The Imre Kertész Kolleg at the 2018 ASEEES Convention in Boston

06. - 09. December 2018
Venue: Boston Marriott, Boston, MA
Organizer: ASEEES

The Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies’ 2018 Convention will be held in Boston, MA from 06 – 09 December under the topic “Performance”. The Imre Kertész Kolleg is very proud to be a part of this.

We are present with our directors Professor Joachim von Puttkamer and Dr Michal Kopecek, as well as our research associates Dr Juliane Tomann and Dr Jochen Böhler in various panels and discussion. A vast number of current and former fellows will also be at the ASEEES convention, so in a way this has become something like the Imre Kertész Kolleg’s alumni meeting and we couldn’t be happier about this. Below please find a selection of our schedule.

Please click here to view the complete program of the 2018 Convention.

Thursday, 06 December
04:00 – 05:45 // Boston Marriott Copley Place, 3rd, Regis
Panel: Dialectics of Disenchantment: The Fate of Marxism in Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: Stefano Bottoni / Discussant: Bogdan C. Iacob
Critical Marxism and Eastern Europe (Vladimir Tismaneanu)
The Predicaments of Socialist Democratization in East Central Europe in the 1960s (Michal Kopeček)
The Fate of the Praxis Group: Lessons from a Revisionist Project (Marius Stan)

Friday, 07 December
12:30 – 02:15 // Boston Marriott Copley Place, 2nd, St. Botolph
Roundtable: 1918: The Collapse of Empires and the Promise of Self-Determination
Chair: Keely Stauter-Halsted
Rountable Members:
Monika Baar / Chad Bryant / Pieter M. Judson /Andrea Orzoff / Joachim von Puttkamer

Saturday, 08 December
03:30 – 05:15 // Boston Marriott Copley Place, 3rd, Tufts
Panel: Performing Violence in Central Europe: 1918–1921
Chair: Kristina Poznan / Discussant: Piotr J. Wrobel
A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Gender, Violence, and Medicine in Hungary’s Long World War One (Emily R. Gioielli)
The UNRT Armies and the Jews: Daily Anti-Jewish Violence in Ukraine in Times of Crisis, 1917 – 1921 (Thomas Chopard)
Everyday Violence in Eastern Poland: 1918–1920 (Jochen Böhler)

Sunday, 09 December
10:00 – 11:45 // Boston Marriott Copley Place, 4th, Grand Ballroom Salon A
Panel: Does History Repeat Itself?: Historical Reenactments as Performative Practices
Chair & Discussant: Michal Kopeček
Putting Reenactments in Perspective: Doing History as a Transnational Phenomenon (Juliane Tomann)
The 'Queue' (Kolejka) Board Game as a Form of Historical Reenactment (Joanna Wojdon)
Performing Identities: World War II Historical Reenactments in Poland (Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska)