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

Kristi Groberg Kristi.Groberg at NDSU.EDU
Mon Mar 26 12:54:10 UTC 2007 

At 22:07 22.03.2007, you wrote:
>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
>
>----------------------------------------------------
>
>POLISH­GERMAN POST/MEMORY: AESTHETICS, ETHICS,
>POLITICS
>
>Indiana University, Bloomington, April 19­22, 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
>9:30­11 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 1989­2006
>
>Michael Meng, University of North Carolina, Chapel
>Hill, Whose Victims? Remembering the Warsaw (Ghetto)
>Uprising, 1945­1968
>
>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: 12:45­2 p.m.
>
>Panel 3: Flight and Expulsions
>2­3:30 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
>3:45­5:30 p.m.
>
>Annika Frieberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel
>Hill, Reconciliation Remembered: Early Activists in
>the Polish­German 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 1956­1990
>
>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: 5:45­6:45 p.m.
>
>Breon Mitchell, Indiana University, Oskar’s New Tin
>Drum: Günter Grass and Literary Translation
>
>
>Saturday, April 21
>
>Panel 5: Strategizing Memory
>9:30­11:15 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 Polish­German 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
>Jewish­German­Polish 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: 1­2 p.m.
>
>Panel 7: Local Identities
>2­3:30 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
>3:45­5:15 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
>9:30­11 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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