Friday, 21 October 2005
13:30-14:00: Registration
14:00-14:30: Welcome and Introduction. John Horne (Trinity College, Dublin)
14:30-16:00: Military demobilization and the transition to civilian politics. Chair: James McMillan, Edinburgh
Peter Romijn, Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie, Amsterdam Local government and post-war politics: a case-study of the Netherlands
Nicolas Werth, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent, Paris. Exiting war: Soviet veterans returning from Europe after 1945
16:00-16:30: Coffee
16:30-18:00: Reconstruction of society and the economic and social legacies of war. Chair: Henry Rousso, IHTP, Paris
Peter Apor, Central European University, Budapest Economic reconstruction in post-1945 Hungary: a case-study
Thomas Lindenberger, ZZF, Potsdam Correcting history? East Germany’s transformation and mixed feelings about West Germany’s post-fascist reconstruction
18:15: Dinner
Saturday, 22 October 2005
9:00-10:30: Geo-politics and demography. Chair: Dariusz Stola, ISP PAN, Warsaw
Pieter Lagrou, Université Libre de Bruxelles Population transfers and ethnic cleansing in post-war periods
Pertti Ahonen, University of Edinburgh Overcoming legacies of ethnic cleansing in post-World War II Europe
10:30-11:00: Coffee
11:00-12:30: Political and cultural demobilization. Chair: Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, EHESS, Paris
Martin Conway, Balliol College, Oxford Political demobilization after 1945: the making of a conservative democracy in Europe
John Horne, Trinity College, Dublin. Cultural demobilization after the First World War: comparative perspectives
12:30-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:30: Transversal themes: gender, Europe and the wider world, historians and historiography. Chair: Mariuccia Salvati, Bologna
Stefan Berger, University of Manchester Historians and history-writing after the world wars
Laura Downs, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris The implications of gender for post-war periods and vice-versa
15:30-16:00: Coffee
16:00-18:00: Planning the PWP project: intellectual and financial strategies.
18.00-19.00: EURHISTXX Management Committee Meeting
21:00: Dinner