Reshaping The Nation Collective Identities And Post-War Violence In Europe 1944-1948

RESHAPING THE NATION
COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES
AND POST-WAR VIOLENCE IN EUROPE
1944-1948

Conference dates: 16th – 17th May, 2019
Venue: Charles University, Karolinum, Prague, Czech Republic

Organizers:
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague (Boris Barth, Ota Konrád)
Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague (Blanka Mouralová, Jaromír Mrňka)

Financial support:
The Center for the Transdisciplinary Research of Violence, Trauma and Justice. Charles University Research Center
of Excellence (VITRI) and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

16. 5. 2019 Karolinum, prague (small hall)
(Charles University, Ovocný trh 560/5, Praha 1)

9.00 Registration

9.30 Conference opening

9.50–11.35 Panel 1: introducing justice
Chair: Jaromír Mrňka (Prague)
9.50 Barbara De Luna (Bologna – Paris) & Greta Fedele (Bologna – Paris):
Redefining national identities through justice: a comparative analysis between Italy and France
10.10 Anika Seemann (Cambridge): „Mentalities of War, Mentalities of Peace“: Capital Punishment
in the Norwegian ‘Treason Trials’, 1941–1957
10.30 Henrik Lundtofte (Ribe): Danes against Danes. September 1944 – May 1945
10.50–11.35 Discussion

11.35–12.05 Coffee Break

12.05–13.30 Panel 2: micro-histories of exclusion
Chair: Ota Konrád (Prague)
12.05 Tereza Juhászová (Prague): Good or Bad Mantak? Exclusion of Slovak Germans from a Local Community
12.25 Tasos Kostopoulos (Athens): Cleaning Out Greece of the miasma of its “Sudeten”: Macedonian Slavs
as an unwanted minority in the aftermath of the Second World War
12.45–13.30 Discussion
13.30–15.00 Lunch Break

15.00–16.45 Panel 3: gender perspectives
Chair: Beate Fieseler (Düsseldorf)
15.00 Caroline Nilsen (Chapel Hill): „German Brats and Tarts“: Gender, Sexuality, and Collective Memory
in Post War Norway
15.20 Marta Havryshko (Lviv): Dangerous Liaisons: Women, Sexuality, and anti-Soviet Resistance in Ukraine
15.40 Justina Smalkyte (Paris): Ethnicity, Gender and Multidirectional Violence: A Case Study of the Formation
of a Local Force (Vietine Rinktine) in German-occupied Lithuania (February–May 1944)
16.00–16.45 Discussion

16.45 Coffee Break

18.30 Keynote Norman Naimark (Stanford): The End of the War and the Beginning of the Peace.
Where Violence Leaves Off and Reconstruction Begins: Continental Europe 1944–47

17. 5. 2019 Karolinum, prague (patriotic hall)
(Charles University, Ovocný trh 560/5, Praha 1)

9.00–10.45 Panel 4: creating ethnicity
Chair: Boris Barth (Prague)
9.00 Aleksandra Pomiecko (Toronto): Assessing National “Consciousness”: The Belarusian Home Defense, 1944–1945
9.20 Ondřej Matějka (Prague): Between nation and religion. Czech Protestants and the transfer
of Sudeten Germans 1945–1948
9.40 Pavlo Khudish (Uzhorod): One step to violence: the relationship between Jews and their “neighbors”
in postwar Transcarpathia, 1944–1946
10.00–10.45 Discussion

10.45–11.15 Coffee Break

11.15–13.00 Panel 5: redefining citizenship
Chair: Blanka Mouralová (Prague)
11.15 Borbála Klacsmann (Budapest): “Pure Christians” vs. “Working Citizens of the Democratic Era”:
How the Claimants of Jewish Property Perceived Citizenship in Hungary
11.35 Petr Sedlák (Prague): Emil Beer, the failed case of trans-integration into life afterwards
11.55 Peter Thaler (Odense): A Glass Half Full or Half Empty? The Postwar Treatment of the German Minority
in Denmark
12.15–13.00 Discussion

13.00–14.30 Lunch Break

14.30–15.15 Concluding debate
15.15–16.00 Closing remarks