Ends of War. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Past and New Polish Regions after 1944

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Ends of War. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Past and New Polish Regions after 1944

Veranstalter
Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Warsaw
Veranstaltungsort
German Historical Institute, Warsaw
Ort
Warsaw
Land
Poland
Vom - Bis
18.11.2015 - 20.11.2015
Deadline
13.11.2015
Website
http://www.polenstudien.de
Von
Dorothea Warneck

The projected conference deviates from the common practice to set a specific year or even day for the end of wars. Taking the example of Poland and its neighbors after the Second World War, it examines the end of war as a complex, long-lasting process with considerable regional differences, as well as variation in the experiences of individuals.

Starting from the assumption that there is a significant transitional period, we want to connect the analysis of lives after World War II to the war experience. This process requires looking backwards and forwards at the same time.

One focus lies on the reconfiguration of society in past and new Polish regions against the background of war, occupation, compulsory labor, genocide and forced migrations. A second theme addresses imaginations and concepts of law and justice after the traumatic experience of the deprivation of rights. Another section will look at efforts to physically reconstruct a heavily destroyed country, provide mental support to people, and establish a new social order. Finally we will enter the large field of emotions and uncontrollable actions, such as vigilantism and mass panic, linked to the war experience.

None of these fields is the domain of a single discipline. We therefore include contributions from history, linguistics, literature studies, law, sociology, anthropology as well as museology.

Projected Panels:

1. Demographic upheaval - The re-invention of regional societies

2. Past injustice - Imaginations and concepts of law and justice

3. Material and mental breakdown - Efforts of reconstruction

4. War is dead, long live the war! - Emotions and uncontrollable actions

Concept: Yvonne Kleinmann, Achim Rabus, Miloš Řezník, Ruth Leiserowitz, Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel, Dorothea Warneck

Programm

Preliminary Program (10/8/2015)

Wednesday, 18 November

6:00 pm
Keynote: Stefan Chwin (Gdańsk)

Thursday, 19 November

10:00 am
Welcome and Introduction
Miloš Řezník, Yvonne Kleinmann

1. DEMOGRAPHIC UPHEAVAL – THE RE-INVENTION OF REGIONAL SOCIETIES
Chair: Achim Rabus (Jena)

10:30 am – 12.00 am
Miloš Řezník (Warsaw): Keynote
Anna Zielińska (Warsaw): Linguistics in the Regained territories after 1945: Arguments against the Myth of Linguistic Integration
Ewelina Wanat (Chemnitz): Politics of Cultural Identity: Communist Concepts and Practice on the Example of Polish Upper Lusatia

Coffee Break

12:15 am – 1:45 pm
Bohdan Shumylovych (Lviv): Soviet Lviv on Newsreels in the First Decade after the Second World War
Violeta Davoliute (Vilnius): The Wilna Region – How a Polish and Jewish Center was Transformed into a Lithuanian City

Lunch Break

2. PAST INJUSTICE – IMAGINATIONS AND CONCEPTS OF LAW AND JUSTICE
Chair: Yvonne Kleinmann (Halle)

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Rachel Kerr (London):Keynote
Lech Nijakowski (Warsaw: Forms of Vigilantism: Justice through Vengeance?
Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel (Halle): Semantic-Juridical Aspects of Coming to Terms with NS-Crimes: Concepts and Practice of the Main Commission for Persecution of German Crimes

Coffee Break

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Ewa Malinowska (Opole): The Constitutional Discourse in Poland after the Recovery of Independence in 1945
Joanna Lusek (Bytom): Deportations, Forced Migrations and Labor Camps: Spontaneous Remembrance in Museums, Public Spaces and Centers of Documentation in Upper Silesia

Friday, 20 November

3. MATERIAL AND MENTAL BREAKDOWN – EFFORTS OF RECONSTRUCTION
Chair: Dorothea Warneck (Halle)

10:00 am – 11:30 am
Helena Datner (Warsaw): Keynote
Małgorzata Krupecka (Warsaw): Facing new Challenges after the (Un)finished War: The Catholic Church in Poland after 1945
Anna Wylegała (Warsaw): Landscapes after the War: Establishing Social Relations in Postwar Poland and Ukraine

Coffee Break

11:45 am – 1.45 pm
Grażyna Ewa Herber (Bamberg): The Reconstruction of the Old City of Warsaw: Social, Political and Legal Preconditions
Daniel Weiss (Zurich): The Newborn Polish nowomowa (new speech) after 1945 and its Relation to the Soviet Original
Iryna Horban (Lviv): Rearranging the Past: The Museums of Lwów/Lvov after 1944

Lunch Break

4. WAR IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE WAR! – EMOTIONS AND UNCONTROLLABLE ACTIONS
Chair: Jens Boysen (Warsaw)

3:00 pm– 4:30 pm
Joanna Hytrek-Hryciuk (Wrocław): Keynote
Joanna Sulikowska-Fajfer (Halle): Voices of Polish Poets in the First Postwar Years: An Attempt to Catch the ‘Spirit of the Time’
Joanna Ostrowska (Warsaw): From War to Civil War: Continued Violence against Women and its Social Echo

Coffee Break

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Monika Talarczyk-Gubała (Szczecin): National and International Perceptions of the Film Ostatni etap (1948) by Wanda Jakubowska
Marcin Zaremba (Warsaw): Unconscious Re-Staging of the War? Mass Panics in Poland in the Postwar Decades

Kontakt

Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel
Aleksander-Brückner-Zentrum für Polenstudien
Institut für Geschichte
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle
06099 Halle
Fon: +49 (0) 345 / 55- 24328
Mail: paulina.gulinska-jurgiel@geschichte.uni-halle.de

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