Thursday, January 29

14:00 – 14:15 Welcome
Jörg Baberowski, Catherine Gousseff-Klein, and Gabor Rittersporn

14:15 – 15:30 Fighting the Great War
Masha Cerovic: More Soviet than Stalin – Partisan Violence on Occupied Territory
Kerstin Bischl: Red Army Soldiers on Violence – Accounts from the Stalingrad Transcripts
Comment: Jan C. Behrends

15:45 – 17:00 In the Thick of Survival
Amandine Regamey: Soviet Women Snipers – Experiences of Fire
Christian Teichmann: The Uzbek Wars, 1939-1945
Comment: Robert Kindler

17:15 – 18:30 Law, Revenge, and Retribution
Juliette Cadiot: Lawyers under Stalin
Franziska Exeler: Personal Reckonings in the Aftermath of Nazi Occupation
Comment: Kim Christian Priemel

Friday, January 30

9:30 – 10:45 Moving Objects
Catherine Gousseff-Klein: Population Exchange Soviet Style – Displacement of Minorities in the New Polish-Soviet Borderlands
Benjamin Beuerle: Between Liberation and Repatriation – Soviet Forced Laborers in Northern France
Comment: Mirjam Galley

11:00 – 12:45 Patterns and Sounds
Valerie Pozner: Moving Images of the Shoah
Sarah Matuschak: Zhdanov’s Music
Comment: Arkadi Miller

14:00 – 15:15 Signatures of Power
Gabor Rittersporn: Art & Life – (De)painting Victory, Conjuring (Away) Defeat in Soviet and Post-Soviet Art
Lida Oukaderova: Cold War Exchanges – Moscow’s Circular Panorama at the VDNKh
Comment: Jochen Krüger

15:30 – 16:15 Landscapes With a View
Isabelle Ohayon: An Economy of Abundance? Small-scale Producers, Private Livestock and the Market in the Kazakh Countryside, 1960s and 1970s
Botakoz Kassymbekova: Industrial Orientalism – The Making of Soviet Central Asia in the Post-War Period
Comment: Stefan Kirmse