International Online Ph.D. Conference DILEMMAS OF MODERNITY: 200 YEARS OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN CULTURES AND SOCIETIES, 20-22 May 2021

W dniach 20-22 maja 2021 r. zapraszamy na interdyscyplinarną konferencję doktorancką on-line DILEMMAS OF MODERNITY: 200 YEARS OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN CULTURES AND SOCIETIES, organizowaną przez OKFiSF UW w ramach projektu Sojuszu 4EU+ „Central European Studies”.

Język: angielski.

 

 

Online Conference organized by

College for Central European Studies, 4EU+

Center for French Cultural and Francophone Studies,

University of Warsaw

 

ZOOM link to the first day: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82005045971?pwd=aHA2UHZQZ3ZCb1dDTE5jbHVGdkw1Zz09

ZOOM link to the second day: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85677790420?pwd=Q2hpUUtXS1hNWFVCdkhxclN6RE42UT09

ZOOM link to the third day: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89853798975?pwd=ZzJQUEJwd200M0RVMExsdTdvSFcrdz09

 

 

PROGRAM

 

20/05/2021

 

9h00

Welcome from the Vice Rector of the University of Warsaw, Prof. Zygmunt Lalak

Welcome of the French Ambassador to Poland, Frédéric Billet

 

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

Presentation of 4EU+, European pluralities,

the European College for Central European Studies

conceptualizing the modernity dilemmas in Central Europe

Prof. Paweł Rodak, Dr Nicolas Maslowski, Afrodyta Weselak

 

First Part:  HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL IN CENTRAL EUROPE

 

9h30-11h Meta processes and the roads to Central European modernizations

Moderation: Prof. Jiří Šubrt (Charles University)

 

‘The Civilizing Process’ explaining the mass witchcraft accusations during the early modern period?’ Lucy Brown MA, Charles University

 

The Birth Of The Modern Humanitarianism: The Long Path Of The International Commettee Of The Red Cross, Federica Cicci, Ca’ Foscari University

 

The concept of enemy and the re-emergence of war ad hominem: conceptual continuities and transformations since the end of the Cold War, Martino Tognocchi, University of Milan 

 

11h-12h Mordernization through organization

Moderation: Dr Marie-Françoise Saudraix (Sorbonne University)

 

The Guilds – traditional organization as an obstacle to progress, Lenka Kašparovská – Charles University

 

Early Engraved Glass in Central Europe, Adéla Minaříková, Charles University

 

12h-13h Politics of European Modernizations

Moderation: Prof. Paola Mattei (University of Milan)

 

The Political Project of United Europe on the Model of the Holy Roman Empire: Leibniz’s Legacy, Fiorenza Manzo, Univeristy of Milan

 

Exchanges, cultural transfers and hybridisation of military expertise between French and Germanic spaces (1661-1791), Philipp Portelance, Heidelberg University and Université du Québec à Montréal 

 

13h-14h Lunch break

 

14h-15h30 Modernizations and Norm building

Moderation: Prof. Jadranka Gvozdanović (University of Heidelberg)

 

The Politics of Fin-de-Siècle Medical Portraiture: Sándor Ferenczi and the Emergence of Modern Sexological Discourse on Queer Sexuality, Agnieszka Sobolewska, Sorbonne University and University of Warsaw

 

Building a theoretical model for the linguistic study of European identity in German Parliamentary debates, Eugenio Verra, University of Milan

 

A Study of Transitory Order, Marcel Tomasek, Charles University

 

15h30-16h Coffee Break

 

16h-17h30 Social History of the Central European IIWW and Socialism

Moderation: Prof. Magdalena Latkowska (University of Warsaw)

 

“Trans-semi-peripherality”. Mobility within the Second World, Milena Błahuta, University of Warsaw

 

Child and childhood in post-war Poland (1944-1956), Marcin Gołąb, University of Warsaw 

 

