FRIDAY, 3RD MAY
8:30 Introduction
The Catholic Church in Contact with other Confessions
Discussant: Nadezhda Beliakova (Bielefeld)
8:40-9:00 Natalia Shlikhta (Kyiv)
Ukrainian Greek Catholics' View of the Russian Orthodox in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
9:00-9:20 Anna Bisikalo (Cambridge, USA)
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine and Poland between 1945 and 2000
9:20-9:40 Milosav Đoković (Belgrade)
The Holy See and the patriarchate of Constantinople after World War II (1945-1958)
9:40-10:40 Discussion
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
Diaspora Groups and their Political Activities
Discussant: Martin Zückert (München)
11:10-11:30 Katrin Boeckh (Regensburg)
Catholics on the move and in deportation. Fragments of papal Ostpolitik before the Cold War
11:30-11:50 Beáta Katrebová Blehová (Bratislava)
The Slovak (Catholic) diaspora and the persecuted Catholic Church in Slovakia – The strategies of Anti-Communism during the late Pontificate of Pius XII
11:50-12:10 Arūnas Streikus (Vilnius)
The true voice of the Church of Silence? Lithuanian exile Catholics as intermediaries between the Vatican and the Catholic Church in Soviet Lithuania during the first decades of the Cold War
12:10-13:30 Discussion
13:30-14:40 Lunch break
Political Efforts of the Roman Catholic Church from “above” and from “below”
Discussant: Johannes Gleixner (Munich)
14:30-14:50 Emilia Hrabovec (Bratislava)
To recommend courage or tolerate the inevitable? The Holy See and the Catholics in Slovakia in the face of the Communist persecution and seduction, 1948-1958
14:50-15:10 Przemysław Pazik (Warsaw)
Squaring the triangle. Loyalty to the pope and national ecclesiastical policy of the Polish Church leaders 1948-1956
15:10-15:30 Petar Dragišić (Belgrade)
Yugoslavia and the Catholic Church 1945-1978: Between Conflict and Reconciliation
15:30-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:30 Keynote
Piotr Kosicki (Maryland)
A Coalition of Progressives: Political Catholicism at the Intersection of Latin American & European Political Agency, From Anti-Stalinism to Christian Democracy in the 1950s and '60s
SATURDAY, 4TH MAY
Anticommunist Activities of Catholic Representatives
Discussant: Gašpar Mithans (Koper)
9:30-9:50 Marina Bantiou (Thessaly)
The Reception of the Catholic Church's Decree Against Communism in 1949 in the European and US Press in the Early Cold War
9:50-10:10 Michaela Lenčéšová (Prague)
Ľudák diaspora in a Divided World (1945–1970)
10:10-10-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-11:00 Helena Toth (Bamberg)
“That you put off […] the old man […] and that you put on the new man”: The struggle for symbolic resources in post-war Hungary
11:00-11:20 Kristian Geßner (Gießen)
The Bacon Priest and the East. Werenfried van Straaten and his Aid Project for Eastern Europe
11:20-12:20 Discussion
Final Discussion