterdam): Of automobiles andhot-dog stands: anthropologists, American character, and the

European frontier

Merel Leeman (University of Amsterdam): Peter Gay and the

drama of German history in the United States

Daniel Knegt (European University Institute Florence): Decline or

defence of the West? War narratives of French collaborationist

intellectuals after 1944

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Narrating Mass Violence (Doelenzaal)

Iva Vukušić (Utrecht University): Narratives of violence in and out

of the courtroom: Srebrenica at the ICTY

Kjell Anderson (NIOD Amsterdam): Collective crimes, collective

memory, and transitional justice in Bangladesh


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Uğur Ümit Üngör (Utrecht University/NIOD Amsterdam):

Narratives of mass violence against civilians in the Syrian Civil War

17.15

Drinks

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Friday 26 February 2016

9.15-10.45

Parallel sessions

16.

Veterans and the Politics of Memory (Doelenzaal)

Miel Groten (VU Amsterdam): Veterans’ narratives of the Dutch

decolonization war

Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre (University of Turin): Ex-servicemen and

the politics of memory in Italy

Marcin Jarząbek (Jagiellonian University Krakow): Narrating warwithout social memory framework – autobiographical oral history

narratives of former Polish Wehrmacht soldiers

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The Politics of Memory (Vondelzaal)

Peter Pichler (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz): WWI

remembrance and the EU

Marieke Oprel (VU Amsterdam): The archive as narrator?

Narratives of German enemy citizens in the Netherlands after 1945

Roza Kamiloğlu (Koç University Istanbul): From CollectiveMemory to Collective Guilt: A Social Psychological Approach to

Atrocity

10.45-11.00

Break

11.00-12.30

Parallel sessions

18. The Power of Memory (Belle van Zuylenzaal)

Bram Faber (University of Amsterdam): Discourse as a measure for reality: explaining readership faith in false testimony


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Julian David Bermeo Osorio (Erasmus University Rotterdam):

History education and war violence memories. Experiences of

teachers and students from secondary schools in Bogotá

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The Scope and Limitations of Biography (Doelenzaal) Lonneke Geerlings (VU Amsterdam): ‘Anne Frank's Diary Genuine,

Says Teacher’: Rosey E. Pool's Fulbright tour through the American

South, 1959-1960

Christina Morina (Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam): Of triumphand defeat. World War II and its historians in Germany after 1945

Susie Protschky (Monash University): Colonial photography andDutch narratives of suffering after the Indonesian War of

Independence (1945-1950) 20. The Dutch Revolt: Spanish and Dutch Narratives (Vondelzaal)

Léonor Álvarez Francés (Leiden University): ‘Almost every daymemorable events happened that have to be described from day to

day’: The War in Holland (1573-1575) in Spanish and Dutch

chronicles

Beatriz Santiago Belmonte (Leiden University): ‘If we have tocamp this winter in Holland, it will have to be with skates’: The

War in Holland (1573-1575) through the eyes of the Spanish armycommanders

Raymond Fagel (Leiden University): Episodic narratives on theWar in Holland (1573-1575): heroes and villains between myth

and reality

12.30-13.30

Lunch

13.30-15.00

Parallel sessions

21. British and American Representations of WWII Italy (Doelenzaal)

Daniele Pipitone (University of Turin): The importation ofmemories: American representations of the Second World War in

post-war Italy

Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia): British imperial

views on Trieste in 1945


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Manoela Patti (University of Palermo): Italian-Americans and

Italians in Sicily during World War II: story and memory of the

‘enemy - friends’

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War and Violence in Visual Culture (Vondelzaal)

Nevena Daković (University of Belgrade): The Calvary of Serbia:Stanislav Krakov’s literary and cinematic narratives of the Great

War

Hanna Gjelten Hattrem (University of Amsterdam): Critiquing the patriarchal paradigm: female terrorists in cinema, media and

academia

Jan Willem Honig (King’s College London): Battle paintings: the

invention of modern war and warfare 15.00-15.30

Break


Round table roundup session


Conference closes

17.00-18.45 (NIOD)

Drinks for all speakers

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