Monday, 13 October 2014
9:30 am Jens Späth (Universität des Saarlandes)
Welcome and Introduction
Section I: Organizations and the Origins of Anti-Fascism
Chair: Jens Späth (Universität des Saarlandes)
10:00 am Kasper Braskén (Åbo Akademi University Turku/Freie Universität Berlin)
The Origins of ‘Anti-Fascism’: Transnational Movements against Nazism, Fascism and the ‘White Terror’ in Europe, 1923-1939
10:30 am Constance Margain (Université du Havre/ZZF Potsdam)
The International Union of Seamen and Harbor Workers (ISH) 1930 1937: Interclubs, Resistance against Nazism and Transnational Aspects
11:00 am Coffee Break
11:30 am Hugo García (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Transnational History, a New Anti-Fascist Paradigm?
12:00 am Debate
12:30 pm Lunch
Section II: The Cultural and Social Sphere
Chair: Hugo García (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
2:00 pm Silvia Madotto (Freie Universität Berlin)
Anti-Fascism as a Transnational Phenomenon: the Case of the Resistance at European Universities during the Second World War
2:30 pm Alexander Friedman (Universität Luxemburg)
Soviet Anti-Fascist Films of the 1930s and their reception in the USSR and abroad
3:00 pm Mechthild Gilzmer (Universität des Saarlandes)
Transnational Anti-Fascism in French Detention Camps for Women (1939-1942)
3:30 pm Debate
4:00 pm Coffee Break
6:00 pm Public Lecture/Öffentlicher Abendvortrag (in German)
Regula Ludi (Universität Zürich)
Antifaschismus und Opfersemantik im europäischen Entschädigungsdiskurs nach 1945
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Section III: Transatlantic Anti-Fascism
Chair: Birgit Metzger (Universität des Saarlandes)
9:00 am Andrea Acle-Kreysing (LMU München/Universität Leipzig)
Shattered Dreams of Anti-Fascist Unity: the German-Speaking Exile in Mexico, Argentina and Bolivia (1937-1945)
9:30 am Michael Seidman (University of North Carolina at Wilmington)
Atlantic Anti-Fascisms, 1936-1945
10:00 am Debate
10:30 am Coffee Break
Section IV: Questioning the Break of 1945: Anti-Fascism after the Second World War
Chair: Gabriele B. Clemens (Universität des Saarlandes)
11:00 am Enrico Acciai (Università degli Studi della Tuscia Viterbo/European University Institute Florence)
Italian Anti-Fascism as a Transnational Movement: a Biographical Approach
11:30 am Jens Späth (Universität des Saarlandes)
Transnational Anti-Fascism around 1945: the case of German Social Democrats
12:00 am Scott Krause (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Manhattan Made: The Anti-Fascist Roots of Heroic West Berlin’s Narrative in Exile, 1940-1963
12:30 pm Debate
1:00 pm Lunch
Section V: More Recent Forms of Anti-Fascism in East and West
1943-2000
Chair: Jens Späth (Universität des Saarlandes)
2:00 pm Martin Previšić (Sveučilište u Zagrebu)
‘Yugoslav’ Anti-Fascism – Driving Force of Balkan Anti-Fascism or Vehicle of Regional Dominance?
2:30 pm Nigel Copsey (Teesside University)
Crossing Borders: Anti-Fascist Action (UK) and Transnational Anti-Fascist Militancy
3:00 pm Debate and Conclusions