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Beyond Nations: Refugees from the Former Russian Empire in Interwar Eastern and Central Europe (1917–1939)

ERC Consolidator project Unlikely Refuge? Workshop

Date of event
28. 4. 2025 – 29. 4. 2025
Venue
Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Czech Academy of Science, Gabčíkova 2362/10, Prague

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.