War Children in the Post-war
War Children in the Post-war: A West-East perspective on child policies, child experiences and war childhood remembrance cultures in Europe since 1945
13-15 December 2012
Vienna, Polish Academy of Sciences
This international conference is organized by: Dr. Machteld Venken, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres and
Dr. Maren Röger, German Historical Institute Warsaw
The event is sponsored by the following institutions:
- Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna
- German Historical Institute Warsaw
- Polish Academy of Sciences, Vienna
- Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich, Vienna
- FWF. Der Wissenschaftsfonds, Vienna
Thursday, 13 December
09:00-10:00: Welcome notes
- Mag. Claudia Lingner, Managing Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft
- Prof. Dr. Bogus?aw Dybas, Director of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Dr. habil. Ruth Leiserowitz, Research Director of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw
Introduction : Maren Röger and Machteld Venken
10:00-10:45: Keynote I
Tara Zahra: The Lost Children. Reconstructing Europe´s Families After World War II
11:00-13:00: Panel I: Comparing child experiences in East and West
- Lu Seegers: “Living with A Dead Dad”. Experiences, Memories and Interpretations of Fatherless War Children in Germany and Poland
- Anna Wylegala: Children’s experience of the deportation and cultural adaptation: comparative study of biographical narratives from Poland and Ukraine
- Machteld Venken: Children´s War Experiences in European Border Regions
Commentary: Tara Zahra
13:00-14:30: Lunch
14:30-17:30: Panel II: Competition for war children I: Nationalization
- Johannes-Dieter Steinert: Who are the displaced children? Child forced labourers from Poland and SU
- Iris Helbing: Polish Displaced Children under protection of UNRRA
- Beata Halicka: Children’s everyday life in Western Poland in the early post-war – methodological remarks on the work with written memories
- Ruth Leiserowitz: Children as Objects of Desire. The Soviet Repatriation Policy 1944-1959
Commentary: Bengt Sandin
18:30: Dinner
Friday, 14 December
10:00-10:45: Keynote II
Bengt Sandin: The war time experience – neutrality – and building of welfare for children in Sweden
11:00-13:00: Panel III: Competition for war children II: International framework
- Michal Shapira: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Child Survivors
- Christina Norwig: The ideological competition for the war children: The European Youth Campaign 1951-1958 in the context of European integration and Cold War
- Stefania Bernini: Postwar Family Policy in Italy, Poland and Great-Britain. A Comparison
Commentary: Machteld Venken
13:00-14:30: Lunch
14:30-17:30: Panel IV: Perpetrators’ children – child perpetrators
- Barbara Stelzl-Marx: Occupation children in Austria
- Maren Röger: Occupation children in West and Eastern Europe
- Gregory Weeks: Giving Meaning to a Wartime Childhood in the Post-World War II Era. The Case of Herbert L.
- Dorothy Mas: Confronting the Past: The Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten in Post-War and Contemporary Memory
Commentary: Johannes-Dieter Steinert
18:00-19:00: Keynote III – Public Lecture
Joanna Michlic: What Does A Child Remember? The Recollections of the War and the Early Post-War Period Amongst Child Survivors From Poland
20:00: Walking Dinner
Saturday, 15 December
09:00-10:30: Panel V: War Children and Religion
- Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde: A school trip down memory lane … Catholic education, pupils’ memory and World War II; the case of Belgium.
- Martha Ansilewska: Jewish Children in a Polish Catholic Surrounding
Commentary: Joanna Michlic
11:00-12:30: Panel VI: Patterns of Cultural Remembrance in East and West
- Ulrike Präger: ‘Musicking’ Children from the Bohemian Borderlands: Hidden and Nurtured Musical Practices on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain
- Ann Holian: Children and War in Postwar European films
Commentary: Muriel Blaive
12:30-13:00: Final Remarks : Maren Röger and Machteld Venken
Contact:
Machteld Venken (machteld.venken@ehp.lbg.ac.at)
Nußdorfer Straße 64, 4. Stock
1090 Wien
0043 1 5134068-21
0043 1 5134068-30
Conference website: http://ehp.lbg.ac.at/en/conference-2012
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