Dr Tomasz Kamusella List of Invited and Conference Lectures
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Dr Tomasz Kamusella List of Invited and Conference Lectures
Dr Tomasz Kamusella List of Invited and Conference Lectures INVITED LECTURES 5 FEB 2012 The Politics of Identity and Script in Modern Europe: From Many to Few, European Studies Lecture Series, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. 3 AUG 2011 Language and Borders in the Balkans, Second GCOE Summer School Program “Eurasia Border Review: From Northeast Asia to Middle East,” Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. 15 JUL 2011 The Silesian Language Today: History and Development, Prof M Nomachi’s Course in the History of the Slavic Languages, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. 9 JUL 2011 Langauge and Nationalism in the History of Modern Central Europe, Inaugural Seminar, Project ‘Language and Society in Modern and Contemporary European History,’ financed by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, held at Ayoma Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. 8 JUL 2011 The Cultural and Social History of the Silesian Language, Inaugural Seminar, Project ‘Language and Society in Modern and Contemporary European History,’ financed by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, held at Ayoma Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. 13 APR 2010 The Politics of Language in Modern Central Europe, Department of European Studies, Cracow university of Economics, Cracow, Poland. 4 FEB 2010 Languages, Scripts and Politics in Modern Central Europe, Research Seminar, School of Linguistics, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 19 DEC 2009 The Changing Lattice of Languages, Borders and Identities in Silesia, Start-up Conference, Global Center of Excellence Program, Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. 16 DEC 2009 Upper Silesia, Borders and Languages in the Twentieth Century, Japan Society of West Slavic Studies, Tokyo, Japan. 10 DEC 2009 Language and Politics in Postcommunist Europe, Eastern Europe after 1989: The 7th Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium, Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 5 NOV 2009 A Steel Hand in a Kid Glove: Language in Modern Central Europe, Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 17 OCT 2009 What We Know and What We Do Not Know on Germanization and Russification on the Partitioned Lands of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 19th c, POSK’s Evening of History, Polish House, POSK, Dublin, Ireland. 13 JUL 2009 How to Enrich the Silesian Language, Conference on the Regional Language of Silesia, MP Office of Marek Plura and the Regional Authority of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. 1 6 MAY 2009 A Remark on the Questions on One’s Nationality/Ethnicity and Language to be Included in the Polish 2011 Census, Workshop on the Ethnic Questions in the Polish 2011 Census, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Warsaw. 2 – 4 APR 2009 Plenary lecture Classifying the Slavic Languages, or Politics of Classification?, Conference on Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography, Historical Sociolinguistics Network (supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. 13 FEB 2009 The Malleability of Ethnicity in Poland’s Upper Silesia: From One Language to Three Identities, MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies Program in association with the Migrant Networks Project (Trinity Immigration Initiative), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 9 FEB 2009 Politics and the Malleability of Identity: The Dynamics of Ethnic Cleansing of the Population Categorized as ‘Germans’ in Poland, 1948-1991, International Politics and Ethnic Conflict Seminar, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. 6 FEB 2009 The Rise of Linguistics Nation-States in Europe in the Twentieth Centure: language and Statehood Legitimization, Research Seminar in Modern European History, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 29 JAN 2009 The Practical and Financial Aspects of Literary Translation, and Court and Free Lance Translation and Interpretation, MPhil in Literary Translation Program, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 20 NOV 2008 Stalinism in Poland, Center for European Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. 13 – 14 NOV 2008 Commemorating Amnesia: The Case of the Generalized 60 th Anniversaries of Almost Everything in Poland’s Region of Opole in 2005, Conference Does the Past Matter? Renegotiating the Past, Communal Identity, and Multicultural Europe, Moor Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. 22 OCT 2008 The Fall of Communism in Poland in 1989, Conference 1989! Twenty Years Since: Eyewitnesses and Scholars on the Velvet Revolutions and the European Idea, Centre for the Study of Wider Europe, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. 3 – 4 OCTOBER 2008 Keynote speech Immigrants, Migrants, or New Irish?, Interdisciplinary Conference Irish-Polish Encounters in the Old and New Europe, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. 