FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Internal events – Regular seminars of Spectral Recycling Team
Public lectures, speeches and interviews
December 7
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, debate in Warsaw: Recovered – lost. About lands, things and fate. Participants: prof. Maren Roger, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Nancy Waldmann, event organised by Big Book Cafe MDM and the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, more information here and here
Workshops
Conferences
December 1-4
Memory and populism from the margins; Karina Hoření – The Sudeten card: How and why inhabitants of post-displacement Czech borderlands are depicted as prone to populism, Michal Korhel – A „Lapidarium“-fashion? Building monuments to former German inhabitants in West Pomerania, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska – Every day, I root for Putin to lose. How the second generation of settlers to the Polish Recovered Territories connects historical experience to contemporary politics; Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska will be also a discussant in the panel 6 – Into the mainstream
January 30
Michal Korhel, Munich Colloquium of East European History (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), presentation: Von Friedhöfen zu Denkmälern: Der Umgang mit deutschen Geistern in Polen und der Slowakei
PAST EVENTS
Internal events
October 29, 2024
seminar with Julia Gilfert M.A., Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen: (Un)comfortable rooms, neutralised objects. Exhibiting SS history at Wewelsburg Memorial and Museum
September 7-10, 2024
internal seminar at the Pommersches Landesmuseum in Greifswald in Germany, more information here
May 24, 2024
meeting in-person, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Karina Hoření, Michal Korhel, Magdalena Bubík
April 15, 2024
seminar with Associate Professor, Stanislav Holubec, from the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, more information here
January 8-10, 2024
third meeting in-person, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Karina Hoření, Michal Korhel, Magdalena Bubík, details here
December 8, 2023
seminar – film discussion: Sami swoi (All Friends Here), more information here
November 16, 2023
seminar – about Oral History with Jakub Gałęziowski, more information here
October 16, 2023
seminar Plunder by Menachem Kaiser – discussion, more information here
October 9, 2023
welcome seminar
September 26, 2023
Mŕtví nespievajú by Andrej Lettrich – discussion, more details here
May 25, 2023
seminar Josef Scheybal, hlavní osobnost záchrany movitých památek z konfiskovaných německých domácnosti with Kristina Uhlíková (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences); more information here
April 30 – May 3, 2023
second meeting in-person in Liberec, details here
April 4, 2023
seminar Lubusz Wine as a cultural, social, and material object with Ewa Kopczyńska (Jagiellonian University); read more here
December 7, 2022
seminar Realities of Things in the Post-conflict Space: The Role of Objects in the Creation the Imagined Worlds of Wrocław and Szczecin with Anna Kurpiel (Centrum Studiów Niemieckich i Europejskich im. W. Brandta, Uniwersytet Wrocławski) and Katarzyna Maniak (Uniwersytet Jagielloński)
September 26-28, 2022
kick-off meeting in-person, read more here
Workshops
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, seminar in Poznań: AI reporting and history – English-language seminar for journalists from Poland and Germany, presentation: How to approach German ghosts? Writing hauntologies; more information here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Migrating objects and the re-use of things; a cooperation between the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies of the University of Wrocław, and the University of Vienna, ERC Project GLORE; more information here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Karina Hoření, Michal Korhel and Magdalena Bubík, cooperation with the Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna; interactive workshop, based on pre-circulated readings, discussion about the hauntological approach in research on forced migrations and emerging of new cultures in post-displacement regions in East Central Europe and beyond, more information you can find here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, workshops organized by the Polish Children’s Fund in Lusławice in southern Poland as well as workshops at the local Secondary School Complex named after Józef Piłsudski in Zakliczyn, more information here
Karina Hoření, guest lecture and workshops at Charles University, more information here
Public lectures, speeches and interviews
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Magdalena Bubík, Karina Hoření, presentation in Brno (at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences): Zvuková krajina v pohraničí: studium materiality jako nový přístup k dějinám vysídlování/osidlování (v Polsku a Československu), more information here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Michal Korhel, presentation in Goleniów (organised by Goleniowskie Fotohistorie): Recovering the history of the “Recovered Territories”: what do objects from Goleniów and the surrounding area tell about? More information here and here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Czechostacja podcast entitled “Jára Cimrman – nieistniejący geniusz. O czeskim poczuciu humoru” (in Polish), link to the Spotify is here; link to the YouTube is here
