Divided in partitions, united in demands? Women's movements in the Russian, Habsburg and Prussian Partition Areas in the 19th and 20th centuries

Programme

Thursday, 17.09.2026:
Venue: GHI, al. Ujazdowskie 39, 00-540 Warsaw
16.00-16.30 Registration
16.30-17.00 Welcome and Introduction (Paula Lange und Michael Zok)
17.00-18.30 Keynote 
Natalie Cornett (Montreal): Gender, Nation, and Religion: Was there a winning combination to women's emancipation?
Moderation: Natali Stegmann (Regensburg)
19.00 Dinner (Restauracja przegryź, ul. Mokotowska 52, 00-543 Warsaw)

Friday, 18.09.2026
Venue: GHI, al. Ujazdowskie 39, 00-540 Warsaw
09.00-10.30 Panel 1: Crossing Borders in Pursuit of Knowledge
Heidi Hein-Kircher (Bochum): Reforming the Life of the Nation: Discourses on the Pure Family and Mother in Pre-World War I Partioned Poland
Agnieszka Szudarek (Szczecin): Polki w niemieckim mieszczańskim ruchu kobiecym? Kursy socjalne Posener Fraueninteressenverein 1908-1912
Maria Vovchko (Chyzky): Seeking Knowledge Across Borders: Women’s Educational Mobility and Transimperial Networks in Galicia, 1880-1890
Moderation: Isabel Röskau-Rydel (Kraków)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Panel 2: Transfer and Exchange of Knowledge
Verena Laubinger (Göttingen): Northern Europe in the Suffrage Movement in Partitioned Poland
Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk (Dresden): Networking. Intertwining. Transforming – Women's Movements in Galicia between Local Action and Transnational Transfer around 1900
Paula Lange (Vienna): Translations as Sites of Transnational Knowledge Transfer: The Case of the 1908 Prussian Law of Associations
Moderation: Sven Jaros (Halle)
12.30-14.30 Lunch (Restauracja Studio Buffo, ul. Marii Konopnickiej 6, 00-491 Warsaw)

14.30-16.00 Panel 3: Activism and its Significant Others
Claudia Snochowska-Gonzalez (Warsaw): Polish and German female nationalist activists in the nationalizing relay
Agata Łysakowska-Trzoss (Warsaw): United in partition, divided in demands? Female activism and competing visions of women’s emancipation in Prussian Partition
Nataliia Kolb (Lviv): Ukraiński ruch kobiecy w Galicji na przełomie XIX i XX wieku: postawa Kościoła greckokatolickiego i rola kobiet z rodzin kapłańskic
Moderation: Michael Zok (Warsaw)
16.00-16.30 Coffee break

17.00-19.00 Award Ceremony Arthur-Kronthal-Preis (open to everyone) / Afterwards: General Assembly of Kommission für die Geschichte der Deutschen in Polen e.V. (only for members)

Saturday, 19.09.2026
Venue: University of Warsaw, dawny budynek Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw, lecture hall 207
9.30-10.30 Panel 4: Cross-border Engagement
Joanna Morawska-Tołek (Szczecin): Między zaangażowaniem a skandalem: udział Zofii Tułodzieckiej w I Zjeździe Kobiet Polskich (1905)
Iwona Dadej (Halle): Transnarodowo i transimperialnie? Strategie epistemologiczne ‚polskiego’ ruchu kobiecego przełomu XIX i XX wieku
Moderation: Matthias Barelkowski (Berlin)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Panel 5: Widening the Gap: Broader Perspectives
Irene Rabinovich (Tel Aviv): From Revolutionary Networks to Intimate Solidarities: Jewish Women’s Transimperial Activism (1870s–1920s)
Nataliia Mysak (Lviv): Podzielone, ale zjednoczone: ukraiński ruch kobiecy pod koniec XIX i na początku XX wieku
Olha Nikolaienko (Kharkiv): Polskie stowarzyszenia kobiece Ukrainy Naddnieprzańskiej na początku XX wieku – przekraczając granice, pogłębiając przepaść.
Moderation: Dobrochna Kałwa (Warsaw)
12.30-13.00 Coffee break and Snack
13.00-14.00 Concluding remarks

Optional afternoon programme: Across the Queer City. A Historical Walk Through Warsaw and Its Queer Places. With art historian, curator and QueerMuzeum volunteer, Maj Smoszna
Organizers: Paula Lange (University of Vienna) // Michael Zok (GHI Warsaw)

The conference is a cooperation between German Historical Institute in Warsaw, University of Vienna, University of Warsaw, and Kommission für die Geschichte der Deutschen in Polen e.V