Program

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

• Carmen Enss (University of Bamberg): Firestorms in Hamburg, 1943, and Dresden, 1945: Death Counts, Damage Maps and Neo-Nazi Propaganda

• Robin Woolven (Independent Scholar): Mapping London’s Civilian War Dead, 1940–45 (Virtual presentation)

• Christian Lotz & Pia Hering (Herder Institute): Potentials and Limits of Textual and Visual Sources about Destruction and Violence in Cities in Central Europe, 1939–49 (Virtual presentation)

• Birgit Knauer (TU Wien): Vienna after 1945: A City under Reconstruction between the Perspectives of Perpetrators and Victims

12:30–13:30 Catered Lunch

13:30–15:00 Panel 2: Postwar Civilian Narratives

Moderator: Zoya Masoud

• Mikkel Dack (Rowan University): Narrating Death and Damage in Allied-Occupied Europe, 1945–55

• Alexandre Langlois (The University of Edinburgh): Text(ures) of Emptiness: Writing as Temporal Thickening in Post-Blitz Rotterdam

• Jane McArthur (Independent Researcher): A Strange Temporality. Duologues from the London Bomb Damage Photograph Archive 1940 – 1945 (presented by Ella Chmielewska)

• Małgorzata Popiołek-Roßkamp (Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space): No War, No Victims? Women, Soldiers and Natural Environment in Cold War Berlin and Brandenburg

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

• Robin V. Hüppe (ETH Zürich): A Thousand Years of Scars: Tracing the Violent Histories of Mass Housing Landscapes in Berlin

• Piotr Leśniak (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow): Tectonic Eloquence: On Architecture of the Tchorek-Bentall Studio in Warsaw

• Susan Schuppli (Goldsmiths, University of London): Ruined: Material Rubble within the Evidence Vault of the ICTY

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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

• David Fedman (University of California, Irvine): On Memory and Morphology: A Field Guide to Tokyo’s Arboreal Archive of Wartime Destruction (Virtual presentation)

• Sonya Schönberger (Independent Artist): Forest and War

• Franny Nudelman (Carleton University): Remnants of the War on Trees: Mapping Ecocide

• Rami Msallam (ETH Zürich): Mapping the Environmental Turn: Climate, Violence, and the Healing of Post-Conflict Geographies (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 Carleton University

• Artist talk by Sonya Schönberger: 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 Paper City (2021) at the Mayfair Theatre (1074 Bank Street, Ottawa, ON), with an introduction by Executive Producer David Fedman. 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 (Carleton University): Digital Documentation of World Heritage Sites in Armed Conflict: Ethical Considerations, Opportunities, and Operational Challenges (Virtual presentation)

• Stefania Rasile (ETH Zürich): Mapping Memory and Absence: The Cemetery, the City, and Digital Memory in Post-Dictatorship Santiago de Chile

• Omar Ferwati (Goldsmiths, University of London): Situating Violence from the Ground Up – Interscalar Evidentiary Cartography

• Charles Heller (University of Bern): Border Forensics – Registering the Digital Traces of Mobility Conflicts (Virtual presentation)

10:45–11:15 Break (coffee/drinks and snacks provided)

11:15–13:15 Panel 6: Presence and Absence

Moderator: Mikkel Dack

• Ella Chmielewska (The University of Edinburgh): Warsaw ‘Afterimages and after…’: Topographies of Wartime Destruction and Loss

• Leo Schmidt (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg): Framing a Void: Assessing and Interpreting the Remnants and Traces of the Berlin Wall

• Denise Bertschi (Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich): De/Reterritorializing post-war landscapes of a divided Korean peninsula. ‘Neutral’ military photography of the Infrastructure of ‘Peace’

Short break

• Stuart Murray (Carleton University): Unsound Cartographies (Maps of Sounds of the Dead)

• Zoya Masoud (Forum Transregionale Studien): Of Death and Hope around Heritage Construction

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.