Datum konání:
19. 9. 2018, 15:00 - 20. 9. 2018, 18:00
Venue: Vila Lanna, V sadech 1, Praha 6, Czech Republic
Organisers: Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS; University of Salzburg
Wednesday, 19 September
15.00 Welcome by the Organisers
15.00–17.00 Panel 1: Varieties of Transition: From Soldiers to Veterans and Back
Chair: Rudolf Kučera (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Julia Walleczek-Fritz (University of Salzburg, Austria): Lost in Transition? Returning Austro-Hungarian soldiers in the border regions Carinthia and Styria, 1918–1920
- Tamás Révész (University of Vienna, Austria): “Ungrateful homelands and returning heroes”: Homecoming and remobilisation in Carinthia and Transylvania in 1918
- Václav Šmidrkal (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic): “There will be just one uniform in the next war”: Remobilization of veterans in 1930s Czechoslovakia
17.00–17.30 Coffee Break
17.30–19.00 Keynote Lecture
- Natali Stegmann (University of Regensburg, Germany): Who is a Veteran? Negotiating War Experiences, Status and Significance in East-Central European Post-War Societies
19.00 Conference Dinner
Thursday, 20 September
9.00 – 11.00 Panel 2: Political Communication in Transnational Spaces
Chair: Laurence Cole (University of Salzburg, Austria)
- Ángel Alcalde (Shanghai University, China): War experience across borders: Veterans as political tourists and go-betweens in interwar Europe
- Marcin Jarząbek (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland): War veterans in the Cieszyn Silesia between local and national politics
- Hannes Leidinger (University of Salzburg, Austria): A psychohistory of veterans: Fundamental considerations
11.00–11.30 Coffee break
11.30–13.30 Panel 3: Claims on Citizenship: Veteran’s Rights and Civil Society
Chair: Radka Šustrová (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Adam Lupták (University of Oxford, UK): Disabled Ex-servicemen of the Great War as Czechoslovak citizens: Veterans’ rights in the multi-ethnic republic
- Ke-Chin Hsia (Indiana University Bloomington, USA): What difference does 1918 make? Disabled veterans in late imperial and early republican Austria
- Martina Salvante (University of Warwick, UK): Victims or heroes, defeated or winners, forgotten or remembered? Disabled veterans in post-World War I Italy
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 – 16.30 Panel 4: Narrating War Experiences
Chair: Verena Moritz (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Karen Bähr (University of Erfurt, Germany): Fighting together, losing alone? Homecomer Narratives in Germany and Austria in the Interwar Period
- Jiří Hutečka (University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic): Czechoslovak “frontline soldiers” interpret the Great War
- John Paul Newman (National University of Ireland Maynooth): Honour for honour? Czechoslovak legionaries, Yugoslav volunteers, and victorious entanglements in “New Europe”
16.30–17.00 Coffee break
17.00 – 18.00: Roundtable discussion
Chair: Laurence Cole
Discussants: Natali Stegmann, Ángel Alcalde, Ke-chin Hsia