So called Sects and Communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia, Martin Pácha, Charles University

 

17h30-18h30 Political Economic History of Central European Socialism

Moderation: Prof. Jarosław Kilias (University of Warsaw)

 

The Role of the East German Economy and Its Impact on Shifting East-West Relations, Anna Maria Scognamiglio, University of Milan

 

The First Degree of Peace on the Vltava River: The Lipno-Dam as a Great Work of Socialism, Eliška Švarná, Charles University

 

21/05/2021

 

9h00-10h30 Being a migrants in Central Europe

Moderation: Prof. Anna Sosnowska (University of Warsaw)

 

Merton’s Theory of Anomie-and-Opportunity-Structures as applied to the development of a typology of national identity of migrants (on the example of the Russian community in the Czech Republic), Irina Šulc, Charles University

 

The situation of Hungarian native speakers in the Czech Republic, Michaela Piechaczková, Charles University

 

The Migration Brokers and Bangladeshis in the Czech Republic, Zbyněk Mucha, Charles University

 

Coffee Break 10h30-11h

 

11h-12h30 Languages in the change

Moderation: Dr Valentina Crestani (University of Milan)

 

The gamer jargon on the example of English, German and Polish societies of the MMORPG “Path of Exile”, research topic: Effectiveness of e-learning, Paweł Kluczek, University of Warsaw

 

Semantic theories and their application in lexicography, Miroslav Sedlacek, Charles University

 

Spanish as a foreign language in the European Union Discipline: Sociolinguistics and Language Policy, David Scheffler, University of Heidelberg

 

12h30-13h30 Cultural Transfers in Central Europe I

Moderation: Prof. Agata Chałupnik (University of Warsaw)

 

Influence of the Commedia dell’Arte on the contemporary theatre, Aida Čopra, Sorbonne University

 

Challenges of Modernity: Pierre Corneille’s play Le Cid staged in the 21st century in the style of 17th century theatre by Ivan Alexandre (premiere: 2011, Polish Theatre in Warsaw), Afrodyta Weselak, University of Warsaw

 

13h30-14h30 Lunch Break

 

Second Part: BETWEEN CULTURE AND ARTISTIC CREATION

 

14h30-16h00 Cultural Transfers in Central Europe II

Moderation: Dr Weronika Parfianowicz (University of Warsaw)

 

Artificialism of Štyrský and Toyen in the Context of French Art in Twenties and Thirties, Klára Jarolímková, Charles University

 

Al’fred Bem, from the Russian revolution to the WWII. A Russian philologist in Prag: Center-European Circulations, contacts and networks, Stéphanie Cirac, Sorbonne University

 

Roma Boyhood in Music Education in Slovakia, Dominika Moravčíková, Charles University

 

16h00-16h30 Coffee Break

 

16h30-18h Cultural Institutions

Moderation: Dr Zuzana Štefková (Charles University)

 

Cultural history of the Houses of Creative Work in Poland, Martyna Miernecka, University of Warsaw

 

Nasz Dom (Our Home) educational and care facility in Warsaw － in a historical and cultural perspective. (1927-1939), Zuzanna Sękowska, University of Warsaw 

 

Afterlife of Modernity: use of abandoned infrastructure, Anna Gańko, University of Warsaw

 

18h00-19h00 Cultural References in the Change

Moderation: Prof. Xavier Galmiche (Sorbonne University)

 

Sociological Overview of Literature in Central Europe between the World Wars, Peter Kúdelka, Charles University

 

The Making of New Myths in Modern Art in the Context of World War II, Tereza Havelková, Charles University

 

22/05/2021

 

9h00-10h00 Great Families and their representations

Moderation: Dr Isabelle Davion (Sorbonne University)

 

Influence of the Gallia family on the cultural and artistic development of Vienna at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, Tereza Zilvar Halusková, Charles University

 

10h-10h30 Coffee Break

 

