Settling and Unsettling: Towards a “Settler Turn” in the Study of the East of Europe (1700s – Present)

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Conference of the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies

Veranstalter
Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies
Veranstaltungsort
University of Tübingen, Institute for Classical Archaeology, Auditorium Ernst von Sieglin, Schloss Hohentübingen, Burgsteige 11, 72070 Tübingen
Gefördert durch
Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft
PLZ
72070
Ort
Tübingen
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
12.10.2023 - 14.10.2023
Deadline
01.10.2023
Website
https://www.idglbw.de/en/blog/annual-conference-2023
Von
Cristian Cercel, Institut für donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde

Annual Conference of the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, 12-14 October, Tübingen: "Settling and Unsettling: Towards a 'Settler Turn' in the Study of the East of Europe (1700s - Present)"

Conference of the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies

The conference engages with questions about the place of the east of Europe within the global history of settler colonialism and asks how can theoretical elaborations from the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies contribute to a better understanding of processes of settling, unsettling, resettling, and of processes of internal colonization and land reclamation in the east of Europe. It tests the relevance of concepts and understandings of ‘settlerness’ and ‘indigeneity’ for the study of the east of Europe and of the entanglements of the east of Europe with the rest of the world and looks for possibilities to refine the theoretical tenets of settler colonial studies through the study of the east of Europe.

Despite a growing discussion of the role and the place of the east of Europe within the global history of colonialism and despite the increasing application of postcolonial theories to the study of the east of Europe, there lacks a concerted engagement with settler colonialism and with ‘settlerness’ in the region. This is a surprising omission, considering the numerous threads and even knots linking the history of settler colonialism with the history of the east of Europe. Examples include internal colonization and frontier settlement processes in continental empires, concurrent with transatlantic settler colonization, the importance of settlerness in the ethnopolitical identifications of various Germanophone groups in the east of Europe (Transylvanian Saxons, Danube Swabians, or Russian Germans), or the migration-colonization nexus undergirding various Eastern European projects of transatlantic emigration.

The conference “Settling and Unsettling: Towards a ‘Settler Turn’ in the Study of the East of Europe (1700s – Present) will foster a productive dialogue between settler colonial studies and Eastern European history and Eastern European studies.

If you wish to attend the conference, please register by October 1, either per e-mail at poststelle@idgl.bwl.de (specifying which day(s) of the conference you will attend) or here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_urA7q18na8okuz3X-cY22QEJEmN7kDUQLprSymiFQEo4bg/viewform

Programm

Thursday, 12 October 2023

5.30-8 pm:
Opening Remarks by
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Johler (Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, Tübingen)

Eastern Europe as Settler Colonial Frontier? Settlerism as a Global Concept and Practice
Keynote Speech by
Prof. Dr. Robert Nelson (Professor and Department Head, Department of History, University of Windsor)

Commentary:
Prof. Dr. Manuela Boatcă (Institute for Sociology, University of Freiburg)

Moderator:
PD Dr. Dietmar Müller (Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig University)

Friday, 13 October 2023

I. Comparing
Moderation: Dr. Cristian Cercel (Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, Tübingen)

9.00-9.20
Beyond Settler Colonialism: Comparing Forced Removal of Romani and Indigenous Children in the Habsburg Empire and Australia
Dr. Sacha Davis (University of Newcastle) and Dr. Johanna Perheentupa (University of New South Wales)

9.20-9.40
The Royal Prussian Settlement Commission: Irish Precedents and Parallels from Plantation to Assisted Migration and Peasant Proprietorship
Dr. Róisín Healy (University of Galway)

9.40-10.00
Colonization, Migration, and Labor in New Imperial Frontiers: Comparing the Effects of Settler Colonialism in Southern Ukraine and Louisiana
Dr. Olivia Durand (Free University Berlin)

10.00-10.20 Q&A

10.20-10.40 Coffee Break

II. Imperial Settlerness, National Settlerness
Moderation: PD Dr. Daniela Simon (Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, Tübingen)

10.40-11.00
“The Sons of Trajan’s Colony”: The Settler as Native in Nineteenth-Century Romania
Dr. Andrei Sorescu (New Europe College, Bucharest)

11.00-11.20
Settler Colonization in the Late Habsburg Empire as a Tool to Counter and Foster Nation-Building
Szilveszter Csernus-Lukács (University of Szeged / University of Marburg)

11.20-11.40
„To Whom Does This Land Belong?“: Debating Ottoman Belonging and Migrant Settlement, 1908-1911
Dr. Ella Fratantuono (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

11.40-12.00
A Colonial Expedition in the Balkans: Ethnography and Racial Capitalism during the First World War
Dr. Christina Novakov-Ritchey (University of Houston-Clear Lake)

12.00-12.30 Q&A

12.30-14.30 Lunch Break

III. Farming
Moderation: Dr. Carsten Gräbel (University of Tübingen)

14.30-14.50
Settler Colonialism in Siberia and the Building Up of a Wheat Frontier
PD Dr. Eva Maria Stolberg (Independent Researcher)

14.50-15.10
German Model Farmers in the Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Southern Ukraine in the Second Half of the 19th Century – Success or Failure?
Dr. Dmytro Myeshkov (Northeast Institute at the University of Hamburg)

15.10-15.30 Q&A

15.30-15.50 Coffee Break

IV. Entanglements
Moderation: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nadja Klopprogge (University of Tübingen)

15.50-16.10
Towards a Social History of Settlement: Studying Transregional Swabian Families across the Frontiers of German Imperial Expansion, 1860s-1920s
Dr. Roii Ball (University of Münster)

16.10-16.30
The Kulturkampf Comes to Curitiba: Internal Colonization, the Nationality Struggles of Partitioned Poland, and the Birth of Polish Emigrant Colonialism in Brazil
Dr. Ben Van Zee (European University Institute, Florence)

16.30-16.50
The Resettlement “Solution” and the Migration- Colonization Nexus: Postwar Plans of Resettling German Expellees to Latin America
Dr. Cristian Cercel (Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, Tübingen)

16.50-17.10 Q&A

Saturday, 14 October 2023

V. The Settler Colonial Model and the Second World War
Moderation: Dr. habil. Mathias Beer (Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, Tübingen)

9.00-9.20
Effacing Difference: The Holocaust and the Settler Colonial Model in Annexed Poland during the Second World War
Dr. Rachel O’Sullivan (Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich)

9.20-9.40
The Finnish “Drang nach Osten”: The Search for Finnish Colonial Space in the East of Europe
Dr. Janne Lahti (University of Helsinki)

9.40-10.00
The Plan and Practice of the “Resettlement” of the Szeklers from Bukovina and the Moldavian Csángós during and after the Second World War
Dr. Réka Marchut (Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Minority Studies, Budapest)

10.00-10.20 Q&A

10.20-10.40 Coffee Break

VI. The Settler Colonial Present?
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Johler (Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, Tübingen)

10.40-11.10
The Imprint of Chinese Diaspora in Serbia
Dr. Sunnie Rucker-Chang (Ohio State University)

11.10-11.30
Revisiting Ditrău/Ditró: Challenging Media Representations, Reconstructing Local Frameworks and Memories
Dr. Luis Escobedo (University of the Free State, South Africa) and Dr. Tamás Kiss (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca)

11.30-11.50 Q&A

12.00-12.30 Final Remarks

Kontakt

cristian.cercel@idgl.bwl.de

https://www.idglbw.de/en/blog/annual-conference-2023