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Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
International Conference Sex in the Cities: Prostitution, White Slaving, and Sexual Minorities in Eastern and Central Europe Lviv, 12-13 June 2009
DAY ONE (Friday, 12 June)
9.00-9.20 Welcome
Harald Binder (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv)
Franz Szabo (Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton)
9.20-10.15 Introductory Speeches
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Lviv Polytechnic University and Chief Architect of the Lviv City Council), Imagining a Gendered City: Do Cities have Sexual Identities? The Case of Lviv
Pieter Judson (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania), Scandalous Minorities in East Central Europe: Between Morality and Regulation
10.15-10.40 Coffee Break
10.40-12.40 Panel I: Sex and Scandal
10.40 Nathan Wood (University of Kansas), Sex Scandals, Sexual Violence, and the Word on the Street: The Kolasówna Lustmord in Cracow’s Popular Press, 1905 1906
11.00 Roshanna Sylvester (DePaul University, Chicago), Scandal at the Severnaia, or Sex and the ‘New Man’ in Late Imperial Odessa
11.20 Tim Buchen (Center for Research of Antisemitism, Technical University Berlin), Sex in the City – Social Control, Urban Sexuality and the Shaping of a Moral Catholic Servant
11.40 Amber M. Aragon (Washington University in St. Louis), The Case of Christian Voigt in Musil’s Vienna 2
12.00 12.40 Discussion Discussant: Keely Stauter Halsted (Michigan State University)
12.40-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Panel II: Sexual Norms and their Deviations
14.00 Maria Mayerchyk (Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv), Forbidden Sex: Premarital Relationships in Ukrainian Cities and Villages in the Early 20th Century
14.20 Jan Seidl (Charles University, Prague), Czech Public Discourse on Homosexuality in the Second Half of the 19th Century
14.40 Florian Mildenberger (State Library of Berlin), Sex in the City – Discourse in Scientific Community: The Debate over Male Homosexuality in Germany 1900 to 1945
15.00 Aleksandra Djajić Horváth (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence), Of Female Chastity and Male Arms: The Balkan Man Woman in the Age of the World Picture
15.20 16.00 Discussion Discussant: Pieter Judson (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania)
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.10 Panel III: Prostitution I: 19 th Century
16.30 Nicoleta Roman (Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest), From Street Girls to Bordello: Prostitution in Wallachian Cities (1829 1859)
16.50 Roman Holec (Comenius University, Bratislava), Sexuality in the Urban Environment of Kingdom of Hungary on the Example of its North Part (1848– 1918)
17.10 Dyana Averyna Luhova (Tavria University, Simferopol), Prostitution and Urban Everyday Life: Simferopol in the Late 19 th – 20 th Centuries
17.30 18.10 Discussion Discussant: Nancy Wingfield (Northern Illinois University)
18.10-18.30 Coffee Break
18.30-20.30 – ROUND TABLE: CONTEMPORARY TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN IN UKRAINE Moderator: Sofia Dyak (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv)
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DAY TWO (Saturday, 13 June)
9.00-12.00 Panel IV: Prostitution II: War and Post-War
9.00 Tamara Scheer (University of Vienna), Occupation’s Relations: Force, Partnerships and Prostitution in Belgrade, Cetinje and Lublin During Austro Hungarian Occupation Regimes (1915 1918)
9.20 Lisa Todd (University of New Brunswick), “Almost All Loose Women Are Infected”: Combating Sexual Promiscuity in World War I Germany
9.40 Wanda Wojtkiewicz Rok (Medical University of Wroclaw), Rehabilitation of Prostitutes in Reformatory School in Dęblin, 1918
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30 Nataliya Blokhina (B. Grinchenko Pedagogical University, Kyiv), Social Practices for Controlling Prostitution and Maternity in the Cities of Central and Eastern Ukraine During the 1920s
10.50 Anna Hajkova (University of Toronto), Rational Relationship in Theresienstadt Nazi Ghetto
11.10 12.00 Discussion Discussant: Nancy Wingfield (Northern Illinois University)
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Panel V: Trafficking
13.30 Kamila Uzarczyk (Medical University of Wroclaw), “Moral Panic”: White Slavery and Racial Prejudice in Early 20th Century Poland
13.50 Malte Fuhrmann (Fatih University, Istanbul), From Galicia to Galata Human Trafficking and Prostitution in Istanbul and Ottoman Habsburg Relations
14.10 Keely Stauter Halsted (Michigan State University), Poles, Jews, and the Human Trafficking Nexus in Nineteenth Century Lviv
14.30 Jean Michel Chaumont (University of Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, Brussels), Women Trafficking in the View of the League of Nations
14.50 15.30 Discussion Discussant: Roshanna Sylvester (DePaul University, Chicago)
15.30 16.00 Concluding Remarks