(P)Ostkolonialismus – Postcolonial Perspectives on Poland, Ukraine and Eastern Europe

Name: (P)Ostkolonialismus – Postcolonial Perspectives on Poland, Ukraine and Eastern Europe
Start: 2024-10-23T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-25T23:45:00+02:00
Location: Pariser Platz 4a, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Schedule

Wed Oct 23 2024 at 12:00 pm to Fri Oct 25 2024 at 11:45 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Pariser Platz 4a, 10117 Berlin, Germany | Berlin, BE

𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞-𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: "(𝐏)𝐎𝐬𝐭𝐤𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐮𝐬 - 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞"
𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐫: Pilecki Institute Berlin
𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: October 23-25, 2024
𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Pilecki Institute Berlin, Pariser Platz 4A, 10117 Berlin
𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 until 22/10/2024: https://forms.gle/Qd2hyT4vPYvJCsDB9
Find the 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚 further down below or here: https://berlin.instytutpileckiego.pl/public/upload/articles_files/(p)ostcolonialismus_program_5.pdf?v=1727211721
We'd love you to join us for a three-day-conference in October, indeed an intellectual feast, revolving around the use of postcolonial paradigms in relation to contemporary notions and understandings of Eastern Europe and its relationship with Germany. We have asked researchers, historians, sociologists and representatives of other disciplines to present contributions of postcolonial theory approaches towards a better understanding of the entangled histories of Germany and Poland, Ukraine as well as Eastern Europe in broader terms.
What colonial tropes can be found, for example, in historical narratives and existing 𝐸𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑘𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑛 (cultures of remembrance), as well as in artistic endeavors such as literature, film, etc.?
The conference agenda includes a keynote lecture by Franziska Davies and an in-depth analysis of an IPSOS-Survey study which was conducted on behalf of the Pilecki Institute and featured prominently in various international news outlets.
One of them wrote "Germans have significant gaps in their knowledge about the Second World War, a poll (...) has found."
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A representative study recently commissioned by Pilecki Institute Berlin has revealed the prevailing stereotypes and knowledge gaps in German society regarding the history and present of Poland, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe. In light of the study results, the Pilecki Institute Berlin is organizing a three-day conference, titled "(P)Ostkolonialismus - Postcolonial Perspectives on Poland, Ukraine and Eastern Europe". Researchers from various academic disciplines will discuss the potential benefits and challenges of postcolonial and decolonial perspectives on the historical and contemporary entanglements of the areas under study. Our aim is to create a discursive space to illuminate and question the continuities of colonial traditions of thought in Germany, their impact on the German history of violence, and their influence on contemporary Erinnerungskulturen.
In the 19th century, Poland, the so called “Wild East”, already formed part of Germany's colonial aspirations (Kopp 2012). Both Prussia and the German Empire, as well as the Nazi state, repeatedly attempted to fulfill their colonial settlement ambitions in Eastern Europe. The German mass crimes in the region during the Second World War were based on these continuities of anti-Slavic policies and convictions.
These patterns of thought and behavior towards Eastern Europe continue to have an impact in many respects to the present day. Colonial traditions of thought are also reflected in Erinnerungskultur and historical debates. The gaps and absences in German collective memory of the National Socialist war of extermination in Eastern Europe have come to light, not only in the wake of 24 February 2022 and corresponding discourse on the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine.
By integrating diverse interdisciplinary and interpretative perspectives and initiating a constructive dialogue between them, we address the following question: How can postcolonial and decolonial approaches dismantle prevailing stereotypes and address knowledge gaps as well as absences in German Erinnerungskultur?
The event is open to the public and takes place on site.
Admission is free. Registration is required. The deadline is 22/10/2024.
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𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:
Dr. Elisabeth Katzy
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +49 157 805 822 30
Lukas Wieczorek
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +49 151 646 734 67
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𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚
𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟏: 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟑, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒
12:00 - Registration
13:00 - Welcome Speeches: Dr Wojciech Kozłowski (Warszawa) / Jan Tombiński (tbc, Polish Ambassador in Germany / Dr Elisabeth Katzy (Berlin) and Lukas Wieczorek (Berlin)
13:30 - Hanna Radziejowska (Berlin)/ Mateusz Fałkowski (Berlin), The German society's historical self-image with regards to the 20th Century, and its perception of Poland
14:00 - Commentary on the study results of the research by Hanna Radziejowska and Mateusz Fałkowski
14:20 - Keynote lecture by Dr Franziska Davies: Postcolonial Perspectives on Poland, Ukraine and Eastern Europe
15:00 - Coffee Break

𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟏: 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫: 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐳𝐚𝐣𝐚

15:20 - Professor Dirk Uffelmann (Giessen), Polish Perspectives on German “Ostkolonisation
15:40 - Professor Francis Harvey (Leipzig), Are place names shibboleths? Decoding coloniality in mapped place names
16:00 - Dr Tomasz Ceran (Bydgoszcz), Civilize – Germanize – Exterminate. The ideological basis of German colonization of Poland 1772–1945
16:20 - Discussion
16:50 - Coffee Break

𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟐: 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝’𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞’𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 “𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧”
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫: 𝐃𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐤 𝐉𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧́𝐬𝐤𝐢

17:10 - Professor Beata Ociepka (Wrocław) / Dr Christian Noack (Amsterdam) / Professor Pierre-Frédéric Weber (Szczecin), Germany-Poland-Ukraine: ‘The Colonial’ as a Factor Influencing Foreign Policyn(Panel Discussion)
18:40 - Summary of first day
19:00 - Reception & Get-together

𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟐: 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟒, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒
𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟑: 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫: 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐤 𝐔𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧

09:00 - Dr Anna Damięcka-Wójcik (Warszawa), Orientalisierung der Masuren als ethnische Gruppe: Eine Studie zur Wahrnehmung des Anderen im 19. Jahrhundert in Preußen
09:20 - Dr Mateusz Maleszka (Bydgoszcz), The theory of "Restgermanen" as a basis for German territorial or political claims in the period 1890-1945
09:40 - Benedikt Putz (Berlin), Colonial Narratives and Continuities in the Weimar Republic in the Context of the Struggle for Upper Silesia 1919-1921
10:00 - Discussion
10:30 - Coffee Break

𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟒: 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫: 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐨̈𝐥𝐥

10:50 - Dr Paweł Kubicki (Kraków), The Tales of Three Cities. The postcolonial question in Central and Eastern Europe through the lens of the city and urbanity
11:10 - Dr Bartłomiej Krzysztan (Warszawa), From Recovered to Uncovered. Colonialism and Imperiality in the Eastern Borderlands and the Recovered Territories in Comparative Perspective
11:30 - Professor Hermann Mückler (Wien), Wir haben nie Kolonialismus betrieben“. Die habsburgischen kolonialen Ambitionen in Osteuropa – Amnesie und der rezente Umgang mit einem verklärten Erbe
11:50 - Discussion
12:20 - Lunch Break & possibility to attend guided tours of the permanent exhibition Witold Pilecki. In resistance to Hitler and Stalin

𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟓: 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫: 𝐋𝐮𝐤𝐚𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐳𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐤

Workshop 1 - Jakub Niewiński (Zielona Góra)
Decolonial approaches in educational work. Intercultural sensitivity and the pyramid of alliance
OR
Workshop 2 - Eva Yakubovska (Berlin)
Decolonizing Soviet war memorials in Berlin. Reflections on current legal and political challenges
OR
Workshop 3 - Milena Khomchenko (Kyiv)
Reassembled Temporalities: Two Artistic Methods to Work with History, Contemporaneity, and the Future
15:20 - Presentation of Workshops Results
15:50 - Coffee Break

𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟔: 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫: 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐧𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚

16:10 - Kateryna Botanova (Basel), The Russian Revolution and its Western Friends – Analysis of four art exhibitions dedicated to the centennial of the October Revolution
16:40 - Dr Alla Petrenko-Lysak (Kyiv) / Dr Svitlana Shlipchenko (Kyiv), Museums, Decolonization, and Rethinking the Symbolic Landscapes (Panel Discussion)
17:40 - Summary of second day

𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟑: 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟓, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒
𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟕: 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫: 𝐃𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐰𝐞ł 𝐊𝐮𝐛𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢

9:00 - Agata Czaja (Münster), Postcolonialism and violence. Questions about Polish context
9:20 - Dr Rüdiger Ritter (Bremerhaven), Postkoloniale Perspektiven auf die europäische Musikgeschichte
9:40 - Dr Aleksandra Naróg (Kraków), Witold Gombrowicz in Berlin – Postcolonial Perspectives
10:00 - Discussion
10:30 - Coffee Break

𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟖: 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫: 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐎𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐩𝐤𝐚

10:50 - Jan Kuśmirski (Warsaw), The Image of Poland in German History Textbooks
11:10 - Dr Marek Jan Wasiński (Lódz), The Politics of Knowledge Production: Poland as Post-Colonial and Liminal Space in the International Legal Order
11:30 - Dr Tereza Hendl (Augsburg/München), Refusing inter-imperiality towards Europe's East: A shift to anti-oppressive research
11:50 - Discussion
12:20 - Lunch Break

𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟗: 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫: 𝐃𝐫 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐤𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐳𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐤a

13:50 - Professor Polina Barvinska (Odessa/Regensburg), Deutsche Osteuropastudien, deutsche Politik und die Erinnerung an den Zweiten Weltkrieg sowie den Holocaust in der Ukraine
14:10 - Professor Polina Barvinska (Odessa/Regensburg) / Professor Annette Werberger (Tübingen) / Professor Alexander Wöll (Potsdam) / Dr Aleksandra Konarzewska (Tübingen)
Dekolonisierung der Slavistik in Deutschland: Perspektiven und Herausforderungen"(Panel Discussion)
15:20 - Summary of third day and the conference and final discussion