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All day	Conference: Local Administration during the First and Second World Wars


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8. 9. 2021 to 10. 9. 2021
Conference: Local Administration during the First and Second World Wars
Conference: Local Administration during the First and Second World Wars

Conference: Local Administration during the First and Second World Wars

Datum konání:
8. 9. 2021, 13:00 to 10. 9. 2021, 14:30
Venue: Vila Lanna, V sadech 1, Prague

Organization: Jan Vondráček (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS, Prague)

The type of rational, legal administrative staff is capable of application in all kinds of situations and contexts. It is the most important mechanism for the administration of everyday affairs. For in that sphere, the exercise of authority consists precisely in administration.

Max Weber

Local administration has always played a key role in securing, implementing and stabilizing the authority of the modern state. After the outbreak of the First World War, the warring countries were confronted with a difficult supply situation, including famine, disease, refugees and labor shortages. The clerks of the local administration were responsible for implementing new policies and solving problems. They were the ones in direct contact with local populations which were often multi-ethnic and presented a broad variety of needs.

In many cases, local administrations were reorganized to deal with vast and unprecedented tasks and problems. In other cases, the German Empire and Austria-Hungary established military occupation administrations which depended on existing local administration, for example in Belgium, Serbia and Ukraine.

Not only military defeat but also the failure of overtaxed local administrations to solve substantial problems such as obtaining sufficient food supplies for the population led to revolts in the German Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy.

This drastic experience prompted Nazi Germany in particular to undertake a reorganization of local administration shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. Even after large parts of Europe were under German occupation, local administrations remained largely responsible for the daily life needs of local populations, such as organizing production, distribution and rationing of food and other basic goods, such as heating fuel and clothing. Since state food allotments were often insufficient to meet basic needs, local populations reacted with the development of a variety of illegal practices. Farmers evaded compulsory levies of food and sold undocumented, illegally butchered meat. Hidden stores of products, food and ration stamps were traded for other goods as part of a comprehensive black market. Although nominally supervised by German occupiers, the actual prosecution of these new economic crimes generally fell in the responsibility of local administrations and courts. Local courts continued to hear non-political cases and disputes within local populations as well.

Recent research in Holocaust Studies have showed that local administrations not only played an important role in making the mass murder of the European Jews possible, but that it was often local administrations that took the initiative.

This conference aims to bring together scholars who work on specific aspects of local administration in the First World War and the Second World War and analyze and compare a diversity of methodologies, findings and approaches.

Programme

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

13:00 Welcome (Rudolf Kučera and Jan Vondráček)

13:30-14:00 Break

14:00-15:30 Panel 1: World War I Western Europe

Solène Amice (Paris), ONLINE: French Local Administrations and Cultural Heritage Preservation Policy in First World War

Elisabeth Wingerter (Luxembourg): National Justice vs. Occupiers’ Justice? A conflict of competence in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg during World War I

Jan Naert (Gent), ONLINE: The role of the Belgian and French Mayoralty in occupied Belgium and Northern France during the First World War

Commentator: Ota Konrád (Prague)

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-17:30 Panel 2: World War I Central and Eastern Europe

Serhiy Choliy (Kyiv), ONLINE: The Habsburg administration of Galicia under the Russian occupation 1914-1917

Petra Svoljšak (Ljubljana), ONLINE: The Italian occupation of the Slovenian territory during the First World War

Kathryn E. Densford (Elizabethtown), ONLINE: Provisioning and Requisition in the Provinces of Lower Austria and Moravia during the First World War

Commentator: Rudolf Kučera (Prague)

17:30-18:00 Break

18:00 Keynote by Jonathan Gumz (Birmingham)

19:00 Dinner

Thursday, September 9, 2021

09:00-10:30 Panel 3: Between Two World Wars

Jelena Kasap and Višnja Lachner (Osijek): Legal and social position of the city of Osijek at the time of 6th January Dictatorship (1929-1931)

Alena Mikulášová and Miroslav Palárik (Nitra), ONLINE: Liquidation of Political Plurality and Democratic Elements in the Administration during the period of Slovak Autonomy (October 6, 1938 - March 13, 1939): example of town Nitra

Commentator: Felix Steffan (Munich), ONLINE

10:30-11:00 Break

World War II

11:00-12:30 Panel 4 The Greater German Reich

Ernst Langthaler (Linz): Ordering Chaos: Village Authorities between State Control, Food Market and Rural Community in Nazi Germany, 1939–1945

Felix Steffan (Munich), ONLINE: Stabilization through aesthetic conformity? The reorganization of local administrations in the Third Reich and its impact on cultural matters

Bernhard Gotto (Munich), ONLINE: Properly managed to the downfall? The Augsburg City Administration during the First and Second World Wars

Commentator: Therese Garstenauer

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Panel 5 Occupation of Poland I: The City of Warsaw

Judith Vöcker (Leicester): German courts and the German jurisdiction in Nazi occupied Warsaw (1939-1945)

Michał Palacz, (Oxford), ONLINE: Local public health administration during the typhus epidemic in German-occupied Warsaw, 1939-1940

Commentator: Frank Grelka (Frankfurt Oder)

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-17:30 Panel 6 The Western Soviet Union and Transcarpathia

Leonid Rein (Jerusalem), ONLINE: In the Eye of the Hurricane: Local Administration amid Partisan Warfare in Nazi-occupied Belarus

Liviu Carare (Washington DC), ONLINE: Regional and Local Dynamics of Administration and Power in Bukovina, 1941-1942

Aleksandra Pomiecko (Washington DC), ONLINE: Administrators, Agents, and Enablers: Belarusian-Polish Relations in Belarus, 1941 – 1944

