Jan Musekamp, Washington University in St. Louis
Wed., 09/05/2012, 19:00
Keynote speech
Karl Schlögel, Chair in Eastern European History, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Exhibition Opening: Phantom borders in pictures
Tomasz Padło, „Bezgranica“ Foundation, Krakow, Poland
Thu., 09/06/2012
09:00-09:30 Introduction
09:30-11.00 Panel I
Elizabeth R. Vann, Brockton, Massachusetts Public Schools; The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America
The Role of the Railway in the Development of National Identity in Slavic Silesia, 1860 – Present: a Community Study
Felix Jeschke, University College London – School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK
The Nation as a Railway Body. Geopolitical Theory, Nation Building and Trains in Czechoslovakia 1918- 1938
11:30-13:00 Panel II
Werner Benecke, Gerd-Bucerius-Endowed Chair for Culture and History of Central and Eastern Europe European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Neu-Bentschen / Zbąszynek. The Hitherto Unwritten History of a Railway Junction Between Germany and Poland
Volker Mende, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
Tannenberg Revisited? Construction and Deconstruction of the Vistula Bridge of Münsterwalde/Opalenie
14:30-16:00 Panel III
Szymon Komusiński, „Bezgranica“ Foundation, Krakow, Poland
The Struggle for Unification: How the Interwar Poland Took Efforts to Merge the Railway Systems of the Former Three Partitions (1918-1939)
Tomasz Komornicki & Piotr Rosik, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Road Accessibility of Areas Along the Current and Historical Polish-German Border
16:30-18:00 Panel IV
Gábor Szalkai, University Eötvös Loránd, Department of Regional Science, Budapest, Hungary
Results of Transportation Conflicts in the 19th Century: Railway Border Crossing Points in the Eastern and Southern Carpathians
Toader Popescu, “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania
Connecting and Disconnecting the Networks: Railways and the Greater Romania Political Project
Fri., 09/07/2012
09:00-10:30 Panel V
Kevin Sutton, Université de Savoie-Campus scientifique-Pôle montagne, Le Bourget du Lac cedex, France
„Phantoming“ the Borders: a Phantasm Projected on the Infrastructure Networks? Considerations on Four Phantom Borders in the EU Alpine Area: Culoz, Brenner, Modane and Tarvisio
Mark Aaron Keck-Szajbel, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Roads less Travelled. Travel Narratives and Memory in Post-War East Central European Cultural History
11:00-12:30 Panel VI
Florian Riedler, Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Germany
Edirne terminus
Jan Musekamp, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany/ Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Eydtkuhnen and Wirballen Transitional Space or 19th Century Hub?
14:00-15:30
Tour of Frankfurt (Oder)
Matthias Diefenbach, HeimatReise, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
16:00-17:30 Panel VII
Sławomir Łotysz, Institute of Civil Engineering, University of Zielona Gora, Poland
Dry Ports: Where the Broad and Standard Gauge Meet
Nataliya Pashynska, Department of Human-Geography Research, Institute of Geography, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine
Polygenesis Transport Network in Ukraine and Border Aspects
18:00 Film Presentation
Amir Husak, The New School, Media Studies & Film, New York, USA
Dayton Express: Bosnian Railroads and the Paradox of Integration