Thursday, 18 October 2018, Hanse-Saal, Bolfrashaus
6pm
Introduction to the exhibition “Between national style and modernity. Architecture of the interwar-period in Poznan and Frankfurt (Oder)”: Uwe Rada and Szymon Piotr Kubiak
7pm
Inauguration of the exhibition with Prof. Dr. Julia von Blumenthal, President of the European University Viadrina
Friday, 19 October 2018, Auditorium Maximum 03, Europa-Universität Viadrina
9am-9:30am
Opening: Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies; Jörg Hackmann, Szczecin University; Krzysztof Ruchniewicz, Director of the Willy Brandt Center
9:30am-11.20am
Panel 1: Discourses on the Central Europe Debate I
Moderation: Małgorzata Szajbel-Keck (Frankfurt Oder)
1: Jörg Hackmann (Szczecin), “The End of Ostmitteleuropa and the Return of Zwischeneuropa?”
2: Ljubica Ilić (Novi Sad), “Central Europe at the Borders: The Place as a Refuge, the Self as the Other”
3: Tomasz Kamusella (St Andrews), “Pluricentric and Monocentric Languages in Central Europe: Between Nationalisms and Points of View”
11:50am-1.40pm
Panel 2: Hegemonic Visions of Central Europe
Moderation: Mark Keck-Szajbel (Frankfurt Oder)
1: Aliaksandr Piahanau (Toulouse), “Danubian Triangle—a Failed Project at uniting Central Europe in the Interwar. Hungarian Attempts at Political-Economic Rapprochement with Austria and Czechoslovakia”
2: Ádám Sashalmi (Budapest), “The Italian Perspective Related to Central Europe between the Two World Wars”
3: Peter Polak-Springer (Doha), “(Upper) Silesia as Germany’s Peninsula: Regional Representations of the ‘German East’ in the Context of Interwar German Revisionism”
Commentary: Tim Buchen (Dresden)
3.10pm-5pm
Panel 3: Actors in the Central Europe Debate
Moderation: Anna Labentz (Frankfurt Oder)
1: Maciej Górny (Warsaw), “Albrecht Penck—Mapping Lebensraum in the East”
2: Anja Jahn (Leipzig), “Spread the Word! Mina Witkojc’s Attempts at Sorbian Nationhood and the Press”
3: Miłosz Cybowski (Poznań), “Alternative Histories of Central Europe in Polish Popular Culture: Wolski, Parowksi, Dukaj and others”
Commentary: Timm Beichelt (Frankfurt Oder)
6pm-7:30pm
Keynote, Mała Aula, Collegium Polonicum
Andrii Portnov (Frankfurt Oder), “‘Central Europe(s)’ to the East of the Oder: History and Politics”
Introduction: Prof. Dr. Julia von Blumenthal, Director of the European University Frankfurt (Oder)
Saturday, 20 October 2018, Mała Aula, Collegium Polonicum
9am-10:50am
Panel 4: Economic Visions of Central and Eastern Europe
Moderation: Falk Flade (Frankfurt Oder)
1: Erik Radisch (Passau), “From the Stalinist Adviser-System to a Collective Leadership. The COMECON-Reforms from 1953-1971 from an Imperial Perspective”
2: Ivan Obadić (Zagreb), “An Eastern OECD? Yugoslav Vision of Economic Integration of Central Europe”
3: Jiří Janáč (Prague), “Constructing Central Europe across the Iron Curtain: Geopolitics and Economics of a Waterway Integration Project”
Commentary: Uwe Müller (Leipzig)
11:20am-1.10pm
Panel 5: Discourses on the Central Europe Debate II
Moderation: Frank Grelka (Frankfurt Oder)
1: Kai Johann Willms (Munich), “Constructing (East) Central Europe in exile: The scholarly and political activities of Polish émigré scholars in the US after 1945”
2: Weronika Parfianowicz (Warsaw), “What Kind of Central Europe do Central Europeans Need?”
3: Daria Voyloshnikova (Fribourg), “The Concept of Central Europe in the Post-War Soviet Academic Discourse”
Commentary: Peter Polak-Springer (Doha)
1:20pm-2pm
Conclusions