Anna Derksen, International Research Training Group "Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes", University of Greifswald
15 December 2022 – PhD Workshop Day: How to Write Narratives about Narratives?
09.00 – 09.15
Hella Liira (Tartu) & Krista Anna Zalāne (Greifswald)
Words of Welcome
09.15 – 10.00
Victoria Oertel (Greifswald): Diagnosing Events. Observations about ‘Event’ and ‘Disease’
Moderation: Krista Anna Zalāne (Greifswald)
Coffee Break
10.45 – 12.15
Douglas Ong (Greifswald): The City as Meeting Point: How Wroclawian Museums Reshape Urban History by Representing Alternating Stories of Expulsion
Natalia Iost (Greifswald): “Explaining Major Changes”. The Theoretical Framework for International Relations
Moderation: Nina Pilz (Greifswald)
Lunch
13.30 – 14.30
Rezeda Lyykorpi (Greifswald): The Explosive Power of Hidden Peripeties – the Application of the Concept of Peripety and Memory of Königsberg in Kaliningrad
Moderation: Laura Tack (Greifswald)
Coffee Break
16 December 2022
09.00 – 09.30
Anti Selart (Tartu): Welcoming Address
Marina Grishakova (Tartu): Introductory Lecture
09.30 – 10.30
Roy Sommer (Wuppertal): The Politics of Event Modeling: Narrative Dynamics in Theory and Practice
Moderation: Martina Zagni (Greifswald)
Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.30
Mari Hatavara (Tampere): Polyphony and Hindsight in Narrating a Historical Event. The Collapse of the Soviet Union in Finnish Parliamentary Talk from 1980’s until Today
Eckhard Schumacher (Greifswald): Narrating the Fall of the Wall. Versions and Inversions of an Event in Contemporary German Literature
Moderation: Margit Bussmann (Greifswald)
Lunch
14.00 – 15.30
Andreas Ohme (Greifswald): The Same Event? The Concept of Event in Literary History
Stephan Kessler (Greifswald): The Event and Semiosis – A Few Amazing Parallels
Moderation: Clemens Räthel (Greifswald)
Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.00
Maria Tamboukou (London): Tracing Events in Entanglements of Gender and Science: A Feminist Genealogical Perspective
Moderation: Hella Liira (Tartu)
Short Break
17.15 – 18.45
Roundtable "Transformative Events and the Limits of Narrative" Discussants: Marina Grishakova (Tartu), Kalle Pihlainen (Helsinki), Mari Hatavara (Tampere)
Moderation: Artis Ostups (Tartu)
17 December 2022
09.00 – 09.15
Krista Anna Zalāne (Greifswald) & Alexander Waszynski (Greifswald)
Wrap-Up Days 1 & 2
09.15 – 10.45
Anti Selart (Tartu): Baltic Crusades: the Fatal Turning Point of Estonian History?
Kalle Pihlainen (Helsinki): Establishing Historical Events ‘Under a Description’
Moderation: Paul Kirschstein (Greifswald)
Coffee Break
11.15 – 12.45
Riho Altnurme (Tartu): Martyrs – Christian or National? The Case of Tartu in 1919
Michael Loader (Glasgow): The Narrative of Khrushchev as the Culprit of the Purge of the Latvian National Communists
Moderation: Martin Nõmm (Tartu)
12.45 – 13.00
Artis Ostups (Tartu) & Martina Zagni (Greifswald): Concluding Remarks