Midwest Historians of East Central Europe
University of Illinois Chicago
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
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 MichiganTara 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 ConnectedParis 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 ChicagoJesse 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 FailedSocial 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 UniversityRobert 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 andPoland 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’ theWestern Territories in the Polish Popular Cinema of the 1960s”
Ilana Miller, Indiana University, “Co-opting Tevye: Fiddler on the Roof Productions in CommunistCzechoslovakia, 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
Director
Keely Stauter-HalstedPerformers
Padraic Kenney; : Brian Porter; Tara Zahra; Jan Musekamp; Keely Stauter-Halsted; Jesse Kauffman; Ke-chin Hsia; Drew Burks; Robert Brier; Rachel Applebaum; David Tompkins; Mikołaj Kunicki; Ilana Miller