Publications · 19 May 2014
Program of the 3rd Minsk Conference of the Political Sphere Institute “Wars in the Political and Cultural Tradition of Belarus and Other Countries of Central and Eastern Europe” (30-31 May)
The 3rd Minsk Conference of the Political Sphere Institute
“Wars in the Political and Cultural Tradition of Belarus
and Other Countries of Central and Eastern Europe”
(30-31 May 2014, Minsk, Belarus)
Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the final program has been prepared for the conference “Wars in the Political and Cultural Tradition of Belarus and the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe,” which will take place in Minsk on 30-31 May 2014.
The conference will include two public discussions: “The Battle of Orsha 500 Years Later: Features of National Interpretations” (30 May) and “The First World War, Nation Formation and the Emergence of States in Central and Eastern Europe” (31 May).
A detailed announcement of the public discussions will be posted later.
We invite you to attend the conference panels, which will take place in the building of the Embassy of Lithuania in Belarus (Minsk, 68 Zakharava Street). To register as a conference guest, please send the following information to [email protected] by 27 May: name, name in Latin characters (as in your passport), passport number. When attending the conference, you will need to bring your passport with you; this is a security requirement of the Embassy of Lithuania in Minsk.
Organizers and partners:
Political Sphere Institute (Belarus-Lithuania)
Institute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lithuania)
Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
Polish Institute in Minsk (Belarus)
Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Belarus (Belarus)
Lithuanian Institute of History (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Flying University (Belarus)
Belarusian Collegium (Minsk, Belarus)
PROGRAM (PDF)
First day of the conference. 30 May.
Venue: Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Belarus (68 Zakharava Street)
10.00-10.15. Opening of the conference. Speeches by the organizers.
10.15-12.00
Panel I. Wars, States, Nations
Aliaksandr Filiushkin (Russia). “Sites of memory” of the wars between Russia and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the sixteenth century
Rimantas Miknys (Lithuania). The First World War and the reconstruction of the statehood of historical Lithuania (Lithuania and Belarus) in the conception of Michał Römer
Andrzej Szpaciński (Poland). The cultural canon as an instrument of historical politics
Ales Smalianchuk (Belarus). 1939 in the oral history of Belarusians (based on materials from BAVG expeditions)
Andrei Kazakevich (Belarus). The politics of the Battle of Orsha: the history of commemorations in 1992-2013
12.00-12.15 Coffee break
12.15-14.00
Panel II. The Battle of Orsha and the Military History of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Questions of Historiography
Aliaksandr Kazakou (Belarus). Historiography of the Battle of Orsha of 1514: achievements and problems
Aleksei Lobin (Russia). The Battle of Orsha and stereotypes of recent historiography
Gediminas Lesmaitis (Lithuania). Problems of periodization in the military history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the XVI century
Aleh Dziarnovich (Belarus). The magic of numbers: methodological problems in estimating troop numbers in the sixteenth century (the Battle of Ula, 1564)
Aleksei Martyniuk (Belarus). Bernhard Pretwicz: a “German Cossack” on the steppe frontier of the Crown and the Duchy in the sixteenth century
Viktar Yakubau (Belarus). The formation of a mercenary army in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Aleh Eustratsieu (Belarus). The naval fleet of the Kingdom of Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the struggle for the Baltic (second half of the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries)
Filip Padbiarozkin (Belarus). Albert Krantz and Ivan the Terrible: the history of one message
14.30-15.30 – Lunch
15.30-18.00
Panel III. Military History of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Battle of Orsha in Cultural Tradition
Dangiras Mačiulis (Lithuania). Collective memory as a weapon: the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Soviet propaganda during the war between the USSR and Germany
Olena Rusina (Ukraine). The construction of historical memory in Ukraine: the case of the Battle of Blue Waters Andrei Yanushkevich (Belarus). What was the Livonian War for the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and what is it in the history of Belarus?
Zhanna Nekrashevich-Karotkaya (Belarus). The military and political history of Central and Eastern Europe in monuments of the Latin-language epic of the XVI century
Anton Saifullaev (Poland). The Glory of Orsha Is No Worse! Myths of the “military glory” of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the conception of Belarusian historiography in the first half of the twentieth century
Zaryna Kanapatskaya (Belarus). The participation of Tatars in political and military events of the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Dzmitry Shyla (Belarus). Defending co-religionists in another country as casus foederis and casus belli in Central and Eastern Europe in the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries
Aliaksandr Prudnikau (Belarus). The wars of the mid-seventeenth-eighteenth centuries and Catholic cities and towns in Belarus
Yuliya Sitkevich (Belarus). The wars of the first half of the sixteenth century in the history of relations between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Muscovite state in contemporary Belarusian historiography
Filip Nekrashevich (Belarus). Preserving the memory of the military traditions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the army of the Russian Empire
Malwina Kaladziejczak (Poland). The influence of the Constitution of 3 May on the creation of the current Constitution of 1997 in the field of security issues
19.00 – 21.00 Public discussion “The Battle of Orsha 500 Years Later: Features of National Interpretations” (Aleh Dziarnovich, Aleksei Lobin, Aliaksandr Kazakou, Olena Rusina)
Venue: CECH creative space (58 Nezavisimosti Avenue, building 6).
Second day of the conference. 31 May.
Venue: Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Belarus. (68 Zakharava Street)
10.00-10.10 – Presentation of the book “Balakhovtsy: Testimonies, Documents, Studies”.
