Thursday, 8 December 2016
12:30 pm Registration
1:00 – 1:15 pm Introductory Remarks
Peter Haslinger (Director, Herder Institute, Marburg)
1:15 – 2:15 pm Panel I
Chair: Jelena Đureinović (Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen)
Agata Beata Domachowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń):
Lessons learned? The Balkan States’ Narrations on the Kosovo Refugees Crisis.
Peter Vataščin (University of Pécs):
Challenging and Solidifying: the Dynamics of Notions, Stereotypes, and Prejudices about Forced Migration in Subotica.
2:30 – 4:00 pm Panel II
Chair: Jan Surman (Herder Institute, Marburg)
Miroslav Tomek (Charles University, Prague):
From Politician to Sociologist: Mykyta Shapoval and Ukrainian Sociological Institut.
Alexey Golubev (University of Toronto):
Refugees in Power: Red Finns and the Making of Revolutionary Karelia.
Brian Gebhart (Stony Brook University):
Germanizing Universities and Imperial Knowledge: Theodor Schiemann, Ostforschung, and the University of Dorpat at the End of the First World War.
4:00 – 4:45 pm Tour through the Herder Institute
4:45 – 5:00 pm Coffee break
5 pm Keynote
Ilse Lazaroms (Center for Jewish History, New York):
Origins Revisited: The Lost Landscapes of Joseph Roth’s Eastern Europe.
with an introduction by Peter Haslinger (Director, Herder Institute, Marburg)
7 pm Dinner Die Kantiene, Reitgasse 6, 35037 Marburg
Friday, 9 December 2016
9:30 – 11:00 am Panel III
Chair: Konstantin Rometsch (Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen)
Seth Bernstein (Higher School of Economics, Moscow):
Returnees or Refugees? The Reception of Soviet Repatriates in the USSR, 1945-1946.
Paul Vickers (Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen):
Pioneers, Repatriants, Refugees: The Settlement of Poland’s Former German Territories in Socialist-era Polish Sociology
Robert Andrzejczyk (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń):
The Adaptation of Refugees from Greece in the Polish Bieszczady Mountains (1951-1970).
11:15 am – 12:15 pm Panel IV
Chair: Anikó Boros (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Svetlana Boltovskaja (Herder Institute, Marburg):
From Students to Refugees: African Immigration to the USSR and the post-Soviet Russia
Joanna Fomina (Academy of Sciences, Warsaw):
Transnational Political Remittances, Knowledge Transmittance, Value-based Social Networks and Democratisation: Russian Political Migrants in Poland
12:15 – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 – 1:45 pm Discussion & Concluding Remarks
Victoria Harms (Herder Institute, Marburg)
Jan Surman (Herder Institute, Marburg)