Conference "Polish-German Post/Memory" (Indiana University, April 19-22, 2007)

Justyna Beinek jbeinek at YAHOO.COM
Fri Mar 23 03:07:09 UTC 2007 

International conference at Indiana University,
Bloomington: “Polish-German Post/Memory: Aesthetics,
Ethics, Politics” (April 19-22, 2007)

Next month more than forty scholars of Poland and
Germany will convene at Indiana University for a
conference "Polish-German Post/Memory: Aesthetics,
Ethics, Politics." This interdisciplinary,
international meeting will focus on Polish-German
relations, and specifically on the competing memories
of the traumatic events of World War II and beyond. To
share in this exploration of the culture of memory
(and the memory of culture), experts, focusing on
history, political science, law, ethics, cultural 
studies, literature, film, and performance, will
participate.

In addition to twenty-six lectures by guests from the
United States, Canada, Germany, Poland, Great Britain,
Switzerland, and Australia, His Excellency Janusz
Reiter, Ambassador of Poland to the U.S. and Adam
Michnik, editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza and 
visiting professor of Polish history at Princeton
University, will deliver public addresses.

The conference has been organized by Justyna Beinek
(conference chair) and Bill Johnston (both Indiana
University), Heidi Hein-Kircher (Herder Institute,
Marburg, Germany), Kristin Kopp (University of
Missouri, Columbia), and Joanna Nizynska (Harvard
University).

Full program and registration details are available
online. The program is also available below.

http://www.indiana.edu/~eucenter/pgconf/index.shtml

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POLISH–GERMAN POST/MEMORY: AESTHETICS, ETHICS,
POLITICS 

Indiana University, Bloomington, April 19–22, 2007

http://www.indiana.edu/~eucenter/pgconf
REGISTRATION AVAILABLE ONLINE


Conference Program

All events take place in the Oak Room at the Indiana
Memorial Union (IMU), 900 E. Seventh St., Bloomington,
IN 47405, unless otherwise noted.


Thursday, April 19

Pre-Conference Public Lectures

3:30 p.m. 	Adam Michnik, Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta
Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland, and Visiting Professor of
History at Princeton University: public lecture Poland
and Germany: The Return of Bad Memories (IMU, Dogwood
Room)

5:30 p.m. 	His Excellency Janusz Reiter, Ambassador of
the Republic of Poland to the U.S.: public lecture
(IMU, Dogwood Room)

Opening reception

7:00 p.m. 	Opening reception: welcoming remarks by
Dean Patrick O’Meara and conference organizers from
Indiana University: Justyna Beinek (conference chair)
and Bill Johnston (IMU, University Club, Faculty Room)


Friday, April 20

All Friday and Saturday sessions take place in the Oak
Room at the Indiana Memorial Union.


9:15 a.m.  	His Excellency Janusz Reiter, Ambassador
of the Republic of Poland to the U.S.: welcoming
remarks

Panel 1: National Identities
9:30–11 a.m.

Heidi Hein-Kircher, Herder Institute, Marburg,
Germany, From the People’s Republic to Third Republic:
Remembrance and New Identity? 

Wanda Jarz¹bek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw,
Poland, Shadows of Memory and the German Question in
Polish Politics 1989–2006

Michael Meng, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, Whose Victims? Remembering the Warsaw (Ghetto)
Uprising, 1945–1968

Moderators: 	Beate Sissenich, Indiana University
		Regina Smyth, Indiana University

Panel 2: Representing Memory
11:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m.

Przemys³aw Czapliñski, The Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poznañ, Poland, Declaring a War: Contemporary Polish
Prose Fiction and the Memory of WWII

Marek Zaleski, Institute for Literary Studies (IBL),
Warsaw, Poland, Liberation of Memory? Post-Memory or
Camp-Memory? On What Is a Messenger Girl Doing?  by
Darek Foks and Zbigniew Libera

Bo¿ena Karwowska, University of British Columbia,
Canada, German Female Characters in Polish Postwar
Literature: Antagonistic (National) Identities and
“Female” Memories

Moderators: 	Claudia Breger, Indiana University
		Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana University

Lunch Break: 12:45–2 p.m.

Panel 3: Flight and Expulsions
2–3:30 p.m.

Pawe³ Lutomski, Stanford University, Who Are the
Victims and Who Are the Perpetrators? Polish
Expulsions of Germans as a Case of Moral Ambiguity

Christian Lotz, The Leipziger Circle: Forum for
Scholarship and the Arts, Germany, Expulsion and the
Politics of Memory

Magdalena Marsza³ek, Humboldt University, Berlin,
Germany, Memories on Stage: The Theater Project
“Transfer” by Jan Klata

Moderators: 	Mark Roseman, Indiana University
		Timothy Waters, Indiana University School of Law

Panel 4: Reconciliation and the Other
3:45–5:30 p.m.