10.10-11.30
Panel IV. The First World War and the Emergence of Nation-States
Joanna Gierowska-Kałłaur (Poland). Russian monarchists and the question of Belarusian statehood (1920-1921)
Andrei Charniakevich (Belarus). The Polish-Soviet War as a factor in the formation of Belarusian statehood (1918-1921)
Uladzimir Liakhouski (Belarus). The activity of the Polish Corps of Dowbor-Muśnicki in light of new historical sources
Ihar Melnikau (Belarus). The history of the creation and activity of the First Polish Corps under the command of J. Dowbor-Muśnicki on the territory of Belarus
Radzivon Popel (Belarus). “A point of support” or “Lithuanian occupation”: figures of the Ukrainian national movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on the incorporation of Ukrainian lands into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Konrad Topa (Poland). The Belarusian People’s Republic: doomed to defeat?
11.30-12.30.
Panel V. 1944 and the Second World War
Jan Szumski (Poland). The summer of 1944 in Western Belarus through the eyes of the top Soviet party-military elite
Svetlana Chervonnaya (Poland). The Second All-Belarusian Congress (June 1944): contrasts in historiographical interpretations
Ales Helahayeu (Belarus). Peasants, policemen, partisans: strategies of survival and struggle in 1941-1944 on the territory of Belarus
Grzegorz Klein (Poland). The Battle of Lenino in Polish historiography
12.30-12.45 – Coffee break
12.45-14.00
Panel VI. Wars in Historical Memory: Celebrations and Memorials
Aleksei Lastouski (Belarus). Celebrating Victory Day in contemporary Belarus: the magic and ideology of the holiday
Katarzyna Konczka (Poland). State holidays as carriers of memory: on the culture of celebration in Poland after 1989
Marek Wojnar (Poland). Estonians in the service of the Third Reich as a problem of Estonian historical memory
Pavel Vainitski (Belarus). War monuments and memorials: “ours” and “not ours”
Dagmara Moskwa, Piotr Szczepanik (Poland). Seventy years after “W Hour”. The Warsaw Uprising in Polish memory
Piotr Kłos, Robert Kabryński (Poland). At war, then and now. The Polish army in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
14.00-15.00 Lunch
15.00-17.00
Public discussion. “The First World War, Nation Formation and the Emergence of States in Central and Eastern Europe” (Ales Smalianchuk, Uladzimir Liakhouski, Rimantas Miknys, Joanna Gierowska-Kałłaur, Ales Pashkevich).
Venue: CECH creative space (58 Nezavisimosti Avenue, building 6).
List of participants:
Vainitski Pavel – Candidate of Art History, Belarusian National Technical University
Wojnar Marek – doctoral student, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Helahayeu Ales
Gierowska-Kałłaur Joanna – doctor, Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Dziarnovich Aleh – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Eustratsieu Aleh – postgraduate student, Republican Institute of Higher Education, Belarus
Kabryński Robert – Centre for Military Power Studies, Poland
Kazakevich Andrei – Doctor of Political Sciences, Political Sphere Institute (Belarus-Lithuania), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
Kazakou Aliaksandr – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Belarusian State University
Kaladziejczak Malwina – doctoral student, National Defence Academy in Warsaw, Poland
Kanapatskaya Zaryna – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Belarusian State University
Klein Grzegorz – doctoral student, National Defence Academy in Warsaw, Poland
Kłos Piotr – National Security Academy, Poland
Konczka Katarzyna – doctor, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Lastouski Aleksei – Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Political Sphere Institute (Belarus-Lithuania)
Lesmaitis Gediminas – doctor, Lithuanian Institute of History
Lobin Aleksei – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Palace of Congresses, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Liakhouski Uladzimir – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Belarusian State University
Martyniuk Aleksei – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Republican Institute of Higher Education, Belarus
Mačiulis Dangiras – doctor, Lithuanian Institute of History
Melnikau Ihar – Candidate of Historical Sciences, website “Historical Truth”, Belarus
Miknys Rimantas – doctor, Lithuanian Institute of History
Moskwa Dagmara – doctoral student, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Nekrashevich-Karotkaya Zhanna – Doctor of Philological Sciences, Belarusian State University
Nekrashevich Filip – postgraduate student, Belarusian State University, Belarus
Padbiarozkin Filip – doctoral student, Leipzig University, Germany
Pashkevich Ales – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Arche journal, Belarus
Popel Radzivon – postgraduate student, Republican Institute of Higher Education, Belarus
Prudnikau Aliaksandr – postgraduate student, Belarusian State University, Belarus
Rusina Olena – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of Ukrainian History, Ukraine
Saifullaev Anton – doctoral student, University of Warsaw, Poland
Sitkevich Yuliya – postgraduate student, Belarusian State University
Smalianchuk Ales – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Topa Konrad – doctoral student, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Filiushkin Aliaksandr – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Charniakevich Andrei – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Chervonnaya Svetlana – Doctor of Art History, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Szpaciński Andrzej – habilitated doctor, Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Szumski Jan – doctor, Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Szczepanik Piotr – doctoral student, University of Rzeszów, Poland
Shyla Dzmitry – postgraduate student, Minsk Theological Academy, Belarus
Yakubau Viktar – Candidate of Historical Sciences, Polotsk State University, Belarus
Yanushkevich Andrei – Candidate of Historical Sciences