24 May 2018
Venue: Universität Leipzig, Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistrasse 6-10 (5th floor: SFB 1199 Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen)
12.30-13.15: Arrival, registration and finger food lunch
13.15-13.30: Welcome and introduction:
Stefan Troebst (GWZO Leipzig)
Kornelia Kończal (Hannah Arendt Institute, TU Dresden)
Ewa Stańczyk (University of Amsterdam)
13.30-15.00: Keynote and discussion:
Alice von Bieberstein (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin): In Search for Trees and Treasures
Chair: Elisabeth Gallas (Dubnow Institute, Leipzig)
15.00-15.30: Coffee break
15.30-17.00: Affective Regimes of Ownership
Chair: Stefan Troebst (GWZO Leipzig)
Olga Sezneva (University of Amsterdam): Pride and Property: Emotions, Justice and the Changing Regimes of Ownership in Kaliningrad, the Former Königsberg
Olena Sobolieva (National Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Kyiv): Collective Memory, Moral Economy and Land Disputes after Repatriation of Crimean Tatars
Comment: Kerstin Brückweh (Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam)
17.00-17.30: Coffee break
17.30-19.00: Exhibiting Material Feelings
Chair: Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg)
Jakub Gawkowski (CEU Budapest): Displaying the Loss of the National Heritage on the Example of Warszawa Oskarża [Warsaw is Accusing] Exhibition in the National Museum in Warsaw (1945)
Sanja Ivanov (University of Toronto): Trinkets and Magpie’s Treasures: Material Objects in Dubravka Ugrešić’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
Comment: Ljerka Dulibić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb)
19.30: Dinner
After-dinner presentation of the project TransCultAA: Transfer of Cultural Objects in the Alpe Adria Region in the 20th Century (https://www.transcultaa.eu) by Ljerka Dulibić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb)
25 May 2018
Venue: Konferenzraum at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Reichsstraße 4-6, Specks Hof (Eingang A), 04109 Leipzig
9.00-11.00: Personalizing Dispossessed Objects
Chair: Ewa Stańczyk (University of Amsterdam)
Cathleen M. Giustino (Auburn University): Emotions of a Dispossessor in the Bohemian Borderlands: The Passion and Fury of Josef Scheybal before and after 1945
Aneta Stępień (Trinity College Dublin): Strangeness and Resentment in Poland’s Post-German Territories
Natasa Simeunović Bajić (University of Belgrade): Colonization of Rural Vojvodina – Facts, Representation and Family Emotions
Comment: Michael Schwartz (Institute of Contemporary History, Munich – Berlin)
11.00-11.30: Coffee break
11.30-13.30: Objects and Homemaking
Chair: Kornelia Kończal (Hannah Arendt Institute, TU Dresden)
Nora Schmidt (University of Erfurt): Readings Beyond Politics of Memory: Stefan Chwin’s Affecting Little Things
Marko Milosev (Historical Society of Kikinda, Serbia): Remembering Home – Old and New Tenants of the Jewish property in Banat
Anna Holzer-Kawalko (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Home Away from Home? Polish Expellees and German Property in Lower Silesia, 1945-1947
Comment: Maruška Svašek (Queen’s University Belfast)
13.30-14.30: Final discussion over lunch
This workshop is supported by the Leibniz ScienceCampus Eastern Europe – Global Area. The workshop is open to the public. Admission is free. Please register with Ewa Stańczyk (e.m.stanczyk@uva.nl).