Program
The conference will take place at ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University, Dunton Tower, room 2017 (20th floor), September 15–18, 2025.
The conference is open to the public. No advance registration is required.
Online participation is also possible. Here is the . Participants may ask questions in the chat and request to speak. The schedule follows Eastern Daylight Time (Ottawa).
Presenters: Please log onto the “Practical Information” page to obtain the presenter link.
Please note that, apart from the evening film screening, Day 3 sessions are closed.
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Day 1: Monday, September 15, 2025
10:00–10:30 Arrival and free registration (coffee/drinks and snacks provided)
10:30–11:00 Welcoming of conference attendees
11:00–12:30 Panel 1: Critically Reflecting on World War Two Cartographies and Archives
Moderators: Robin V. Hüppe and Jerzy Elżanowski
- (University of Bamberg):
- Robin Woolven (Independent Scholar): (Virtual presentation)
- & Pia Hering (Herder Institute): (Virtual presentation)
- (TU Wien):
12:30–13:30 Catered Lunch
13:30–15:00 Panel 2: Postwar Civilian Narratives
Moderator: Zoya Masoud
- (Rowan University):
- (The University of Edinburgh):
- (Independent Researcher): (presented by Ella Chmielewska)
- (Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space):
15:00–15:30 Break (coffee/drinks and snacks provided)
15:30–16:45 Panel 3: Ruins and Rubble as Material Witnesses
Moderator: Stuart Murray
- (ETH Zürich):
- (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow):
- (Goldsmiths, University of London):
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Day 2: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
9:00–9:30 Welcoming of conference attendees (coffee/drinks and snacks provided)
9:30–11:00 Panel 4: Trees Who Remember
Moderators: Susan Ross and Denise Bertschi
- (University of California, Irvine): (Virtual presentation)
- (Independent Artist):
- Franny Nudelman (ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University):
- (ETH Zürich): (Virtual presentation)
11:00–11:30 Short lunch
11:30–11:45 Taxi to Ingenium Centre (1865 St. Laurent Boulevard, Ottawa, ON) (Taxis will be provided)
12:00–15:30 Curatorial workshop at Ingenium Centre led by Rebecca Dolgoy (Curator, Natural Resources and Industrial Technologies) and Jacqueline Riddle (Assistant Curator, Transportation and Access)
Please note that the Ingenium workshop is for network participants only
15:30–17:30 Free time
17:30–20:00 Art exhibition opening and artist talk at the Lightroom Gallery in the Architecture Building at ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University
- Artist talk by : Archives from the Soil
- Panel discussion with conference participants
- Catered reception and exhibition tour
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Day 3: Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Apart from the evening film screening, this day of the conference will be devoted to closed workshops with network participants.
9:00–9:30 Welcoming of participants (coffee/drinks and snacks provided)
9:30–11:00 Workshop 1: Preparing a Joint Funding Application
Facilitators: Carmen Enss, Susan Ross, and Jerzy Elżanowski as well as the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Facilitators
11:00–12:00 Funding breakout session
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:00–14:30 Workshop 2: Preparing a Joint Publication
Facilitators: Franny Nudelman and Stuart Murray
14:30–15:30 Publication breakout session
15:30–16:00 Recap of the day’s activities
16:00–18:00 Free time
18:00–20:30 Screening of (2021) at the (1074 Bank Street, Ottawa, ON), with an introduction by Executive Producer . The screening is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a discussion.
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Day 4: Thursday, September 18, 2025
9:00–9:30 Welcoming of conference attendees (coffee/drinks and snacks provided)
9:30–10:45 Panel 5: Digitizing the Evidence and Afterlives of Conflict
Moderator: Carmen Enss
- Mario Santana Quintero (ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University): (Virtual presentation)
- Stefania Rasile (ETH Zürich):
- (Goldsmiths, University of London):
- (University of Bern): (Virtual presentation)
10:45–11:15 Break (coffee/drinks and snacks provided)
11:15–13:15 Panel 6: Presence and Absence
Moderator: Mikkel Dack
- (The University of Edinburgh):
- (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg):
- (Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich):
Short break
- Stuart Murray (ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University):
- (Forum Transregionale Studien):
13:15–18:30 Free time
18:30 Conference dinner for network participants. Location TBD. The dinner is on a ‘pay-your-own’ basis. Student network participants are welcome to email the conference organizers if they need financial assistance to participate in the dinner.