Fabian Baumann (University Heidelberg): The Threatened Republic: Treason, Disloyalty, and the Defense of Democracy in Interwar Czechoslovakia (in English) Moderator: Jaromir Mrnka

Dr. Katrin Janz-Wenig (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky): Turning to the roots around 1700: the German version of the Passional of Kunigunde. Approaching its own…

German Historical Institute, Warsaw Venue: Aleje Ujazdowskie 39, 00-540 Warszawa Convenor: Julia Buyskykh 8.30 – 9.00 Registration 9.00 – 9.15 Welcome Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, Julia Buyskykh (German…

When did emotions become a serious subject of historical research? And what happens when we treat feelings as political forces? This lecture traces the "emotional turn" in history and related…

Volodymyr Marczuk (The National University of Ostroh Academy): Życie codzienne na polsko-radzieckim pograniczu w województwie wołyńskim w latach 1921-1924 (in Polish) Moderator: Christhardt Henschel

Humiliation is a hot topic. Many people claim to feel humiliated, either by other individuals or by larger social and political structures that allegedly deny them respect and recognition. Experts in…

Violence is at the core of war – first as a means to create „order“ between states or to discipline soldiers inside the army. Second, violence tends to destroy the only capital of the „soldier“, his…

Mykola Riabchuk (IH PANWarszawa/DHI Warschau): How to Fix Epistemic Injustice? Ukraine's Experience (in English) Moderator: Jan Musekamp

Benedek Pal (Central European University, Vienna): Between Crisis and Reform, Polish and Hungarian Critical Intellectual Discourses on the Future of State Socialism, 1979–1989 (in English) Moderator:…

Over the centuries, women have been (and still are) killed by men because of their gender, gender-specific roles, or social expectations. Such acts were expressions of individual claims to control…

Justina Smalkyte (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington): Spaces of Anti-Jewish Persecution in Vilnius, summer 1941 (in English) Moderator: Povilas Dokavicius

Valentine Devulder (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, EHESS) Die Frage der Schwangerschaft unter den weiblichen Häftlingen des nationalsozialistischen SS-Konzentrationslagersystems (in…