Taking stock of European memory policies 2018

EUROM Network Meeting
  • The European Observatory of Memories (EUROM) of the University of Barcelona and the House of European History (HEH) jointly host a one-day open conference to discuss the role of the policies of the past for the democratic improvement of our societies.
  • The meeting will gather academicians, representatives of trans-European organizations and networks, and those responsible for memory policies at a European level, highlighting the work and the different actors’ active in the field of memory and remembrance.
  • The conference will take place on June 5 in the auditorium of the House of European History.
  • The keynote speech will be delivered by Peter Vermeersch, professor at the University of Leuven and senior researcher at the Institute for International and European Policy (IIEB).

 

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Taking stock of European memory policies

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Background

According to the historian Tony Judt, “the post-national Europe, the one of the welfare state, cooperative and peaceful, was not born of the optimistic, ambitious and progressive project that today’s euro-idealistic imagined from pure retrospective; it was the fruit of an insecure anxiety. Harassed by the ghost of history, its leaders carried out social reforms and founded new institutions as a prophylactic measure to hold the past at bay.”

The ghost of history was at the foundation of the common European project, but keeping the past at bay was – and is – impossible. Since the end of the twentieth century, especially, memory has become a cultural and political battlefield where stories about the past have a hegemonic vocation. These conflicts have required a European response, a response in the form of management, in the form of a public policy of memory.


Programme

9.00 am:  Guided visit to the permanent exhibition with Martí Grau, curator at House of European History

11.00 am: Welcome session
Constanze Itzel, Head of Unit, House of European History
Jordi Guixé, Director of the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM)

11.15 am: Opening keynote
A broader view on politics on memory. Peter Vermeersch (Leuven University)
Chair:  Martí Grau, House of European History

11.45 am: Roundtable 1 – Representatives of the European Commission
Europe for Citizens programme: future challenges. Pavel Tychtl (Policy officer, European Commission) and Gilles Pelayo (EACEA – Head of Unit, Europe for Citizens) | Chair: Jordi Guixé (EUROM)

1 pm:  Lunch at Cafe Europa

2.30 pm: Trans European practices on memorial heritage
The Iron Curtain Trail. Michael Cramer (MEP)
Chair: Oriol López (EUROM)

3.30 pm: Roundtable 2 – Members of the European Parliament
Transnational group of Historical Memory. Ana Maria Gomes | Izaskun Bilbao Barandica | Ana Miranda Paz | Chair: Miguel Urban

4.45 pm: Coffee break

5 pm:  Roundtable 3 – Civil society networks and projects
Best practices of remembrance initiatives. European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS), Memorial de la Shoah, The Beit Project. Chair: Anna Cozzoli (EACEA – Head of Sector, Europe for Citizens)

6.30 pm: Closing and proposals

 

 

When

June 05, 2018

Where

Other Institutions Involved

  • House of European History
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