PROGRAMME

Wednesday 24 February 2016

11.30-13.00 (Doelenzaal)
Registration, light lunch
13.00-14.15 (Doelenzaal)
Welcome by Michael Wintle, Director of the Huizinga Institute
Opening by Frank van Vree, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the
University of Amsterdam and Director-designate of NIOD
Keynote address by John Horne (Trinity College Dublin): Narrating battle in
the Great War
14.15-14.30
Break
14.30-16.00
Parallel sessions
1. War Narratives in the Museum (Doelenzaal)

Andrea Brait (Universitt Innsbruck): Mediation of the end of the

war in 1945 in national military museums

Pieter de Bruijn (Open University of the Netherlands): World War

II on display: the construction of narratives in a museum context

Martijn Eickhoff (NIOD Amsterdam): Dutch Indies veterans

and/in the Dutch museological landscape

2. Transitional Justice and Reconciliation I (Belle van Zuylenzaal)

Isabella Insolvibile (German Historical Institute Rome): The late

and partial transitional justice in Italy: the denied memory in the
Kefalonia case and trial

Mara Anglica Nieto (Erasmus University Rotterdam):

Narratives of victims in the collective reparations process to
journalists in Colombia

Marieke Zoodsma (NIOD Amsterdam): Then we came to

understand that I was hurt and you were hurt too. The role of
religion and competing narratives in the reconciliation process in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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3. Testimonies (Vondelzaal)

Bas von Benda-Beckmann (NIOD Amsterdam): Loss and guilt in

(my) family memory: the war stories of Tini and Luise von Benda

Evelien Gans (NIOD Amsterdam): Remember the Sternlager of

Bergen-Belsen. The use of humor and magic as a survival strategy

Susan Hogervorst (Open University of the Netherlands/Erasmus

University Rotterdam): Digital survival. Online testimonies and
public memory

16.00-16.15
Break
16.15-17.45
Parallel sessions
4. Trauma (Vondelzaal)

Tim Scheffe (VU Amsterdam): Trauma/non-trauma: Spanish Civil

War International Brigades

Anna-Lena Werner (Freie Universitt Berlin): Trauma as an

aesthetic strategy

Inayat Ullah (NUST Islamabad): Not mere tales of torture and

trauma! The role of Afghan narratives of war in augmenting
history

5. Textbook Narratives of WWII (Doelenzaal)

Tina van der Vlies (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Fights and

flashbacks. Narrating war in history textbooks

Sylwia Bobryk (University of Portsmouth): Heroes, victims,

perpetrators, bystanders or witnesses? The narratives of the
Second World War in Polish history textbooks since 1989

Jelena ureinovi (Universitt Gieen): Between collaboration

and resistance: the changing narrative of the Second World War in
(post)Yugoslav Serbia

6. Transitional Justice and Reconciliation II (Belle van Zuylenzaal)

Maja Vodopivec (Leiden University): Reconciliation in a deadlock

- stories of forgetting and exclusion in postwar Bosnia

Nena Monik (University of Ljubljana): Srebrenica aestheticized.

Ethics and aesthetics of docu-art narratives at the 20th
anniversary commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide

Jan Julia Zurn (Ghent University): Only by force of our love of the
Fatherland and our moral prestige: the role of narrative in the
postwar (self) image of the Belgian judiciary

17.45-18.30 (Restaurant De Brakke Grond)

Drinks
18.30 (Restaurant De Brakke Grond)
Conference dinner for paper-givers
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Thursday 25 February 2016

9.45-11.15
Parallel sessions
7. Positive Images of War (Doelenzaal)

Pinella Di Gregorio (University of Catania): Italian Futurism, a

narrative of the joyful war

Lucio Valent (University of Milan): Luigi Bartolini and his Return

to Carso

Jan Jacob Hoffmann (University of Bergen): Modernism,

masculinity and the gendering of narration. A comparison of battle
scenes in novels on the First World War

8. Remembering a Difficult Past (Vondelzaal)

Aleksandra Kubica (Kings College London) and Thomas van de

Putte (University of Bern): Re-enacting the Holocaust? Coping
with memory of occupation, war and genocide for inhabitants of
Owicim

Liesbeth Hoeven (Tilburg University): Writing the future: a plea

for the development of counterstories and public authorship

Karla Vanraepenbusch (Universit catholique de Louvain): The

struggle over war narratives and memory in the cityscapes of
occupied Belgium
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11.15-11.30
Break
11.30-13.00
Parallel sessions
9. Afterlife Through Story-telling: WWI (Potgieterzaal)

Annika Werkman (Utrecht University): Alfred & Emily by Doris

Lessing

Sabine van Wesemael (University of Amsterdam): Les mes

grises (Grey Souls) by Philippe Claudel (2005)

Jan Vermeiren (University of East Anglia): The Tannenberg Myth

in history and literature, 1914-1945

10. Popular Culture: WWII (Doelenzaal)

Kees Ribbens (NIOD Amsterdam): Wikipedias World War II:

Fragmenting the narrative?

