Thursday 14.01.
12:30-2:00 pm: Opening
Frank Hadler (Leipzig): What is a transnational perspective?
Oldřich Tůma (Prague): What is contemporary history in the Czech context?
Matthias Middell (Leipzig) East Central Europe and the Wilsonian Moment in Global History
2:30-5:30 Economy
chair: Dirk Suckow (Leipzig)
Uwe Müller, Introduction
Žarko Lazarević (Ljubljana): Peasant’s debts in Southeast Europe in interwar period (cases of Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria)
Roman Holec (Bratislava): Capital in the shadow of the policy. Business at the Crossroads of Central European Development
Eduard Kubu/Jiri Sousa (Prague): Between Autarchy and Liberalism. Czechoslovakia on the First World Economic Conference in Geneva 1927
Jaromir Balcar (Berlin): From Nazi War Economy to Soviet Style Centralized Planned Economy. Aspects of Business History in Czechoslovakia and East Central Europe in the Decade of Extremes (1938-1948)
6.00-7.30 Evening Lecture
Isabel Wünsche (Bremen): The Presence of the East Central European Avant-garde in the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions of the 1920s (title tbc)
Reception with wine and pretzels
Friday 15.01.
8:30-11:30 International Organizations
chair: Adam Skordos (Leipzig)
Katja Naumann, Introduction
Ondrej Matejka (Prague/Geneva): The constitution of a transnational “epistemic community”. Czech Barthians between East and West 1920s-1950s
Kateřina Čapková (Prague): Pitfalls of Minority Rights In East Central Europe. German and Jewish minorities in Poland and Czechoslovakia
Coffee Break
Martin Kohlrausch (Leuven): The experiment of 'Ciam-Ost'. Urbanism and regional development against the background of postimperial structures, national agendas and the lure of internationalism'
Bartha Ákos (Budapest): Internationalized conceptions of national territorialisation? Foreign policy of Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky (1886–1944)
Lunch
12:30-4:00 Migration
chair: Katrin Steffen (Hamburg)
Michael G. Esch, Introduction
Andrea Komlosy (Wien): From imperial to national scale. How internal migration became international after the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy
Adam Walaszek (Krakow): Transnational aspects of migration. Polish Lands and Polish Diaspora in the United States 1870-1939
Andreas Fahrmeir (Frankfurt Main): From imperial to post-imperial citizenships. Implications for migration and migration control (tbc)
Friederike Kind-Kovács (Regensburg): Refugee Slumming. Budapest’s Housing Crisis after the Great War
Peter Bencsik (Szeged): Border regimes in the Dual Monarchy, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. A long-duree perspective
4:30-7:00 Culture
chair: Tanja Zimmermann (Leipzig)
Beata Hock, Introduction
Gyöngyi Heltai (Budapest): Budapest-New York-Paris-Berlin-Vienna. Transfer Techniques in the Theatre Industry (1930-32): The International Artistic and Business Network of Vígszínház
Sarah M. Schlachetzki (New York): International Style on the Margins. Wrocław’s/Breslau’s Architectural Modernity in Transnational Perspective
Fedora Parkmann (Paris): An example of interwar Czech-Russian cultural transfer. The Czech worker photography movement
Comment: Peter Zusi (London)
Saturday, 16.01.
9:00-12:00 Territorialization
chair: John Keiger (Cambridge)
Introduction: Steffi Marung
Iryna Vushko (New York): Lost Fatherland. Europe between the Empire and Nation States, 1900-1939
Catherine Gibson (Florence): Discrete vs. Thick Borders. Imperial and National Symbolic Geographies in the Belarusian-Latvian Borderland, 1864-1924
Reiner Fenske (Dresden): Imperial Societies against Territorialization. The example of the German „Ostbund“
Zoriana Melnyk (Florence): Territorialization under the Influence of Mass Mobilization in Austrian Galicia
12:30 Resume and Final Discussion
chairs: Jan Zofka and Katja Naumann