Dr Tomasz Kamusella

List of Invited and Conference Lectures

INVITED LECTURES

The Politics of Identity and Script in Modern Europe: From Many to Few, 5 FEB 2012 European Studies Lecture Series, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Language and Borders in the Balkans, Second GCOE Summer School Program 3 AUG 2011 “Eurasia Border Review: From Northeast Asia to Middle East,” Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

The Silesian Language Today: History and Development, Prof M Nomachi’s 15 JUL 2011 Course in the History of the Slavic Languages, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

Langauge and Nationalism in the History of Modern Central Europe, Inaugural Seminar, Project ‘Language and Society in Modern and Contemporary European 9 JUL 2011 History,’ financed by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, held at Ayoma Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.

The Cultural and Social History of the Silesian Language, Inaugural Seminar, Project ‘Language and Society in Modern and Contemporary European History,’ 8 JUL 2011 financed by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, held at Ayoma Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.

The Politics of Language in Modern Central Europe, Department of European 13 APR 2010 Studies, Cracow university of Economics, Cracow, Poland.

Languages, Scripts and Politics in Modern Central Europe, Research Seminar, 4 FEB 2010 School of Linguistics, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

The Changing Lattice of Languages, Borders and Identities in Silesia, Start-up 19 DEC 2009 Conference, Global Center of Excellence Program, Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

Upper Silesia, Borders and Languages in the Twentieth Century, Japan Society 16 DEC 2009 of West Slavic Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

Language and Politics in Postcommunist Europe, Eastern Europe after 1989: The 10 DEC 2009 7th Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium, Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

A Steel Hand in a Kid Glove: Language in Modern Central Europe, Long Room 5 NOV 2009 Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

What We Know and What We Do Not Know on Germanization and Russification on the Partitioned Lands of the Former Polish-Lithuanian 17 OCT 2009 Commonwealth in the 19th c, POSK’s Evening of History, Polish House, POSK, Dublin, Ireland.

How to Enrich the Silesian Language, Conference on the Regional Language of 13 JUL 2009 Silesia, MP Office of Marek Plura and the Regional Authority of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.

1 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 6 MAY 2009 Polish 2011 Census, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Warsaw.

Plenary lecture Classifying the Slavic Languages, or Politics of Classification?, Conference on Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography, Historical 2 – 4 APR 2009 Sociolinguistics Network (supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

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 13 FEB 2009 Migrant Networks Project (Trinity Immigration Initiative), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Politics and the Malleability of Identity: The Dynamics of Ethnic Cleansing of the Population Categorized as ‘Germans’ in Poland, 1948-1991, International 9 FEB 2009 Politics and Ethnic Conflict Seminar, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

The Rise of Linguistics Nation-States in Europe in the Twentieth Centure: 6 FEB 2009 language and Statehood Legitimization, Research Seminar in Modern European History, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

The Practical and Financial Aspects of Literary Translation, and Court and Free Lance Translation and Interpretation, MPhil in Literary Translation 29 JAN 2009 Program, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Stalinism in Poland, Center for European Studies, Trinity College, University of 20 NOV 2008 Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Commemorating Amnesia: The Case of the Generalized 60th Anniversaries of Almost Everything in Poland’s Region of Opole in 2005, Conference Does the 13 – 14 NOV 2008 Past Matter? Renegotiating the Past, Communal Identity, and Multicultural Europe, Moor Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

The Fall of Communism in Poland in 1989, Conference 1989! Twenty Years Since: Eyewitnesses and Scholars on the Velvet Revolutions and the European Idea, 22 OCT 2008 Centre for the Study of Wider Europe, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.

Keynote speech Immigrants, Migrants, or New Irish?, Interdisciplinary 3 – 4 OCTOBER 2008 Conference Irish-Polish Encounters in the Old and New Europe, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

Regional Policy and Multilingualism in Central Europe, Conference Language Policy and the Regions in Europe, Partnership for Diversity Conference Series, 11 – 13 SEPT 2008 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).

