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 December at 09:00 until 15 December at 13:00
Polish Academy of Sciences, Boerhaavegasse 25,1030 Vienna
Conference organizers:
Dr. Machteld Venken, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for
European History and Public Spheres and
Dr. Maren Röger, German Historical Institute Warsaw
Please register by 07 December 2012 at office@ehp.lbg.ac.at
For participation at the Public Lecture on 14 December, please register at the Polish Academy of Sciences under office@viennapan.org
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 13 December
09:00-10:00
Welcome notes
Mag. Claudia Lingner, Managing Director of the
Ludwig Boltzmann-Gesellschaft
Prof. Dr. Bogusɬaw Dybaś, 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
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-17:00 Panel II: Competition for war children I: Nationalization
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
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-17:30 Panel IV: Perpetrators’ children – child
perpetrators
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
11:00-12:30
Panel VI: Patterns of Cultural Remembrance in East
and West
12:30-13:00
Final Remarks
Maren Röger and Machteld Venken