International Workshop: «HEROES AND VILLAINS OF THE MOTHERLAND. National [anti]archetypes in contemporary history: a case study in comparative perspective»

Convener: Ludger Mees, University of the Basque Country, Research Project HAR2015-64920-P

University of the Basque Country, Bilbao.

Leioa Campus, School of Social Sciences and Communication.

Room: Seminario de Historia Contemporánea / Historia Garaikidea Mintegia, 2.38.

 

October 17 2018

Program:

9.30-10.00

Ludger Mees (University of the Basque Country): Presentation

10.00-10.30

Aritz Farwell (University of the Basque Country): The Construction of Heroes in the Basque Nationalist Newspaper Euzkadi (1913-1939)

10.30-11.00

Discussion

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-12.00

Alexander Schröder (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): Wu Manyou – From Peasant Labor Hero to Traitor of Socialism

12.00-12.30 p.m.

Stefan Schubert (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): Philippe Pétain – from hero to traitor

12.30-1 p.m.

Discussion

1 p.m.-3.30 p.m. Lunch

3.30 p.m.-4 p.m.

Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela): Heroes, survivors and victims: Transnational postwar narratives on the Eastern front (1941-45)

4 p.m.-4.30 p.m.

Vera Marstaller (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): Unmännliche Wehrzersetzung – Unmanly Subversion of the Wehrmacht

4.30 p.m.-5 p.m.

Final Discussion