Networks of Infrastructure and the Phantom Borders in East Central Europe
Preliminary Program
Wed., 09/05/12
19:00 Welcome address Keynote speech Karl Schlögel Chair for History of Eastern Europe European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Thu., 09/06/12
09:30-11.00 Panel I Elizabeth R. Vann Brockton, Massachusetts Public Schools; The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America The Role of the Railway in the Development of National Identity in Silesia, 1860 – Present: a Community Study
Felix Jeschke University College London – School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UK The Nation as a Railway Body. Geopolitical Theory, Nation Building and Trains in Czechoslovakia 1918-1938
11:30-13:00 Panel II Werner Benecke Gerd-Bucerius-Endowed Chair for Culture and History of Central and Eastern Europe European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany Neu-Bentschen / Zbąszynek. The Hitherto Unwritten History of a Railway Junction Between Germany and Poland
Volker Mende Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany Tannenberg Revisited? Construction and Deconstruction of the Vistula Bridge of Münsterwalde/Opalenie
14:30-16:00 Panel III Szymon Komusiński „Bezgranica" Foundation, Krakow, Poland The Struggle for Unification: How the Interwar Poland Took Efforts to Merge the Railway Systems of the Former Three Partitions (1918-1939)
Tomasz Komornicki & Piotr Rosik Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Road Accessibility of Areas Along the Current and Historical Polish-German Border
16.30-18.00 Panel IV Gábor Szalkai University Eötvös Loránd, Department of Regional Science, Budapest, Hungary Results of Transportation Conflicts in the 19th Century: Railway Border Crossing Points in the Eastern and Southern Carpathians
Toader Popescu "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania Connecting and Disconnecting the Networks: Railways and the Greater Romania Political Project
Fri., 09/07/12
09:00-10:30 Panel V Kevin Sutton Université de Savoie-Campus scientifique-Pôle montagne, Le Bourget du Lac cedex, France „Phantoming" the Borders: a Phantasm Projected on the Infrastructure Networks? Considerations on Four Phantom Borders in the EU Alpine Area: Culoz, Brenner, Modane and Tarvisio
Mark Aaron Keck-Szajbel Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, USA The Roads less Travelled. Travel Narratives and Memory in Post-War East Central European Cultural History
11:00-12:30 Panel VI Florian Riedler Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Germany Edirne terminus
Jan Musekamp Chair for History of Eastern Europe European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany Eydtkuhnen. A Showcase of Prussia and the German Empire
14:00-15:30 Tour of Frankfurt (Oder)
16.00-17:30 Panel VII Sławomir Łotysz Institute of Civil Engineering, University of Zielona Gora, Poland Dry Ports: Where the Broad and Standard Gauge Meet
Nataliya Pashynska Department of Human-Geography Research, Institute of Geography, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine Polygenesis Transport Network in Ukraine and Border Aspects
18:00 Film Presentation Amir Husak The New School, Media Studies & Film, New York, USA Dayton Express: Bosnian Railroads and the Paradox of Integration
