Recent update of the final programme of our IRTG Annual Conference Programme, 19.-21.10.2014: Folkets Hus Conference Center, Umeå, “Bordering the Monster? ‘Creative Destruction’ and De- and Re-Bordering of Established Structures/Borders” Sunday (October 19th) Dinner Lecture/ Introduction Monday (October 20th) 9:00 – Key Note I, Samuel Truett (Albuquerque)/Introduction by Michael North (Greifswald) Globetrotters, border crossers, and the tangled tales of borderlands history 10:00 – Coffee Break 10:15 – Panel I, Collaborative Discussant and Chair Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (Lund)/Alexander Wöll (Greifswald) Tatsiana Astrouskaya (Greifswald) An intellectual as l’ enfant terrible of Perestroika: Re-definition of Belorussian intellectual field in the late 1980s – beginning of 1990s Marta Grzechnik (Gdansk/ Greifswald) Ten centuries of struggling with the monster. The Germans as the “Other” in the post-Second World War Polish historiography Rune Brandt Larsen (Lund) Shadows in the East Sune Bechmann Pedersen (Lund) Eastern escapes: Selling communist Europe in Scandinavian cold-war guidebooks 12:15 – Lunch 13:15 – Panel II, Collaborative Discussant and Chair Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (Lund)/Alexander Wöll (Greifswald) Alberto Sevillano (Greifswald) The discovery of a Monstrous Goya in Germany in early 20th century Katja Will (Greifswald) The Danish film De grønne slagtere and the motif of cannibalism Berit Glanz (Greifswald) Monstrous patients: Alterity in contemporary Scandinavian novels Coffee Break 15:45 – Forum, Chair Alexander Drost (Greifswald) Inge Christensen (Greifswald) – opponent Bo Petersson (Malmö) Visions of Western depravity and bourgeois hedonism in a post-soviet setting Maria Lönn (Södertörn) – opponent Olga Sasunkevich (Vilnius) “The white monster” Elisabeth Heigl (Greifswald) – opponent Andreas Önnerfors (Malmö) Incompetent professors? The deconstruction of the economic autonomy of the University of Greifswald in the second half of the 18th century Mihkel Mäesalu (Tartu) – opponent Mathias Niendorf (Greifswald) Livonia’s (un)involvement in the Hussite Wars (1419-1434). The reaction of an established borderland to the emergence of a new enemy in “the center” Cynthia Osiecki (Greifswald) – opponent Anti Selart (Tartu) Hells angels or the devil for dummies? Depictions of hell in medieval sculpture Alexandra Fried (Gothenburg) – opponent Kilian Heck (Greifswald) The bunge master- reconsidered 19:00 – Joint Dinner Tuesday (October 21st) 9:00 – Key Note II, Jari Ojala (Jyväskylä)/Introduction by Riho Altnurme (Tartu) Creative destruction, path dependence and organizational longevity: how and why history matters? 10:00 – Coffee Break 10:15 – Panel III, Discussant and Chair Jens E. Olesen (Greifswald) Madis Maasing (Tartu) Monsters on the border of Christendom: The Russian threat in 16th-Century Livonia Baiba Tetere (Greifswald) ‘Latvian types’: Hybridized visions of rural life in Latvia in 1890s Alina Baravykaitė (Greifswald) How foreign can your native language be? Toomas Schvak (Tartu) De- and Re-bordering in 19th century Estonia and Latvia: Orthodox Church and schools as enablers of social changes 12:15 – Lunch 13:15 – Panel IV, Discussant and Chair Jan-Henrik Nilsson (Lund) Maare Paloheimo (Greifswald) The emergence and assimilation of Russian-born businessmen in early-nineteenth-century Finland Sebastian Nickel (Greifswald) The mercurial monster: Re-bordering migration routes from Sub-Sahara Africa to the EU Matthias Müller (Greifswald) The monsters of luck: Lottery as a threat to the traditional order in the eighteenth century Closing Remarks (Stephan Kessler (Greifswald)
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