Events

EHU’s Center for German Studies and Vilnius University’s (VU) Faculty of History present Colloquium Vilnense–the third series of seminars to be conducted with colleagues from Germany, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, and other countries. This series will be called “Violence and Social Change in Lithuania, Belarus, and Central-Eastern Europe in the 20th Century”.

The discussions will focus on military, ideological, ethnic, and social conflicts, and their impact on transformation of societies in Lithuania and other Central and Eastern European countries. Links between military violence, paramilitary cultures, migration, genocide, social disruption, and mobilization will be explored.

The “short 20th century”—as contrasted to the “long 19th century”—was characterized by high levels of destruction. Wars, ideological conflicts, population mobilizations, massive displacements, and genocides lay at the heart of the emergence of modernity across the continent. Throughout the century, Lithuania, like many other European societies, was a “shatterzone” in which different nationalist, liberal, and socialist aspirations clashed, each claiming parts of the region and its people as part of their “new orders”, say Colloquium Vilnense organizers.

The Colloquium serves as a forum for scholars of different backgrounds, cultures, and generations in which they can broaden their understanding of the theoretical framework of their research.

Colloquium Vilnense Autumn 2014 is jointly organized by Vilnius University’s Faculty of History, European Humanities University’s Department of History, and the EHU Center for German Studies, with the support of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Program of Events

All Colloquium Vilnense events will be held in English at Vilnius University (Universiteto g. 7).

October 29, 6.30 p.m., Room 211. Stephan Lehnstaedt (Warsaw): “Military Rule and Economic Management: The Example of Poland during Two World Wars”

November 12, 5.00 p.m., Room 329. Rasa Antanavičiūtė, Laimonas Briedis, Laima Laučkaitė-Surgailienė & Lara Lempertienė: “War in Lithuania: Culture, Identity and Memory”

November 19, 5.00 p.m., Room 329. Klaus Richter: “Displacement without Moving Borders: Territory and Population Politics in Lithuania, 1915–1926”

November 26, 5.00 p.m., Room 329. Juozapas Paškauskas: “Hooliganism in early 20th-century Vilnius. Social Sources of Violence”

December 2, 5.00 p.m., Room 329. Franziska Exeler: “Determining Guilt in Post-Nazi Occupation Soviet Belorussia” and Iryna Kashtalian: “Family Relations in Post-War Belarus”

December 10, 5.00 p.m., Room 329. Markus Nesselrodt: “Polish-Jewish Displaced Persons and the Story of Survival in the Soviet Union” and Violeta Davoliūtė: “Jewish Deportees to the Gulag: Lithuania’s Forgotten Story”

February 4, 5.00 p.m., Room 329. Almira Ousmanova (EHU): “Ethics and Poetics of the Moment (of Death)” and Natalija Arlauskaitė: “How to Look into the Archive of Atrocities”

February 12, 5.00 p.m., Room 329. Michael Galbas: “Social Strategies of  Legitimization of the Soviet-Afghan War in 21st-Century Russia” and Felix Ackermann (EHU): “Successors to the Great Victory: Afghan Veterans in Post-Soviet Belarus”

February 18, 5.00 p.m., Room 211. Jörg Baberwoski: “Khrushchev and the End of Violence”

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