Seminar of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena // Winter term 2016/2017
The weekly research seminar supports discussion of the fellows´ research projects and other projects in the Kolleg´s main research areas. In addition to fellows and research staff members, the Kolleg regularly invites external guests to participate in these seminars.
On Mondays from 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.: Am Planetarium 7, seminar room
5 September 2016
Ana Kladnik: The Persistence of Voluntary Associations in Local Communities: The History of Volunteer Fire Departments in Southeast Europe, 1860s-1990s
12 September 2016
Piotr Majewski: Collaboration in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: Forms, Actors, and Motivations
19 September 2016
Agnieszka Koscianska: The History of Sexuality in Socialist and Post-Socialist Poland: In Search of an Alternative Narrative
26 September 2016
Anna Machczewicz: Between the lines. Prisoners` writings as a mirror of everyday reality and strategies of surviving in a cell of a Stalinist prison
03 October
German Unity Day: no seminar
10 October
Volha Bartash: Survival as a daily routine: Roma in the German-occupied Belarusian-Lithuanian border region, 1941-1944
17 October
Aaron Law: A Europe to die for: Polish Prometheism, anti-Russian institutions, and ideas for the liberation of East-Central Europe
24 October
Joachim von Puttkamer: The Politics of Violence in Late Socialist Poland
31 October
Reformation Day: no seminar
07 November 2016
Agáta Šústová Drelová: National Culture and the Catholic Church in Late Socialist Slovakia
14 November 2016
Petr Roubal: Planning Prague 1968 - 1989: Expert knowledge and late-socialist governance
21 November 2016
The 48th Annual ASEEES Convention Washington: no seminar
28 November 2016
Plenum discussion: Volume Fogu, Claudio, Kansteiner, Wulf, and Presner, Todd (eds.), Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016
5 December 2016
Jochen Boehler/Immo Rebitschek: The Waffen-SS. A European History
12 December 2016
Michal Kopeček: From Scientific Social Management to Neoliberal Governmentality. Czechoslovak Sociology and Social Research between Authoritarianism and Liberal Democracy 1970s-1990s
9 January 2017
Immo Rebitschek: 'Fortune did not favour me'. Pavlo Skoropads'kyj and the aftermath of the empire (1873-1945)
16 January 2017
Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk: Women in the Trenches: Between Heroisation and Oblivion. First World War and ist Afthermath in Galicia
23 January 2017
Agnieszka Nieradko: The Rabbinical Commission for Jewish Graves in Poland: Work, Challenges and Problems
30 January 2017
Raphael Utz: Speaking about the Shoah: Terminology and the Problem of Perspective (Book Presentation "Sites of the Shoah in Poland")
6 February 2017
Petra Gümplová: Rights to natural resources and human rights: An east central European perspective
13 February 2017
Maciej Górny: The enemy of my enemy is my future enemy. Loyalties on the Eastern Front, 1916-17
20 February 2017
Kate Brown: A Manual for Disaster: Chernobyl and Surviving the Anthropocene
27 February 2017
David Feest: A Question of Trust. The Baltic German Banker Klaus Scheel and the Estonian Republic, 1918-1939
6 March 2017
Caroline Mezger: Forging Germans: Youth as Agents of German Nation-Building in Southeastern Europe, 1918-1944
13 March 2017
Łukasz Mieszkowski: I sowed dragons and I cropped lice. Civilisation, sanitary and epidemiological crisis in Poland 1918-1921
20 March 2017
Pavel Kolář: Post-Stalinism: Ideology and Utopia of an Epoch (Book Presentation)
