Sociologist Csaba Szaló from Brno's Masaryk University gave the opening lecture. He spoke about the modern-day obsession with the past in urban spaces, focusing specifically on ruins and their role in today's society. He emphasized that our relationship to urban ruins is not only a way to connect to the past, but also shows our view of the present and the future. In his lecture, Szaló asked if ruins allow us to see the problematic and contradictory character of the 20th century, during which next to "positive modernity" that promised a better future there was also "negative modernity", which led to the catastrophes of the two world wars. The interaction of the dynamics of hope and the dynamics of catastrophe can be used, according to Csaba Szaló, not only to critically reflect on modernity, but also to draw connections between the past, present and the future.
Anna Lénárd from Budapest introduced the block of lectures focused on the use of guided walks as one of the methods to discover an intercultural city and historical memory. She briefly introduced the Budapest Walk Shop, saying that she understands the walks around the city with her colleagues as a particular form of artistic expression, which incorporates various elements from descriptive narration, to emotional and sensory aspects of perceiving a city and creating emotive bonds with buildings. For Lénárd, a guided city walk is above all an opportunity for discussion and sharing of experiences - it is not as important whether you learn something new or not. The panel discussion that followed, which was moderated by Anna Lénárd, included Eva Bendová from the National Gallery in Prague, Richard Biegel from Klub Za starou Prahu (Club for Old Prague), Anna Czyżewska from the Warsaw association Pracownia Etnograficzna (Ethnographic workshop), and journalist Petr Brod. The discussion covered a number of topics including changes in city districts and the often incongruous layers of the past, which can be discovered during the walks; the structure of the walks and how they are led, the differences between the more conservative and progressive ways of showing a city; how the experience of being a 'guide' on such walks influenced the individual participants in their subsequent work.

The last part of the conference was dedicated to research and educational activities that accompanied the creation of the memory map of Prague, as part of the Prague Shared and Divided project. Roma Studies expert Romana Hudousková made a presentation that explained how the elements on the map dedicated to the history of Prague's Romani community were compiled. Because an important part of this process was recording interviews with witnesses of the times and events, one of them, Olga Fečová, also attended the conference and spoke about her memories of the Romani community in Prague after World War Two. The next presentation by Tereza Rejšková demonstrated didactic methodology of teaching about Wenceslas Square in Prague, which was developed in the course of the project in cooperation with the historian and teacher Milan Hes. Tereza Rejšková outlined the main perspectives of the methodology (time, space, people and significance of places) and presented the worksheets created for teachers and students. The last two presentations at the conference were focused on the research and educational activities that came out of the work concerning places connected to the persecution and murder of Jews and people considered to be Jewish. Jakub Mlynář (Centrum vizuální historie Malach) briefly introduced the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation, which contains more than 53,000 audio recordings of interviews with witnesses and is fully accessible for researchers, teachers and others at Charles University in Prague. This archive was one of the sources used by students at the Lauder schools to prepare information about German refugees that was incorporated into the Prague Shared and Divided memory map. The final presentation was actually done by these students under the direction of their teacher Klára Kuběnová.