Nostalgia: Historicising the Longing for the Past
German Historical Institute London | 1-3 October 2015 |
London
Programme
Thursday, 1 October 2015
13:00 Registration
13:15 Welcome and Introduction
ANDREAS GESTRICH (London), TOBIAS BECKER (London)
13:45 Keynote I
Chair: ANDREAS GESTRICH
CONSTANTINE SEDIKIDES (Southampton), ###
15:00 Panel I: Theorising Nostalgia
Chair: FERNANDO ESPOSITO (Tübingen)
ACHIM SAUPE (Berlin), “Good old things”: Nostalgia and
the discourse of historical authenticity ISHAY LANDA (Ra’anana), The Nostalgia
for Pain: Examining a Modern Trope ROGÉRIO MIGUEL PUGA (Lisbon), The Myth of
Saudade in Portuguesespeaking
Countries: Art, Lusophone Self-Stereotypes, and
(Psychological) ‘National Traits’
17:00 Coffee Break
17:30 Keynote 2
Chair: MICHAEL SCHAICH (London)
ACHIM LANDWEHR (Düsseldorf), Nostalgia and the Turbulence
of Times
19:30-21:30 Dinner (optional)
Tas Restaurant (22 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QJ)
Friday, 2 October
9:30 Panel 2: Political Nostalgia
Chair: ESRA ÖZYÜREK (London)
PATRICIA LORCIN (Minneapolis), Memory and Nostalgia in
the Post-Colonial Context MANCA G. RENKO (Koper), Habsburg Nostalgia
11:30 Coffee Break
TORBEN PHILIPP (Berlin), Affective Memory in State
Socialism: Nostalgic Explorations of the past during the Era of Stagnation OWEN
MOLLOY (Norwich), Nostalgia for West Germany: Rationalising the Emergence of
Westalgie
13:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Panel 3: Industrial Nostalgia
Chair: ###
JÖRG ARNOLD (Nottingham), ###
TIM STRANGLEMAN (Canterbury), Smokestack Nostalgia? The
Work of Memory in Understanding Industrial Decline PETER F. N. HÖRZ
(Göttingen), Processions Towards Railway History — On Rusty Tracks
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Panel 5: Media Nostalgia
Chair: AMY HOLDSWORTH (University of Glasgow) KATHARINA
NIEMEYER (Paris), Nostalgizing the Past, Present and Future: A Reflection on
Homesickness, Media and Amateur Nostalgia DOMINIK SCHREY (Karlsruhe), Forgotten
Theories of Nostalgia: Prolegomena to an Alternate Cultural History of the
Concept GINTARE MALINAUSKAITE (Berlin), Vilne Nostalgia in New York: Visual
Memories of the Lithuanian Jews after the Shoah
19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner
German Historical Institute, Library
Saturday, 3 October
9:30 Panel 4: Object Nostalgia
Chair: ###
REINHILD KREIS (Mannheim), Mixed feelings. Do it
yourself, nostalgia, and social reform in 20th century Germany EVA C. HEESEN
(Hannover), Nostalgia as Escapism: An Invaluable Tool for Museums KERSTIN STAMM
(Bonn), Future Shock? European Heritage Conservation and Nostalgia for the Past
in the 1970s KARL B. MURR (Augsburg/München), The Function of Nostalgia in Jean
Baudrillard’s System of Objects
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00-13:30 Comment and general discussion
Chair: TOBIAS BECKER
Comment by DAVID LOWENTHAL (London)