11 – 13 SEPT 2008 Regional Policy and Multilingualism in Central Europe, Conference Language Policy and the Regions in Europe, Partnership for Diversity Conference Series, organized in Gdańsk, Poland by the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages (Dublin, Ireland), the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association (Gdańsk, Poland), and the Marshal’s Office of the Pomeranian Voivodeship (Gdańsk, Poland). 30 JUN 2008 Keynote speech Is Silesian a Language? A Sociolinguistic View, Conference on Silesian: Is It Still a Dialect or Already a Language?, organized in Katowice, Poland by the Regional Authory of the Region of Silesia and the Institute of Polish Language and Culture, University of Silesia, Katowice. 18 FEB 2008 Linguists and Politicians: The Isomorphism of Language, Nation and State in Central and Eastern Europe, Research Seminar, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. 2 31 JAN 2008 Upper Silesia: From the Age of Multiethnic Empires to the Era of Nation-States, Department of History, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. 6 SEPT 2007 The Rhetoric and Reality of Minority Rights Protection in Poland’s Upper Silesia After 1989 (in Polish), 9th Annual International Summer School ‘National Minorities in Europe: Today and Tomorrow,’ organized in Opole, Poland, Berlin and Strasbourg by the European House and the Regional Self-Governmental Authority in Opole, Poland, and the Centre international de formation européenne, Nice. 10 APR 2007 The Origins and Dynamics of Multiculturalism in the Polish Region of Upper Silesia, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. 29 MAR 2007 Ethnic and National Groups in Silesia in the Past and Today (in Polish), Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. 22 FEB 2007 On the Significance of the Nonnational in the Age of Nationalisms (in Polish), Doctoral Seminar in 20th-Century History, Institute of History, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. 1 FEB 2006 Imagination and Politics in the Classification of the Slavic Languages, Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. 6 JAN 2006 The Normative Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State: The Case of Central Europe, 120th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, theme: ‘Nations, Nationalism, and National Histories,’ Philadelphia PA, US. 14 SEPT 2005 Politics, Nationalism, and Imagination in the Classification of the Slavic Languages, Institute of Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria 3 JUN 2004 The Concept of ‘a Language’: Philologists in the Service of Politics, John W Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington DC, US. 3 MAY 2004 Poland on Its Way to the European Union: Advantages, Discontents and Away from Central to Western Europe, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, US. 21 APR 2004 Polish or Silesian?: Upper Silesia in Contemporary Europe. A Challenge for the EU?, Polish Studies Program, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain CT, US 11 FEB 2004 European Integration as Seen from the Perspective of a Polish Region: An Insider’s View, Polish Table, European Reading Room, Library of Congress, Washington DC, US 28 AUG – 11 SEPT 2003 Series of lectures on the theory of nationalism and nationalism in the enlarged European Union, International Summer School on Enlargement and Deepening of the European Union and European Security, Regional Authority, Opole, Poland, and NATO and the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium and Berlin, Germany. 28 JUL – 10 AUG 2003 Series of lectures on the theory of nationalism and nationalism in the post-Soviet and postcommunist states, HESP Regional Summer School for Excellence in Teaching on Developing Teaching and Academic Excellence in Political Science, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia. 7 MAR 2003 Keynote address On the Similarity Between the Concepts of Nation and Language: A View from Central Europe, which commenced the second Graduate Students Conference on Building Bridges and Putting Up Walls, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 3 5 MAR 2003 The Szlonzoks: Who Are They?, Center for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 30 JUL – 25 AUG 2002 Series of lectures on nationalism, language and ethnicity (in Russian), Summer School on Ethnonationalism, Sociological Research Organization TAMISS and the Technical University, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. 29 JAN 2002 How European Are European Studies? An Insider’s View, workshop Teaching European Studies, organized in Odesa, Ukraine, by the Center for International Studies, Institute of Social Sciences, Odesa National University and the Civic Education Project, Budapest, Hungary/New Haven, NJ, US. 20 OCT 2001 Should the European Union Establish Its Own Military Forces Independent of NATO? (in Polish), EU Debate: Pros and Cons, House of Polish-German Cooperation, Gliwice, Poland. 16 JUN – 1 JUL 2001 Series of lectures on language, nationalism, and power, Summer Sociology Summer School in Civic Education and Public Orientation, organized by the Open Society Institute-Tajikistan and the Tajikistan Institute of Management in Kayrakkum near Khujand, Tajikistan. 6 MAR 2000 European Integration at the Regional Level as Exemplified by the Case of Opole Silesia, guest lectures series, organized by the Civic Education Project, New York, USA, at the Department of Economics, University of Opole, Opole, Poland. 