International PhD Conference

DILEMMAS OF MODERNITY:

200 YEARS OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN CULTURES AND SOCIETIES.

20-22 OF MAY 2021

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

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

20/05/2021

9h00 GENERAL INTRODUCTION

Presentation of 4EU+, European pluralities, the European College for Central European Studies, conceptualizing the modernity dilemmas in Central Europe

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,

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

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 European 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

10h30-11h Coffee Break

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, PhD: 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, University: 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 Univeristy

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

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 thedifferent 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.

The project is supported by: