ERC Consolidator project Unlikely Refuge? Workshop
28th April
14.00–14.30 Opening Remarks
14.30–16.00 Between Statelessness and Representation: Refugee Advocacy and Minority Rights in the Interwar Era
Ismee Tames (Amsterdam): “Nansen refugees and Nansen delegations”
Alexander Dmitriev (Prague): “Minority Rights beyond Enslaved Nations: Olgerd Bochkovski and Michael Kruchinsky at an Interwar Crossroads”
Chair: Jan Surman
16.00–16.30 Coffee break
16.30–18.00 Refugees and the Economy: Labor, Citizenship, and Economic Integration in Interwar Europe
Tim Buchen (Wroclaw): “Refugees as Economic Resource? Russian-German Colonists in Imperial and Weimar Germany”
Michal Frankl (Prague): “Refugees into Productive Citizens? New Readings of Czechoslovak Citizenship Case Files”
Chair: Nikola Tohma
19.00 Dinner
29th April
09.00–10.30 Intellectual Migration and Cross-Border Networks: Russian Empire Émigrés in Central Europe
Patrick Flack (Fribourg): “Invisible Exiles: Transfers and Networks of Intellectual Émigrés from the Russian Empire”
Yury Kryuchkov (Konstanz): “Entangled Exile: Ukrainian and Russian Émigrés in Interwar Czechoslovakia”
Chair: Michal Frankl
10.30–11.00 Coffee break
11.00–12.30 Identity in Exile: Ukrainian Émigrés and Cultural Self-Representation in Interwar Prague
Tereza Chlaňová (Prague): The Identity Transformations of Ukrainian Émigrés in interwar Czechoslovakia
Jakub Hauser (Prague): Alexander Archipenko (Oleksandr Archypenko), the Czechoslovak Avant-garde and Prague's Ukrainian Institutions
Chair: Patrick Flack
12.30–13.30 Lunch
13.30–15.00 Scholars in Exile: Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian Intellectuals in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Jan Surman (Prague): “Ukrainian Czechoslovak scholar. Study of a Persona”
Ivan Zhyhal (Fribourg): “‘For the Belarusian Nation and State’: Tamaš Hryb’s Intellectual Project in the Context of Interwar Czechoslovak Sociology”
Chair: Galina Babak (Prague)
15.30–16.00 Coffee break
16.00–17.00 Roundtable discussion
Organised by the ERC Consolidator project Unlikely Refuge? Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