12 MAR 1999 EU Citizenship of Different Standards in Upper Silesia, guest lectures series (Dis)Integrating Europe, organized by the Civic Education Project, New York, USA, at the Department of Economics, Wrocław University, Wrocław, Poland. 14 – 18 FEB 1997 Series of lectures on history and practice of European integration with the focus on the Polish-EU relationship for civil servants, Regional Authority, Opole, Poland. 9 DEC 1994 European Integration and Entrepreneurship in Postcommunist Central Europe, Opole Business Center Club meeting, Górażdże Cement Works, Górażdże, Poland. 19 AUG 1991 The ideology of communism as contextualized against the background of the post-apartheid situation in South Africa and the post-communist developments in Central and Eastern Europe, The Natal Technikon, Durban, South Africa. 15 MAY & 17 JUL 1991 The Reality of the Communist System in the Soviet Bloc, Department of English, University of Potchefstroom, Potchefstroom, South Africa. PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, STUDY VISITS (LECTURES DELVERED MARKED IN BOLD) 20 OCT 20111 Scripts and Politics in Modern Central Europe, Symposium on Language and Identity, Coimbra Group of Universities, Graduate School of Linguistics, Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. 12 MAR 2011 Minority Rights a la Carte? Poland and the Silesians, conference From Norm Adoption to Norm Implementation: Minority and Human Rights Revisited, European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany. 10 – 11 DEC 2010 Migration or Immigration?: The Polish-Language Community in Ireland After 2004, Conference on Slavic Languages in Migration, Institut für Slavistik, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 4 SEPT 2009 Expert Opinion, Conference on the Project ‘Sociological Research on Poland’s German Minority,’ House of Polish-German Cooperation, Opole, Poland; coorganized by Tokai University, Sapporo, Japan and Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. 4 28 NOV 2008 On the invitation of Ambassador Borys Bazylevskyi, participated in the round table on the Holodomor (‘Hunger Plague’) in Ukraine, 1932-1933, Embassy of Ukraine, Dublin, Ireland. 25 – 27 SEPT 2008 School Atlases of History and Ethnolinguistic Nationalism, Interdisciplinary Conference on the World and Times of Maps: Mapping Eastern Europe, 2 nd Conference of the Forum Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa (FOSE), Schweizerische Osteuropabibliothek, Bern, Switzerland. 30 – 31 MAY 2008 Between Ethnic Cleansing and Emigration: Aussiedlers Leaving Poland’s Upper Silesia for Germany, 1950-1991, Annual Symposium of the Society for Exile Research, Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. 23 MAY 2008 Conference Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland. 9 – 10 MAY 2008 Central and Eastern European Studies Annual Conference 70 Years After: The Impact of Munich 1938 on Central and Eastern Europe, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 26-27 OCT 2007 Multilingualism and Language Use in the Urban Areas of Upper Silesia during the 19th and 20th Centuries, Conference: Lieux communs de la multiculturalité dans les villes centre-européennes (fin XIXe siècle-début XXIe siècle), CIRCE (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Centre-Européennes), Université Paris IV Sorbonne, Paris, France. 12 – 14 SEPT 2007 The Silesians Do Not Exist: The Official ‘Non-Existence of Contemporary Poland’s Demographically Largest National Minority (in Polish), 13th Polish Sociological Congress, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland. 21 – 24 JUN 2007 Nationalisms and the Changing Perceptions of Silesian During the 19 th and 20th Centuries, Conference National ‘Languages’ through Historians’ Eyes, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania. 7 – 10 JUN 2007 Poland: The Reluctant Shift from a Closed Ethnolinguistically Homogenous National Community to a Multicultural Open Society, Conference Dynamics of National Identity and Transnational Identities in the Process of European Integration, organized within the framework of the Jean Monnet Action – Support for Study and Research Centres 2006 (program of the European Commission), by the Balkan Ethnology Department of Ethnographic Institute and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. 17 NOV 2006 (by a proxy reader) The Political Expediency of Language-Making in Central Europe: The Case of Czechoslovak, Panel: Negotiating Languages: The Struggle with Linguistic and Cultural Boundaries in Modern Central Europe, 38 th National Convention of the AAASS, Washington DC, US. 19 JUN 2006 Conference Minorities in Europe: The Practical Application of the Act on National and Ethnic Minorities, and the Regional Language in Poland, organized by the European House at the University of Opole, Opole, Poland. 10 JUN 2005 Conference The Dynamics of the Silesian Identity, organized in Katowice, Poland by the Conference of the Rectors of the Silesian Universities 2 FEB 2005 Unease of the Past: The International Treaties and Imagining of Poland’s Post1945 Western Border. Conference on Border Changes in 20th-Century Europe, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. 