Annika Frieberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, Reconciliation Remembered: Early Activists in
the Polish–German Relations

Piotr Kosicki, Princeton University, Polish Catholics’
Path to Germany: Historical Memory,
Transnational Intellectual Networks, and the Polish
Bishops’ Letter of 1965

Stefan Guth, University of Bern, Switzerland,
Friendship by Decree: The Commission of Historians of
the German Democratic Republic and the People’s
Republic of Poland 1956–1990

David Pickus, Arizona State University, Not Another
Other: Re-Thinking the German Image of Poland

Moderators: 	Maximilian Eiden, University of
Stuttgart, Germany 
		Petra Fachinger, Queen’s University, Canada 

Special Session: 5:45–6:45 p.m.

Breon Mitchell, Indiana University, Oskar’s New Tin
Drum: Günter Grass and Literary Translation 


Saturday, April 21

Panel 5: Strategizing Memory
9:30–11:15 a.m.

Angelika Bammer, Emory University, Nostalgia

Hanna Gosk, Warsaw University, Poland, Aspects of
Identity-Formation in the Dialogue with the Other: A
Literary Version of Polish–German Relations in
20th-Century Polish Fiction

Jessie Labov, Stanford University, Nothing to Fear but
Gross Himself

Joanna Kêdzierska Stimmel, Middlebury College, One
Past, Two Histories: Tracing/Inventing the Holocaust
Past in Texts by Monika Maron and Jaros³aw M.
Rymkiewicz

Moderators: 	Maria Bucur, Indiana University 
		Irena Grudziñska Gross, Boston University
	
Panel 6: Tourism’s Memory
11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.

Erica Lehrer, University of Washington, Of Mice, Cats,
and Pigs: Postmemorial Relations in the
Jewish–German–Polish Troika

Imke Hansen, University of Hamburg, Germany, Who Owns
Auschwitz? Conflicting Memories and the
Instrumentalisation of the Holocaust: German, Jewish,
and Polish Perspectives

Bryoni Trezise, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia, Postcards from Auschwitz: Tourism’s Memory

Moderators: 	Darcy Buerkle, Smith College 
		Jeff Veidlinger, Indiana University

Lunch Break: 1–2 p.m.

Panel 7: Local Identities
2–3:30 p.m.

Anna Muller, Indiana University, To Become a
“Gdañszczanin”—The Process of Constructing Post-War
Polish Gdañsk through the Prism of Oral History and
Memory Studies

Gregor Thum, University of Pittsburgh, The Rediscovery
of Prussia: Searching for the Local Past in Poland and
Germany

Winson Chu, University of California, Berkeley, The
Lodzer Mensch: From Cultural Contamination to
Marketable Multiculturalism

Moderators: 	Robert Nelson, University of Windsor,
Canada
	Barbara Skinner, Indiana State University

Panel 8: Spatial Narratives
3:45–5:15 p.m.

Aleksandra Galasiñska, University of Wolverhampton,
Great Britain, Once upon a Time on the River Neisse:
Temporal Indexicality in Photo-Elicited Narratives
from a Polish Border Town

Andrew Asher, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign,  In the Absence of History:
Inventing Transnational Space in the Border Cities of
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and S³ubice, Poland

Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, Jagiellonian University,
Cracow, Poland, WWII and Germans in Past and Present
Polish Landscape of Memory. Jedwabne and Wizna: A Case
Study 

Moderators: 	Mateusz Hartwich, European University
Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany 
	Margaret Wojtunik, Queen’s University, Canada


Sunday, April 22

Final Roundtable: Future Projects and Transatlantic
Cooperation
9:30–11 a.m.

Moderators: 	Justyna Beinek, Indiana University
		Kristin Kopp, University of Missouri, Columbia
		Joanna Ni¿yñska, Harvard University

Brunch: 11 a.m. – noon 

______________________________________________________

Conference sponsors:

•	Indiana University, Bloomington:

o	College of Arts and Humanities Institute
o	European Union Center of Excellence
o	Office of the Vice Provost for Research:  New
Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Program
o	Office of International Programs
o	Polish Studies Center
o	Russian and East European Institute
o	West European Studies

•	Herder Institute, Marburg, Germany
•	German Research Foundation, Germany

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