Galicia in the 20th Century. A Region in the Shadow of Empires

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Galicia in the 20th Century. A Region in the Shadow of Empires

Veranstalter
PhD-programm "Austrian Galicia and Its Multicultural Heritage" (University of Vienna); Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv)
Veranstaltungsort
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
Ort
Lviv
Land
Ukraine
Vom - Bis
03.06.2010 - 05.06.2010
Website
http://dk-galizien.univie.ac.at/
Von
Ljiljana Radonic

Over the last years and decades Habsburg Galicia increasingly became a scholarly paradigm that combined different research trends. Galicia during the long 19th century suits perfectly as a case study for analyzing questions of multiculturalism. Different approaches from different academic disciplines – like history, cultural studies, literature, linguistics, Jewish studies, Slavonic studies or German studies – can be chosen. Until recently research on issues of multiculturalism focused on hybrid and multiple identities, belated modernisation processes, as well as on mutually crossed and competed claims and forms of domination over this region.

The term “Galicia” was and is interpreted in many different ways: It can be associated with the backward crownland of the Habsburg Empire, a specific literary landscape, a multicultural Arcadia, as well as a national Piedmont. The perspectives und constructions of this space are at least as multilayered as the province’s cultures and the different spellings of this region: Галичина – Galizien –גאליציע (Galitsye) – Galicja.

We thus better should talk of several “Galicias”, formed by various traditions and narratives, which even today are often elaborated separately. In retrospect this separation is one of the consequences of research traditions based mainly on the national paradigm. The multicultural structure of the region was a leitmotiv for various nostalgic discourses, which considered the entangled tensions and relations mostly in general terms. In fact the various realities of Galicia interacted with each other, had an impact on one another and were interlinked, both in cooperation and confrontation.

The aim of this conference is to encourage a discussion that goes beyond the national and interdisciplinary borders and to remap Galician-studies. The focus lies on different interactions in this historical region. Galicia with its overlapping nationalities, confessions and languages was a space of mixing, hybridisation and cultural transfer. Until very recently these phenomena have posed a rather neglected aspect in comparison with the nation building projects in Galicia.

This historical region was invented by the Austrian bureaucracy during the First division of Poland-Lithuania in 1772 and disappeared from the European map in 1918; however, it has experienced a noteworthy revival in Ukraine and Poland since 1989. This revitalization serves as the starting point of this conference, which aims to discuss the continuities of Habsburg Galicia in the 20th century.

A major question thus will be in what way the conditions established under Habsburg rule influenced the following forms of authority, interactions and conflicts, as well as how they were transformed under the rule of new states or empires (Poland, Soviet Union). The Nazi occupation of Galicia and the Holocaust should in this context as well be discussed as the most important of several violent factors that dramatically changed the region during the 1940s. Another main issue of the conference should be discussing the consequences of inter-cultural interactions still relevant today and in the future. At the same time we want to encourage the communication between various academic, literary, economic and political (re)constructions of Galicia.

The following questions are going to be addressed at the conference: How did the protagonists of multicultural Galicia interact and mutually influence one another? What kind of experiences could we get from historical Galicia? In what way do they influence the present and the future? How to handle Galicia’s heritage in the age of globalization and what experiences/obligations will this comprise? How was Galicia shaped by Empires, the World Wars, the Holocaust and the expulsions? How is Galicia nowadays represented and discussed?

Programm

Opening, Thursday, June 3rd

07.00-09.00 Round table discussion 1: Galicia. Discursive Constructions
Chair: Roman Dubasevych
Panel discussion with: Danuta Sosnowska (Warsaw), Christoph Augustynowicz (Vienna), Tarik Cyril Amar (Lviv), Klaus Hödl (Graz)

Reception (Open end)

Friday, June 4th 2010
Conference opening
Panel I: Violence, War and Gender
Chair: Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk / Ihor Kosyk
09.10-10.30
Jan Surman (Minnesota): “Rus' does not dance": Student Protests of 1907 in Lviv

Joanna Dufrat (Wrocław): Gender in combat: Polish women in fight in Lviv and East Galicia (1918 - 1919)

Martin M. Weinberger (Vienna): Der Erste Weltkrieg als Konfrontation der Geschlechter. Krieg und Gender in der österreichischen Literatur über Galizien (The First World War as Gender-confrontation. War and Gender in the Austrian Literature about Galicia)

