October 22nd, 2014
Franckesche Stiftungen, Franckeplatz 1, Haus 1 (Amerika-Zimmer)
1 pm
Yvonne Kleinmann (Halle): Welcome & Introduction
PANEL I: POLITICAL RULE AND MEDIEVAL SOCIETY IN THE POLISH LANDS: AN ANTHROPOLOGICALLY INSPIRED REVISION
1:20 pm
Zbigniew Dalewski (Warsaw/Białystok)/Jürgen Heyde (Leipzig/Halle): Introduction
1:40-3:10 pm
Daniel Bagi (Budapest): Performances and Perceptions of the Nobility in Medieval Poland
Wiebke Rohrer (Heilbronn): Vikings or Slavs – The Archeological Interpretation of the Early Piast Period and Its Multidisciplinary Dilemma
Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 pm
Urszula Sowina (Warsaw): Spaces of Communication: Patterns in Medieval and Early-Modern Polish Towns
Stanisław Rosik (Wrocław): “The Baptism of Poland”: Power, Institution and Theology in the Shaping of Monarchy and Society (10th–12th c.)
5:00-5:30 pm
Christian Lübke (Leipzig): Comment on the Session & General Discussion
7 pm Franckesche Stiftungen, Franckeplatz 1, Haus 54 (IZEA Library)
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Moshe Rosman (Bar Ilan): How Polish is Polish History?
October 23rd, 2014
Franckesche Stiftungen, Franckeplatz 1, Haus 1 (Amerika-Zimmer)
PANEL II: MULTIPLE LOYALTIES: COEXISTENCE OF POLITICAL, TERRITORIAL AND RELIGIOUS SELF-CONCEPTIONS IN EARLY MODERN COMMUNITIES
9:00 am
Yvonne Kleinmann (Halle)/Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk (Warsaw): Introduction
9:20-10:50 am
Karin Friedrich (Aberdeen): Transnational Nobility in the Polish-German Borderlands. The Loyalties of Boguslaw Radziwill (1620-1669)
Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz (Warsaw): Political Discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: An Attempt at Description
Coffee Break
11:10-12:40 am
Maria Cieśla (Warsaw): Competing Loyalties of Jews in Private Towns of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: The Case of Sluck
Bogumił Szady (Lublin): Confessional Fractionalization of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th century. New Perspectives in Historical Geography
12:40-1:10 pm
Michael G. Müller (Halle): Comment on the Session & General Discussion
Break & Transfer to Leipzig
GWZO Leipzig
6:00 pm Christian Lübke (Leipzig): Welcome at the GWZO
October 24th, 2014
GWZO Leipzig
PANEL III: FACING A FANTASY: CONCEPTS OF COMMUNITY IN THE IMPERIAL SETTING OF THE 19TH CENTURY
9:00 am
Dietlind Hüchtker (Halle/Leipzig)/Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (Warsaw): Introduction
9:20-10:50 am
Ostap Sereda (Lviv): On the Frontiers of the Former Rzeczpospolita: Polish Theater and Society versus Empire-Nation Relations in 19th-Century Kyiv
Karsten Holste (Halle): Reform from Above, and Politics from Below. Peasants in the Prussian Part of Poland
Coffee Break
11:10-12:40 am
Lara Lempertiene (Vilnius): The Vision of the Enlightened Jew in 19th-Century Europe: The Case of the Maskilic Community of Vilna
Maciej Górny (Warsaw): Identity under Scrutiny: The First World War in Local Communities
12:40-1:10 pm
Halina Beresnevičiūtė-Nosálová (Brno): Comment on the Session & General Discussion
Lunch
PANEL IV: COUNTER-NARRATIVES OF THE 20TH CENTURY? – RE-CONFIGURATIONS OF LOCAL SOCIETY UNDER CONDITIONS OF MIGRATION, VIOLENCE AND TRANSFORMATION
2:20 pm
Dobrochna Kałwa (Warsaw)/Katrin Steffen (Lüneburg): Introduction
2:40-4:10 pm
Olga Linkiewicz (Warsaw): Bearers of Local Stories: Memory of the Eastern Borderlands (kresy) and Reconsideration of the Historical Record
Katarzyna Woniak (Berlin): Migration, Society and Memory: Two Small Towns in the ziemia zachodnie after 1945
Coffee Break
4:30-6:00 pm
Kornelia Kończal (Florence): The Plundering of German Property and the Reconstruction of Social Order in Central Europe after 1945
Winson Chu (Milwaukee): Translating Karl Dedecius: Łódź, Historical Politics, and the Translocal Re-Configuration of Violence and Migration
6:00-6:30 pm
Jan Kusber (Mainz): Comment on the Session & General Discussion
6:30-7:00 pm
FINAL DISCUSSION
Dietlind Hüchtker (Leipzig), Yvonne Kleinmann (Halle), Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk (Warsaw), Joachim von Puttkamer (Jena) & others