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8th International Conference on History and Culture in North Eastern Europe:
Between Reconstruction and Modernization: Public Debates about Historic City Centers in the 20th and 21th Centuries
| Location: | Estonia |
| Conference Date: | 2011-09-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-08-23 |
| Announcement ID: |
187364 |
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The conference will address and compare public debates about historic city centers the the Baltic Sea region in the 20th and 21th centuries.
In particular, the destructions caused by World War II in Europe have led to intense professional and public debates on how to interpret the results of those devastations as well as on guidelines for the reconstruction of historic city centers. These debates often became long-lasting discourses to date and have even gained intensity in recent years, not least due to the fact that solutions from the first phase of reconstruction after 1945 are now increasingly questioned. Those concepts are generally speaking marked by a tension between conservation and renewal. Whereas in the first decades after 1945 modernizing solutions prevailed, on may state that during the past 30 years concepts of a historicizing appropriation have become increasingly important.
The conference will discuss social, aesthetic and political foundations and implica-tions of these developments from 1945 to the recent past with regard to examples from the Baltic Sea region.
It consists of four sections:
- Legacies and appropriations. Public debates on historic city centers
- Modern redesigns of historic city centers
- Reconstructions and the return of historic topographies
- (Re-)constructing nations
The conference is directed to experts in the fields of urban history: (architecture and art) historians as well as experts in cultural and social studies.
Date: September 15-18, 2011
Venue: Tallinn City Archive, Tolli tn. 6, 10133 Tallinn, Estonia
Program:
Thursday, 9/15/2011
13.00-13.15: Addresses of Welcome
Küllo Arjakas, Jörg Hackmann, Christian Pletzing, Robert Schweitzer
13.15-13.30: Introduction
Jörg Hackmann, Szczecin
Session 1: Historic City Centers between Reconstruction and Modernization
13.30-14.00: Castles in the Sand: The Politics of Architecture at the Heart of Berlin
John Maciuika, New York
14.00-14.30: Mahnmal, Autotrasse und späte Nostalgie: Die Ruine der St. Nikolaikirche in Hamburg und ihre Nachbarstraßen im Wiederaufbau 1943 - 1990
Georg Wagner-Kyora, Berlin
14.30-15.00: Historic and Modern City in Tallinn
Epp Lankots, Tallinn
15.00-16.00: Discussion
17.00-19.00: Public Keynote Lecture at the Old Town Hall: Reflections on Reconstruction and Modernization in Central and Eastern Europe
Małgorzata Omilanowska, Gdańsk
Friday, 9/16/2011
Session 2: Legacies and Appropriations. Public Debates on Historic City Centers
9.00-9.20: Vilnius als symbolische Hauptstadt von vier Nationen: Ewige litauische Hauptstadt, Hauptstadt der Kresy, Jerusalem des Nordens und weißrussisches Mekka
Alvydas Nikžentaitis, Vilnius
9.20-9.40: Wrocław's Multiplying Narratives. The Cultural Appropriation of Urban Spaces after the End of Polonocentrism
Gregor Thum, Seattle
9.40-10.00: Discussion
10.30-10.50: Reconstruction, Modernization or Lacuna? Conflicts of Memory, Planning and Re-Establishment in Tallinn
Riin Alatalu, Tallinn
10.50-11.10: St. Petersburg Architectural Legacy: Challenges and Opportunities
Ljubov’ Kudrjavceva, St. Petersburg
11.10-11.30: Vyborg: A Finnish Perspective
Petri Neuvonen, Helsinki
11.30-12.30: Discussion
Session 3: Modern Redesigns of Historic City Centers
14.30-14.50: Die "Gesundung der Altstadt". Ein Programm zur Restrukturierung der "Gauhauptstadt" Stettin
Katja Bernhardt, Berlin
14.50-15.10: Piotr Zarembas Vision vom Wiederaufbau Stettins
Szymon Piotr Kubiak, Szczecin
15.10-15.30: Die Abgrenzung des "historischen Zentrums" in Riga
Eric Le Bourhis, Paris
16.00-16.20: Narva
Andres Toode, Narva
16.20-16.40: The Value of Urban Heritage. Public Debate, Assessment Criteria and Redevelopment of Cultural Property in Stockholm
Håkan Forsell, Stockholm
16.40-17.30: Discussion
Session 4: Reconstructions and the Return of Historic Topographies
17.30-17.50: Warschau
Jerzy Kochanowski, Warszawa
17.50-18.10: Gdansk
Jacek Friedrich, Gdańsk
18.10-18.30: Discussion
Saturday, 9/17/2011
Session 4: Reconstructions and the Return of Historic Topographies (continued)
9.00-9.20: The Lower Castle in Vilnius
Alfredas Bumblauskas / Salvijus Kulevičius, Vilnius
9.20-9.40: Kaliningrad
Bert Hoppe
9.40-10.00: Das Gründerviertel in Lübeck
Manfred Finke, Lübeck
10.00-10.30: Discussion
Session 5: (Re)-Constructing Nations
11.00-11.30: Nationalism and Reconstruction in Dictatorships:
Franco’s Spain and Socialist Poland in Comparison (1939/1945-1956)
José Faraldo / Carolina Rodriguez-Lopez, Madrid
11.30-12.00: Geschichte bauen. Rekonstruktion und Nationsbildung im 19.-21. Jahrhundert
Arnold Bartetzky, Leipzig
12.00-12.30: Discussion
14.30-16.30: Concluding Discussion
Statements:
Mart Kalm, Tallinn
Marc Schalenberg, Berlin
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