25 May 2023

09.15 – 09.30
WORDS OF WELCOME

Ulla Bonas
Academic Director, Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study Greifswald

Victoria Oertel & Nina Pilz
Speakers of the Organising Committee, University of Greifswald

Eckhard Schumacher
Speaker of the International Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes”, University of Greifswald

09.30 – 10.30
FESTIVE OPENING

Katharina Riedel
Rector of the University of Greifswald

S.E. Alar Streimann
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Estonia to Germany

Erik F. Øverland
Counsellor, Special Envoy for Research and Education at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway to Germany

Bettina Martin
Minister of Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Coffee & Tea Break

11.00 – 12.00
OPENING KEYNOTE LECTURE
Hanna Meretoja (UTU Turku): Master and Counter Narratives in Times of Global Crises
Moderation: Ingvild Folkvord (NTNU Trondheim)

Lunch

13.15 – 14.45
SESSION 1: Living Through the Change: Building Bridges Between Life and Narrative

Dace Bula (LU Riga): “I Missed Seagull Screams”: Narratives of Dwelling and Displacement in the Riga Port Neighborhoods

Katherine Hodgson (Exeter): An Assault on the Socialist Realist “Master Plot”: Svetlana Aleksievich’s Many-Voiced Narratives of Catastrophic Change

Martina Zagni & Krista Anna Zalāne (both Greifswald): Narratives Between Past and Future: Peripety as a Tool to Analyze Change in Life and Literature

Organisers: Martina Zagni & Krista Anna Zalāne (both Greifswald)
Moderation: Martin Nõmm (Tartu)

Coffee & Tea Break

15.15 – 16.45
SESSION 2: Shifting Belonging: Understanding People and Practices in Repopulated Places

Eleonora Narvselius (Lund): “We just moved in, and this is it”: Dwelling and Home Space as a Site of (Dis)remembrance of the Vanished East-Central European Populations

Olga Sezneva (UvA Amsterdam): The House of the Lost-and-Found: Belonging and Belongings in the Kaliningrad Region

Pekka Hakamies (UTU Turku): Soviet Experience, Narrative, and Reality in Former Finnish Karelia

Organisers: Rezeda Lyykorpi & Douglas Ong (both Greifswald)
Moderation: Douglas Ong (Greifswald)

Break

18.00 – 19.00
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Nanci Adler (NIOD & UvA Amsterdam): Remembering, Representing, and Re-conceptualizing Repression: What we Learned from the Narratives of Gulag Survivors
Moderation: Margit Bussmann (Greifswald)

26 May 2023

09.00 – 10.30
SESSION 3: The Russia-Ukraine War as a Major Turning Point for the Baltic Sea Region

Viacheslav Morozov (Tartu): The Peripety of a Contestant in the Liberal International Order: Russia’s Transition to Antagonism

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad (UoE Colchester): How Russia’s Information Operations, Which Contributed to Its Victory in Syria, Faltered in Ukraine

Andrey Makarychev (Tartu): Sovereign Peripeties: Bio-, Zoo- and Necro-politics in Putin’s Russia

Organiser and Moderation: Natalia Iost (Greifswald)
Discussant: Bo Petersson (Malmö)

Coffee & Tea Break

11.00 – 12.30
SESSION 4: Disruption, Diagnosis, Disease: Narratives of Medical Crises, Care and Recovery

Victoria Oertel & Nina Pilz (both Greifswald): Disease as Peripety – Negotiating Perspectives on Public and Philosophical Discourse

Sidsel Boysen Dall (NTNU Trondheim): Shattered Expectations in Caregiving Literature: Reflections on the Shared Reading of Schema Disrupting Fiction

Nina Petersen Reed (NTNU Trondheim): How May a Meaningful Everyday Life Be Re-created after Mental Health Crises?

Organisers: Victoria Oertel & Nina Pilz (both Greifswald)
Moderation: Sebastian Laacke (Greifswald)

Lunch

14.45 – 15.30
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Laura Assmuth (UEF Joensuu): Familyhood across Borders in Times of Crises: COVID-19 Pandemic and Russia’s War on Ukraine as Turning Points for Migration and Mobility in Europe
Moderation: Terje Loogus (Tartu)

15.45 – 17.00
ROUNDTABLE – PERIPETIES IN AND OUT OF CONTEXT
Discussants: Nanci Adler (NIOD & UvA Amsterdam), Laura Assmuth (UEF Joensuu), Alexander Drost (Greifswald) & Hanna Meretoja (UTU Turku)
Moderation: Ingvild Folkvord (NTNU Trondheim) & Eckhard Schumacher (Greifswald)

27 May 2023

09.00 – 10.30
SESSION 5: Events, Landscapes and Water. Negotiating Dramatic Changes in Environmental History

Laura Tack (Greifswald): A Sudden Realization of Risk: The Possibly Largest Storm Surge on the German Baltic Sea Coast

Merve Neziroğlu (GWZO Leipzig): A Sunken Island’s Legacy: The Case of Ada Kaleh

Paul Kirschstein (Greifswald): Dramatic Developments. Identifying Turning Points in the Historiography of the Alta-saken

Organisers: Paul Kirschstein & Laura Tack (both Greifswald)
Moderation: Charlotte Wenke (Greifswald)

Coffee & Tea Break

11.00 – 12.00
Clemens Räthel (Greifswald): Pragma and Peripety? The (Un-)Expected in Ludvig Holberg’s Comedies
Moderation: Benjamin Schweitzer (Greifswald)

12.00 – 12.15
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Victoria Oertel & Nina Pilz (both Greifswald)