Beyond 1989: Childhood and Youth in Times of Political Transformation in the 20th Century

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Beyond 1989: Childhood and Youth in Times of Political Transformation in the 20th Century

Veranstalter
Friederike Kind-Kovács, Senior Botstiber Fellow at the IAS, Budapest, Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, TU Dresden; Macheld Venken, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena/ University of Vienna, Austria; Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University, Budapest
Veranstaltungsort
Budapest
Ort
Budapest
Land
Hungary
Vom - Bis
05.06.2019 - 07.06.2019
Website
https://hait.tu-dresden.de/ext/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung-15653/
Von
Friederike Kind-Kovács

In the past years not only in Germany the so-called “Children of the Transition” have come to raise the question of how 1989 and its aftermath affected children’s lives in the past and how their memories still shape their individual and collective biographies up to today. This new perspective on the years of post-socialist transformation allows for examining the historical moment of “1989” not primarily as a political rupture but rather as a social transformation which altered the (everyday) lives of the young. But how unique was the post-communist transformation in terms of its short- and long-term impact on children’s lives, when compared to other political watersheds of the 20th century? And in what way does the history of childhood contribute to a better understanding of the social implications of political transformations, both for the concerned societies in the past and their remembrance up to today? Departing from these reflections, this international conference, co-organized by the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the TU Dresden and the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest, aims to shed light on a series of political transformations in the twentieth century and their impact on ideas and everyday realities of childhood and youth. Welcoming scholars from Lithuania, Switzerland, Russia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Romania, Germany, the United States, Poland, France, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Finland and Estonia, this conference explores “ordinary” and “extraordinary” childhoods facing the major political ruptures of the twentieth century. Exploring how children and adolescents lived through and experienced periods of abrupt political change, this conference proposes to unearth the lasting impact of historical caesuras on historical subjects.

Programm

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 –

Kontakt

Friederike Kind-Kovács
Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the TU Dresden
Helmholtzstraße 6
01069 Dresden

Friederike.Kind-Kovacs@mailbox.tu-dresden.de

Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University
Október 6 utca 7
1051 Budapest
Kind-KovacsF@ceu.edu

Machteld Venken
Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena
Leutragraben 1
07743 Jena
machteld.venken@univie.ac.at

https://hait.tu-dresden.de/ext/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung-15653/