10h30-11h30 Central European Artistic Creation in the post-World War II (I)

Moderation: Dr Karoline Thaidigsmann (University of Heidelberg)

 

Literary work as a form of therapy – war and post-war texts of Jewish authors from Poland and Germany in a comparative approach, Laura Olasek, University of Warsaw

 

Czesław Miłosz’ No: Dilemmas over the past, the present and the future of Poland, Sara Quondamatteo, Università Ca’ Foscari – Sorbonne University

 

11h30-12h30 Central European Artistic Creation in the post-World War II (II)

Moderation: Prof. Paweł Rodak (University of Warsaw)

 

Book Illustrations of the Artistic Group UB 12 in the Context of the Time and Situation of the Fifties and Sixties in the Czechoslovakia, Marketa-Cejkova, Charles University

 

The hopes and desillusions of polish authors coming back to post war Poland. Aleksander Wat, Julian Tuwim, Tadeusz Borowski. Ada Grudzinski, Sorbonne University

 

12h30-13h30 Comparing the Central European literature (I)

Moderation:  Prof. Małgorzata Smorąg-Goldberg (Sorbonne University)

 

“Real” of realism. Subject as narrator and character in a realist novel, Anna Martinovská, Charles University

 

Ilja Plays War: The Layered Pasts of Kloktat dehet Through the Eyes of an Orphan, Astrid Greve Kristensen, Sorbonne University

 

13h30-14h30 Lunch Break

 

14h30-16h00 Comparing the Central European literature (II)

Moderation: Dr Anna Dżabagina (University of Warsaw)

 

Transcending the everyday: The Real World and its Other Side in Contemporary French and Russian Literature. Ivan Onosov, Sorbonne University

 

Perfect strangers – Vampire Narratives as embodiments of otherness, Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi, University of Warsaw

 

Myth and lyric, Alžběta Jilečková, Charles University

 

16h-16h30 Coffee Break

 

16h30-18h00 Yougoslav and post-Yougoslav space

Moderation: Dr Daniel Baric (Sorbonne University)

 

Love as a revolutionary space in the Yugoslav Novi film (1961-1972), Naïma Berkane, Sorbonne University

 

National Introspection in Contemporary Serbian Poetry, Nenad Milosavljević, Sorbonne University

 

Linguistic purism and the (re)negotiation of the Croatian national identity, Iva Petrak, Heidelberg University

 

18h00 Synthesis

 

 

 

College for Central European Studies

A collaboration of  6 universities:  Sorbonne University, University of Warsaw, Charles University, University of Milan, Heidelberg University, University of Copenhagen

Participants: Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences from one of the 4EU+ Universities

–  Charles University in Prague

–  Copenhagen University

–  Heidelberg University

–  Sorbonne University

–  University of Milan

–  University of Warsaw

Scientific Council:

Marina Brambilla (University of Milan), Valentina Crestani (University of Milan), Paola Mattei (University of Milan), Jadranka Gvozdanović (University of Heidelberg), Nicolas Maslowski (University of Warsaw), co-director, Paweł Rodak (University of Warsaw), co-director, Magdalena Latkowska (University of Warsaw), Marie-Françoise Saudraix (Sorbonne University), Małgorzata Smorąg-Goldberg (Sorbonne University), Richard Biegel (Charles University), Jiří Šubrt (Charles University)

Organizing committee:

Paweł Rodak (University of Warsaw), Nicolas Maslowski (University of Warsaw), Afrodyta Weselak (University of Warsaw)

College of Central European Studies

The College integrates teachers and researchers working on Central Europe in the different universities and disciplinary fields, and who will coordinate courses or, in the longer term, diplomas in the field of Central European Studies. The aim is to create a network of lectures, that will transform progressively into a common European diploma, with various specialisations, accredited by University of Warsaw, Charles University in Prague, Sorbonne University, Heidelberg University, and from another 4U+ universities in the future.