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Europe connected through museums and museum of European history
Graduiertenkolleg, Wednesday 4 June 2014, 10–16h, Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam
‚The making of Europe‘ in Museums and Cultural Programmes
Participants / Contributors:
Hans Holbein, the Ambassadors (detail)
Krzysztof Pomian (Torun)
Musée de l’Europe after 15 years: Achievements and failures of a project Wolfram Kaiser (Portsmouth)
Exhibiting Europe: The House of European History in Context Inge Melchior (VU)
‚European memories‘ from an Estonian perspective Nicole L. Immler (NIOD/UvH)
European Capitals of Culture: Programming Europe? Rethinking the Role of Culture Claske Vos (UvA)
European Cultural Policy through Thick and Thin. The Promises and Limitations of Imagining Europe through Cultural Policy
Comments: Kiran Patel (Maastricht) and Frank van Vree (UvA)
Info and registration:
Nicole L. Immler, NIOD, n.immler@niod.knaw.nl, 030-23901-81
Hanco Jürgens, DIA, h.j.jurgens@uva.nl, 020-5253700
The Graduiertenkolleg from the DIA is financially supported by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). It focuses on post-war Germany, German-Dutch relationships and ermany in Europe. The meetings are open for MA-students, PhDs and researchers.
More info: www.duitslandweb.nl -> wetenschap -> Graduiertenkolleg
How to stage Europe in a museum or in the programme Capitals of Culture? This question will be discussed on the conference ‚The making of Europe‘ in Museums and Cultural Programmes.
The occasion is the current establishment of the House of European History in Brussels, initiated by the European Parliament. The new museum will visualize the political history of the EU and will function as a room for debate on the future of Europe.
Of different origin is the privately funded Musee de l’ Europe. This travelling exhibit visualises Europe as a civil society and embodies the idea of Europe as a network.
Also, the well known European Capital of Culture Programme is scattered throughout the EU.
However, since the programme was preferably used for citymarketing rather than staging Europe, the rules of the competition were more explicitely defined recently: More of the European dimension must be formulated.
How can we programme this European dimension in museums and cultural programmes? What has changed in the debates on visualising cultural and political identities in the last years? Who is organizing the programmes for whom? Are these projects organised top down or also bottom up? Which themes mobilise European citizens? Are questions of the self and the other or center and periphery to be answered as well? Or should we discuss these issues in new ways? What is the role of historians and anthropologists in these debates and what is the relation between history and memory? And how to relate these questions to the struggle for a European memory?
Krzysztof Pomian is professor emeritus at the University in Torun and scientific director from the Museum of Europe
Wolfram Kaiser is professor in European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK
Inge Melchior is working on a dissertation on ‘Europe’s contested pasts’ at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
Nicole L. Immler is a researcher at the University for Humanistic Studies in Utrecht and the NIOD in Amsterdam
Claske Vos is lecturer at the European Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam
Kiran K. Patel is professor and head of the Department for European and Global History at the University of Maastricht
Frank van Vree is the dean of the Faculty of the Humanities at the University of Amsterdam
Prins Hendrikkade 189b / 1011 TD Amsterdam / Tel.: 020-525 3690 / E-mail: dia@uva.nl / www.duitslandinstituut.nl / www.duitslandweb.nl
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