Programme
Friday, 11 April 2025
10:00 Free entrance to the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek
12:00 Registration opens
14:00 IE General assembly – Paderewski Hall LARGE
18:00
Paderewski Hall LARGE
Welcome addresses:
- Dr Robert Andrzejczyk, director of the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek
- Helena Vičič, Director of Interpret Europe
- Introduction to the conference programme
Keynote speech:
- Approaches for contested history related to monuments, sites and landscapes
Jurn Buisman (Netherlands), Museum Geelvinck / ICOMOS
19:30
Museum restaurant
Saturday, 12 April 2025
8:30
Why do we still need heroes? Towards a polyphonic culture of memory
Marcin Napiórkowski (Poland), Professor at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, Acting Director of the Polish History Museum
9:45 – 11:45 Guided tours in the museum with discussion and coffee break
11:45 – 13:10 Parallel sessions
NATIONAL IDENTITY AND PERSONALITIES
11:45 – 12:40
Polish heroes as described by a Japanese for the Japanese in years after World War I
Jadwiga Rodowicz-Czechowska, Poland – 55 min presentation
12:45 – 13:10
National heroes, empires and nation states in Europe
Nigel Mills, UK – 25 min presentation
METHODS AND APPROACHES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
11:45 -12:40
Heritage interpretation re-defined as a ‘meaning-making’ process: What does this mean in practice?
Patrick Lehnes, Germany – 55 min presentation
12:45 – 13:10
The interpretive method in genocide studies
Maria Bożena Kamińska, Poland – 25 min presentation
INTERPRETING WOMEN CHARACTERS AND OTHER
11:45 – 12:40
John Knox and the women of Scotland:
Interpreting Scottish heroes through guiding and poetry
Thomas Bak & Gerda Stevenson, Scotland – 55 min presentation
12:45 – 13:10
Her or his story? Case of Warsaw Ghetto Fighters memorial – Katarzyna Jankowska, Poland – 25 min presentation
13:15 Lunch
14:15 Departure for study visits
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Flight of the swans – Cinema night and discussion with Sacha Dench
20:00 Flight of the swans –
Cinema night and discussion with Sacha Dench (UK), CEO & Ambassador for the UN’s Convention on Migratory Species 2019-2024
Sunday, 13 April 2025
8:30
Multiperspectivity in remembrance and history education for democratic citizenship
Maria Luz Martínez Seijo (Spain), Member of Spanish Congress and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
9:45 – 10:40 Parallel sessions
WORKING FOR AND WITH COMMUNITIES
Community development through interpretation of an ancient hero
Lisa Keys & Nigel Mills, UK – 55 min presentation
METHODS AND APPROACHES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
Facilitation approach in the work of an IE trainer
Mateusz Tomaszczyk, Poland – 55 min presentation
INTERPRETING WOMEN CHARACTERS AND OTHER
The search for the universal ‘mothering soul’ through the story of one motherless mother
Barbara Struys, Belgium – 55 min presentation
NATIONAL IDENTITY AND PERSONALITIES
Bandera reaffirmed: Scrutinizing lessons of a nationalist symbol in struggling Ukraine
Elenora Narvselius, Sweden – 55 min presentation
10:45 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 13:10 Parallel sessions
WORKING FOR AND WITH COMMUNITIES
11:15 – 11:40
Heritage and the city: Who are the heroes of our urban narratives?
Laura Time, Romania – 25 min presentation
11:45 – 12:10
The Romanian peasant symbolically
immortalized in the traditional/national
costume
Roxana-Talida Roman, Romania – 25 min presentation
12:15 – 13:10
Drelicharki and drelicharze (linen traders) from Andrychów in Poland –
local community for sustainability as collective hero of entrepreneurship
Sebastian Wacięga & Tomasz Adamski, Poland – 55 min interactive workshop
METHODS AND APPROACHES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
11:15 – 11:40
See-Think-Do-Share concept: Good criterion to define target groups
Ondřej Vitek, Czech Republic – 25 min presentation
11:45 – 13:10
Joys and challenges of co-creating a learning landscape
Thorsten Ludwig & Lucija Gudlin, Germany, Valya Stergioti, Greece, Vanessa Vaio, Italy
1h 25 min interactive workshop
INTERPRETING WOMEN CHARACTERS AND OTHER
11:15 – 11:40
Female (anti)heroes in Serbia and the Balkans – fairies and witches, women’s processions
and rituals
Dragana Kojičić, Serbia – 25 min presentation
11:45 – 12:10
A “witch from Croatia” in exile: Rewriting a folklore villain into a new kind of female hero
Katia Dianina, USA – 25 min presentation
12:15 – 12:40
Little heroes – how to inspire children for sustainability?
Monika Nethe, Germany – 12 min presentation
12:45 – 13:10
“No more heroes anymore!”