Keynote speech Is Silesian a Language? A Sociolinguistic View, Conference on Silesian: Is It Still a Dialect or Already a Language?, organized in Katowice, 30 JUN 2008 Poland by the Regional Authory of the Region of Silesia and the Institute of Polish Language and Culture, University of Silesia, Katowice.

Linguists and Politicians: The Isomorphism of Language, Nation and State in 18 FEB 2008 Central and Eastern Europe, Research Seminar, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

2 Upper Silesia: From the Age of Multiethnic Empires to the Era of Nation-States, 31 JAN 2008 Department of History, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

The Rhetoric and Reality of Minority Rights Protection in Poland’s Upper Silesia After 1989 (in Polish), 9th Annual International Summer School ‘National 6 SEPT 2007 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.

The Origins and Dynamics of Multiculturalism in the Polish Region of Upper 10 APR 2007 Silesia, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Ethnic and National Groups in Silesia in the Past and Today (in Polish), Institute 29 MAR 2007 of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

On the Significance of the Nonnational in the Age of Nationalisms (in Polish), 22 FEB 2007 Doctoral Seminar in 20th-Century History, Institute of History, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

Imagination and Politics in the Classification of the Slavic Languages, Center for 1 FEB 2006 Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

The Normative Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State: The Case of 6 JAN 2006 Central Europe, 120th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, theme: ‘Nations, Nationalism, and National Histories,’ Philadelphia PA, US.

Politics, Nationalism, and Imagination in the Classification of the Slavic 14 SEPT 2005 Languages, Institute of Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria

The Concept of ‘a Language’: Philologists in the Service of Politics, John W 3 JUN 2004 Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington DC, US.

Poland on Its Way to the European Union: Advantages, Discontents and Away 3 MAY 2004 from Central to Western Europe, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, US.

Polish or Silesian?: Upper Silesia in Contemporary Europe. A Challenge for the 21 APR 2004 EU?, Polish Studies Program, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain CT, US

European Integration as Seen from the Perspective of a Polish Region: An 11 FEB 2004 Insider’s View, Polish Table, European Reading Room, Library of Congress, Washington DC, US

Series of lectures on the theory of nationalism and nationalism in the enlarged 28 AUG – 11 SEPT European Union, International Summer School on Enlargement and Deepening of 2003 the European Union and European Security, Regional Authority, Opole, Poland, and NATO and the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium and Berlin, Germany.

Series of lectures on the theory of nationalism and nationalism in the post-Soviet and postcommunist states, HESP Regional Summer School for Excellence in 28 JUL – 10 AUG 2003 Teaching on Developing Teaching and Academic Excellence in Political Science, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia.

Keynote address On the Similarity Between the Concepts of Nation and Language: A View from Central Europe, which commenced the second Graduate 7 MAR 2003 Students Conference on Building Bridges and Putting Up Walls, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

3 The Szlonzoks: Who Are They?, Center for Austrian and Central European Studies, 5 MAR 2003 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Series of lectures on nationalism, language and ethnicity (in Russian), Summer 30 JUL – 25 AUG 2002 School on Ethnonationalism, Sociological Research Organization TAMISS and the Technical University, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

How European Are European Studies? An Insider’s View, workshop Teaching European Studies, organized in Odesa, Ukraine, by the Center for International 29 JAN 2002 Studies, Institute of Social Sciences, Odesa National University and the Civic Education Project, Budapest, Hungary/New Haven, NJ, US.

Should the European Union Establish Its Own Military Forces Independent of 20 OCT 2001 NATO? (in Polish), EU Debate: Pros and Cons, House of Polish-German Cooperation, Gliwice, Poland.

Series of lectures on language, nationalism, and power, Summer Sociology Summer School in Civic Education and Public Orientation, organized by the Open 16 JUN – 1 JUL 2001 Society Institute-Tajikistan and the Tajikistan Institute of Management in Kayrakkum near Khujand, Tajikistan.

European Integration at the Regional Level as Exemplified by the Case of Opole 6 MAR 2000 Silesia, guest lectures series, organized by the Civic Education Project, New York, USA, at the Department of Economics, University of Opole, Opole, Poland.

