
The Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies (Dresden) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Budapest) cordially invite you to the international conference.
Beyond 1989: Childhood and Youth in Times of Political Transformation in the 20th Century
PROGRAM
Wednesday, June 5
15:00 - 15:30 Registration and welcome coffee
15:30 - 16:00 Welcome and Introductory Remarks: Childhood in times of political transformation
Prof. Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Institute for Advanced Study at CEU, Budapest, Hungary
Dr. habil. Friederike Kind-Kovács, Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, Dresden, Germany/Botstiber Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary
PD. Dr. habil. Machteld Venken, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena/ University of Vienna, Austria
16:00 - 18:00 PANEL I – Children’s Institutional Care
Chair: Dr. habil. Friederike Kind-Kovács, Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, Dresden, Germany
Discussant: Prof. Till Kössler, Halle University, Germany
Dr. Andrea Griffante, Research Fellow, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
A Nest for New Lithuanians – Orphanages, Discipline and Nation Building in Ober Ost, 1915-1918
Dr. Michel Christian, Senior Research Associate, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Infant Care Facilities (Kinderkrippen) and the End of the German Democratic Republic
Anna Kozlova, M.A., European University, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Ideological husk fell off, and the humanism remained”: Why pioneer camps survived the collapse of the Soviet Union
Thursday, June 6
09:00 - 11:00 PANEL II – Borderland Childhoods
Chair: Dr. habil. Machteld Venken, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Germany/Vienna University, Austria
Commentator: Dr. Muriel Blaive, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR), Prague, Czech Republic
Lisbeth Matzer, Ph.D. student, University of Cologne, Germany
German Blood' and National Belonging. The Hitler Youth's Role in the Germanization of Upper Carniola and Lower Styria
Dr. Olga Gnydiuk, Postdoctoral Researcher, European University Florence, Italy
Resettlement and Repatriation of The Uprooted Children From the Polish-Soviet Borderlands After World War II
Dr. Cătălina Mihalache, Senior Researcher, Romanian Academy, Iaşi, Romania
Growing up so close to the border during socialist and postcommunist times
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
KEYNOTE SPEECH
Dr. Joëlle Droux, Senior lecturer in history of education, University of Geneva, Switzerland
1989: just another (r)evolution?
14:00 - 16:00 PANEL III – Children’s Displacement
Chair: Prof. Thomas Lindenberger, Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Studies, Dresden, Germany
Commentator: Prof. Jill Massino, University of North Carolina, US
Dr. Katharina Friedla, Research Fellow, Polish Institute of Advanced Studies PIASt/Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
From Nazi Inferno to the Soviet Hell“ – Polish-Jewish Children and their Trajectories of Survival during the Second World War
Prof. Laura Hobson Faure, Associate Professor, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France
1939/40: The Meanings of War to Central European Jewish Refugee Children in France
Jakub Galęziowski, Ph.D. student, University of Warsaw, Poland/University of Augsburg, Germany
“All the Children are Ours” – Policies towards Unaccompanied Children in the Post-War Polish State
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 18:30 PANEL IV – Changing Visions of Childhood
Chair: Prof. Marsha Siefert, Central European University, Hungary
Commentator: Prof. Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Germany/ Jagiellonian University Kraków, Poland
Prof. Iryna Skubii, Associate Professor, Petro Vasylenko Kharkiv National Technical University of Agriculture, Ukraine
Childhood and hunger: the Holodomor and children's survival practices
Elizaveta Zhdankova, Ph.D. student, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Child at the cinema: the contradictions of children's leisure in the USSR in the 1920s
Ekaterina Pereprosova, Ph.D. student, Paris Descartes University, France
Deinstitutionalization as the Symbol of a changing conception of childhood
Friday, June 7
09:00 - 11:00 PANEL V – Remembering Childhood
Chair: Dr. Jessie Labov, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Commentator: Prof. Libora Oates-Indruchova, University of Graz, Austria
Ioana Tîstea, Ph.D. candidate, University of Tampere, Finland
Thinking from the border towards envisioning differential subjectivities
Dr. Raili Nugin, Researcher, Tallinn University, Estonia
Childhood Years as Generational Capital: The 24 Narratives of the 1970s Cohort
Dr. Hanna Haag, Postdoctoral Researcher, Hamburg University, Germany
The narrative Wind of Change – On commemorative Practices in East-German Families
11:30 - 12:30 FINAL SESSION
Small Group Discussions: Towards a European Network “Children of/and Historical Transformation”
- Children’s Displacement, Migration and Life at Borders(Chaired by PD. Dr. habil. Machteld Venken)
- Children’s Care and Relief: Between the Family and the State(Chaired by Dr. habil. Friederike Kind-Kovács)
- Visions, Subjectivities and Memories of Childhood (Chaired by Prof. Till Kössler)