MONDAY, September 19, 2022

5:30
BOOK LAUNCH
Budapest’s Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War
Friederike Kind-Kovács (Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, Dresden, Germany)

Chair: John Connelly (University of California, Berkeley, US)

6:30
Reception

9:30-11:00
KEYNOTE
Child Meets Microbe: Letters and Lessons on Migration at the End of the 19th Century
Mahshid Mayar (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Chair: Sheer Ganor (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, US)

Coffee Break

11:30 – 1:00 pm

Displaced Lives: The Challenges of Transnational Childhoods

Friederike Kind-Kovács (Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, Dresden, Germany) Displaced Childhood? Children’s Transnational Evacuation in the 20th Century
Bettina Hitzer (HAIT, Dresden, Germany)
Making (No) Difference. Transnationally Adopted Children in West Germany, 1960s to 1980s

Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg University, Germany)

Lunch Break

2:30 – 4:30 pm
(Un-)desirable Bodies? Children’s Experiences in/after Migration
Chelsea Shields (University of California, Irvine, US) Dwelling on ‘Racial Memory’: Sex, Family, and Psycho- logy from the Moyne Commission to the Marshmallow Test

Emma Wyse (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada) Disobedient Acts and Embodied Empire: Correspondence and Control of Young Migrant Bodies, 1938-1945

Kelly Condit-Shrestha (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, US) U.S. Immigration, German Jewish Refugees, and Flexi- ble White Privilege, 1939-1940

Chair: Thomas Lindenberger (Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, Dresden, Germany)

6:00 pm Joint Dinner

WEDNESDAY, September 21, 2022

9:00-10:30 am
Not Mere Victims: Children’s Experiences in Migration (Hybrid)

Laura Hobson Faure (Panthéon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1, France) Alone or Together? A German Jewish Child Refugee in the United States and His Attempt to Cope with Displacement and the Holocaust

Olga Gnydiuk (Central European University, Vienna, Austria) Refugee Children’s Experience and Subjectivity in Migration after WWII

Chair: Nino Vallen (Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington at UC Berkeley, US)

Coffee Break

11:00-12:30
KEYNOTE
The Next Generation of Migrants: From Crisis to the Politics of Possibility
Lauren Heidbrink (California State University, Long Beach, US)

Chair: Jeroen Dewulf (Director of the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley, US)

Lunch Break

1:30-3:00 pm
More Than a Case File? Children’s Experiences in Transition

Antoine Burgard (University of Manchester, UK) “A Precious Commodity”: Refugee Narratives, Truth, and the Culture of Disbelief Towards Young Migrants

Swen Steinberg (German Historical Institute Washington with its Pacific Office at UC Berkeley, US) Knowledge in Transition: Unaccompanied Minor Refugees, Social Work, and Refugee Pedagogues in New York‘s 1940s

Chair: Sören Urbansky (Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington at UC Berkeley, US)

Coffee Break

3:30-5:30 pm
Between Encampment and Foster Families: Child Migrants’ Voices

Susanne Quitmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) George Green’s Voice: A Concept for Studying the History of British Child Migrants (Hybrid)

Anca Cretu (Masaryk Institute, Prague/ERC Vienna, Austria) The Experience of Childhood in Austria-Hungary’s Refugee Camps during the First World War

Natalia Aleksiun (University of Florida, Gainesville, US) Polish Jewish Child Survivors and their Non-Jewish (Surrogate) Families after the Holocaust

Chair: Simone Lässig (German Historical Institute Washington, US)

5:30-6:00 pm
Conclusion

Sheer Ganor (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, US) Bettina Hitzer (Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, Dresden, Germany)

7:00 pm
Conference Dinner (by invitation)