EU Citizenship of Different Standards in Upper Silesia, guest lectures series 12 MAR 1999 (Dis-)Integrating Europe, organized by the Civic Education Project, New York, USA, at the Department of Economics, Wrocław University, Wrocław, Poland.

Series of lectures on history and practice of European integration with the focus 14 – 18 FEB 1997 on the Polish-EU relationship for civil servants, Regional Authority, Opole, Poland.

European Integration and Entrepreneurship in Postcommunist Central Europe, 9 DEC 1994 Opole Business Center Club meeting, Górażdże Cement Works, Górażdże, Poland.

The ideology of communism as contextualized against the background of the 19 AUG 1991 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 The Reality of the Communist System in the Soviet Bloc, Department of English, 1991 University of Potchefstroom, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, STUDY VISITS (LECTURES DELVERED MARKED IN BOLD)

Scripts and Politics in Modern Central Europe, Symposium on Language and 20 OCT 20111 Identity, Coimbra Group of Universities, Graduate School of Linguistics, Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.

Minority Rights a la Carte? Poland and the Silesians, conference From Norm 12 MAR 2011 Adoption to Norm Implementation: Minority and Human Rights Revisited, European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany.

Migration or Immigration?: The Polish-Language Community in Ireland After 10 – 11 DEC 2010 2004, Conference on Slavic Languages in Migration, Institut für Slavistik, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Expert Opinion, Conference on the Project ‘Sociological Research on Poland’s 4 SEPT 2009 German Minority,’ House of Polish-German Cooperation, Opole, Poland; co- organized by Tokai University, Sapporo, Japan and Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

4 On the invitation of Ambassador Borys Bazylevskyi, participated in the round table 28 NOV 2008 on the Holodomor (‘Hunger Plague’) in Ukraine, 1932-1933, Embassy of Ukraine, Dublin, Ireland.

School Atlases of History and Ethnolinguistic Nationalism, Interdisciplinary Conference on the World and Times of Maps: Mapping Eastern Europe, 2nd 25 – 27 SEPT 2008 Conference of the Forum Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa (FOSE), Schweizerische Osteuropabibliothek, Bern, Switzerland.

Between Ethnic Cleansing and Emigration: Aussiedlers Leaving Poland’s Upper Silesia for Germany, 1950-1991, Annual Symposium of the Society for Exile 30 – 31 MAY 2008 Research, Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

23 MAY 2008 Conference Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland.

Central and Eastern European Studies Annual Conference 70 Years After: The 9 – 10 MAY 2008 Impact of Munich 1938 on Central and Eastern Europe, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Multilingualism and Language Use in the Urban Areas of Upper Silesia during the 19th and 20th Centuries, Conference: Lieux communs de la multiculturalité 26-27 OCT 2007 dans les villes centre-européennes (fin XIXe siècle-début XXIe siècle), CIRCE (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Centre-Européennes), Université Paris IV Sorbonne, Paris, France.

The Silesians Do Not Exist: The Official ‘Non-Existence of Contemporary 12 – 14 SEPT 2007 Poland’s Demographically Largest National Minority (in Polish), 13th Polish Sociological Congress, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland.

Nationalisms and the Changing Perceptions of Silesian During the 19th and 20th 21 – 24 JUN 2007 Centuries, Conference National ‘Languages’ through Historians’ Eyes, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania.

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, 7 – 10 JUN 2007 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.

(by a proxy reader) The Political Expediency of Language-Making in Central Europe: The Case of Czechoslovak, Panel: Negotiating Languages: The Struggle 17 NOV 2006 with Linguistic and Cultural Boundaries in Modern Central Europe, 38th National Convention of the AAASS, Washington DC, US.

Conference Minorities in Europe: The Practical Application of the Act on National 19 JUN 2006 and Ethnic Minorities, and the Regional Language in Poland, organized by the European House at the University of Opole, Opole, Poland.

Conference The Dynamics of the Silesian Identity, organized in Katowice, Poland by 10 JUN 2005 the Conference of the Rectors of the Silesian Universities

Unease of the Past: The International Treaties and Imagining of Poland’s Post- 2 FEB 2005 1945 Western Border. Conference on Border Changes in 20th-Century Europe, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.