Pavlo Khudish (Uzhhorod): Local Administration and the Jews in the Aftermath of the Holocaust in Transcarpathia

Commentator: Ville Kivimäki (Tampere), ONLINE

17:30-18:00 Break

18:00 Keynote Dieter Pohl (Klagenfurt)

19:00 Dinner

Friday, September 10, 2021

09:00-10:30 Panel 7 Occupation of Poland II: General Government

Frank Grelka (Frankfurt Oder): Jewish administration of Useless Work in the General Government, 1939-1941

Hubert Mielnik (Lublin), ONLINE: The Polish (non-German) judiciary in the General Government during the Second World War

Commentator: Judith Vöcker (Leicester)

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Panel 8 Occupied Netherlands, Austria and Finland

Peter Romijn (Amsterdam), ONLINE: Local administration as an arena for the politics of occupation: the Dutch case (1940-1945) as an example

Jan Julia Zurné (Nijmegen), ONLINE: Local courts and bicycle theft in the Netherlands 1940-1944

Therese Garstenauer (Vienna): Austrian local administration after the “Anschluss“ and into the war years

Ville Kivimäki (Tampere), ONLINE: Local Authorities and the Implementation of Social Policies in Wartime Finland. The Case of Southern Karelia, 1939–45 and after.

Commentator: Ernst Langthaler (Linz)

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Final Discussion

Dr. phil. Jan Vondráček | Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences (cas.cz)

Programme (PDF)

Call for Papers (PDF)
25. 10. 2021 to 26. 10. 2021
Workshop: Pro les nevidíme stromy?
Workshop: Pro les nevidíme stromy?

Workshop: Pro les nevidíme stromy?

Datum konání:
25. 10. 2021, 0:00 to 26. 10. 2021, 0:00
Místo konání:

Vila Lanna, V Sadech 1, 160 00, Praha 6 – Bubeneč (workshop, 25.10. 2021)

CHKO Křivoklátsko (exkurze, 26. 10. 2021)

Organizují:

Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.

Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v. v. i.

Botanický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.

Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.

Program

9:00–9:30 Prezence účastníků workshopu

9:30–9:45 Zahájení workshopu

I. blok – Stromy

10:00 – 10:20 PhDr. Lucie Rychnová, Ph.D. (VŠCHT): Strom v odborných příručkách, traktátech a myšlení člověka raného novověku 

10:20–10:40 RNDr. Jaroslav Michálek (Muzeum Sokolov): Staré stromy v novém lese aneb svědecké stromy zaniklých sídel v západním pohraničí 

10:40–11:00 Diskuse

11:00–11:30 Přestávka na kávu

11:30–11:50 Mgr. Jindřich Prach (Centrum pro teoretická studia UK, Katedra botaniky PřF UK, AOPK ČR): Nejmohutnější stromy středních Čech – proč nejsou chráněné jako památné?

11:50–12:10 RNDr. Pavel Šebek, Ph.D. (Entomologický ústav, Biologické centrum AV ČR) a Mgr. Lukáš Čížek, Ph.D. (Entomologický ústav, Biologické centrum AV ČR): Ořezávané stromy - zapomenuté dědictví

12:10–12:30 Diskuse

12:30–14:00 Oběd

II. blok – Stromy

14:00–14:20 Ing. Aleš Rudl (Národní památkový ústav): Dřeviny zámeckých parků a zahrad jako indikátory změny klimatu 

14:20–14:40 PhDr. Jana Stachová, Ph.D. (Sociologický ústav AV ČR) a PhDr. Daniel Čermák, Ph.D. (Sociologický ústav AV ČR): Bydlí tu s námi stromy? Postoje české veřejnosti ke stromům v době klimatické krize 

14:40–15:00 Diskuse

15:00–15:30 Přestávka na kávu

III. blok – Les

15:30–15:50 Dr. Pavla Šimková (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Mnichov): Srovnání péče o lesy na Šumavě a v  Bavorském lese 

15:50–16:10 Mgr. Péter Szabó, Ph.D. (Botanický ústav AV ČR): „Solchen Orkanen gleich denen des Jahres 1868 widersteht Nichts.“ Velké vichřice v 19. století a jejich vliv na lesy a lesnictví

16:10–16:30 doc. Ing. Tomáš Vrška, Dr. (Mendelova univerzita v Brně, Školní lesní podnik Křtiny): Dilema tzv. přestárlých porostů aneb ostrovní biogeografie v lesnické praxi 

16:30–17:00 Diskuse

17:15–17:45 Hudební vystoupení: Antonín Dvořák, Klid lesa, koncert pro violoncello (violoncello a klavír)

Závěrečná diskuse a neformální pokračování workshopu

Registrace na workshop i exkurzi na emailu: petr.petrik@ibot.cas.cz

Tisk (PDF)

Address

Masarykův ústav a Archiv AV ČR, v. v. i.

Gabčíkova 2362/10
Praha 8
182 00
Czech Republic

tel: +420 286 010 110
e-mail: mua@mua.cas.cz

Registration number: 67985921

VAT ID: CZ67985921

IBAN: CZ48 5500 0000 0076 5427 0028

BIC/SWIFT: RZBCCZPP

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Thursday, 9. September 2021

8. 9. 2021 to 10. 9. 2021

Conference: Local Administration during the First and Second World Wars

Programme

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Thursday, September 9, 2021

World War II

Friday, September 10, 2021

25. 10. 2021 to 26. 10. 2021

Workshop: Pro les nevidíme stromy?

Program

I. blok – Stromy

II. blok – Stromy

III. blok – Les