PD Dr. Philipp Müller
Thursday, September 19, 2019
1.15pm-1.45pm: Reception
1.45pm: Introduction
Philipp Müller (Bochum) / Stefan Berger (Bochum),
Welcome & Introductory remarks.
Les faux amis. Intellectual alienation and 20th century history of émigré scholarship
2.15pm-3.15pm: Keynote
Chair: Stefan Berger (Bochum)
Jo Tollebeek (Leuven),
From Goethe to Manhattan, and back. Cosmopolitanism and nostalgia in the émigré historian’s persona Discussion
3.45pm-5pm: Institutional Politics
Chair & Comment: Nicola Brauch (Bochum)
Joseph Malherek (Montreal),
New Forms of social research in exile. Central European émigré scholars and their American sponsors, 1933-45
Kai Johann Willms (München),
Between Integration and institutional Self-organisation. Polish Exile Historiography in the US 1939-1989
5pm-6.30pm: New traditions of historical scholarship
Chair & Comment: Philipp Müller (Bochum)
Yonatan Shiloh-Dayan (Jerusalem),
German Answers to Israeli Questions? Émigré historians in Israel
Philipp Stelzel (Pittsburgh),
History after Hitler. A Transatlantic Enterprise
Friday, September 20, 2019
8.30-10.00am: Discourses of Exile
Chair & Comment: Henning Trüper (Helsinki)
Antoon De Baets (Groningen),
The dictator's long arm: Cross-border censorship of exile historians
Vilmos Erös (Debrecen),
Exile and Discourse. The case of Hungarian historiography
10.15am-12.30pm: Conflicts and Chances
Chair & Comment: Peter Schöttler (Berlin)
Iryna Mykhailova (Göttingen),
Defending Objectivity. Paul Oskar Kristeller and the controversy on historical knowledge in the United States
Christophe Araujo (Cergy-Pointoise),
Exiled Portuguese historians in France at the time of the Annales. New ways to think and write Portuguese history
2pm-4.15pm: Persona and Gender
Chair & Comment: Chris Lorenz (Amsterdam)
Herman Paul (Leiden),
The Émigré Historian: A Scholarly Persona?
Beata Halicka (Poznan),
Polish émigré scholars in the USA as actors of the cold war period
Judith Szapor (Montreal),
Gender and age in the unlikely career of Laura Polanyi (1882-1959)
4.30-6.45pm: Scholarly Micropolitics
Chair & Comment: Stefan Berger (Bochum)
Michael Antolovic (Novi Sad, Serbien),
Networking in Santa Barbara, writing history. Dimitrije Đorđević and the comparative history of the Balkan nations
Olof Bortz (Stockholm University),
Raul Hilberg. Scholarly contacts and studies into the history of the holocaust
Branimir Jankovic (Zagreb),
Building new networks. Russian émigré scholars in Yugoslavia
Saturday, September 21, 2019
9.00-10.30am: Loss, Challenges and Coping Strategies
Chair & Comment: Jo Tollebeek (Leuven)
Shuxi Yin (Hefei),
Coping with trauma in exile. Chinese émigré intellectuals
Ohad Reiss Sorokin (Princeton),
Thinking outside the circle. The emigration of the Geistkreis
10.45am-12.15 pm
Comment: Zi-Jian Li (Bochum)
Efi Gazi (Peloponnese),
Trajectory of national images, home and belonging in Argyris Eftaliotis’ Histories
Sergio Campos Matos (Lissabon),
António Sérgio and José Ortega y Gasset. History, Theory and Experiences of exile
12.15-12.45pm: Final Discussion & Resume
Philipp Müller (Bochum) / Stefan Berger (Bochum), Final Remarks.