Laurie Slegtenhorst (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Hero or

bad guy? Making choices in WWII musicals

Pieter Van den Heede (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Playing

the Good War? World War II-themed digital games and their
narratives

11. Techniques of Narrative Construction (Vondelzaal)

Katherine Roseau (Purdue University, Indiana): The diary and the

non-narrative (the wait)

Jeroen Jansen (University of Amsterdam): Explaining or arguing

history? P.C. Hooft's Dutch History (1642)

David A. Norris (University of Nottingham): Comedy in war is no

laughing matter: NATO bombing of 1999 in Serbian literature

Ester Lo Biundo (University of Reading): The BBCs broadcasts in

Italy during World War Two

13.00-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.30
Parallel sessions
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12. Veterans Memoires (Doelenzaal)

Dunja Duani (University of Belgrade): Whose 1914? Veteran

memory and the war books controversy in Europe

Rebecca van Raamsdonk (University of Amsterdam): The image

of the enemy in Henri Barbusse (Le feu, 1916) and Erich Maria
Remarque (Im Westen nichts neues, 1929)

Matilda Greig (European University Institute Florence): The

stories the First World War inherited: the changing meanings and
uses of Napoleonic veterans memoirs from Spain, Britain and
France, 1814-1914

13. The Role of War in Narrative (Vondelzaal)

Adriano Vinale (University of Salerno): Simone Weil and the

destituent narrative of Europe

Tristana Dini (University of Salerno): Force and pain: perceptions

of war in the works of Simone Weil and Marguerite Duras

15.30-15.45
Break
15.45-17.15
Parallel sessions
14. Reinventing the West after WWII (Vondelzaal)

George Blaustein (University of Amsterdam): Of automobiles and

hot-dog stands: anthropologists, American character, and the
European frontier

Merel Leeman (University of Amsterdam): Peter Gay and the

drama of German history in the United States

Daniel Knegt (European University Institute Florence): Decline or

defence of the West? War narratives of French collaborationist
intellectuals after 1944

15. Narrating Mass Violence (Doelenzaal)

Iva Vukui (Utrecht University): Narratives of violence in and out

of the courtroom: Srebrenica at the ICTY

Kjell Anderson (NIOD Amsterdam): Collective crimes, collective

memory, and transitional justice in Bangladesh
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Uur mit ngr (Utrecht University/NIOD Amsterdam):

Narratives of mass violence against civilians in the Syrian Civil War

17.15
Drinks
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Friday 26 February 2016

9.15-10.45
Parallel sessions
16. Veterans and the Politics of Memory (Doelenzaal)

Miel Groten (VU Amsterdam): Veterans narratives of the Dutch

decolonization war

Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre (University of Turin): Ex-servicemen and

the politics of memory in Italy

Marcin Jarzbek (Jagiellonian University Krakow): Narrating war

without social memory framework autobiographical oral history
narratives of former Polish Wehrmacht soldiers

17. The Politics of Memory (Vondelzaal)

Peter Pichler (Karl-Franzens-Universitt Graz): WWI

remembrance and the EU

Marieke Oprel (VU Amsterdam): The archive as narrator?

Narratives of German enemy citizens in the Netherlands after 1945

Roza Kamilolu (Ko University Istanbul): From Collective

Memory to Collective Guilt: A Social Psychological Approach to
Atrocity

10.45-11.00
Break
11.00-12.30
Parallel sessions
18. The Power of Memory (Belle van Zuylenzaal)

Bram Faber (University of Amsterdam): Discourse as a measure

for reality: explaining readership faith in false testimony
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Julian David Bermeo Osorio (Erasmus University Rotterdam):

History education and war violence memories. Experiences of
teachers and students from secondary schools in Bogot

19. The Scope and Limitations of Biography (Doelenzaal)

Lonneke Geerlings (VU Amsterdam): Anne Frank's Diary Genuine,

Says Teacher: Rosey E. Pool's Fulbright tour through the American
South, 1959-1960

Christina Morina (Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam): Of triumph

and defeat. World War II and its historians in Germany after 1945

Susie Protschky (Monash University): Colonial photography and

Dutch narratives of suffering after the Indonesian War of
Independence (1945-1950)

20. The Dutch Revolt: Spanish and Dutch Narratives (Vondelzaal)

Lonor lvarez Francs (Leiden University): Almost every day

memorable events happened that have to be described from day to
day: The War in Holland (1573-1575) in Spanish and Dutch
chronicles

Beatriz Santiago Belmonte (Leiden University): If we have to

camp this winter in Holland, it will have to be with skates: The
War in Holland (1573-1575) through the eyes of the Spanish army
commanders

Raymond Fagel (Leiden University): Episodic narratives on the

War in Holland (1573-1575): heroes and villains between myth
and reality

12.30-13.30
Lunch
13.30-15.00
Parallel sessions
21. British and American Representations of WWII Italy (Doelenzaal)

Daniele Pipitone (University of Turin): The importation of

memories: American representations of the Second World War in
post-war Italy

Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia): British imperial

views on Trieste in 1945
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Manoela Patti (University of Palermo): Italian-Americans and

Italians in Sicily during World War II: story and memory of the
enemy-friends

22. War and Violence in Visual Culture (Vondelzaal)

Nevena Dakovi (University of Belgrade): The Calvary of Serbia:

Stanislav Krakovs literary and cinematic narratives of the Great
War

Hanna Gjelten Hattrem (University of Amsterdam): Critiquing the

patriarchal paradigm: female terrorists in cinema, media and
academia

Jan Willem Honig (Kings College London): Battle paintings: the

invention of modern war and warfare

15.00-15.30
Break
15.30-16.45 (Doelenzaal)
Round table roundup session
16.45-17.00 (Doelenzaal)
Conference closes
17.00-18.45 (NIOD)
Drinks for all speakers