Conference on Imagining Upper Silesia: Myths, Symbols and Heroes in the National 14 – 16 OCT 2004 Discourses, organized in Kamien Slaski, Poland by the Instytut Slaski, Opole, POLAND and the Herder-Institut, Marburg, Germany.

5 The Concepts of Nation and Language, UNESCO Conference on Intercultural 17 JUN 2003 Education, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.

The Expulsion of the Population Categorized as ‘Germans’ from the post-1945 Poland, conference The Expulsion of the German-Speaking Population from Eastern 10 DEC 2002 Europe 1944-1948, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

The Everyday Communication and Language in Historical Upper During the 19th and 20th Centuries, conference Stereotypes and Social Communication: Mutual 23 OCT 2002 Perceptions and Contact in Cultural Borderlands of East Central Europe During the 19th and 20th cc., German Historical Institute, Warsaw, Poland.

Conference on The Research Support Scheme 1990-2002: Promoting Innovative Research in Post-Socialist Countries. Achievements and Lessons for the Future, 9 – 11 MAY 2002 organized at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary by the Research Support Scheme, Prague, Czech Rep.

Which Common Values for the European Union? A View from a Candidate State, conference A Decade of Change: Reflections in Slavonic and Hungarian 14 MAR 2002 Languages, Literatures and Cultures, organized in New Delhi, India by the Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies, University of Delhi, South Campus.

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 23 NOV 2001 for the Study of Nationalities, Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Political Sciences and Journalism, A. Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

21st meeting of the Intergovernmental Polish-German Committee on Transborder and 18 – 20 NOV 2001 Regional Cooperation, Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland.

What Can We Learn from the Process of European Integration? (in Polish), 6th 1 OCT 2001 International Silesian Seminar, organized by the Opole Diocese at Kamien Slaski near Opole, Poland.

The Szlonzokian Ethnolect in the Context of German and Polish Nationalisms, workshop Minority Languages in Europe: Frameworks – Status – Prospects 9 JUN 2001 organized by the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, FRANCE at the University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom.

Nation-Building and the Linguistic Situation in Upper Silesia, conference Europe 28 APR 2001 1000-2000: A Thousand Years of civitas, communitas et universitas, European Cultural Foundation and Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Poland in 1945-1999: The Transition from the Soviet Dominated Ethnic Nation- State to Democratic Civic Nation-State, seminar Review of Iran-Russian Relations: Russian Politico-Social Developments in the Last Century organized by the Institute 27 FEB 2001 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.

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 22 NOV 2000 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.

Ethnic Cleansing in Upper Silesia, 1944-1951, conference on Ethnic Cleansing in 17 NOV 2000 Twentieth-Century Europe, Dusquesne University, Pittsburgh NJ, US.

6 Language and Construction of Identity in Upper Silesia During the Long 19 th c., 28 OCT 2000 conference on Die Nation und ihre Grenzen: Indentitätenwandel in Oberschlesien in der Neuzeit organized by the Herder-Institut in Marburg, Germany.

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 22 AUG 2000 the Process of European Integration. European Security, organized in Otmuchow, Poland by the Marshal’s Office of the Opole Voivodeship; the House of Polish- German Cooperation, Gliwice; CIFE, Nice, France; and NATO, Brussels, Belgium.

The Status of Ethnic Minorities in Poland During the Years 1989-2000: An 10 AUG 2000 Example of the Upper Silesian ethnic Minority, Summer School in Political Science, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia.

Place-Names and Objectivity in Historiography: The Case of Silesia in the 19th and 20th cc., conference on Writing and Rewriting History at the Turn of the 27 MAY 2000 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.

Chapter conference of the Polish, Baltic, Belarusian and Moldovan branches of the 16 – 22 APR 2000 Civic Education Project organized in Vilnius and Nida, Lithuania.

Theory and Practice of the Administrative-cum-Territorial Reform in Poland, international student conference on Theory and Practice of the Administrative 11 DEC 1999 Reform in Poland, organized by the Civic Education Project, New York, US & the Regional Authority of the Region of Opole, Opole, Poland.