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.15
Dalia Ofer (Jerusalem): Jewish Women in Resistance or Resistance of Women: revisiting concepts and events

Olena Petrenko (Bochum): Verehrt und verachtet: Zur Problematik biographischer Rekonstruktion von Frauenschicksalen in der UPA (Idolised and despised: The problem of biographical reconstruction of female fates in the UPA)

12.15-01.30 Lunch

Panel II: Pogroms and Expulsions
Chair: Klemens Kaps / Ihor Datsenko
01.30-03.00 Tim Buchen (Berlin): The pogrom in Western Galicia in 1898

Jerzy Mazur (Binghamton): The anti-Jewish pogroms in Western Little Poland in November 1918 – The Case of Brzesko

Eva Reder (Vienna): Comparing the pogroms of Lviv 1918/19 and Cracow 1945

03.00-03.30 Coffee break

03.30-04.30
John Paul Himka (Edmonton): The Pogrom in Lviv in 1941

Francisca Solomon (Vienna): Die Deportation der Juden aus der Bukowina (The deportation of the Jews from Bucovina)

04.30-05.00 Coffee break

Panel III: The Long Shadow of Empires – Galicia postcolonial?
Chair: Natalia Budnikova / Klemens Kaps

05.00-07.00
Roman Dubasevych (Greifswald): Mixture Galicia: Threat or failed chance? On the perception of hybridity in the works of Ukrainian authors

Andrea Komlosy (Vienna): Österreichische Interessen an der Wiederentdeckung Galiziens nach 1989 (Austrian interests in rediscovering Galicia)

Philipp Hofeneder (Vienna): Karl Marx zwischen Galizien und der Sowjetunion. Die Sprachenpolitik der Ukraine in den 1920er Jahren. (Karl Marx between Galicia and the Soviet Union. The language policy of Ukraine in the 20s of the 20th Century)

Tarik Cyril Amar (Lviv): Der NS-Diskurs über Galizien (The National Socialist discourse about Galicia)

Saturday, June 5th 2010
Panel IV: Cultural Memory
Chair: Simon Hadler / Roman Dubasevych

09.30-10.30
Katarzyna Kotyńska (Warsaw): Австрійський Львів у польській прозі ХХ ст.: втрачений рай? (Austrian Lemberg in the Polish prose of the 20th Century – a lost paradise?)

Roman Holyk (Lviv): Country of Towns, Country of Villages? Stereotypes about Galicia in Ukrainian and Polish Mentality in the 19th and 20th Century

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30
Vasyl Rasevyč (Lviv): Visualising Galicia: Constructs, interpretations, instrumentalisations

Andrij Portnov (Kyiv): Competing Memories of War, Competing Veterans of War in East Galicia (in the context of post-Soviet Ukraine)

12.30-02.00 Lunch
(Presentation and Poster session: PhD-program “Austrian Galicia and Its Multicultural Heritage” – résumé and outlook of a PhD-project)

Round table discussion II: Galicia as a virtual space
Chair: Ihor Kosyk / Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk

02.00-03.30
Introductory presentation: Sara Froschauer (Vienna): The Presentation of Central Europe in internet platforms

Presentations (15 minutes each): Oleksandr Khokhulin (Blog Mankurty, Lviv), Ihor Balyns’kyj (zachid.net, Lviv), Katalin Teller (Kakanien revisited, Vienna), Sofia Dyak, Serhii Tereshchenko (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv)

Discussion of the websites and blogs with Żanna Słoniowska (Kraków)

03.30-04.00 Coffee break

Round Table discussion III: Quo vadis, Galicia? Research paradigms on the crossroads
Chair: Andreas Kappeler (Vienna)

04.00-05.00
Impulse: Julia Sushytska (Redlands): Eastern Europe: The Self that is also its Other
Discussion with: Katarzyna Kotyńska (Warsaw), Harald Binder (Vienna/Lviv), Julia Sushytska (Redlands), Klemens Kaps (Vienna)

Kontakt

Ljiljana Radonic

Institut für Osteurop. Geschichte, Spitalg. 2-4, 1090 Wien

+43/1/4277-41120

ljiljana.radonic@univie.ac.at

http://dk-galizien.univie.ac.at/