Mark Wallis, UK – 25 min presentation
NATIONAL IDENTITY AND PERSONALITIES
11:15 – 11:40
Between controversy and experience:
Interpreting heritage of the first Croatian
president
Luka Jakopčić, Croatia – 25 min presentation
11:45 – 12:10
Makarios III. A political animal in vestments
Maria Fotia, Greece – 25 min presentation
12:45 – 13:10
Interpreting heroes: László Székely’s
imagery in Timișoara’s early 20th-century
development
Lucia Leca, Romania – 55 min presentation
13:15 – 14:10 Lunch break
14:15 – 15:10 Parallel sessions
MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS
14:15 – 14:40
Taking Sir Hans Sloane off his pedestal? Legacies of enslavement and empire at the British Museum
Stuart Frost, UK – 25 min presentation
14:45 – 15:10
Change of Heart at Blackburn Museum
Steve Slack – 25 min presentation
METHODS AND APPROACHES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
14:15 – 15:10
Breaking bad in the museum: The ethics of antiheroic interpretation
Philipp P. Thapa, Germany – 55 min presentation
NATURE HEROES
14:15 – 14:40
Turning a glacier into an athlete. How to explain complex phenomena through an exhibition character
Anna Pikuła & Olga Tarczyńska-Polus, Poland – 25 min presentation
14:45 – 15:10
Non-human heroes and villains: River personhood in Polish heritage discourse since 2022
Michał Kępski, Poland – 25 min presentation
NATIONAL IDENTITY AND PERSONALITIES
14:15 – 14:40
Kozina and Lomikar: Heroes at the crossroad of history
Kristýna Pinkrová, Czech Republic – 25 min presentation
14:45 – 15:10
Blind Badasses – turning tales of historical
underdogs into interpretive experiences
Iva Silla, Croatia – 25 min presentation
15:30 Departure for study visits
19:00 Farewell dinner and raffle
Monday 14 April 2025
8:30 – 9:15
Sheroes and anti-sheroes – how do we remember and celebrate women history in recent Poland
Anna Kowalczyk (Poland), journalist, writer, feminist, activist, EMBA
NATIONAL IDENTITY AND PERSONALITIES
10:15 – 10:40
Dr Jekyll / Mr Hyde of Polish populist right propaganda: two entwined stories of Tusk and Kaczyński
Jacek Kołodziej, Poland – 25 min presentation
9:45 – 10:10
Who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte in his unsuccessful attempt to conquer Akko (Israel) during his war campaign to the East?
Shelley-Anne Peleg, Israel – 25 min presentation
METHODS AND APPROACHES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
9:45 – 10:40
The nature boost – Swedish collaboration on communication for the Global Diversity Plan
Eva Sandberg & Per Sonnvik, Sweden – 55 min interactive workshop
MONUMENTS AND SITES OF MEMORY
9:45 – 10:10
Victims of heroes? Victims of murderers
Ladislav Ptáček, Czech Republic – 25 min presentation
10:15 – 10:40
The good, the bad, and the graffitied: How we (re-)interpret monuments to heroes
Elisa Bailey, Spain – 25 min presentation
MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS
9:45 – 10:10
Faces of national and discrete heroes of Yugoslavia – a shift in museum’s narratives
Aleksandra Momčilović Jovanović, Serbia – 25 min presentation
10:15 – 10:40
Heroes / interpreters of the memory of Old Belgrade: The House of Jevrem Grujić – museum of Serbian history, diplomacy, art and avant-garde
Ana Radovanac Živanov, Serbia – 25 min presentation
10:45 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:10 Parallel sessions
NATIONAL IDENTITY AND PERSONALITIES
11:15 -12:10
The man who envied the birds. Interpreting the story of Jan Wnęk – a mid-19th century aviation pioneer
Małgorzata Hordyniec & Mateusz Tomaszczyk, Poland – 55 min presentation
9:45 – 10:40
Emotion Networking as a method to work with the controversial heritage
Monika Michalek, Poland – 55 min interactive workshop
MONUMENTS AND SITES OF MEMORY
11:15 – 11:40
Mihajlo Pupin: About the time before and after great discoveries
Marija Dragišić, Serbia – 25 min presentation
11:45 – 12:10
The dead are very near… An Irish story
Teresa Josephine Sweeney Meade, Ireland – 25 min presentation
MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS
11:15 – 11:40
Rethink revolutionary art
Katarina Živanović, Serbia – 25 min presentation
11:45 – 12:10
On the crossroad of responsibilities: living in between two eras, an experiment from Chania, Crete
Penelope Gkini, Greece – 25 min presentation
12:15 – 12:40 Market of ideas and speaker’s corner
12:45 – 13:10 Conference closing
13:15 Lunch
14:30 Departure for the post-conference tour to Masuria