WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5
ROOM 103 (TIERED), Nádor u. 15
Registration and Welcome Coffee
15:00-15:30
WELCOME & OPENING: CHILDHOOD IN TIMES OF POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION
15:30-16:00
Prof. Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Dr. habil. Friederike Kind-Kovács, Senior Botstiber Fellow at the IAS, Budapest/Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, Dresden
PD. Dr. habil. Machteld Venken, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena/ University of Vienna, Austria
PANEL I – CHILDREN’S INSTITUTIONAL CARE
16:00 – 18:00
Chair: Dr. habil. Friederike Kind-Kovács, Senior Botstiber Fellow at the IAS, Budapest/Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, Dresden, Germany
Discussant: Prof. Till Kössler, Halle University, Germany
"A Nest for New Lithuanians – Orphanages, Discipline and Nation Building in Ober Ost, 1915-1918"
Dr. Andrea Griffante, Research Fellow, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
"Infant Care Facilities (Kinderkrippen) and the End of the German Democratic Republic"
Dr. Michel Christian, Senior Research Associate, University of Geneva, Switzerland
"'The Ideological Husk fell off, and the Humanism Remained': Why Pioneer Camps Survived the Collapse of the Soviet Union"
Anna Kozlova, M.A., European University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Reception
18:00
THURSDAY, JUNE 6
ROOM 103 (TIERED), Nádor u. 15
PANEL II – BORDERLAND CHILDHOODS
09:00 – 11:00
Chair: PD. Dr. habil. Machteld Venken, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Germany/Vienna University, Austria
Commentator: Dr. Muriel Blaive, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR), Prague, Czech Republic
"'German Blood' and National Belonging. The Hitler Youth's Role in the Germanization of Upper Carniola and Lower Styria"
Lisbeth Matzer, Ph.D. student, University of Cologne, Germany
"Resettlement and Repatriation of The Uprooted Children from the Polish-Soviet Borderlands After World War II"
Dr. Olga Gnydiuk, Postdoctoral Researcher, European University Florence, Italy
"Growing up so close to the Border during Socialist and Postcommunist times"
Dr. Cătălina Mihalache, Senior Researcher, Romanian Academy, Iaşi, Romania
Coffee Break
11:00-11:30
KEYNOTE SPEECH
11:30 – 12:30
Chair: Dr. habil. Friederike Kind-Kovács, Senior Botstiber Fellow at the IAS, Budapest/ Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, Dresden, Germany
"1989: just another (r)evolution?"
Dr. Joëlle Droux, Senior Lecturer in History of Education, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Lunch
12:30 – 14:00
PANEL III – CHILDREN’S DISPLACEMENT
14:00-16:00
Chair: Prof. Thomas Lindenberger, Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, Dresden, Germany
Commentator: Prof. Jill Massino, University of North Carolina, US
"1939/40: The Meanings of War to Central European Jewish Refugee Children in France"
Prof. Laura Hobson Faure, Associate Professor, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France
"'From Nazi Inferno to the Soviet Hell” – Polish-Jewish Children and their Trajectories of Survival during the Second World War"
Dr. Katharina Friedla, Research Fellow, Polish Institute of Advanced Studies PIASt/Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
"'All the Children are Ours' – Policies towards Unaccompanied Children in the Post-War Polish State"
Jakub Galęziowski, Ph.D. student, University of Warsaw, Poland/University of Augsburg, Germany
Coffee Break
16:00-16:30
PANEL IV – CHANGING VISIONS OF CHILDHOOD
16:30-18:30
Chair: Prof. Marsha Siefert, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Commentator: Prof. Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Germany/ Jagiellonian University Kraków, Poland
"Child at the Cinema: the Contradictions of Children's Leisure in the USSR in the 1920s"
Elizaveta Zhdankova, Ph.D. student, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia
"Childhood and Hunger: the Holodomor and Children's Survival Practices"
Prof. Iryna Skubii, Associate Professor, Petro Vasylenko Kharkiv National Technical University of Agriculture, Ukraine
"Deinstitutionalization as the Symbol of a Changing Conception of Childhood"
Ekaterina Pereprosova, Ph.D. student, Paris Descartes University, France
Dinner
19:00
FRIDAY, JUNE 7
ROOM 103 (TIERED), Nádor u. 15
PANEL V – REMEMBERING CHILDHOOD
9:00-11:00
Chair: Dr. Jessie Labov, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Discussant: Prof. Libora Oates-Indruchova, University of Graz, Austria
"Thinking from the border towards envisioning differential subjectivities"
Ioana Tîstea, Ph.D. candidate, University of Tampere, Finland
"Childhood Years as Generational Capital: The 24 Narratives of the 1970s Cohort"
Dr. Raili Nugin, Researcher, Tallinn University, Estonia
"The narrative Wind of Change – On commemorative Practices in East-German Families"
Dr. Hanna Haag, Postdoctoral Researcher, Hamburg University, Germany
Coffee Break
11:00-11:30
Final Session
11:30 – 12:30
Small Group Discussions: Towards a European Network “Children of/and Historical Transformation”
1. Children’s Displacement, Migration and Life at Borders, Chaired by PD. Dr. habil. Machteld Venken: Room 102
2. Children’s Care and Relief: Between the Family and the State, Chaired by Dr. habil. Friederike Kind-Kovács: Room 104
3. Visions, Subjectivities and Memories of Childhood, Chaired by Prof. Till Kössler: Room 105
- Official End of Conference –