PROGRAMME (24 May 2016)
9.00 – 9.30 Welcome, Presentations of the EGBI and the PEMC – who we are, what we do, our goals and objectives
• Dr. Neela Winkelmann, Managing Director PEMC, CZ
• Melanie Kreutz, BUND Projektbüro Grünes Band, DE
9.30-10.50 Killings along the Iron Curtain part I – facts and figures, our knowledge today, case studies, further research needed
• Miroslav Lehký, PEMC, CZ
• Dr. Michal Babál, Nation’s Memory Insitute, SK
• Sabine Nachbaur, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Kriegsfolgen-Forschung, AT
10.50-11.10 coffee break
11.10 – 12.30 Killings along the Iron Curtain part II – facts and figures, our knowledge today, case studies, further research needed
• Dr. Jochen Staadt, Freie Universität Berlin, DE
• Magdalena Biro, Timisoara Society, RO
• Damjan Hančič, Study Centre for National Reconciliation, SI
12.30 – 13.30 buffet lunch
13.30 – 15.30 Soft tourism concepts along the Green Belt – existing and planned projects, bike trails, nature protection, guided tours, etc.
• Philipp Cerny, project manager, The Iron Curtain Trail, The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament, DE
• Daniel Mourek, Greenways, CZ
• Uwe Friedel, BUND Projektbüro Grünes Band, DE
• Christoph Lettner, Naturraum Grünes Band GmbH, AT
• Ján Roháč, Nadácia Ekopolis, SK
Discussion
15.30 – 15.50 coffee break
16.00 – 17.30 Memorials to people killed – existing and planned decentralised memorials along the Green Belt, cooperation between PEMC and EGBI, possible next projects and funding options
• Miroslav Kasáček, civic association Paměť, CZ
• Michael Schulz, Union of Victims of Political Tyranny UOKG, DE
• Martin Petrtýl, Post bellum, CZ
Discussion
17.30 – 17.45 Conclusions and outline of follow-up workshop on 11 July 2016
• Melanie Kreutz, BUND Projektbüro Grünes Band, DE
• Dr. Neela Winkelmann, Director PEMC
Discussion participants:
- Jana Ignaťáková, Nation’s Memory Institute, SK
- Benjamin Baumgart, Union of Victims of Political Tyranny UOKG, DE
- Johann Grünbauer, Foundation Memory of Totalitarian Regimes and their Victims, NL
- Peter Rendek, Center for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, CZ
- Martin Špolc, Prague Academic Club 48, CZ
- Jakub Kožíšek, Prague Academic Club 48, CZ