UIC Polish Studies holds 2nd annual workshop for historians of East Central Europe.
The program begins April 9th with the keynote address " A Polish Cell, a Global Narrative: Political Incarceration in the 20th Century" by Padraic Kenney, Indiana University.
Fruther information Justyna Makowska, jmakow1@uic.edu
04/09/13 - 04/11/13
Various
Tuesday April 9
7:00 p.m. Keynote Lecture: Padraic Kenney, Indiana University - “A Polish Cell, a Global Narrative:
Political Incarceration in the 20th Century”. Followed by Reception
Wednesday April 10
10:00 am Welcome and introductions
10:30 am Session One: Ideas and People Crossing Borders - Moderator: Brian Porter, Univ of Michigan
Tara Zahra, Univ 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 Catered Lunch
1:15 pm 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 Łódż, 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 Kraków, 1911-1921:
Advertising in Głos Narodu and Czas”
3:00 pm Coffee break
3:30 pm 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 Wałęsa
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 pm Cocktails
6:00 pm Dinner
Thursday April 11
9:30 am 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 am Coffee break
11:30 am Round Table: The State of the Field of East-Central European Studies
1:00 pm Lunch
3:00 pm Closing remarks