Dr. Raphael Utz
9 June 2016 // University Library Lecture Room (ThULB, Bibliotheksplatz 2, Jena)
16:00 // Welcome and Introduction
// Panel I: Refugees and Resettlement in the Aftermath of the First World War
Michael Esch: Transnational Migration in the Interwar Period. Conditions, Structures and Agencies
Keely Stauter-Halsted: Return Migration and Social Disruption in Postwar Poland
Ilse Lazaroms: Blown out of Empire: Jewish Itineraries in Post-Trianon Hungary
Discussant: James Ward
Chair: Joachim von Puttkamer
18:00–18:15 Short Break
18:15 // Keynote Lecture
Peter Gatrell: Eastern Europe and the Making of the Modern Refugee
20:00 // Reception
10 June 2016 // Rosensäle (Fürstengraben 27, Jena)
10:00 // Panel II: Displaced Persons in the Mid-1940s
Tara Zahra: “Work Will Set You Free”: Displaced Persons, ‘Economic Migrants’ and Population Politics in Postwar Europe
Leslie Waters: Communities of Resettlement: Integrating Migrants from the Czechoslovak-Hungarian Population Exchange in Postwar Hungary
Sara Silverstein: Doctors and Refugees: Transnational Health Services in Eastern Europe in the late 1940s
Discussant: Holly Case
Chair: Attila Pók
12:00–12:45 Lunch Break
12:45 //Panel III: Closed Societies? Immigration into the Socialist World
Jerzy Kochanowski: “Aliens Under Bierut”: Foreign Inhabitants of Warsaw, 1945–1956
Alena Alamgir: “They Knit Sweaters and Refuse to Follow the Foreman's Orders”: Female Vietnamese Workers’ Labour Disputes in 1980s Czechoslovakia
Péter Apor: Socialist Mobility, Post-Colonialism and Global Solidarity: The Movement of People from the Global South to Socialist Hungary
Discussant: Michal Kopeček
Chair: Marci Shore
14:30–15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 // Panel IV: Political Emigration After 1956
Jannis Panagiotidis: Russian Germans on Four Continents: Towards a Global History of the Periphery in the 20th Century
Marcos Silber: Migrations and Nation-Building: On Migrations from Poland and Eastern Europe to Israel in the 1950s
Jasna Čapo Žmegač: Forced Migration Across the Borders of Post-Yugoslav States: From Ethnic Homogenization to Transnationalism
Discussant: Włodzimierz Borodziej
Chair: John Connelly
16:45–17:15 Coffee Break
17:15–18:15 // Round Table: Eastern Europe and the Refugees: Historical References in Current Debates
Participants: Stefan Troebst, Maciej Duszczyk, Attila Pók, Marci Shore
Chair: Joachim von Puttkamer