Karina Hoření, walking seminar in Liberec (organised by The Faculty of Science, Humanities and Education in Liberec), more information here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, broadcast: “Klub Trójki: Audiodokument” on Polish Radio, more information here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, meeting with the President of the European Research Council (ERC), Professor Maria Leptin in Warsaw; Karolina took part in session “Applying for ERC grants in Social Sciences and Humanities Panels”; more information here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, presentation of the results of collaboration with the Wałcz Land Museum, Wałcz
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Karina Hoření, Michal Korhel, podcast CEU Review of Books, more information here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Czechostacja podcast entitled “Tomasz Garrigue Masaryk, ojciec wszystkich Czechów” (in Polish), link to the Spotify is here; link to the YouTube is here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Czechostacja podcast, entitled “Jak Czesi wymyślili samych siebie” (in Polish), link to the YouTube is here
Karina Hoření, presentation about ghosts in Liberec during the event organised by the Centre for the Study of Popular Culture, more information here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Karina Hoření, Michal Korhel and Magdalena Bubík, presentation of the preliminary findings and discussion with Claudia Kraft and Kerstin von Lingen, Professors for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna; cooperation with the Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Vienna: Exploring post-displacement regions in Central Europe and beyond; all information you can find here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Interdisciplinary Scientific Seminar at Wrocław University of Science and Technology – a series of open meetings with world-famous speakers; presentation Miastowtóry – podwójne życie odzyskanych miast/Topolgängers or the Double Life of the “Recovered” Cities; more details here and here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Czechostacja podcast, entitled “Czystka etniczna po czesku. Wypędzenie Niemców Sudeckich” (in Polish), link to the YouTube is here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Skarbiec Nauki Polskiej audition at the Second Programme of Polish Radio; interview about the postwar mass migrations; more details (in Polish) here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, podcast of Polish Academy of Sciences, on the day of Polish Science, the vice-president of the Polish Academy of Sciences, prof. Dariusz Jemielniak, talked to Dr. Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, winner of the NCN award and ERC grant winner, and prof. Janusz M. Bujnicki, also a laureate of the National Science Center and a multiple winner of ERC grants, about what success in science means, how to achieve it, and how to influence pro-quality changes in the science system; link to the YouTube here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Michal Korhel, Karina Hoření, presentation during an open seminar of the Department of Literary and Cultural Studies of the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, presentation entitled “Introduction to Ghost-Hunting. Spectral Objects, Recycling Strategies and Human-Nonhuman Relationships in Post-Displacement Regions of Czechia, Poland and Slovakia”, details here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, discussion: Co pozostało z Ziem Odzyskanych? (Stowarzyszenie Pracownia Etnograficzna, Pracownia Duży Pokój); more information here; video recording here
Michal Korhel, presentation: “Geisterlandschaften? Deutsche Spuren in der Kulturlandschaft Ostmitteleuropas” at the Aleksander-Brückner-Zentrum für Polenstudien in Halle, Germany (information here)
Karina Hoření, discussion on the topic of the history of multicultural Prague and the stories of German-speaking women, (in Czech), link to YouTube here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, lecture with discussion, “Things acting as “ghosts”. Displacements and emergence of new cultures in Central Europe”, National Science Centre & Copernicus Center, link to the video (in Polish) here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, presentation: Duchy w hutach szkła i uzdrowiskach. Antropologia krajobrazu na czeskim pohraničí, an open lecture in Podróże z Antropologią series, Pracownia Etnograficzna, more details here and video is here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, interview for National Science Centre, Apple podcast here, Google podcast here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, interview for Radio Kraków (in Polish), link here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, interview for Radio Tok FM, link here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, interview for Radio 357, link here
Michal Korhel, interview for Slovak radio station Rádio Regina, link here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, debate Przedmioty jako wehikuły czasu, Literacki Sopot, details here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, lecture Sympathy for the Unfamiliar Ghosts. Why did Polish Settlers Care for Tombs of Ancestors of Expelled Germans? (University of Regensburg), details here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Cultural Memory seminar series at the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University; lecture Ghosts as Material Traces: A Spectral Perspective on Displacement and Resettlement in Slavic Central Europe; more information you can find here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, How Polish Migrants Reshaped Their Memories of Things Left Behind in the Recovered Territories: A Study of Spectral Transformation (workshop Narratives of Migration, University of Oxford); more you can read here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, “Cała, pełna, dobrze oczyszczona”. Czy z cegieł z “Ziem Odzyskanych” odbudowywano Warszawę?, lecture at Muzeum Warszawy (details here and here), Muzeum Warszawy; recording you can see here
