Wednesday, October 23
4:30 pm
“Warming-up”: Film Dzieci rewolucji / Children of the Revolution
by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz
6:30 pm
Yvonne Kleinmann (Halle) & Basil Kerski (Gdańsk)
Welcome and Opening of the Conference
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Leszek Balcerowicz (Warsaw)
Changes after Socialism in a Comparative Perspective
Thursday, October 24
9:00 – 9.15 am
Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel (Halle)
Introductory Remarks
9:15 – 11:00 am
PANEL I: TRANSFORMATIONS: PEOPLE – PLACES – ATTITUDES
Piotr Filipkowski (Warsaw)
Global Forces and Local Knowledge: Ship-Building and Narrating Polish Transformation
Michał Przeperski (Warsaw)
An Apolitical Community? Poles before June 1989
Magdalena Latkowska (Warsaw / Munich)
“Language of Change” – The Year 1989 from the Perspective of German and Polish Writers
Chair: Joachim von Puttkamer (Jena)
Coffee Break
11:30 am – 1:15 pm
PANEL II: NEGOTIATIONS OF A POLITICAL COMPROMISE
Helmut Fehr (Erlangen)
„Umkämpfter Kompromiss“ – Zur Dynamik der Verhandlungen am Runden Tisch 1989
Klaudia Rok (Cracow)
“Fighting Solidarity” – Critique of the Round Table Agreement
Joachim von Puttkamer (Jena)
No Thick Lines: Laying the Foundations of Parliamentary Democracy in Poland 1989/90
Chair: Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel (Halle)
Lunch
2:30 – 4:15 pm
PANEL III: (RE)CONSTRUCTIONS AND REORIENTATIONS
Nina Seiler (Zurich)
1989 and the Transformation of Female Gender Discourses
Hans-Christian Trepte (Leipzig)
In Search of an Adequate Novel about the Democratic Change of 1989/90: A Paradigmatic Approach
Andrzej Turkowski (Warszaw)
The 1989 Transformation and Its Influence on the Polish Space of Opinion on Russia
Chair: Claudia Kraft (Wien)
Coffee Break
5:00 – 6:30 pm
PANEL IV: SEDIMENTS OF REMEMBERING
Krzysztof Okoński (Bydgoszcz)
Wenn ein Kulturphänomen zum Fremdwort wird: Zur Wahrnehmung
des “Zweiten Umlaufs” nach 1989
Joanna Kurczewska & Marta Karkowska (Warsaw)
1989, Polish Transformation and Its Interpretations among Representatives of the Political Elite – Temporal and Methodological
Perspectives
Chair: Patrick Wagner (Halle)
Friday, October 25
9:00 – 10.30 am
PANEL V: NO/A REASON TO CELEBRATE? DEBATES ON
COMMEMORATION DAYS
Piotr Tadeusz Kwiatkowski (Warsaw)
Victory of Freedom, or the Beginning of a New Enslavement?
Memories Related to the Anniversary of the Fall of Communism
in Poland
Paweł Fiktus (Wrocław)
Anniversaries of the Round-Table-Talks: 1999, 2009, and 2019 in
Comparative Perspective
Chair: Yvonne Kleinmann (Halle)
Coffee Break
10:45 am – 12:45 pm
PANEL VI: CONFLICTING INTERPRETATIONS
Marta Baranowska (Toruń)
On the Essence of Violent Social Changes and Narratives about
Them: The Example of Poland in 1989
Andrzej Pabisiak (Cracow)
A Failed Beginning? The Symbolic Transformation of 1989 in Polish Memory
Dawid Mohr (Rostock)
Controversial Founding Myths – Contemporary Struggles for
Power of Interpretation about Solidarność and the Round
Table
Chair: Piotr Filipkowski (Warsaw)
Final Remarks
Venues:
October 23:
Martin-Luther-Universität
Steintor-Campus
Adam-Kuckhoff-Str. 35
Hörsaal I
06108 Halle (Saale)
October 24-25:
Martin-Luther-Universität
Steintor-Campus
Emil-Abderhalden-Straße 26-27
seminar room 7
06108 Halle (Saale)
Registration until October, 16 at aleksander-brueckner-zentrum@uni-halle.de