14 – 16 OCT 2004 Conference on Imagining Upper Silesia: Myths, Symbols and Heroes in the National Discourses, organized in Kamien Slaski, Poland by the Instytut Slaski, Opole, POLAND and the Herder-Institut, Marburg, Germany. 5 17 JUN 2003 The Concepts of Nation and Language, UNESCO Conference on Intercultural Education, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. 10 DEC 2002 The Expulsion of the Population Categorized as ‘Germans’ from the post-1945 Poland, conference The Expulsion of the German-Speaking Population from Eastern Europe 1944-1948, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. 23 OCT 2002 The Everyday Communication and Language in Historical Upper During the 19th and 20th Centuries, conference Stereotypes and Social Communication: Mutual Perceptions and Contact in Cultural Borderlands of East Central Europe During the 19th and 20th cc., German Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland. 9 – 11 MAY 2002 Conference on The Research Support Scheme 1990-2002: Promoting Innovative Research in Post-Socialist Countries. Achievements and Lessons for the Future, organized at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary by the Research Support Scheme, Prague, Czech Rep. 14 MAR 2002 Which Common Values for the European Union? State, conference A Decade of Change: Reflections Languages, Literatures and Cultures, organized in Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies, Campus. 23 NOV 2001 Is Poland an Immigration State? (in Polish), conference Refugees and Immigrants in Europe at the Turn of the 20th and 21st cc., organized in Poznań, Poland by the Unit for the Study of Nationalities, Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Political Sciences and Journalism, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. 18 – 20 NOV 2001 21st meeting of the Intergovernmental Polish-German Committee on Transborder and Regional Cooperation, Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland. 1 OCT 2001 What Can We Learn from the Process of European Integration? (in Polish), 6th International Silesian Seminar, organized by the Opole Diocese at Kamien Slaski near Opole, Poland. 9 JUN 2001 The Szlonzokian Ethnolect in the Context of German and Polish Nationalisms, workshop Minority Languages in Europe: Frameworks – Status – Prospects organized by the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, FRANCE at the University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom. 28 APR 2001 Nation-Building and the Linguistic Situation in Upper Silesia, conference Europe 1000-2000: A Thousand Years of civitas, communitas et universitas, European Cultural Foundation and Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. 27 FEB 2001 Poland in 1945-1999: The Transition from the Soviet Dominated Ethnic NationState to Democratic Civic Nation-State, seminar Review of Iran-Russian Relations: Russian Politico-Social Developments in the Last Century organized by the Institute for Political and International Studies and the Center for Documents and Diplomatic History (institutions affiliated with the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) at Tehran, Iran. 22 NOV 2000 A Reflection on EU Enlargement in the Age of Globalization: A View from a Candidate State, conference The Year 2000: Designing a New European Regional Policy: Enlargement, Globalisation and New Forms of Governance, organized by the Committee of the EU Regions and the Autonomous Government of Valencia in Valencia, Spain. 17 NOV 2000 Ethnic Cleansing in Upper Silesia, 1944-1951, conference on Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe, Dusquesne University, Pittsburgh NJ, US. 6 A View from a Candidate in Slavonic and Hungarian New Delhi, India by the University of Delhi, South 28 OCT 2000 Language and Construction of Identity in Upper Silesia During the Long 19th c., conference on Die Nation und ihre Grenzen: Indentitätenwandel in Oberschlesien in der Neuzeit organized by the Herder-Institut in Marburg, Germany. 22 AUG 2000 The Role of the Region and the Challenges It Faces in the Integration Process: Regionalism in Poland, 2nd International Summer School on Nations and Regions in the Process of European Integration. European Security, organized in Otmuchow, Poland by the Marshal’s Office of the Opole Voivodeship; the House of PolishGerman Cooperation, Gliwice; CIFE, Nice, France; and NATO, Brussels, Belgium. 10 AUG 2000 The Status of Ethnic Minorities in Poland During the Years 1989-2000: An Example of the Upper Silesian ethnic Minority, Summer School in Political Science, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia. 27 MAY 2000 Place-Names and Objectivity in Historiography: The Case of Silesia in the 19 th and 20th cc., conference on Writing and Rewriting History at the Turn of the Centuries: The State of the Discipline in Central and Eastern Europe, organized by the Civic Education Project, New York, US at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. 16 – 22 APR 2000 Chapter conference of the Polish, Baltic, Belarusian and Moldovan branches of the Civic Education Project organized in Vilnius and Nida, Lithuania. 11 DEC 1999 Theory and Practice of the Administrative-cum-Territorial Reform in Poland, international student conference on Theory and Practice of the Administrative Reform in Poland, organized by the Civic Education Project, New York, US & the Regional Authority of the Region of Opole, Opole, Poland. 