Venue: Villa Lanna, V sadech 1, Praha 6
Claire Zalc, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
Michal Frankl, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
Programme
November 19, 2019
9:30 – 10:00
Introduction
Claire ZALC (Paris) / Michal FRANKL (Prague)
10:00 – 11:20
Revocation – a companion of modern citizenship?
Chair: Rudolf KUČERA (Prague)
- Eric LOHR (Washington, DC): The Soviet Great Denaturalization in Historical Context
- Yaron JEAN (Beersheba): A System without Order: Travel Documents and Mass Statelessness in Europe after World War I
11:20 – 11:40
Coffee break
11:40-13:00
Categories of exclusion I
Chair: Ágnes KELEMEN (Prague/Budapest)
- Alina BOTHE (Berlin): “Staatenlos durch Ausbürgerung” – The de-naturalization of naturalized Jews with Eastern European heritage in Germany from 1933 onwards
- Claire ZALC (Paris): How to denaturalize Jews under the Vichy France (1940-1944)? The administrative routinization of everyday anti-Semitism
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 16:00
Categories of exclusion II
Chair: Věra HONUSKOVÁ (Prague)
- Elif BECAN (Paris): “Although he is of Christian religion…”. Deprivation of citizenship in post-Ottoman Turkey and the case of Sabri Mahir Bey
- Ion POPA (Manchester): Churches and the Revocation of Nationality for Jews: The Case of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Its Patriarch/Prime Minister Miron Cristea
- Maggie PAUL (Adelaide): Insecurization and the Citizenship regime: Politics of insecurity around Bangladeshi Migrants in India
16:00 – 16:20
Coffee break
16:20 – 17:40
(Dis)Loyalty and citizenship
Chair: Kateřina KRÁLOVÁ (Prague)
- Ibrahim KAYA (Istanbul): Denaturalization of ‘Escapees’ in Times of Coup D’Etat in Turkey
- Nikola KARASOVÁ (Prague): The Revocation of Greek Citizenship of Greek Civil War Refugees: The Case of Czechoslovakia
18:30
Dinner for speakers and chairs
November 20, 2019
9:30 – 10:50
Stateless trajectories 1
Chair: Thomas CHOPARD (Paris)
- Nathalie MOINE (Paris): Successful emigrant entrepreneurs, siblings’ trajectories and the impact of the denaturalization policy in Vichy France
- Vincent ARTUSO (Luxembourg), Jakub BRONEC (Luxembourg), Georges BÜCHLER (Luxembourg), Marc GLODEN (Luxembourg), Denis SCUTO (Luxembourg): Six Jewish stateless families between the millstones of the Luxembourg authorities
10:50 – 11:10
Coffee break
11:10 – 12:30
Stateless trajectories 2
Chair: Dieter HECHT (Vienna)
- Marie BOSSAERT (Rome): “I would like to get my true nationality – the Italian one – back”: applications for Italian citizenship and protection during the occupation of Istanbul (1919–1923)
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Sima VELKOVICH (Jerusalem): Polish citizenship as a way to freedom: changing personal story in the documents of Jewish refugees from the USSR right after WWII
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:30
Contesting denaturalization
Chair: Claire ZALC
- Ségolène PLYER (Strasbourg): Ascribing Czechoslovakian citizenship to ex-Wehrmacht soldiers? Practices regarding the repatriation of prisoners of war after 1945 at the Ministry of Interior in Prague
- Laure BLÉVIS (Paris): Nationality revocations and Immigrants judicial appeals in post WWII France
- Michal FRANKL (Prague): “Appalling moral blow.” Polish Jews appeal the 1938 revocation of citizenship
15:30 – 15:50
Coffee break
15:50 – 17:10
Colonial and post-colonial dimensions
Chair: Wolfgang SCHELLENBACHER
- Laura Maria FREY (Basel): Disputed Citizenship. Black families in Germany, 1918–1933
- Luan STAPHORST (Port Elizabeth): Between Revoking and Invoking Citizenship: the problematic intersection of Apartheid South Africa, Pass Laws and the Post-Colonial Condition
17:10 – 17:50
Conclusion and final discussion
The workshop is supported by the Czech Science Foundation, project “Citizens of the No Man’s Land”, no 18-16793S, and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) TREMPLIN project, no 18-ERC1-0003-01. It is organized in cooperation with the ERC Consolidator project Unlikely refuge? and the ERC Consolidator project LUBARTWORLD.
To participate, please register via email at bartakova@mua.cas.cz.
