9:30 Welcome and introductions

9:45–11:30 Session 1
Elzbieta Kwiecinska (EUI Florence) A civilizing relay: the concept of the "civilizing mission" as a cultural encounter in East-Central Europe, 1815-1919.
Michał Turski (Giessen) Deutsche Volksliste in Region Lodz zwischen 1939 und 1950

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45-13:30 Session 2
Jan Burek (EUI Florence) Writing trans-war Polish labor history. Gender, class, national identification, and working-class protest in Żyrardów before and after 1945.
Alexandra Wedl (Basel) Environmental discourse in Czechoslovakia (1970s-80s): the youth newspaper Mladý svět.

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:15 Session 3
Mišo Kapetanović (St Gallen) Rising Mobilities and Identity Politics of Post-Yugoslav Labour Migrants in Switzerland.
Anita Buhin (EUI Florence) Relaxing, Partying, Romancing: (Foreign) Tourist Culture in Yugoslavia (1950s-1960s).

16:15–16:30 Coffee Break

16.30.–18:15 Session 4
Sandra King-Savić (St Gallen) Reframing Integration: Building a new Paradigm of Integration Based on the Perspective of those who Experienced Migration. A Case Study of Labor migrants and Refugees from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Switzerland.
Samantha Simpson (Bern) Building an army abroad: Kosovar Albanians and the creation of an armed resistance movement in Central Europe.