Thursday, 8 March 2012
13:00
Registration
14:00
Welcome Andreas Gestrich (German Historical Institute London) and
Introduction by Marita Krauss (Augsburg):
Remigration to East and West Germany – Perspectives for a Comparative European Approach
Panel 1: East and West Germany – Academic Remigration
14:45 – 17:45
Chair: Andreas Gestrich (GHIL)
Riccardo Bavaj (St Andrews/Bonn)
Knowledge, Transfer and Spaces of Communication: How two Academic Rémigrés Sought to Shape West Germany’s Political Culture
Daniel Siemens (Bielefeld/London)
Coming to Terms with Socialism in the GDR: Left-wing Jewish Intellectual Emigrants and the Establishment of the Faculty for Journalism at the Karl-Marx-University Leipzig, 1945-1961
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
Marita Krauss (Augsburg)
“Mixed Feelings” – Remigration or Internationalization of Mathematics after World War II
Keynote Lecture
18:00
Uta Gerhardt (Berlin)
The Return of the Stranger – Remigration and Homecoming in Sociological Perspective
19:00
Dinner at nearby restaurant (self pay)
Friday, 9 March 2012
Panel 2: East and West Germany – Remigration of Political Actors
09:00 – 11:00
Chair: Benedikt Stuchtey (GHIL)
Julia Angster (Kassel)
Rémigrés in the West German Labour Movement: Intercultural Transfer and Transnational Network Politics in the 1940s and 1950s
Susanne Doetz/Christoph Kopke (Berlin/Potsdam)
Rudolf Neumann - From the Medical Service of the International Brigades to the Health Administration of the GDR. A Biographic Approach to a German-Jewish Communist
Alina Laura Tiews (Münster)
Wenzel Jaksch as a Remigrant: A Thorn in the Flesh of the GDR’s Refugee Policy
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
Panel 3: Remigration to Other European Countries after 1945
11:30 – 12:50
Chair: Sarah Scholl-Schneider (Augsburg)
Vaios Kalogrias (Königstein)
The Return of the Greek Government-in-Exile to Athens (October 1944)
Vasil Paraskevov (Shumen, Bulgaria)
How Political Émigrés Influenced the Society: Georgi Dimitrov and the Establishment of Socialism in Bulgaria, 1945-1949
12:50 – 13.50 Lunch Break
13:50-14:30
Frédéric Attal (Paris)
Salvemini : The Uneasy Remigration of an Italian Antifascist Intellectual
Panel 4 – European Remigrations after 1975 and 1989
14:30 – 17:00
Chair: Marita Krauss (Augsburg)
Carolina Rodríguez-López (Madrid)
Why to Come Back? Spanish Professors in American Universities and Their Paths in Exile
Sarah Scholl-Schneider (Augsburg)
"Unfinished Business". An Oral History of Czech Remigration after 1989
15:50 – 16:20 Coffee Break
Caroline Hornstein Tomić (Zagreb)
Remigration and Post-Socialist Transformation in Croatia
Panel Discussion: Remigration – Three Personal Accounts
17:30
Edgar Feuchtwanger (Southampton), Jan Kavan (Prague), Georg Stefan Troller (Paris)
Chair: Andreas Gestrich (GHI London)
19:30
Conference Dinner at the German Historical Institute
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Panel 5 – Jewish Remigration
09:00 – 12:00
Chair: Sarah Scholl-Schneider (Augsburg)
Andrea Sinn (Munich)
Despite the Holocaust: Jewish Return to Postwar Germany
Noam Zadoff (Munich)
„...vollkommener Repräsentant seines Volkes“: Gershom Scholem as a German Returnee
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Closing Remarks and General Discussion
Chair: Andreas Gestrich (GHIL)
Arnd Bauerkämper (Berlin)
Conclusions and Perspectives of Research.