Dorota Zielinska, Pałac Karnickich, Niemiecki Instytut Historyczny w Warszawie (DHI Warschau)
Thursday, 15th February
9.00-09.15 Welcome Speech and Opening by Miloš Řezník and Oleh Turij
9.15-09.30 Introduction to the Conference by Viktoriia Serhiienko
9.30-10.00 Keynote Lecture by Gerhard Simon (online)
University of Cologne
The Temporary Liquidation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Soviet Galicia
10.00-10.20 Viktoriia Serhiienko
GHI Warsaw
Declassified Vatican Archive for Pius XII’s Pontificate and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: Research Challenges and Prospects
10.20-10.40 Discussion
Moderated by Natalia Shlikhta
10.40-11.10 Coffee Break
Panel I. Post-war liquidations of Greek-Catholic church structures
11.10-11.30 Roman Skakun (online)
Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv)
The “Lviv Council” of 1946 as a Soviet Secret Police Operation: A Case of Building and Employing an Agent Network within a Religious Denomination
11.30-11.50 Natalia Shlikhta
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv)
A Separate Model of "Reunification"? On the Liquidation of the Greek Catholic Church in Transcarpathia (1940s-1960s)
11.50-12.10 Jan Pisuliński
University of Rzeszow
Przesiedlenie ludności ukraińskiej a Kościół greckokatolicki w Polsce podczas ta po II wojnie światowej
12.10-12.30 Yavhen Usoshyn (online)
Independent researcher
Stan Kościoła białoruskiego grecko-katolickiego w końcu i po Drugiej wojnie Światowej
12.30-12.50 Discussion
Moderated by Oleh Turij
12.50-14.00 Lunch Break
Panel II. Ad fontes. Studies on the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Historical Sources
14.00-14.20 Nadezhda Beliakova
University of Bielefeld
From the 'Underground' to the State Archives: Unraveling the Specifics of Soviet State Documents on the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church's Experience in the 1970s
14.20-14.40 Władysław Bułhak
Institute of National Remembrance (Warsaw)
Tajne aspekty polityki wschodniej Watykanu w czasie zimnej wojny: Wątek ukraiński
14.40-15.00 Katrin Boeckh (online)
Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (Regensburg)
The Greek Catholic Church in the Diplomacy between the Holy See and the Kremlin
15.00-15.20 Kerstin Jobst
University of Vienna
A Ukrainian-Catholic Saint on the Run. The 'Rescue' of the Relics of St Jozafat from Occupied Vienna
15.20-15.50 Discussion
Moderated by Franziska Schedewie
15.50-16.20 Coffee Break
16.20-17.30 Round Table Discussion “Giving the word to Silenced Church: New Sources and Approaches to the Study of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church”
Andrzej Grajewski, Rafał Łatka, Natalia Shlikhta, Jaroslav Skira, Oleh Turij
Moderated by Viktoriia Serhiienko
Friday, 16th February
Panel III. Between Resistance and Cooperation: Greek Catholics in Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Block
9.00-9.20 Anna Bisikalo
Harvard University (Cambridge)
Adaptations of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church under Different Legal Regimes in Soviet Ukraine and Communist Poland, 1957-1968
9.20-09.40 Igor Hałagida
University of Gdansk
Kościół greckokatolicki w Polsce w okresie „małej stabilizacji”
09.40-10.00 Anca Sincan (online)
Research Centre for Humanities (Budapest)
Nihil de nobis sine nobis! The Underground Romanian Greek Catholic Church in the 1970s
10.00-10.20 Zsofia Kiss-Kökenyessy (online)
Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest)
“Prohibited, Tolerated, Supported”. The Situation of the Hungarian Greek Catholic Church in Hungary between 1950-1990
10.20-10.40 Peter Šturák (online)
University of Presov
Persecution of the Greek Catholic Church in Slovakia by the Totalitarian Regime in 1945-1968
10.40-11.10 Discussion
Moderated by Kerstin Jobst
11.10-11.40 Coffee Break
Panel IV. Ukrainian Greek Catholic Believers and Hierarchs: Between Soviet Propaganda and Real Stories of Survival
11.40-12.00 Svitlana Hurkina
Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv)
The Soviet ‘War against the Vatican’ and the Ukrainian Greek Catholics in the Post-World War II Era
12.00-12.20 Anatolii Babynskyi (online)
Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv)
Exiled Shepherds: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishops and the Persecuted Church in Soviet Ukraine, 1958-1978
12.20-12.40 Taras Bublyk (online)
Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv)
The Case of Aesculapius: the Problem of Episcopal Succession in the Lviv Archdiocese in the 1950s-1970s
12.40-13.00 Liliana Hentosh
Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv)
Soviet Propaganda and Metropolitan Sheptytskyi’s Image in Ukrainian Public Consciousness
13.00-13.30 Discussion
Moderated by Roman Wysocki
13.30-14.40 Lunch Break
Panel V. Dialog between Ukrainian Greek Catholics, Roman Catholics, and Christian Atheists
14.40-15.00 Jaroslav Skira
University of Toronto
Incarceration in the Gulag to Exile in Rome: Josyf Cardinal Slipyj’s Memoirs, his Presence at the Second Vatican Council and Their Relevance for Today
15.00-15.20 Iryna Hnidyk
Lviv Polytechnic National University
A Voice from the Silence: Representation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at the Second Vatican Council
15.20-15.40 Kateryna Budz
University of Edinburgh
‘A Different Rite, but the Same Faith’: The Relations between the Greek Catholics and the Roman Catholics in the Soviet Union
15.40-16.00 Nelia Martsinkiv (online)
Duquesne University (Pittsburgh)
The Role of Religiosity and Local Traditions in the Ukrainian Dissident Movement
16.00-16.30 Discussion
Moderated by Semion Lyandres
16.30-17.00 Book Presentation
17.00-18.00 Final Discussion
18.00-19.30 Dinner
The full conference program can be downloaded here:
https://www.dhi.waw.pl/fileadmin/benutzerdaten/dhi-waw-pl/Silenced-Church_ulotka.pdf