Struggles for Recognition

Struggles for Recognition

Organizer
VW-Project "Transnational Struggles for Recognition" and Prof. Dr. Zdzislaw Mach, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.
Venue
Instytut Europeistyki, UJ, Przegorzały Castle, ul. Jodłowa 13, Cracow
Location
Cracow, Poland
Country
Poland
From - Until
10.10.2008 - 12.10.2008
Deadline
07.10.2008
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By
Jan C. Behrends

The VW-Project "Transnational Studies for Recognition: Women and Jews in France, Germany and Poland in the 20th Century" will hold its first international conference in Cracow, Poland. The project was initiated by the WZB research group on civil society and co-operates with partners at Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Warsaw University, Université de Lausanne and Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder.

Project coordination: Jan C. Behrends, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)

Programm

Day 1: October 10th, Friday

14:00
Opening of the conference – Professor Zdzisław Mach, Jagiellonian University

14:15-16:00
Session 1
Chair: Professor Zdzislaw Mach

Professor Jan T. Gross (Princeton University): Some aspects of the situation of Jews in France, Germany and Poland directly after WWII

Professor Moshe Zimmermann (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Transnationalisation of the History of the German- Jewish Emancipation and De-emancipation.

Laura Hobson Faure (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris): American Jews, French Jews and the JDC: How the JDC Strengthened the Connection between American and French Jewry.

16:00-17:00 Discussion followed by coffee break

17:30-18:45
Session 2
Chair: PD Dr. Dieter Gosewinkel (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)

Dr. Alina Cała (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw): The Concept of 'Aryan' and 'Semitic' Women in the Ideology of German and Polish Antisemitism.

Dr. Dietlind Hüchtker (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): Gender Order as a Medium for Conceptualizing Reform Movements in the End of the 19th/Beginning of the 20th Century.

18:45-19:30 Discussion

Day 2: October 11th, Saturday

9:30-11:00
Session 3
Chair: Professor Jacques Ehrenfreund (University of Lausanne)

Prof. Dieter Rucht (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) Concepts and Theories in Social Movement Research: An Overview and Some Recommendations.

Dr. Hans-Joachim Hahn, (Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig): Jewish Struggles for Recognition around 1900 – Some Cultural Aspects

Dr. Piotr Weiser (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw/ Jagiellonian University): Democratic Party and Jews: The Short Stormy Story of Polish Filosemitism

11:00-11:45 Discussion

11:45-12:15 Coffee break

12:15-13.15
Session 4
Chair: Professor Bożena Chołuj (Warsaw University)

Dr. Dobrochna Kałwa (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Non-Gendered Women in a Nationalized Society. Some Reflections on Women's History in Poland.

Agata Młodawska (Jagiellonian University, Cracow): Antifeminist Poland - Cliche or Reality?

Lunch break

15:00 – 17:00

Presentation of the project The Transnationalization of Struggles for Recognition – Women and Jews in France, Germany, and Poland in the 20th Century and the 5 PhD. projects prepared in the framework of the project.

Discussion

End of Conference

Contact (announcement)

Maria Brand
Center for Holocaust Studies
Jagiellonian University, Cracow
Tel.: (+48)604272639
E-Mail: <maria.brand@uj.edu.pl>


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