Conference Papers

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Panel 1: National Identities

Heidi Hein-Kircher, Herder Institute, Marburg, Germany, From the People’s Republic to Third Republic: Remembrance and New Identity?

Wanda Jarząbek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, Shadows of Memory and the German Question in Polish Politics 1989–2006

Michael Meng, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Whose Victims? Remembering the Warsaw (Ghetto) Uprising, 1945–1968

Panel 2: Representing Memory

Przemysław Czapliński, The Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, Declaring a War: Contemporary Polish Prose Fiction and the Memory of WWII

Marek Zaleski, Institute for Literary Studies (IBL), Warsaw, Poland, Liberation of Memory? Post-Memory or Camp-Memory? On What Is a Messenger Girl Doing?  by Darek Foks and Zbigniew Libera

Bożena Karwowska, University of British Columbia, Canada, German Female Characters in Polish Postwar Literature: Antagonistic (National) Identities and “Female” Memories

Panel 3: Flight and Expulsions

Paweł Lutomski, Stanford University, Who Are the Victims and Who Are the Perpetrators? Polish Expulsions of Germans as a Case of Moral Ambiguity

Christian Lotz, The Leipziger Circle: Forum for Scholarship and the Arts, Germany, Expulsion and the Politics of Memory

Magdalena Marszałek, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Memories on Stage: The Theater Project “Transfer” by Jan Klata

Panel 4: Reconciliation and the Other

Annika Frieberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Reconciliation Remembered: Early Activists in the Polish–German Relations

Piotr Kosicki, Princeton University, Polish Catholics’ Path to Germany: Historical Memory, Transnational Intellectual Networks, and the Polish Bishops’ Letter of 1965

Stefan Guth, University of Bern, Switzerland, Friendship by Decree: The Commission of Historians of the German Democratic Republic and the People’s Republic of Poland 1956–1990

David Pickus, Arizona State University, Not Another Other: Re-Thinking the German Image of Poland

Panel 5: Strategizing Memory

Hanna Gosk, Warsaw University, Poland, Aspects of Identity-Formation in the Dialogue with the Other: A Literary Version of Polish–German Relations in 20th-Century Polish Fiction

Jessie Labov, Stanford University, Nothing to Fear but Gross Himself

Joanna Kędzierska Stimmel, Middlebury College, One Past, Two Histories: Tracing/Inventing the Holocaust Past in Texts by Monika Maron and Jarosław M. Rymkiewicz

Panel 6: Tourism’s Memory

Erica Lehrer, University of Washington, Of Mice, Cats, and Pigs: Postmemorial Relations in the Jewish–German–Polish Troika

Imke Hansen, University of Hamburg, Germany, Who Owns Auschwitz? Conflicting Memories and the Instrumentalisation of the Holocaust: German, Jewish, and Polish Perspectives

Bryoni Trezise, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Postcards from Auschwitz: Tourism’s Memory

Panel 7: Local Identities

Anna Muller, Indiana University, To Become a “Gdańszczanin”—The Process of Constructing Post-War Polish Gdańsk through the Prism of Oral History and Memory Studies

Gregor Thum, University of Pittsburgh, The Rediscovery of Prussia: Searching for the Local Past in Poland and Germany

Winson Chu, University of California, Berkeley, The Lodzer Mensch: From Cultural Contamination to Marketable Multiculturalism

Panel 8: Spatial Narratives

Aleksandra Galasińska, University of Wolverhampton, Great Britain, Once upon a Time on the River Neisse: Temporal Indexicality in Photo-Elicited Narratives from a Polish Border Town

Andrew Asher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,  In the Absence of History: Inventing Transnational Space in the Border Cities of Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and Słubice, Poland

Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, WWII and Germans in Past and Present Polish Landscape of Memory. Jedwabne and Wizna: A Case Study