The Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin (CBH PAN),
the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (IH PAN)
and the NPRH project “Female Patriots of Tomorrow?”

are pleased to invite you  to the online conference

„To Serve Two Masters”. The Public Roles Played by Experts in the time of Rebuilding Europe

19 November 2021

 

The conference will be broadcasted online via Zoom.

Streaming live without registration will be available on the Facebook page of the Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CBH PAN) in Berlin.

The event will be held in English and German. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

 

Programme

9:55 Welcome
Iwona Dadej (Berlin), Maciej Górny (Warsaw)

 

Panel 1: Geographers and Borders
10:00–12:30
Chair: Agnes Laba (Wuppertal)

Vedran  Duančić (Zagreb), Geography is an Objective Science, and it Favors Us: Geography and Politics in Yugoslavia, 1918–1941

Balázs Ablonczy (Budapest), “Turan Cannot Be Humiliated” – Jenő Cholnoky, the Hungarian Geographer in the Period of the Peace Conference, 1918–1921

Maciej Górny (Warsaw), Nature, Culture, Failure: Erwin Hanslik’s Borders of Civilization

 

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

 

Panel 2: Experts and States
13:30–17:00
Chair: Jan Surman (Prague)

Jawad Daheur (Paris), Which state to serve? German foresters facing political change in Western Poland (1918–1922)

Anna Nowakowska-Wierzchoś (Warsaw), Social “female military staff” – co-creators of defense and state education

Iwona Dadej (Berlin), Polnische Historikerinnen und Kuratorinnen im Dienste des Staates? Das Beispiel des Museums ‘Verdienstvoller Polinnen’ in Lemberg 1929–1939

Sophie Schwarzmaier (Berlin), “Aufbau der polnischen Schule”. Polnische Pädagog:innen und der Aufbau des/eines? eigenes Nationalstaates 1911–1925

Martin Rohde (Halle/Saale), “Meine Pflichten als tschechoslowakischer Staatsbürger habe ich ehrlich erfüllt, … ohne den Weg des Karriererismus zu gehen.” Galizisch-ukrainische Experten im Bildungswesen der Podkarpatská Rus

Marion Röwekamp (Mexico-City), Serving two masters? Female lawyers between the law and the women´s movement

 

17:15–18:45 Keynote Lecture
Katrin Steffen (Sussex), Balancing interests in a post-imperial setting: Experts, modernity and the state in Poland after 1918 

 

Closing remarks
Iwona Dadej, Maciej Górny