Wednesday, June 9, 2021

15.00–15.30
Welcome and Introduction
Christian Lübke (Director of the GWZO),
Corinne Geering (GWZO)

15.30–17.30
Asymmetrical Frameworks
Chair: Theo Schley (GWZO)

Christian Lübke (GWZO)
The East as seen by the West – Percepting, Visualising and Mapping from the Early Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Martin Bauch, Annabell Engel (GWZO), Thomas Labbé (Dijon)
The Black Death (1347–52) and Eastern Central Europe: A Transcontinental Pandemic in Regional Comparison

Augusta Dimou (Leipzig)
No European History without Eastern Europe

Clemens Günther (Berlin)
Can Late Soviet Literature Be Globalized? Comparative Perspectives beyond the ‘Deformation Model’
Comment: Katja Castryck-Naumann (GWZO)

18.00
Keynote
in cooperation with the Leibniz ScienceCampus »Eastern Europe – Global Area« (EEGA)

Martin Müller (Lausanne)
Go East: Thinking beyond North and South
Moderation: Sebastian Lentz (Speaker of the EEGA)

Thursday, June 10, 2021

10.00–11.30
Eastern Europe and the Global South
Chair: Aurelia Ohlendorf (GWZO)

Steffi Marung (Leipzig)
Comparing and Connecting: The Soviet and the American South as Models for International Development

Nataša Jagdhuhn (Berlin)
The Non-Aligned Movement and the Decolonization of the Museum Field: The Gallery of Art of the Non-Aligned Countries »Josip Broz Tito« (1984–1991)

Zoltan Ginelli and Eszter Szakács (Budapest)
Transperiphery Movement: Global Eastern Europe and Global South
Comment: Beáta Hock (GWZO)

13.00–14.30
Social Margins
Chair: Hakob Matevosyan (GWZO)

Lucian George (Oxford)
Comparing Rural Political Cultures in Interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia

Igor Stipić (Regensburg)
Rejected Bodies, Disowned Cultures: Race and Nation in Bosnia and Chile

Udo Grasshoff (Leipzig)
Informal Housing in East Europe in Comparative Perspective
Comment: Antje Dietze (Leipzig)

15.00–16.30

Minorities
Chair: Hana Rydza (GWZO)

Jürgen Heyde (GWZO)
Reframing Locality. The Armenian Chronicles of Early Modern Lviv and Kamjanec Podilskyj

Nadiia Bureiko (St. Gallen) and Teodor Lucian Moga (Iasi)
(In)visible Asymmetries in the Northern and Southern Parts of Bukovina: Comparative Analysis of Ukrainian and Romanian Minorities’ Self-Perceptions

Diana Hitzke (Gießen)
Comparing Minority Narratives in English, Russian and Sorbian Literature
Comment: Adamantios Th. Skordos (GWZO)

Friday, June 11, 2021

10.00–11.30
From Centres to Peripheries
Chair: Gáspár Salamon (GWZO)

Chechesh Kudachinova (Altai Republic)
Neither East nor North: the Pragmatic Metageograhies of Northeast Eurasia

Corinne Geering (GWZO)
A Dialogue of Imperial Histories: Textiles and Regional Development in the Russian and British Empires

Elzbieta Kwiecinska (Florence)
»Centre« and »Periphery«? Towards the Concept of the ‘Civilizing Mission’ as a Cultural Transfer in East Prussia and Habsburg Galicia in a Long Nineteenth Century
Comment: Jan Zofka (GWZO)

12.00–13.00
Concluding discussion
Frank Hadler (GWZO), Corinne Geering (GWZO