Wednesday, 23 November 2016
venue: Emil-Abderhalden-Str. 26-27, room E. 61 (seminar room 5)
16:30 – 17:15
Welcome and Introduction
Yvonne Kleinmann, Nenad Stefanov, Kai Struve
17:15 – 18:45
Diasporas and the Legacy of Fascism and Nazi Collaboration
Chair: Kai Struve
Andrej Kotljarchuk, Huddinge: National Heroes, Fighters for Europe? Belarusian Waffen-SS and Belarusian Home Defence Veterans and their Legacy in the West during the Cold War
Per Anders Rudling, Singapore: Mykola Lebed, the Ukrainian Main Liberation Council’s Representation Abroad, and the CIA: an Entangled Past
Yurii Radchenko, Kharkiv: OUN(M) and the Holocaust: A Case Study of Ivan Iuriïv
19.00 Reception
Thursday, 24 November 2016
venue: Hallischer Saal, “Burse zur Tulpe”, Universitätsring 5
9:00 – 11:15
East-West Relations and the Diasporas
Chair: N.N.
Cécile Vaissié, Rennes: “Displaced Persons” at the Kravchenko Trial (1949): Testimonials vs. Ideology
Sławomir Łukasiewicz, Lublin: State Politics of the People's Republic of Poland toward the Polish Cold War Exile in the West – A Framework for Research
Mate Nikola Tokič, Budapest: Cold War Politics and Emigré Croatian Separatist Violence, 1950-1980
Matthias Thaden, Berlin: Securitizing the Croatian Diaspora. Transnational Activism and its Impact on Political Discourses and Practices in West Germany
11:45 –13:30
Crossing Borders
Chair: Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel
Ondrej Vojtechovsky, Prague: On the Other Side of the Iron Curtain. Political Exiles from Yugoslavia and Italy to Czechoslovakia in the 1950s
Ieva Zake, Ewing, NJ: Emigré Tourism to Soviet Latvia: Who Subverted Whom?
Jannis Panagiotidis/Hans-Christian Petersen, Osnabrück/Oldenburg: German Landsmannschaften as Diaspora – the Case of Russian Germans
Aigi Rahi-Tamm, Tartu: Conceivable Dialogues between the Deportees and Refugees from Estonia
15:15-17:30
Cooperation among Diasporas
Chair: Yvonne Kleinmann
Jan-Hinnerk Antons, Hamburg: The „Anti-Bolshevic Bloc of Nations“: Key Witness of Anti-Communism
Martin Nekola, Prague: Czechoslovak Exile after 1948: Activities, Problems and International Cooperation
Pauli Heikkilä, Tartu: Captured Europeans and European Unification. The Panel Studies (1954)
Jan Jacek Bruski, Kraków: Doomed to Conflict or Doomed to Cooperate? Polish-Ukrainian Exile Contacts at the Initial Stage of the Cold War
Friday, 25 November 2016
9:15-12:00
Culture and the Cold War
Chair: Nenad Stefanov
Olena Petrenko, Bochum: “Secret Fronts“. Representations of the Ukrainian Diaspora in Soviet Films during the Cold War
Anna Artwińska, Leipzig: Discussions among the Diaspora. Pavel Tigrid’s View of the Cold War in Kapesní průvodce inteligentní ženy po vlastním osudu (1988)
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
Vladislava Warditz, Jena/Potsdam: The Cold War from a Linguistic Perspective: Linguistic Attitudes among the Diaspora and Dissidents as a Means of Anti-Totalitarian Resistance
Stephanie Zloch, Braunschweig: Experiences for the Future? Schools and Education among the Eastern European Diasporas in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1945
12:30-13:30
Concluding Discussion