Rijeka, Croatia, 10-12 July 2019
Cities and regions in flux after border change:
Reconfiguring the frontier, reshaping memory and visualizing change in twentieth century Europe
Day 1 -Wednesday, July 10th
Histories, memories and representations of border change in Rijeka
13.00 - 13.30 Welcome address (Sanja Bojanić, CAS University of Rijeka)
Introduction to the conference concept (Gruia Badescu) and contributing projects (Brigitte Le Normand- Rijeka in Flux, Jeremy Walton- Empires of Memory, Vjeran Pavlaković- Memoryscapes)
13.30 - 15.00 Keynote by Dominique Reill, University of Miami
A History of Surviving Empire’s Demise: Fiume Before Mussolini
in conversation with Gabor Egry, Institute of Political History, Budapest
15.00 - 15.45 Panel 1: Rijeka after border change (1)
Chair: Marco Abram, University of British Columbia
Francesca Rolandi, University of Ljubljana
Women’s transitional experiences in Fiume/Rijeka and Sušak after the First World War
Ana-Maria Milčić, Courtauld Institute of Art
Sexual Borders: Visualizing the Occupation of Rijeka in 1919
15.45 - 16.15 Coffee break
16.15 - 17.45 Panel 1: Rijeka after border change (2)
Chair: Vanni d’Alessio, University of Naples & CAS Rijeka
Domagoj Krpan, University of Rijeka, and Vedran Obućina, University of Regensburg
Greetings from Rijeka: self-identification through postcard vistas
Marco Abram, University of British Columbia
Between socialist Yugoslavism and the right to “national development”: negotiating Italian identity in Rijeka’s public spaces after the Trieste Crisis (1954-1961)
Gruia Badescu, University of Konstanz & CAS University of Rijeka
Architectural reconfigurations after border change and population movements: Interrogating frontier urbanism in Rijeka 1945-1960.
Milou van Hout, University of Amsterdam
Visualizing Rijeka’s urban cultural citizenship: Shifting borders, urban memories and local rebranding at Rikard Benčić.
18.30 - 20.15 Rijeka urban history walk (Vjeran Pavlaković, University of Rijeka &
Vanni D’Alessio, University of Naples & CAS Rijeka)
20.30 Conference dinner
Day 2 - Thursday, July 11th
History and memory of border change
9.00 - 10.00 Keynote by Brendan Karch, Louisiana State University
’Times Change and So Do We’: Shifting Borders and Instrumental Nationalism in Upper Silesia
10.00 - 11.15 Panel 2: Urban trajectories
Chair: Brigitte LeNormand, University of British Columbia
Marco Bresciani, University of Florence,
Post-Habsburg crisis of sovereignty and (dis)order: the case of the port-town of Trieste (1918-1926)
Steen Bo Frandsen, University of Southern Denmark,
Flensburg: A Century as a Border City
Robert Nemes, Colgate University,
The Unwanted Town: Hungarian Komárom Between the Wars
11.15 - 12.00 Coffee break and poster presentations
Emiliano Loria (Archivio-Museo Storico di Fiume - Società di Studi Fiumani in Rome) and Federico C. Simonelli (Vittoriale degli Italiani),
Fiume outside Rijeka. The Italian memory of a multi-ethnic frontier city
Tea Perinčić (Pomorski i Povijesni Muzej Hrvatskog Primorja / Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka)
Memories of a Palace: the History of the City of Rijeka through the History of Governor's palace.
Nataša Babić, Ema Makarun, Marija Lazanja Dušević (Muzej Grada Rijeke / City Museum of Rijeka).
Legacies and Transitions of the City Museum: from the Socialist Revolution to the Croatian Independence, and to Rijeka “European Capital of Culture 2020”.
