Thessaloniki, 9-10 October 2025
Venue: Museum of Macedonian Struggle

PROGRAMME
Thursday 9 October 2025
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-10.00 Welcome and Introduction
• Thomas Maissen (Project Lead)
• Museum of Macedonian Struggle Presentative
• Ilaria Porciani and Alexandra Bounia
The aggressor in war museums
Moderator / Discussant: Ivan Sablin
10.00-10.30 Stefan Berger – The role of the aggressor in selected contemporary war museums in Europe
10.30-11.00 Kai Steinhage – Aggressor images in the first exhibitions of the Imperial War Museum, 1917-1923
11.00-11.30 Cofee break
11.30-12.00 Justus Raimann – Strong aggression, hidden aggressors? The aggressor in museums of the German armed forces
12.00-12.30 Maximilian Hartmuth – Treasured villains: Habsburg and post-Habsburg images of the ottomans in Vienna’s Museum of Military History
12.30-13.00 Discussion
13.00-13.45 Tour to the Museum of Macedonian Struggle
13.45-15.00 Lunch
The aggressor in museums of Greece and Turkey
Moderator / Discussant: Stefan Berger
15.00-15.30 Johannes Schwartz – The Provenance and Restitution of a Proto-Corinthian Oinochoe. The German Military Geologist Dr Hannfrit Putzer in Occupied
Greece in 1943
15.30-16.00 Şahin Yaldız – My Dear Enemy: Navigating Antagonism and Reconciliation in Izmir’s Museums
16.00-16.30 Cofee break
16.30 -17.00 Athina Pavlidou, Konstantinos S. Papanikolaou and Stavroula Mavrogeni – Presentes in absentia. The Bulgarians and Ottomans in the museological
narrative of the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle and Modern History of Macedonia Foundation
17.0-17.30 Discussion
20.00 Dinner
Friday 10 October 2025
10.00-10.15 Arrivals – Cofee
Generals/Soldiers Aggressors
Moderator / Discussant: Athina Pavlidou
10.30-11.00 Thomas Maissen – The Aggressor in the Museum: The Case of Napoleon and the Role of Caricatures
11.00-11.30 Elisabeth Osing – The Aggressor in the 19th century National Museum. The Depiction and Reception of Attila on the Hunnenschlacht in the Neues Museum in Berlin
11.30-12.00 Márton Zászkaliczky – Attila Exhibition in Budapest and Governmental Identity Politics in the making in Hungary.
12.00 – 12.30 Discussion
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Icons and Aggressors in a post-Sovier world
Moderator / Discussant: Thomas Maissen
13.30-14.00 Rasa Čepaitienė – Representations of aggressors in Lithuanian Museum of Occupation and Freedom Fights
14.30-15.00 Parvin Ahanchi – From Soviet Icons to Historical Aggressors: Museum Reframing of Traumatic Memory in Azerbaijan – The Case of Stepan Shaumyan
15.00-15.30 Marja Jalava – Tyranny-worshiping or a necessary reminder of the past? The case of Europe’s first and last Lenin Museum in Finland
15.30-16.00 Cofee break
16.00-16.30 Katarzyna Jarosz – Stalin in the Post-Soviet Space: Museums, Memory, and the Portrayal of Aggression
16.30-17.00 Katja Makhotina – Stalin in Museums
17.00-17.30 Discussion
17.30-18.00 Ilaria Porciani and Alexandra Bounia: Final Remarks
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