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 Historical Institute, Warsaw).

9.15 – 10.30 Keynote lecture

Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University)

Turning Point, Turning Worlds: Nostalgia, Solidarity and the Moral Life of Borders

Moderator: Julia Buyskykh (University College Cork/German Historical Institute Warsaw)

10.30 – 10.45 Coffee-break

10.45 – 12.30 I Panel

Chair: Christhardt Henschel (German Historical Institute Warsaw)

David Henig (Utrecht University)

Explosive Borders That Wars Make

Andrew Tompkins (German Historical Institute, Warsaw)

Exile, Espionage, and Suspicion: German Fishermen at the Polish Border after World War II

Jan Musekamp (German Historical Institute, Warsaw)

Periphery or Center? The Borderland at Eydtkuhnen/Chernyshevskoe, Past and Present

Discussant: Maciej Górny (Institute of History, PAS)

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.45 II Panel

Chair Michael Zok (German Historical Institute Warsaw)

Olena Sobolieva (The University of Basel)

Invisible Borders: How Silence Shapes Knowledge about Crimean Tatars under Russian Occupation

Daniel Wutti (University for Teacher Education in Carinthia)

Trauma and Language in the Alps-Adriatic Region from a Social-Psychological Perspective

Julia Buyskykh (University College Cork/German Historical Institute Warsaw)

Traumatic Legacies of Constructing the Polish-Soviet Border: Mixed Neighbourhoods in Subcarpathia

Discussant: Laure Delcour (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

15.45 – 16.00 – Coffee break

16.00 – 17.45 III Panel

Chair: Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, PAS)

Mathijs Pelkmans (London School of Economics)

Geopolitical Tremors, Collective Identities, and Naming Practices in the Georgian Turkish Borderland (ca. 1878 – 2025)

Kamila Fialkowska, Ignacy Jozwiak (Centre for Migration Research, University of Warsaw)

Border Communities in the Shadow of Protracted Crises: Local Solidarities, Grievances, and the Making of Deservingness in Response to Displaced People from Ukraine

Tomasz Kosiek (University of Rzeszów)

Ruptures Within Ukrainian Communities in Poland Prior to the Russian Full-Scale Invasion: The Case of Biały Bór.

Discussant: Albert Jawłowski (The Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw)

17.45 – 18.15 – Final Discussion/Closing Word

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