‘You Must Be Either a German or Pole’: The Policy of Ennationalization and the Rhetoric of Multiculturalism in Upper Silesia After 1989, conference on 27 OCT 1999 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.

The Basics of European Integration, lecture for the civil servants of the 21 OCT 1999 Governmental Regional Authority of the Region of Opole, Pokrzywna, Poland.

Language as an Instrument of Nationalism in Central Europe, conference on Modern Nationalism and National Identification in Central and Eastern Europe 7 OCT 1999 organized by the Silesian Institute, Opole and Haus der Deutsch-Polnischen Zusammenarbeit, Gliwice in Gliwice, Poland.

16th Convention of Polish Historians, organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences 15 – 18 SEPT 1999 in Wrocław, Poland.

Poland: Just to be in Nato?, conference on the 50th Anniversary of Nato, University 10 SEPT 1999 of Kansas, Kansas, US.

The Others in Skopje: The Ethnic Division of the City, Skopje Summer School on 18 JUL 1999 The Image of the Other. Skopje, Macedonia.

A Report on the State of Social Sciences in Poland, Second Eastern Scholar Round 29 MAY 1999 Table organized by the Civic Education Project, Budapest, Hungary and New Haven, US at the University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine.

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 7 MAY 1999 Dynamics of Nationalism, Ethnic Enmity and Racism in Central and Eastern Europe, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, US.

7 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 8 FEB 1999 the Committee of European Integration, Warsaw, Poland at the Ministry of Environment Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry, Warsaw, Poland.

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 23 SEPT 1998 American European Summer Academy, organized by the CIFE, Nice in Kliengenthal, Alsace, France.

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 22 MAY 1998 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.

The Upper Silesian Creole, Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau, Warsaw, 14 JAN 1998 Poland.

International conference on Protection of National Minorities in Central Europe: Law 18 – 19 NOV 1997 and Practice After 1989, organized by the Center of International Affairs, Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, Poland.

International conference on the Process of Assimilation and Acculturation in the 22 – 25 MAY 1997 Polish-German Relations in the 19th and 20th Centuries, organized by the Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau in Rydzyna near Poznań, Poland.

International conference on the Phenomenon of Modern Nationalism in Central 9 – 11 OCT 1996 Europe organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Freie Universität Berlin in Gliwice, Poland.

The Current Situation of Poland's German Minority, seminar on The European 12 SEPT 1996 Union and the Mediterranean Region organized by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) at Halki, Dodecanese Islands, Greece.

Poland’s German Minority Nowadays, conference organized by the Europäische 9 MAR 1996 Bewegnug Deutschland in Prague, Czech Republic.

International conference on New Religious Phenomena After the Fall of 16 – 18 DEC 1995 Communism, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.

The Origins and Anatomy of the Ethnic Cleansing As Conducted in Upper Silesia in 1945-1947, conference Verschiedene Wege Europas seit 1945: 30 OCT 1995 Systemkonflikte, Nationalstaat und Aufarbeitung der Geschichte organized by the Universities of Montpellier, Opole and Potsdam in Potsdam, Germany.

The Origins and Anatomy of the Ethnic Cleansing As Conducted in Upper 12 OCT 1995 Silesia in 1945-1947, conference Past, Today and Future of Kędzierzyn-Koźle organized by the town’s Municipality, Poland.

The Current Situation of the German Minority in Poland, conference on 27 SEPT 1995 Migrations and Minorities in Europe organized by the CIFE in Wies, Bavaria, Germany.

Panel member, conference on Germany 1995: Assessment and Prospects, Center for 3 MAY 1995 Liberal Studies and Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic.

The ideology of communism as contextualized against the background of the 19 AUG 1991 post-apartheid situation in South Africa and the post-communist developments in Central and Eastern Europe, The Natal Technikon, Durban, South Africa.

8 South Africa and Poland: A Comparison Between Writing Techniques Used by 3 JUN 1991 Dissident Authors, AUETSA Conference, Fort Hare University, Alice, Ciskei, South Africa.

22 – 23 MAR 1991 SAVAL Miniconference, Vanderbijl Park, South Africa.