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National Politics and Population Migrations in Central and Eastern Europe

7-8 April 2006

University of Minnesota

 

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The Borderlands Region

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A workshop of the Borderlands Project of the Institute for Global Studies and Reseach Collaboratives of the Center for German and European Studies


Sponsored by:
Center for Austrian Studies
Center for German and European Studies
European Studies Consortium
Department of History
Immigration History Research Center


Friday, 7 April 2006

6:30 PMMeet in lobby of Holiday Inn Metrodome
7:00 PMDinner at Kafe 421


Saturday, 8 April 2006
Location: Immigration History Research Center Conference Room Anderson Library 308

8:20-8:55Continental Breakfast
8:55-9:00Gary Cohen, Donna Gabaccia, and Eric Weitz, University of Minnesota
Welcome, Introduction
9:00-9:30Eduard Mühle, University of Münster
Involuntarily Displaced: Mass Population Changes in the Baltic Countries, 1939-53
9:30-10:00Tomas Balkelis, University of Nottingham
War, State, Ethnic Conflict, and the Refugee Crisis in Lithuania, 1939-40
10:00-10:30 Silvia Hahn, University of Salzburg
Persecution, Resettlement, and Expulsion in the "State of Many Peoples": The Habsburg Monarchy in the 18th and 19th Centuries
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:15 Caitlin Murdock, California State University, Long Beach
Nationalism on Wheels: Migration and Bohemian Nationalities Politics in the German Reich
11:15-11:45 Eric Lohr, American University
Population Policy and Emigration Policy in Imperial Russia
11:45-12:15 Daniel Necas, University of Minnnesota
Czech and German Immigrants and their Relations in the United States, Particularly in the Midwest, 1848-1914
12:15-1:15 Lunch
Tour (for those who so choose) of the Immigration History Research Center archives
1:15-1:45 Chad Bryant, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Nazi Germanization Plans in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-42
1:45-2:15 David Gerlach, University of Pittsburgh
To the Victor Go the Spoils: Nationalism and Property Confiscation in the Czech Borderlands, 1945-49
2:15-2:45 Holly Case, Cornell University
Transylvanian Refugees in Hungary and Romania during World War II
2:45-3:00 Refreshment break

3:00-3:30

Alexander Prusin, New England Institute of Mining and Technology
The Origins of the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict in Volhynia and East Galicia 1941-45
3:30-4:00 Piotr Wrobel, University of Toronto
Class War or Ethnic Cleansing: Soviet Deportations of Polish Citizens from the Eastern Provinces of Poland, 1939-41
4:00-4:30 John Paul Himka, University of Alberta
First Escape: Dealing with the Totalitarian Legacy in the Early Postwar [Ukrainian] Emigration
4:30-5:30 Gary Cohen, Donna Gabaccia, and Eric Weitz, University of Minnesota
Concluding Reflections
7:00-10:00 Dinner at the home of Donna Gabaccia and Jeffrey Pilcher



Updated April 3, 2006