Between Education, Commerce and Adventure. Tourist experience

Between Education, Commerce and Adventure. Tourist experience in Europe since the
Interwar Period.
ZZF, Potsdam, 19-20 September 2013
19.09.2013
14.00: Opening: Thomas Mergel (Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin)
14.15-14.30: Introduction: Nikolaos Papadogiannis (Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
14.30-16.30: Panel I: Tourism and Dictatorship
Mark Keck-Szajbel (Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Polenstudien, Universität Viadrina,
Frankfurt a.d. Oder/ Department of History, UC Berkeley): Poland as Sehnsuchtsort: East
Germans in the People’s Republic in the 1970s
Martin Hurcombe (Department of French, University of Bristol): Discovering Uomo Fascista:
Political Tourism in Fascist Italy and the French Far Right
Kommentar: Mario Daniels (Universität Hannover) (to be confirmed)
16.30-17.00: Coffee break
17.00-19.00: Panel II: Tourism and Youth in postwar Europe
Jürgen Mittag /Diana Wendland (Institut für Europäische Sportentwicklung und
Freizeitforschung, Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln): How adventurers become tourists – the
role of alternative travel guides and tour operators in the course of standardisation of longdistance travelling
Christos Mais (Media Studies, Universiteit Leiden): Mixing Revolution and Pleasure: Visiting
Greece during the Junta (1967-1974)
Whitney Walton (Department of History, Purdue University): Study Abroad as Alternative
Tourism: United States American Youth in France, 1945-1970s
Kommentar: Detlef Siegfried (Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk, Kobenhavns
Universitet)
20.00: Dinner
20.09.2013
09.00-10.30: Panel III: Tourism and Migration in Postwar Europe
Marcel Berlinghoff (Historisches Seminar, Universität Heidelberg): „Faux Touristes“? –
Tourismus in europäischen Migrationsregimen seit den 1960er Jahren
Nikolaos Papadogiannis (Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin): Between migration and tourism: The travel patterns of first and second generation
Greek immigrants in West Germany, 1960s-1980s
Kommentar: Maren Möhring (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam)
10.30-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-13.00: Panel IV: Tourism, national/regional identities and social order in Central
Europe before and after the Second World War
Gundolf Graml (German Studies, Agnes Scott College): Tourism and “Nation-Building”: The
Case of Austria, 1945-55
Adam Rosenbaum (Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Colorado Mesa
University): Beer, Castles, and Nazis? Tourism and the Construction of Authenticity in
Postwar Bavaria
Andrew Behrendt (Department of History, University of Pittsburgh): Distant Gazes at Nearby
Places: Virtual Tourism in Popular Austrian and Hungarian Interwar Cinema
Kommentar: Thomas Mergel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-16.00: Panel V: Tourism and Cold War borders
Sarah Hanke (Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin):
(K)eine
Vergnügungsreise?
West-Berlin-Tourismus
zwischen
politischem
Anschauungsunterricht und „Weltstadt“-Erlebnis in den 1950er bis 1970er Jahren
Francesca Rolandi (Slavic Studies, Università di Torino): Trst je nas! Yugoslav shopping
tourism in Trieste
Benedikt Tondera (Historisches Seminar, Leibniz-Universität Hannover): ‚„The Soviet
Gaze“? Überlegungen zu den Spezifika des sowjetischen Auslandstourismus
Kommentar: Hannes Grandits (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) (to be confirmed)
16.00-16.30: Concluding remarks: Maren Möhring (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung
Potsdam)