Conferences & Workshops
Imaginations and Configurations of Polish Society – From the Middle Ages through the 20th Century - English
International Conference, Halle/Leipzig, October 22-24, 2014
Organizers: Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies in cooperation with Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk (IH PAN) Warsaw and GWZO Leipzig
Programm
Wednesday, October 22
Conference venue: Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle
1:00 pm | Welcome & Introduction | Yvonne Kleinmann (Halle) |
Panel I: Political Rule and Medieval Society in the Polish Lands: An Anthropologically Inspired Revision | ||
1:20 pm | Introduction | Zbigniew Dalewski (Warsaw/ Białystok); Jürgen Heyde (Halle/ Leipzig) |
1:40 -3:10 pm | Performances and Perceptions of the Nobility in Medieval Poland | Daniel Bagi (Budapest) |
Vikings or Slavs - The Archeological Interpretation of the Early Piast Period and Its Multidisciplinary Dilemma | Wiebke Rohrer (Heilbronn) | |
Coffee/ Tea Break | ||
3:30 -5:00 pm | Spaces of Communication: Patterns in Medieval and Early-Modern Polish Towns | Urszula Sowina (Warsaw) |
“The Baptism of Poland”: Power, Institution and Theology in the Shaping of Monarchy and Society (10th–12th c.) | Stanisław Rosik (Wrocław) | |
5:00 -5:30 pm | Comment on the Session & General Discussion | Christian Lübke (Leipzig) |
6:00 pm | Reception | IZEA (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum zur Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung) |
7:00 pm | Keynote Lecture (IZEA Library): How Polish is Polish History? | Moshe Rosman (Bar Ilan) |
Thursday, October 23
Conference Venue: Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle
Panel II: Multiple Loyalities: Coexistence of Political, Territorial and Religious Self-Conceptions in Early Modern Communities | ||
9:00 am | Introduction | Yvonne Kleinmann (Halle); Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk (Warsaw) |
9:20 -10:50 am | Transnational Nobility in the Polish-German Borderlands. The Loyalties of Boguslaw Radziwill (1620-1669) | Karin Friedrich (Aberdeen) |
Political Discourses of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: An Attempt at Description | Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz (Warsaw) | |
Coffee/ Tea Break | ||
11:10 -12:40 am | Competing Loyalties of Jews in Private Towns of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: The Case of Sluck | Maria Cieśla (Warsaw) |
Confessional Fractionalization of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th Century. New Perspectives in Historical Geography
| Bogumił Szady (Lublin) | |
12:40 - 1:10 pm | Comment on the Session & General Discussion | Michael G. Müller (Halle) |
Conference Venue: GWZO Leipzig | ||
6:00 pm | Welcome at the GWZO Leipzig | Christian Lübke (Leipzig) |
Friday, October 24
9:00 am | Panel III: Facing a Fantasy: Concepts of Community in the Imperial Setting of the 19th Century | |
Introduction | Dietlind Hüchtker (Halle/Leipzig); Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov (Wasaw) | |
9:20 -10:50 am | On the Frontiers of the Former Rzeczpospolita: Polish Theater and Society versus Empire-Nation Relations in 19th-Century Kyiv | Ostap Sereda (Lviv) |
Reform from Above, and Politics from Below. Peasants in the Prussian Part of Poland | Karsten Holste (Halle) | |
Coffee/ Tea Break | ||
11:10 -12:40 am | The Vision of the Enlightened Jew in 19th-Century Europe: The Case of the Maskilic Community of Vilna | Lara Lempertiene (Vilnius) |
Identity under Scrutinity: The First World War in Local Communities | Maciej Górny (Warsaw) | |
12:40 -1:10 pm | Comment on the Session & General Discussion | Halina Beresnevičiūtė-Nosálová (Brno) |
Panel IV: Counter-Narratives of the 20th Century? - Re-Configurations of Local Society under Conditions of Migration, Violence and Transformation | ||
2:20 pm | Introduction | Dobrochna Kałwa (Warsaw); Katrin Steffen (Lüneburg) |
2:40 -4:10 pm | Bearers of Local Stories: Memory of the Eastern Borderlands (kresy) and Reconsideration of the Historcal Record | Olga Linkiewicz (Warsaw) |
Migration, Society and Memory: Two Small Towns in the ziemia zachodnie after 1945 | Katarzyna Woniak (Berlin) | |
Coffee/ Tea Break | ||
4:30 -6:00 pm | The Plundering of German Property and the Reconstruction of Social Order in Central Europe after 1945 | Kornelia Kończal (Florence) |
Translating Karl Dedecius: Łódź, Historical Politics, and the Translocal Re-Configuration of Violence and Migration | Winson Chu (Milwaukee) | |
6:00 -6:30 pm | Comment on the Session & General Discussion | Jan Kusber (Mainz) |
6:30 -7:00 pm | Final Discussion | Dietlind Hüchtker (Halle/ Leipzig); Yvonne Kleinmann (Halle); Tomasz Wiślicz-Iwańczyk (Warsaw); Joachim von Puttkamer (Jena) & others |
Venue: October 22-23, Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle Haus 1 (Amerika-Zimmer)Franckeplatz 1D-06110 Halle (Saale)October 22 - KeynoteIZEA Library (Zweigbibliothek Europäische Aufklärung)Franckeplatz 1Haus 54D-06110 Halle (Saale)October 24Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO)Reichsstr. 4-6Specks Hof (Eingang A)D-04109 Leipzig