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Programme, MatchPoints 2012

Thursday, Friday, Saturday

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Conference venue is Aarhus University, Lakeside Lecture Theatres (Søauditorierne), Bartholins Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus.

Thursday

08:00-09:00 Registration at reception
09:00-09:25 Opening: Mette Thunø, Dean of the Faculty of Arts
Plenary addresses
09:25-10:15

Alistair Thomson (Monash University, Melbourne):
Australian Generations? An Oral History of Generational Experience, Memory and Identity

10:15-11:00 Dorthe Berntsen (Aarhus University):
Living on Two Planets: Normative and Traumatic Transitions in Individual and Collective Remembering
11:00-11:30 Coffee
Plenary address: Lecture Hall 1
11:30-12:30 Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois):
"Grandpa Was No Nazi". Migration, Generation and Memory in Contemporary Germany
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Workshop session 1
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-16:55 Workshop session 2
Plenary address: Lecture Hall 1
17:00-18:00 James Wertsch (Washington University, St. Louis):
Narrative Templates and "Cultural DNA"
18:00-19:30 Sandwiches etc.
19:30-21:00 Workshop session 3
21:00 - ? Drinks reception

Friday

08:30-10:00 Workshop session 4
10:00-10:30 Coffee
Plenary addresses: Lecture Hall 1
10:30-11:20 Daniel Levy (Stony Brook University)
Global Memories Revisited: From Holocaust to Human Rights Regime
11:20-12:10 Anna Bull (University of Bath)
Challenging Amnesia: Perpetrators' and Victims' Storytelling
12:10-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Workshop session 5
14:30-15:00 Coffee
15:00-16:30 Workshop session 6
Plenary address: Lecture Hall 1
16:40-17:20 Tom Dunne (University College Cork)
Historians and the Politics of Commemoration: an Irish Case Study
19:30 - ? Gala Dinner

Saturday

08:30-10:00 Workshop session 7
10:00-10:30 Coffee
Plenary addresses: Lecture Hall 1
10:30-11:15 Esben Kjeldbæk (The National Museum, Copenhagen)
The Role of Oral Evidence in the History of Danish Resistance during World War Two
11:15-12:00 William Hirst (New School for Social Research, New York)
Cognitions Underlying Differences in Generational Memories of Conflict and War
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Panel/special workshop on projects/programmes: Lecture Hall 1

P. L. van der Maas (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
The Croation Memories Project

Steven High (Concordia University)
On Concordia Project
14:30-15:00 Coffee
15:00-16:30 Workshop session 8