12.00 - 13.30 Panel 3: Shifting identities
Chair: Ivan Jeličić, University of Rijeka
Cody Inglis, Institute of Political History in Budapest,
‘… Alterations to the Previous Service’? Continuity and Change in Infrastructure and Bureaucracy on the Southern Moravian Frontier, 1917–1921
Violeta Davoliute, Vilnius University,
Postwar Vilnius under late Stalinism: shifting borders, cultures and identity
Bojan Aleksov, University College London,
Jewish Refugees and Migrants in the Balkans
Maximilian Sternberg, University of Cambridge,
From barrier to opportunity? Negotiating the border through shared heritage sites in Polish– German border towns
13.30 -14.30 Lunch
14.30 -16.00 Panel 5: Memories of border change
Chair: Gruia Badescu, University of Konstanz/ CAS Rijeka
Joerg Hackmann, University of Szczecin,
Fluid borders in space and time: The changing mnemonic discourses on Szczecin since 1945
Chloe Wells, University of Eastern Finland, Małgorzata Łukianow, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Territorial phantom pains: Postmemories of Karelia in Finland and Kresy in Poland
Borut Klabjan, European University Institute /Science and Research Centre Koper
Franz Josef in Flux: Habsburg Memories in Trieste/Trst/Triest
Diviani Chaudhuri, Shiv Nadar University,
The Enchanting Borderless Nowhereness of Trieste: 21st Century Touristic Place-Making amongst Imperial and Yugo-Nostalgia
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 18.00 Keynote by Olga Sezneva, University of Amsterdam
Brick and Gelatine: Architectural Photography (Re)shaping Memory-scape
Viewing of photographs by Dmitry Vyshemirsky on Kaliningrad
Day 3 - Friday, July 12th
Visualizing and representing border change
09.00 - 10.30 Panel 4: Visualizing urban change
Chair: Natasha Janković, CAS Rijeka/ University of British Columbia
Dragan Damjanović, University of Zagreb,
International (Neo-)Styles in the Age of Nationalism – Zagreb Architecture after 1918 Changing of Borders
Neža Čebron Lipovec, University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities
Preserving the visual continuity in the landscape, building a new society – meanings of Edo Mihevc's work in Koper/Capodistria
Roswitha Kersten-Pejanić, CAS University of Rijeka,
Changing affective regimes and the writings on the wall: Semiotic landscapes of historically challenged border regions in Croatia
Eric Ušić, University of Ljubljana,
The walls remember: A visual ethnography of (post)World War II graffiti in Istria
10.30-11.00 Coffee break and poster presentations
Andrea Roknić Bežanić, Bruno Raguž, University of Rijeka, Rijeka’s student years 1968-1971 (Riječke studentske godine 1968.-1971.
Carlo Leo, KU Leuven,
Remembering the City of Life under D'Annunzio. The Literary memory of the occupation of Fiume (1919-1921)
Nataša Janković, “Rijeka in Flux” Project
Rijeka Terri(s)tories: Architectural Mapping of the City Territory Transformation
11.00 - 12.15 Panel 6: Heritage and Museums
Chair: Miloš Jovanović, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Kaja Širok, University of Ljubljana & National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia,
Observing walls: Memorial and musealization practices in urban spaces
Kristina Pandža, Centre for Industrial Heritage, University of Rijeka,
Tito’s ship Galeb as a witness of border changes
Selvihan Kurt, Istanbul Technical University,
Turkey Locating the Collective Memory: The Role of the Izmir Museum in Izmir’s Urban Nationalization
12.15- 12.30 Break and poster presentation
Benedikt Perak,“Rijeka in Flux” Project
Aggregating data for representation of the Rijeka History
12.30- 13.45 Panel 7 - Representations
Chair: Jeremy Walton, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Christina E. Kramer, University of Toronto,
Skopje Postcards: Images of a City in Motion
Lana Lovrenčić, Office for Photography/ University of Zagreb
Shifting borders. The case of Zadar
Owen Kohl, University of Chicago/ CSEES Graz
The Poetics of Boundary Crossing in Domestic Hip Hop Film
13.45 – 14.45 Lunch
14.45 - 15.30 Panel 8 - Mapping: Rijeka and beyond
Chair: Marco Abram, University of British Columbia
Brigitte Le Normand and Jon Corbett, University of British Columbia,
Mapping Rijeka’s past: conjugating history, geography, and beyond.
Vanni D’Alessio (University of Naples & CAS University of Rijeka) and Ivan Jeličić (University of Rijeka)
Challenges of Representing and Researching the History of a Transnational and Contested City through Digital Media: The Rijeka /Fiume Geolive Map Project and Beyond.
15.30 -16.30 Keynote by Anne Kelly Knowles, University of Maine
How to Map People and Places In Extremis?
16.30 - 16.45 Coffee break
16.45 -17.30 Panel 8 - Mapping (2)
Chair: Jon Corbett, University of British Columbia
General discussion on mapping and border change
17.30 - 18.00 Reflection on conference threads and discussion of further steps (ie.
publication