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Sympathy for the Unfamiliar Ghosts. Why did Polish Settlers Care for Tombs of Ancestors of Expelled Germans?, seminar Material culture and monuments of Post-Socialism [details you can find here (including the recording) and here; you can read our note about it here]
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Kto i jak zasiedlał “Ziemie Odzyskane” (podcast episode of Radio Naukowe, in Polish, recording here)
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Widmontologia. Co skrywają dawne przedmioty i co znaczą dla nas dziś (interview by Agnieszka Krzemińska, Polityka)
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Kości i patery na ciasto. Jak radzono sobie z niemieckimi duchami “Ziem Odzyskanych”? You can watch the recording here (link to the Youtube)
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Pruskie mury i polscy osadnicy (interview by Aneta Zawadzka, Forum Akademickie)
Karina Hoření, discussant on David Kovařík’s Perished Settlements in Moravia and Silesia: A Contribution to the Transformation of the Cultural and Settlement Landscape in the years 1945-1989 (The Institute of Contemporary History in Prague). You can listen the recording here, on Spotify
Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, How to decolonize ghosts? Hauntology of post-displacement regions of Slavic Central Europe (the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales”); more you can find here
Conferences
October 18, Karina Hoření, conference Dějiny ve veřejném prostoru; presentation: Jsou místa, která nevidíme- vily německy hovořících průmyslníků na Liberecku jako výzkum “periferie” (Things that We Don´t See: German Industrialists Villas in the Liberec Region as a Research of Peripheries), conference agenda you can find here, more information you can find here
September 3-4, Magdalena Bubík; Mid-term meeting, Anthropology of Religion Working Group German Anthropological Association (DGSKA), title of the presentation: The spectral painting: what can the painting say about the formerly and present religious communities in Liberec?; more information here
June 12, 2024, Magdalena Bubík, pre-conference masterclass during Remembrance, Religion and Secularity in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond (one-day intensive masterclass is designed for MA and PhD students from the Visegrad region to discuss their ongoing work on remembrance, memory and religion in Central and Eastern Europe. Students will present their research to their peers and instructors and gain detailed feedback from experts in the field on their work), more information here
May 15-17, 2024, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska and Karina Hoření, Industrial Specters Interwoven with a Carpet: a Story of Post-Imperial Nostalgia in Northern Bohemia (Postcolonial, Decolonial, Post-imperial, De-imperial), more information here and here
April 9-10, 2024, Michal Korhel, Wiederbelebung deutscher Geister in Handlová? Der Umgang mit dem Erbe der Karpatendeutschen in der Slowakei (Übersehen, vergessen, stillgestellt? Zur Latenz kulturellen Erbes), more details here
March 14-17, 2024, Karina Hoření, Michal Korhel, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, 6th Congress on Polish Studies, more information here
June 7-8, 2023, Karina Hoření, Michal Korhel, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, poster Spaces That Unsettle. Visuality of Haunted Lanscapes in the Ethnographic Research in Post-Displacement Regions of Poland, Czechia and Slovakia (16th Congress of International Society for Ethnology and Folklore); more about poster you can find here
June 7-8, 2023, Karina Hoření, Ethnography of Things Left Behind. Unsettling Memories of Postwar Displacement in a Small Town in Czech Borderlands (16th Congress of International Society for Ethnology and Folklore); more information you can find here
June 5-6, 2023, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Coming Back Home? Narratives on the ‘Recovery’ in Post-Displacement Poland (UCL SSEES Polish Migration Conference, details regarding registration here), information about presentation here
June 1-3, 2023, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Sleeping German Soldier or a Virgin Mary? Recycling of the German Great War Memorials in Post-Displacement Slavic Central Europe (conference Commemoration and Heritage: First World War Memorials and Cemeteries, Kraków); details you can find here
February 9-10, 2023, Karina Hoření and Michal Korhel, Rozhovory s novousadlíkmi ako spôsob hľadania nemeckých „duchov“ v povojnovom Československu a Poľsku (conference Divided, Yet Together: Borders in Oral History Perspective, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave)
October 21, 2022, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Domy, kości i patery na ciasto. Nadawanie nowych znaczeń rzeczom zastanym na Pomorzu Środkowym (conference IV Zjazd Niemcoznawców, University of Wrocław); more information you can find here (including link to the recording in Polish)
October 13, 2022, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Memory-making and vampire hunting. Memorial strategies in Polish Recovered Territories after 1945 (conference Memory, Migration and Populism: Central and Eastern Europe’s post-imperial historical legacy and heritage, Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences)