Thursday, March 31 2011

3 p.m. Opening and Introduction

Welcome Address
Professor Eduard Mühle, German Historical Institute Warsaw

Introduction
PD Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz & Dr. Maren Röger, GHI Warsaw

4.00-4.30 p.m. Coffee break

4.30-6.30 p.m. Keynotes
Chair: Dr. Wanda Jarzabek, Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences & GHI Warsaw

Gender, Space and Dislocation in Nazi-occupied Eastern and South-eastern Europe
Professor Elizabeth Harvey, University of Nottingham

Women as Victims and Perpetrators in World War II: The Case of Hungary
Professor Andrea Peto, Central European University Budapest

Reception at the German Historical Institute

Friday, April 1st 2011

9.00-11.00 a.m. Panel I: Ideological Conceptions of Gender Roles by Occupiers & Resistance Movements
Chair: Professor Jane Caplan, University of Oxford

Gendering Combat: The Case of Yugoslavia
Dr. Barbara N. Wiesinger, Salzburg

The Discourse of Power through Gender in World War II Latvia
Ph.D. Mara Lazda, Eugene Lang College/The New School for Liberal Arts New York

Participation of Bulgarian Women in World War II (1944-1945)
Professor Sevo Yavshchev, Ph.D. Georgeta Nazarska, State University of Library Studies and IT, Sofia

11.00-11.30 a.m. Coffee Break

11.30 a.m-1.00 p.m. Gender Roles in the Every-Day-Life of Armies

Panel II.1:
Chair: Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt, GHI Warsaw

Gender Roles in the Red Army
Kerstin Bischl, Humboldt University Berlin

Helping Hands. German Women's Auxiliary Forces and the Second World War
Dr. Franka Maubach, University of Göttingen

1.00-3.00 p.m. Lunch Break

3.00-5.00 p.m. Gender Roles in the Every-Day-Life of Partisan Movements

Panel II.2
Chair: Professor Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Institute for the History of German Jewry Hamburg

Life in the Bunker: The Memories of UPA Insurgents beyond the Battlefield
Olena Petrenko, University of Bochum

In the Lithuanian Woods. Jewish and Lithuanian Female Partisans
PD Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz, GHI Warsaw

Male and Female Partisans in the Photo Archives
Dr. Bernard Suchecky, Strasbourg

Saturday, April 2nd 2011

9.00-11.00 a.m. Conflicting Values?

Panel III
Chair: Dr. Maren Röger, GHI Warsaw

Visibility and Experience. German Soldier's Bodily Behaviour in the "Occupied Eastern Territories" and it's Reflection in Narratives of Local Women
Dr. Regina Mühlhäuser, Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Honor and Masculinity in Polish Officer Corps
Lukasz Kielban, University of Poznan

Eastern European Girlhood Experience of World War II
Ph.D. Lisa Ossian, Area Community College Des Moines

11.00-11.30 a.m. Coffee Break

11.30 a.m.-1.30 p.m. Work Life and Political Sphere: The Aftermath of War

Panel IV
Chair: N.N.

Female Partisans and Political Emancipation of Yugoslav Women from 1944 to 1953
Ivana Pantelic, Institute of Contemporary History Belgrad

Conflicting Conceptions of the Role of Women in Postwar Poland: Work Life, Motherhood, Abortion (1945-1956)
Dr. Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, University of Kraków

Latvian Women in the Public Sphere after the War
Professor Vita Zelce, University of Latvia, Riga

1.30-3.00 p.m. Lunch Break

3.00-5.00 p.m. Gendered Narratives and Memories of War

Panel V
Chair: Dr. Bozena Uminska-Keff, Jewish Historical Institute Warsaw

Daily Life During the War: The Gender Analysis of Oral Stories on World War II
Ph.D. Irina Rebrova, Kuban State University Krasnodar

Transmitting the Meaning and Memory of Gender Roles and Relations: Women as Victims, Women as Survivors
Ph.D. Hannah Kliger, Pennsylvania State University Abington

The Image of the German Occupant in Russian Cinema
Dr. habil. Victoria Sukovata, Kharkiv National University

5.00-5.30 p.m. Coffee Break

5.30-6.30 p.m. Final discussion

Closing Remarks
Professor Jane Caplan, University of Oxford

Closing Remarks
PD Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz & Dr. Maren Röger, GHI Warsaw