27 OCT 1999 ‘You Must Be Either a German or Pole’: The Policy of Ennationalization and the Rhetoric of Multiculturalism in Upper Silesia After 1989, conference on Multiculturality: Between Theory and Practice, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University & Unit for the Study of Nationalities, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland. 21 OCT 1999 The Basics of European Integration, lecture for the civil servants of the Governmental Regional Authority of the Region of Opole, Pokrzywna, Poland. 7 OCT 1999 Language as an Instrument of Nationalism in Central Europe, conference on Modern Nationalism and National Identification in Central and Eastern Europe organized by the Silesian Institute, Opole and Haus der Deutsch-Polnischen Zusammenarbeit, Gliwice in Gliwice, Poland. 15 – 18 SEPT 1999 16th Convention of Polish Historians, organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław, Poland. 10 SEPT 1999 Poland: Just to be in Nato?, conference on the 50th Anniversary of Nato, University of Kansas, Kansas, US. 18 JUL 1999 The Others in Skopje: The Ethnic Division of the City, Skopje Summer School on The Image of the Other. Skopje, Macedonia. 29 MAY 1999 A Report on the State of Social Sciences in Poland, Second Eastern Scholar Round Table organized by the Civic Education Project, Budapest, Hungary and New Haven, US at the University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine. 7 MAY 1999 The Deictic Aspect of the Ideology of Nationalism as a Factor Contributing to the Creation of the Other, conference Creating the Other: The Causes and Dynamics of Nationalism, Ethnic Enmity and Racism in Central and Eastern Europe, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, US. 7 8 FEB 1999 Seminar on the Instrument for Structural Policies for Pre-Accession and on the Cohesion Fund organized by the Cohesion Fund, European Union and the Office of the Committee of European Integration, Warsaw, Poland at the Ministry of Environment Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry, Warsaw, Poland. 23 SEPT 1998 Poland's National Minorities and the Process of European Integration as Exemplified by the Case of the German Minority, symposium of the alumni of the American European Summer Academy, organized by the CIFE, Nice in Kliengenthal, Alsace, France. 22 MAY 1998 The Emergence of National and Ethnic Groups in Silesia 1848-1918, conference on History of Silesia in the 16th-19th cc. in the Light of Research Conducted by Young Historians from Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany organized by the Historical Institute, Wrocław University, Wrocław, Poland and the Herder-Institut, Marburg, Germany in Krzyzowa, Poland. 14 JAN 1998 The Upper Silesian Creole, Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau, Warsaw, Poland. 18 – 19 NOV 1997 International conference on Protection of National Minorities in Central Europe: Law and Practice After 1989, organized by the Center of International Affairs, Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, Poland. 22 – 25 MAY 1997 International conference on the Process of Assimilation and Acculturation in the Polish-German Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries, organized by the Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau in Rydzyna near Poznań, Poland. 9 – 11 OCT 1996 International conference on the Phenomenon of Modern Nationalism in Central Europe organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Freie Universität Berlin in Gliwice, Poland. 12 SEPT 1996 The Current Situation of Poland's German Minority, seminar on The European Union and the Mediterranean Region organized by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) at Halki, Dodecanese Islands, Greece. 9 MAR 1996 Poland’s German Minority Nowadays, conference organized by the Europäische Bewegnug Deutschland in Prague, Czech Republic. 16 – 18 DEC 1995 International conference on New Religious Phenomena After the Fall of Communism, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. 30 OCT 1995 The Origins and Anatomy of the Ethnic Cleansing As Conducted in Upper Silesia in 1945-1947, conference Verschiedene Wege Europas seit 1945: Systemkonflikte, Nationalstaat und Aufarbeitung der Geschichte organized by the Universities of Montpellier, Opole and Potsdam in Potsdam, Germany. 12 OCT 1995 The Origins and Anatomy of the Ethnic Cleansing As Conducted in Upper Silesia in 1945-1947, conference Past, Today and Future of Kędzierzyn-Koźle organized by the town’s Municipality, Poland. 27 SEPT 1995 The Current Situation of the German Minority in Poland, conference on Migrations and Minorities in Europe organized by the CIFE in Wies, Bavaria, Germany. 3 MAY 1995 Panel member, conference on Germany 1995: Assessment and Prospects, Center for Liberal Studies and Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic. 19 AUG 1991 The ideology of communism as contextualized against the background of the post-apartheid situation in South Africa and the post-communist developments in Central and Eastern Europe, The Natal Technikon, Durban, South Africa. 8 3 JUN 1991 South Africa and Poland: A Comparison Between Writing Techniques Used by Dissident Authors, AUETSA Conference, Fort Hare University, Alice, Ciskei, South Africa. 22 – 23 MAR 1991 SAVAL Miniconference, Vanderbijl Park, South Africa. 9