Workshop “Mobility, Migration, and Global Networks” (by invitation only)

Kick-off workshop for the GHI’s new research area Mobility, Migration, and Global Networks

The event is planned as a networking meeting, and it is by invitation only. We will discuss our research projects and, in particular, theoretical approaches and perspectives. For information on the workshop, please reach out to dhi@dhi.waw.pl.

Program

Thursday, 27 February

17:30 Registration of participants

18:00 Joachim-Lelewel Talk with Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (U Vienna) and Dariusz Adamczyk (GHI Warsaw): “The Need of Medieval Studies for Global History and of Global History in Medieval Studies.”
This discussion will be in German and translated simultaneously into Polish.

20:00 Dinner for workshop participants

Friday, 28 February

German Historical Institute, third floor

8:45 Participants’ arrival

9:00 Introduction (Jan Musekamp and Michael Zok)

9:15 First panel (Chair: Michael Zok)

Policing Mobility

1. Jan Musekamp, GHI Warsaw:
   Navigating Racist Borders and “Global Color Lines”
   German Speakers from Ukraine on the Move, 1860-1950
2. Dariusz Stola, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Science
   Migrations from Communist Poland: Opportunities and Challenges for Research
3. Robert Heinze, GHI Paris
   Urban Transport and the Regulation of Space in African Cities
4. Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ, U Vienna, Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET)
   Strange but Familiar: Connected Histories Between Poland and Vietnam, 1955-1976
5. Michal Frankl, Masaryk Institute Prague
   Citizens of the No Man’s Land. Refugees and the Moving Borders in East-Central Europe 1938-1939

11:15 Coffee Break (GHI)

11:30 Second Panel (Chair: Jan Musekamp)

Net(work) and Business

1. Anka Steffen, U Vienna
   Applied Actor-Network-Theory: Silesians as ‘Weavers’ of Globalized Economic Networks
2. Dariusz Adamczyk, GHI Warsaw
   How to Trace Mobility and Reconstruct Networks in Early Medieval Societies. Methodical Variability and Interdisciplinarity
3. Michael Zok, GHI Warsaw
   Structures of Independence. Networks, Backbenchers, Time, and Money in Irish and Polish Independence Movements in Late Imperialism
4. Kamila Kowalska and Rafał Raczyński, Emigration Museum in Gdynia
   Femigration: Entrepreneurial Polish Women in Italy

13:15 Lunch Break (GHI)

14:00 Popularization of the topic in museums (Moderation: Jan Musekamp)

Aleksandra Jakubczak, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
Dovilė Čypaitė-Gilė, Vilnius U: Museum of Culture and Identity of Lithuanian Jews, Vilnius
Kamila Kowalska and Rafał Raczyński, Emigration Museum, Gdynia
Marie-Antoinette Grünter, German Emigration Center, Bremerhaven

14:45 Coffee Break (GHI)

15:00 Third Panel (Chair: Dariusz Adamczyk)

Migrants’ Agency

1. Aleksandra Jakubczak, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw
   Letters to America: Transnational Look into the Polish Jews’ Experiences of Economic Downturns, 1921-1939
2. Andrzej Gliwa, National Heritage Institute, Rzeszów Branch
   Forced Migrations in the Early Modern East-Central European Slaving Zone: New Research Opportunities in the Context of Vertical Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities
3. Dovilė Čypaitė-Gilė, Vilnius U
   Jewish (E)migration from Lithuania 1918–1940. Reconstruction of the Process
4. Carina Damm, Silesian University, Katowice
   Navigating the North: Viking Migrations and Environmental Resilience
5. Andrzej Michalczyk, Ruhr U Bochum
   Modernisation, Migrations, and Social Mobility in Upper Silesia During the “Long” 19th Century

17:00 Concluding Remarks

19:00 Dinner for Workshop Participants

Saturday, 1 March

Departure