Sunday (October 19th)
19:00 – Introdcution
Alexander Drost (Greifswald)
Bordering the Monster?, or Coping with change at the boundaries in life
Monday (October 20th)
09:00 – Key Note I
Introduction by Michael North (Greifswald)
Samuel Truett (Albuquerque)
Globetrotters, border crossers, and the tangled tales of borderlands history
10:15 – Panel I
Collaborative Discussant and Chair Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (Lund)/ Alexander Wöll (Greifswald)
Tatsiana Astrouskaya (Greifswald)
An intellectual as l’enfant terrible of Pere-stroika: Re-definition of Belorussian intellectual field in the late 1980s-beginning of 1990s
Marta Grzechnik (Gdańsk/ Greifswald)
Ten centuries of struggling with the monster. The Germans as the “Other” in the post-Second World War Polish historiography
Rune Brandt Larsen (Lund)
Shadows in the East
Sune Bechmann Pedersen (Lund)
Eastern escapes: Selling communist Europe in Scandinavian cold-war guidebooks
13:15 – Panel II
Collaborative Discussant and Chair Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (Lund)/ Alexander Wöll (Greifswald)
Alberto Sevillano (Greifswald)
The discovery of a Monstrous Goya in Germany in early 20th century
Katja Will (Greifswald)
Everybody a man-eater? The Danish film De grønne slagtere and the motif of cannibalism
Berit Glanz (Greifswald)
Monstrous patients: Alterity in contemporary Scandinavian novels
15:45 – Panel III
Discussant and Chair Jens E. Olesen (Greifswald)
Madis Maasing (Tartu)
Monsters on the border of Christendom: The Russian threat in 16th-Century Livonia
Baiba Tetere (Greifswald)
‘Latvian types’: Hybridized visions of rural life in Latvia in 1890s
Alina Baravykaitė (Greifswald)
How foreign can your native language be?
Toomas Schvak (Tartu)
De- and Re-bordering in 19th century Estonia and Latvia: Orthodox Church and schools as enablers of social changes
Tuesday (October 21st)
09:00 – Key Note II
Introduction by Riho Altnurme (Tartu)
Jari Ojala (Jyväskylä)
Creative destruction, path dependence and organizational longevity: how and why history matters?
10:15 – Forum, Collaborative Chair Volha Sasunkevich (Vilnius)/ Alexander Drost (Greifswald)
Alexandra Fried (Gothenburg) – opponent Kilian Heck (Greifswald)
The bunge master reconsidered
Inge Christensen (Greifswald) – opponent Bo Petersson (Malmö)
Visions of Western depravity and bourgeois hedonism in a post-soviet setting
Elisabeth Heigl (Greifswald) – opponent Andreas Önnerfors (Malmö)
Incompetent professors? The deconstruction of the economic autonomy of the University of Greifswald in the second half of the 18th century
Mihkel Mäesalu (Tartu) – opponent Mathias Niendorf (Greifswald)
Livonia’s (un)involvement in the Hussite Wars (1419-1434). The reaction of an established borderland to the emergence of a new enemy in “the centre”
Cynthia Osiecki (Greifswald) – opponent Anti Selart (Tartu)
Hells angels or the devil for dummies? Depictions of hell in medieval sculpture
13:15 – Panel IV
Discussant and Chair Jan-Henrik Nilsson (Lund)
Maare Paloheimo (Greifswald)
The emergence and assimilation of Rus-sian-born businessmen in early-nineteenth-century Finland
Sebastian Nickel (Greifswald)
The mercurial monster: Re-bordering migration routes from Sub-Sahara Africa to the EU
Matthias Müller (Greifswald)
The monsters of luck: Lottery as a threat to the traditional order in the eighteenth century
Nicholas Prindiville (Helsinki/London/Greifswald)
Finland's 'Trolls': Johan Bäckman and the Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee as Dissidents of Finnish Historiography
Closing Remarks (Stephan Kessler (Greifswald))