Historia polskich więźniów politycznych na przełomie lat 1880-1950. Warsztaty historyczne zorganizowane przez Universytet Illinois w Chicago (Wydział Języków Słowiańskich i Wydział Historii)

Warsztaty otworzy wyklad Prof. Padraic Kenney z Universytetu w Indianie na temat "Historia polskich więźniów politycznych na przełomie lat 1880-1950".

Wykład ten jest otwarty dla publiczności i odbędzie się 9 kwietnia br. o godz. 19:00. Wszystkie wykłady i dyskusje odbędą się w Teatrze Chopina w Chicago.

PROGRAM
Midwest Historians of East Central Europe Workshop: April 9-11, 2013
Presented by University of Illinois at Chicago (Department of Slavic Languages ​​and the Faculty of History), in cooperation with the Hejna Family Fund and Chopin Theatre

DAY 1
Tuesday April 9

7:00 pm
Keynote Lecture: Padraic Kenney, Indiana University
“A Polish Cell, a Global Narrative: Political Incarceration in the 20th Century”
Reception - Cocktails and dinner

DAY 2
Wednesday April 10

9:00-10:00
Breakfast at Chopin Theatre, lower level

10:00-10:30
Welcome and introductions

10:30-12:15
Session One: Ideas and People Crossing Borders
Moderator: Brian Porter, University of Michigan
Tara Zahra, University of Chicago, “Travel Agents on Trial: Policing Mobility in East-Central Europe, 1889-1989”
Jan Musekamp, Washington University, “How the Royal Prussian Eastern Railroad Connected Paris to St. Petersburg and Kovno to New York”
Keely Stauter-Halsted, UIC, “Purity and Danger: East European Eugenics in Comparative Context”

12:15-1:15
Catered Lunch at Chopin Theatre for all workshop participants

1:15-3:00
Session Two: The Great War and the Home Front in Central Europe
Moderator: Tara Zahra, University of Chicago
Jesse Kauffman, Eastern Michigan University, “’Polska tak, ale jaka?’ Local Antagonisms, Political Institutions, and the German Occupation of Lodz, 1915-1918”
Ke-chin Hsia, University of Chicago, “The Emperor Has No Clothes: Imperial Austria’s Failed Social Offensive on the Home Front, 1918”
Drew Burks, University of Kansas, “The Triumph of Consumer Culture in Krakow, 1911-1921: Advertising in Glos Narodu and Czas”

3:00-3:30
Coffee break

3:30-5:15
Session Three:
Image, Culture and Politics in the Cold War Moderator: Padraic Kenney, Indiana University
Robert Brier, German Historical Institute Warsaw, “Solidarity in an ‘Age of Fracture\': Lech Walesa as a Contested Icon of Cold War Human Rights Activism”
Rachel Applebaum, Lafayette College, “Empire of Friends: The Personalization of Czechoslovak-Soviet Relations in the 1950s and 1960s”
David Tompkins, Carleton College, “The East is Red? Images of China in East Germany and Poland through the Sino-Soviet split”

5:15
Cocktails

6:00
Dinner/music for workshop participants, Chopin Theatre

DAY 3
Thursday April 11

8:30-9:30
Breakfast at Chopin Theatre

9:30-11:15
Session Four: East and West? New Perspectives on Cultural Exchange in Postwar Europe
Brian Porter, University of Michigan, “Globalizing Poland’s Communist Modernity”
Mikołaj Kunicki, Notre Dame University, “Pioneers, Settlers, and  Gunslingers: ‘Reclaiming’ the Western Territories in the Polish Popular Cinema of the 1960s”
Ilana Miller, Indiana University, “Co-opting Tevye: Fiddler on the Roof Productions in Communist Czechoslovakia, 1968-1970”

11:15-11:30
Coffee break

11:30-1:00
Round Table: The State of the Field of East-Central European Studies

1:00-3:00
Lunch at Chopin Theatre for workshop participants

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