Fourth International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine
“Violence and its Aftermath in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Context”
Zhytomyr (Ukraine), 4-10 July 2012
Wednesday, July 4
Summer school presentation. Introductory lecture by Dominique Arel.
Thursday, July 5. Facing violence: states vs persons
Lash, Christopher – ‘Moving West: The experience and treatment of displaced Eastern Poles in Poland’s ‘recovered lands’ 1945-48.’ – Discussant Alain Blum
Draghia, Dan – Deadly Borders. Individual and mass violence at the Romanian border with Yugoslavia during the years of conflict with Tito, 1948-1956 – Discussant Serhiy Kudelia
Lenormand, Paul – Postwar Czechoslovak Army: Slovak officers between integration and exclusion – Discussant Mihai Varga
Shapovalova, Anna – Shakhty Trial: kill two birds with one stone or how to use the political trials in international politics. – Discussant Serhiy Kudelia
Workshops
Workshop 1.1: Defining violence as a research object – Coordinators Alain Blum, Dominique Arel
Workshop 1.2: The functions of violence – Coordinators Serhiy Kudelia, Anne Le Huérou, Amandine Regamey
Visit
The city of Zhytomyr, historical layers, reconstruction and memory.
Friday, July 6. Post soviet management of violence issues
Goels, Cornelia – Violence as strategy of Ukraine’s political parties. Repressive tool of government and last resort for opposition? – Discussant Ioulia Shukan
Shchurko, Tatiana – Structural violence in childcare institutions – Discussant Ioulia Shukan
Yildiz, Ezgi – How do post-Soviet states justify violence? – Discussant Gilles Favarel
Lew, Ilan – Extrajudicial testimonies of direct perpetrators of mass violence – Discussant Alain Blum
Collective presentation
“Violence in Russia Project”
Meeting with the Soviet Afghanistan war veterans
Saturday, July 7 . Violence at war: legitimacy and justification
Bischl, Kerstin – Wartime rape and gender relationships. The case of the Red Army 1941–45 – Discussant Tamara Martsenyuk
Khromeychuk, Olesya – Female fighters in Western Ukraine during the First and the Second World Wars – Discussant Amandine Regamey
Schechter, Brandon – Forging of the Red Army – Discussant Dominique Arel
Exeler, Franziska – War and postwar in Belorussia – Discussant Ioulia Shukan
Melnyk, Oleksandr – WWII in Ukraine: how comrades became “false partisans” – Discussant TBA
Visit
WWII and its memory in Zhytomyr region (Zhytomyr, Berditchev)
Sunday July 8
Visit
Trigorsky Monastery and Denechi.
Monday July 9. Remembering violence
Tovaryanska, Oksana – The former soldiers of the SS Division Galicia – Discussant Anne Le Huérou
Blacker, Uilliam – Remembering the vanished in Ukraine – Discussant Amandine Regamey
Malinauskaite, Gintare – Lithuanian partisan cinema – Discussant François Xavier Nérard
Budz, Kateryna – Martyrdom as response to the violence: the Ukrainian Greek Catholics example – Discussant François Xavier Nérard
Presentation of the project “Sound archives. European memories of the Gulag”, by Alain Blum
Workshops
Workshop 2.1: What historical sources? – Coordinators François-Xavier Nérard, Alain Blum, Amandine Regamey
Workshop 2.2: Studying violent practices – Coordinators Mihai Varga, Tamara Martsenyuk, Ioulia Shukan
Workshop 2.3: Representations and memory of violence: what methodological problems? – Coordinators Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, Viktoria Vengerska, Dominique Arel
Tuesday, July 10. Deviance as an object of policy
Gkresta, Maria – Governing poverty and homelessness in Budapest – Discussant Mihai Varga
Slade, Gavin – Mafia in Transition: Criminal Resilience and Decline in Post-Soviet Georgia – Discussant Gilles Favarel
Georganov, Artyom – Instrumentalising ‘ethnic violence’: political consequences of the riots in Katunitsa. Bulgaria, September – October 2011– Discussant Anne Le Huérou
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