Gernika¥s 19th international convention on culture and peace
Programme

22 April, Wednesday

2o Annual Meeting of European project CRIC.

14:00-20:00 CRIC social time (Afternoon excursion to visit the area: Urdaibai, Cave of Santimamiñe (Kortezubi), Forua, Bermeo).

23 April, Thursday

Venue: Elai Alai Aretoa

9:00-9:30 Registration and delivery of materials.

9:30-10:00 Inauguration of Gernika's 19th International Convention on Culture and Peace.

10:00-11:00 Plenary Session.

  • Vicent Martínez Guzmán. "Identities for building peaces". Director of the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace. Universitat Jaume I, Castellón.

Presentation: María Oianguren. Director of Peace Research Centre Gernika Gogoratuz.

11:00-11:30 Coffee break.

11:30-13:00 Morning Session.

  • María Jesús Cava Mesa. "Gernika, the case study and historiography of memory (thirteen years later)", Professor of the Department of Contemporary History, University of Deusto.
  • David Uzzell. "When and Where Memory and History Meet". Professor of Environmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, United Kingdom and adviser of the project CRIC.

Presentation: Dacia Viejo Rose, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

13:00-14:00 Horizontal dialogues moderated by Carsten Paludan-Müller, General Director of Norwegian Institute of Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) and adviser of project CRIC.

14:00-16:00 Lunch break.

16:00-18:00 Afternoon Session.

  • Jokin Alberdi. "The Common ground: defining the diversity and the intercultural relations in everyday life", Professor of University of Basque Country, UPV-EHU.
  • Daniel Nina. "The Common ground: defining the spaces of reconciliation in everyday life". Associate Professor, Faculty of Law Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

Presentation: Andreas Schäfter. Gernika Gogoratuz. Red Bilgune.

18:15-19:15 Presentation of documentary Bizi naizen lekutik (From the place where I live). Life stories of migration of Gernika and Busturialdea (in Spanish).
Direction: Oier Plaza y Daniel Asua, Berde Produzioak - Producciones Plaza.
Coordination of the project and production: Red Bilgune (Gernikatik Mundura, Ideasur y Gernika Gogoratuz).

20:00 Cocktail (Pasileku school)

24 April, Friday

Memory and identity. Reconstruction of symbolic landscape. Presentation of the project and case studies of programme Identity and Conflict-CRIC.

Venue: Elai Alai Aretoa.

10:00-11:50 1st Morning Session

  • Presentation of the project CRIC. Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
  • France. Jean Paul Amat, Institute of Geography and Urban Planning, Paris- Sorbonne University and Paola Filippucci, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
  • Bosnia. Dzenan Sahovic, European CBRNE Center.
  • Cyprus. Costas M. Constantinou, Olga Demetriu, PRIO Cyprus Center.

11:50-12:10 Coffee break.

12:10-13:40 2nd Morning Session.

  • Germany. Karl-Siegbert Rehberg, Barbara Lubich, Dresden University of Technology and Matthias Neutzner, initiative "February 13, 1945" of Dresden.
  • Spain. Madrid: Carmen Ortíz García and Cristina Sánchez Carretero, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Gernika: Dacia Viejo Rose, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge and María Oianguren Idigoras, Gernika Gogoratuz.

13:40-14:15 General questions and discussion

14:15-16:00 Lunch break..

Parallel Programmes:

16:00-18:30 CRIC Internal Workshop.

Venue: Gernika Peace Museum.

16:30-18:30 Afternoon Session

Venue: Elai Alai Aretoa.

  • Frieder Wolf. "Petra Kelly and Gernika. Proposals of Peace", Research associate of the parlamentary office of Petra Kelly (1984-1989).
  • Alicia Cabezudo. "Symbolic sites and life stories: The Argentinian case ", Professor of School of Education Science, National University of Rosario, Argentina.
  • Bill Kelly. "Arts towards peace", Humanist Art Archive, Australia.

Presentation: Alex Carrascosa. Gernika Gogoratuz.

18:30-20:00 13th Meeting of the Surviving witnesses of the Bombing of Gernika.

Venue: Elai Alai Aretoa.

"Ikusmen Ahotsa - La voz visual - Die Sichtbare Stimme. Una nueva y personal visión sobre ser sobreviviente de Gernika" (subtitled in English)

A film by Pia Kulhmann y Pedro Deltell. Oigovisiones Films producción Audiovisual.

Coordination of the project and production: Gernika Gogoratuz.

With the participation of Luis Iriondo y Pedro Baliño (Protagonists of the film).

Presentation: Anna León. Gernika Gogoratuz.

20:00 Closure of Gernika's 19th International Convention on Culture and Peace.

25 April, Saturday

Parallel Programmes:

9:30-13:30 12th Assembly of the Gernika Network. Support network for reconciliation oriented processes.

Topic: Peace education and international cooperation projects.

Presentation: Fernando Cruz. Gernika Gogoratuz.

Venue: Culture House of Gernika.

9:30-18:00 CRIC Internal Workshop.

Venue: Gernika Peace Museum.

With the participation of Guha Shankar: "Ways of listening", Library of Congress, Washington, USA

April 26, Sunday

72nd Anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika.

9:30-11:30 Cultural sightseeing: Visit to Assembly House & the Tree of Gernika, Gernika Peace Museum, Euskal Herria Museum, Astra, tour of sights of historic and cultural importance)

Presentation: Grupo de Historia Gernikazarra.

11:30 Gernika Peace and Reconciliation Awards - V Edition.

Venue: Lizeo Theatre

16:30 Floral Offering for the Victims of the Bombing of Gernika.

Venue: Cemetery of Zallo, Gernika.

All the sessions of the convention will have simultaenous translation between Spanish and English.