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6 May / Wednesday
9.30–10.00	/ Opening speech CONFERENCE OPENING Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Co-chairman of the Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Poland)
10.00–11.00	/ Opening of the exhibition prepared by the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk ’45. END OF THE WAR IN 45 ARTEFACTS
11.15–13.30	/ Panel 1 SHAPING OF MEMORY OF THE WORLD WAR II IN HISTORICAL MUSEUMS moderator Norman Davies (Great Britain) participants Margot Blank, German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst (Germany) Paweł Machcewicz, irector of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk (Poland) Alexandr Nikonov, Director of the Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow (Russia) Élie Barnavi, former Ambassador of Israel in France, historian, political scientist (Israel)
13.30–15.00	/ Break
15.00–17.30	/ Panel 2 WORLD WAR II IN COLLECTIVE MEMORY moderator Stefan Troebst, Centre for Central and Eastern European Research at the University of Leipzig (Germany) participants Piotr M. Majewski, Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, University of Warsaw (Poland) Jörg Echternkamp, Centre for Military History and Social Sciences of the German Army (Germany) Mikhail Narinskiy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russia) Andriy Portnov, Centre for Contemporary History in Postdam (Ukraine))
7 May / Thursday
9.00–11.00	/ Panel 3 LEGACY OF THE YALTA AND POTSDAM CONFERENCES. POST-WAR WORLD ORDER moderator Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Co-chairman of the Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Poland) participants Sławomir Dębski,Director of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding (Poland) Jan C. Behrends, Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam (Germany) Martin H. Folly, Brunel University London (Great Britain) Nikita Pietrov, “Memorial” Association (Russia
11.00–11.30	/ Break
11.30–13.30	/ Panel 4 SHARED AND DIVIDED RESPONSIBILITY. HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE WORLD WAR II AND ITS CONSEQUENCES moderator Łukasz Adamski, Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding (Poland) participants Marek Kornat, Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) Jürgen Zarusky, Institute of Contemporary History (Germany) Roger Moorhouse (Great Britain) Władimir Barysznikow, Institute of History, Saint Petersburg State University (Russia)
13.30–14.15	/ Break
14.15–16.00	/ Panel 5 HOW TO DO RESEARCH ON THE WORLD WAR II TODAY? moderator Jörg Morré, German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst (Germany) participants Stanisław Żerko, Institute for Western Affairs (Poland) Claudia Weber, iadrina European University (Germany) Natalia Lebiedeva, nstitute of Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) Timothy Snyder, Yale University (United States)

PARTICIPATION RULES

6 May 2015 / Wednesday

• free entrance
• simultaneous interpretation of lectures
• deposit your ID to borrow headphones
• building opens at 8.30 am

7 May 2015 / Thursday

• invitation becomes entry ticket after telephone booking
booking | 28–30 April and 4–5 May 2015, 9 am – 4 pm | Tel.: +48 58 772 40 32, + 48 58 772 40 31 | first-come-first-served basis
• entrance exclusively on the basis of guest list and ID
• simultaneous interpretation of lectures
• deposit your ID to borrow headphones
• building opens at 8.30 am

venue | European Solidarity Centre, auditorium
address | Gdańsk, 1 Solidarity Square (plac Solidarności)
entrance | from the Solidarity Square (plac Solidarności)
map | ecs.gda.pl