Thursday, September 17
Venue: Austrian Cultural Forum, Jungmannovo nám. 18
16.00 Welcome
16.30 Keynote Lecture – Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin): The Vanquished: Europe and the Violent Aftermath of the Great War
Friday, September 18
Venue: Vila Lanna, V Sadech 1
8.30–8.45 Organisational remarks
8.45–10.15 Panel 1: Violence and gender (chair: John Horne, Trinity College Dublin)
Nancy Wingfield (Northern Illinois University): Gendered Violence against Women in Postwar Habsburg Central Europe
Judith Szapor (McGill University): Violence, racial degeneration, and national regeneration in postwar Hungary – a gendered perspective
Emily Gioielli (Central European University): The Virgin Mary in Horthyland: Gender, Violence and Mass Incarceration in Counter-revolutionary Hungary
Bela Bodo (Missouri State University): Sexual Crimes and Militia Violence in Hungary, 1919–1921
10.15–10.45 Discussion
10.45–11.15 Coffee break
11.15–12.30 Panel 2: Popular violence (chair: Jochen Böhler, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena)
Grzegorz Krzywiec (Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences): “Throw down a challenge to the international Jewry”: anti-Semitic riots of the December 1922 in Warsaw as a case study of the early post-war nationalist and juvenile violence
Miloslav Szabó (Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences): Ethnic or Social Riots? Public Violence in Slovakia in the Aftermath of the WWI
Václav Šmidrkal (Masaryk Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences): “What a republic it was!” Collective violence and the regime change in the Czech lands after 1918
12.30–13.00 Discussion
13.00–15.00 Lunch break
15.00–16.30 Panel 3: Mastering Violence in the Cultures of Victory (chair: Milan Ristović, University of Belgrade)
Jakub Beneš (University of Birmingham): The Green Cadres 1917–1923: Rural Violence as a Factor in the Reconstitution of East Central Europe
Cătălin Parfene (University of Bucharest/EHESS Paris): When the Defeated Become Victorious. Blurring Violence through Football in post-1918 Romania
Ondřej Matějka (Charles University in Prague): “Guide through a tempestuous sea”? The North American YMCA as an actor of demobilization in Czechoslovakia 1919–1921
John Paul Newman (The National University of Ireland Maynooth): Cultures of Victory and Defeat in Interwar Yugoslavia
16.30–17.00 Discussion
Saturday, September 19
Venue: Vila Lanna, V Sadech 1
8.30–10.00 Panel 4: Militaries and Paramilitaries (chair: Robert Gerwarth, University College Dublin)
Mathias Voigtmann (Herder Institute Marburg): The “Baltikumer” – German Freikorps in Latvia in the year 1919 as a special school of violence
Christopher Gilley (University of Hamburg): Pogroms and Imposture: The Violent Self-Formation of Ukrainian Warlords, 1917–1922
Borut Klabjan (University of Primorska): Physical violence in the North-Eastern Adriatic, 1918–1920
Gergely Bödők (Esztherházy Károly College): The Elite of the Red Terror – Who were the Lenin Boys?
10.00–10.30 Discussion
10.30–10.45 Coffee break
10.45–12.15 Panel 5: Representations of Violence (chair: Joachim von Puttkamer, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena)
Winson Chu (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee): “A Little Murderous Party”: Poland and the Culture of Defeat in the Works of Joseph Roth
Paul Hanebrink (Rutgers University): Security, Anti-Jewish violence, and the Idea of Judeo-Bolshevism in East-Central Europe, 1914–1923
Maciej Górny (Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences): “Carrot and Stick”: Austro-Hungarian Psychiatrists’ Perspective of the Great War
Hannes Ledinger (University of Vienna): Suicide and suicide discourses: The Austrian example from the eve to the aftermath of the First World War
12.15–12.45 Discussion
12.45–13.15 Conclusion – John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)