The conference is devoted to an analysis of the long-term consequences of the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for communities living in the territories of the Russian, Habsburg and Prussian Empires. The 250th anniversary of the First Partition falls in 2022 and is an opportunity to reflect on the general reception and historic interpretation of the Partitions across the 19th century in order to reconstruct the diverse, non-linear and fragmented character of these transitions.
We understand the relationship between the imperial states, their representatives in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the populations inhabiting these areas, as a multi-vector configuration in which changes within one also affected the other, and not always to the same extent.

Für eine ausführliche Darlegung des Konzepts siehe den CfP für die Veranstaltung.

Programmflyer

22 JUNE 2022

18.00 Lelewel conversation: A new Europe? The partitions revisited
Moderation: Ruth Leiserowitz, Warszawa

Vadzim Anipiarkau, Warszawa
Christoph Augustynowicz, Wien
Agnieszka Pufelska, Lüneburg
Ramunė Šmigelskytė-Stukienė, Vilnus

23 JUNE 2022

9.00 The Aftermath of the Partitions
Moderation: Felix Ackermann, Warszawa

Markus Nesselrodt, Frankfurt/Oder
Visions of a city: Governing socio-cultural diversity in Prussian Warsaw (1796–1806)

Mikhail Demyanenko, St. Petersburg
Belarusian Armored Boyars: Social Group in the Eyes of Russian Imperial Institutions (1772 – 1806)

Ivo Cerman, České Budejovice
Abolishing Serfdom in Bohemia and Galicia. Comparison as an investigative method

Comment: Agnieszka Pufelska, Lüneburg

11.00 Coffee
 

11.30 Religious Communities in Flux
Moderation: Agnieszka Pufelska, Lüneburg

Barbara Skinner, Terre Haute
Confessional Interaction, Privilege, and Repression in the Lands of the Russian Partitions – Legacy or Reaction?

Aleksandra Oniszczuk, Warszawa
Prussian Conceptualisation of Jewish Policy and Its Career in a Napoleonic State

Alena Liubaja, Minsk
Inni ludzie wyznania muzułmańskiego: integracja tatarów z terenów dawnej Rzeczy Pospolitej do społeczeństawa dworianskiego w kontekście polityki wobec ludności muzulmanskiej Imperium Rosyjskiego

Comment: Darius Staliunas, Vilnius

13.30 Lunch break

14.30 Reading New Sources
Moderation: Maria Rhode, Göttingen

Tomasz Panecki / Jerzy Długosz, Warszawa
Secret mapping of the Kingdom of Poland. How did Austrian and German topographers surveyed Kielce and its surroundings at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries?

Wiesława Duży, Warszawa
Dividing territory. On administrative units in Polish territory in the 18th and 19th century

Felix Ackermann, Warszawa
Printed Instructions in 19th century Russian, Habsburg und Prussian prisons

Comment: Maciej Janowski, Warszawa, tbc

16.30 Coffee

17.00 Post-Colonial Encounters
Moderation: Agnieszka Pufelska

Elżbieta Kwiecińska, Warsaw
The concept of the German colonial ‘civilizing mission’ and legitimizing partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Roii Ball, Münster
Materializing Difference: Work, Racialization, and Spatial Organization in the Internal Colonization of Polish Prussia, 1890s-1920s

Maria Rhode, Göttingen
Between the Self and the Other. Poland in Prussian ethnogragraphic-anthropological discources

Comment: Markus Krzoska, Gießen

19.00 Dinner

24 JUNE 2022
9.30 Consequences of the partitions
Moderation: Felix Ackermann

Darius Staliunas, Vilnius
Why The Tsarist Russia Has Failed in Lithuania?

Grzegorz Krzywiec, Warszawa
How trans-national was the fate of the Greater Poland? Toward a new cultural and social history of the so called Prussian Poland. (ca.1871-1939)

Klemens Kaps, Linz
Impulses for territorializing economic circuits and state-building: Galician economists’ and politicians’ role in shaping interventionist and protectionist policies in the late Habsburg Empire (1870-1914)"

Comment: Dariusz Adamczyk, Warszawa

11.30 Round table: New perspectives for a long term perspective
Moderation: Felix Ackermann

Christoph Augustynowicz
Miloš Řezník
Maria Rhode

 

Die Konferenz ist eine Kooperation des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Warschau, des Nordost-Instituts (IKGN e. V.) Lüneburg, der Universität Göttingen und dem Institut für Litauische Geschichte Vilnius.

Kontakt: dhi@dhi.waw.pl

Kontakt am Nordost-Institut (IKGN e. V.): a.pufelska@ikgn.de