The 4th ENCOUNTER-Conference
Managing manorial heritage – scaling and balancing public and private issues
5th–7th October 2018, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder (Germany)
Conference Programme
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See the venue
4th October 2018 (THURSDAY)
18.00 – 20.00 Registration
Venue: European University Viadrina, Main Building (Hauptgebäude), 1st floor, room 109 (Senatssaal)
19.00 Guided walk through Frankfurt/Oder
Meeting point: Courtyard of the Main Building (Hauptgebäude), access via Logenstraße
20:00 Informal get-together in Frankfurt/Oder
Venue (at the end of the guided walk): “Taverna Athos”, Hanewald 9, Frankfurt/Oder
5th October 2018 (FRIDAY)
08.30 Registration
Venue: European University Viadrina, Main Building (Hauptgebäude),
1st floor, room 109 (Senatssaal)
All conference sessions take place at the Senatssaal.
9.00 Welcome address by Martina Münch, the Minister of Culture and Science of the Federal Country Brandenburg and the President of the German National Committee for the Protection of Historical Monuments
9.10 Welcome address by Julia von Blumenthal, the President of the European University Viadrina
9.20 Introduction into the concept of the conference by Paul Zalewski, Chair of Heritage Studies at the European University Viadrina
Section 1: Sociological foundations
Chair: Gabriela Christmann (Erkner)
10.00 Keynote: Sybille Frank (Darmstadt), Rural heritage and spaces of tourism
10.30 Wulf Tessin (Hannover), Visiting rural heritage
11.00 Coffee break
Section 2 (Macro-level): “Heritage Governance” in tourism and spatial planning?
Chair: Jonathan Finch (York)
11.30 Steven Heyde, Sylvie Van Damme (Ghent), Rural estates as social enterprises of the 21th century
12.00 Ole Winther (Copenhagen), Managing manorial heritage in Denmark: Protection vs. Daily Use
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
Section 3.1 (MeSO-level): Associations and lobbies
Chair: Paul Zalewski (Frankfurt/Oder)
14.00 Ben Cowell (London), 21st-century manors: how private houses survive and thrive through diversification
14.30 Hugh Maguire (Dublin), Postcards from the Edge: Managing the Irish Country House
15.00 Marta Sofia Dos Santos (Veytaux/Switzerland), The Partnership Strategy of the Château de Chillon™
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30 Discussion
Exhibition
18.00 – 19.30 Opening of the German-Dutch exhibition about the 33 residences along the Orange Route, welcome address by Ms Willemijn van Haaften, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Berlin
Venue: In front of the Senatssaal in the Main Building. The exhibition is open to the public and will be accompanied by a small reception.
Evening lecture
19.30 – 20.15 Fred Vogelzang & Janneke van Dijk (Utrecht), Hosting Cultural Events at Castles and Country Houses
6th October 2018 (SATURDAY)
Section 3.2 (MeSO-level, CONTINUATION): Associations and lobbies
Chair: Göran Ulväng (Uppsala)
9.00 Thomas Adlercreutz (Stockholm), Voluntary work for the Cultural Heritage in Sweden. An overview over associations and their situation
9.30 Iveta Balčūne (Luznava), Heritage Governance in Latvia – from heritage governance strategies to an individual manorial place – Luznava manor
10.00 Stsiapan Stureika (Vilnius), Manor Houses in Post-Soviet Belarus: Overcoming Abandonment Through a Participatory Design
10.30 Discussion
11.00 Coffee break
Continuation of Section 2 (macro-level):
Chair: Britta Andersen (Gammel Estrup/Denmark)
11.30 Colm Murray (Dublin), The Irish Country House: State support for its ‘public value’
Section 4 (MicrO-level): Strategies of individual development
Chair: Britta Andersen (Gammel Estrup/Denmark)
12.00 Gabriela Christmann (Erkner), Between tradition and innovation. Cultural heritage and innovative ways of developing rural regions. Local initiatives from a sociological perspective
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
Section 5: Manors in Brandenburg and in Eastern Germany
(This section includes the presentations of the “macro-” and “meso-level” related issues only. The strategies in a micro scale will be presented directly on site during the excursion on 7th October.)
Chair: Paul Zalewski (Frankfurt/Oder)
14.15 Herle Forbrich (Hamburg), Manor houses without their masters. Places of history in the 20th century in East Elbia
15.00 Nils Meyer (Kiel), Empty Spaces – Meeting the Post-Reunification Challenge of Preserving and Caring for Brandenburg’s Stately Homes and Manor Houses
15.30 Anja Fielauf (Berlin), Castles and Manor Houses as Museums in the State of Brandenburg. An Empirical Study
16.00 Friederike Dinse (Berlin), Manors in the border region of Brandenburg – critical overview
17.00-18.30 Discussion
7th October 2018 (SUNDAY) – conference tour
Please note that the participation in the tour is only possible after previous registration.
Route: Sieversdorf, Lietzen, Gusow, Neuhardenberg (lunchtime), Wulkow, Alt Madlitz
Meeting point: Bus parking area, Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Straße 12, Frankfurt/Oder
Meeting time: 8.45
Return to Frankfurt/Oder: 16.00
Programme of the 4th ENCOUNTER-Conference as on 27th September 2018. May be subject to alterations.
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Header image: Anholt Castle in Isselburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany © Creative Commons CC0