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Kindheit in europäischen Grenzregionen im 20. Jahrhundert
Growing Up in 20th Century European Borderlands
Organiser:
Dr. Mag. Machteld VENKEN, M.A.
Organising Institutes:
Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Universität Wien
Wissenschaftliches Zentrum, Polnische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Program
Thursday, 15 January 2015:
4 PM:
Welcome and Introduction
Machteld Venken (University of Vienna)
Anna Ziemlewska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Enno Lindemann (Research Assistant, University of Vienna)
4.30 PM:
Session 1:
Central and Eastern Europe
Chair:
Tomasz Kamusella (University of St. Andrews)
Discussant: in application
Presenters: Ruth Leiserowitz (“Childhood in the Memel Region“, German
Historical Institute Warsaw)
Frantisek Znebejanek (on behalf of Helena Kubatova)
(“Growing up in Hlučín Region in the 20th Century“, Palacký
University Olomouc, Czech Republic).
Beata Halicka (“The everyday life of children in Western
Poland during the early post-war period – methodological
remarks on working with written memoirs”, Europa University
Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder)
6.15 PM:
Tomasz Kamusella (“Upper Silesia in Modern Central
Europe: On the Significance of the A-National / Non-National in
the Age of Nations“, University of St. Andrews)
Friday, 16 January 2015:
9 AM:
Session 2:
Western Europe
Chair:
Catherine Maurer (University of Strasbourg)
Discussant: Benita Blessing (University of Vienna)
Presenters: Andreas Fickers (“Die Kriegskinder-Generation in
Eupen-Malmedy (1930-1945): ‚Vergessene Generation’ oder
‚Gründergeneration’?“, University of Luxembourg)
Tobias Haimin Wung-Sung (“Post-war German Minority
Identity in Education: The Case of North Schleswig“, University
of Southern Denmark)
Machteld Venken (“Comparing Nationalisation and Elite
Training in the East Cantons and East Upper Silesia”,
University of Vienna)
11 AM:
Session 3:
Alsace
Chair:
Andreas Fickers (University of Luxembourg)
Discussant: Muriel Blaive (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes,
Czech Republic)
Presenters: Hagen Stöckmann (“Being educated or being selected?
Processes and dynamics of childrens‘ education in schools for
‚ethnic Germans‘ and ‚national political institutes of education‘
between centre and periphery“, German Historical Institute in
London)
Catherine Maurer, Gabrielle Ripplinger (“Vernachlässigte
Kinder im Elsass des 20. Jahrhunderts“, University of
Strasbourg)
Julien Fuchs (“Living your youth in the Alsace, 1918-1970. A
history of youth movements.“, University of Brest)
12.30 AM-1 PM:
Conclusion
Machteld Venken (University of Vienna)