Social Science in Eastern Europe NEWSLETTER December 2005 Special Issue German-Polish Year 2005/2006 Publisher Social Science Information Centre, Member of the German Social Science Infrastructure Ser- vices, Bonn Editors Social Science Information Centre, Department Information Transfer Eastern Europe at the GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe Becker, U.; Schleinstein, N.; Sucker, D.; Hausstein, B. Layout Mallock, W. Frequency Minimum 4 issues per year; presently free of charge Print Printed in Germany Distribution Social Science Information Centre, Department Information Transfer Eastern Europe at the GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe Schiffbauerdamm 19, 10117 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49-30-233611-311, Fax: +49-30-233611-310 e-mail: [email protected] This publication is financed by the German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS) which is jointly funded by the Federal and State governments ISSN 1615-5459 2005 Social Science Information Centre, Bonn. All rights reserved. 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Social Science Information Centre (IZ) of the Association of Social Science Institutes (ASI) Lennéstr. 30 • 53113 Bonn Telephone: +49-228-2281-0 The Social Science Information Centre, Hotline: +49-228-2281-100 the Central Archive for Empirical Social Fax: +49-228-2281-120 Research at the University of Cologne e-mail: [email protected] (ZA) and the Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA) are institutional Department members of Information Transfer Eastern Europe at the GESIS Service Agency GESIS Eastern Europe German Social Science Schiffbauerdamm 19 • 10117 Berlin Infrastructure Services, Telephone: +49-30-233611-311 member of the Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Fax: +49-30-233611-310 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (WGL) e-mail: [email protected] Foundation EDITORIAL .................................................. 3 Heinrich Böll Foundation, CONTRIBUTIONS Warsaw Office......................................... 28 Ziemer, K.: Poland and Germany: What Foundation Past, What Future? ................................... 4 Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Social Science Research Connections Warsaw Office......................................... 29 between the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin Funds (WZB) and Poland................................... 10 Polish-German Academic Society........... 30 Copernicus Award................................... 30 GERMANY Journal description Scientific institution Orbis Linguarum...................................... 31 German Poland Institute.......................... 12 Journal description Scientific institution Polish-German Yearbook........................ 31 Herder Institute........................................ 13 Recent publications.................................. 31 Scientific institution Online publications .................................. 32 Polonicum at the University of Mainz...... 14 Scientific institution CONFERENCES ...................................... 32 Junior Professorship for Poland and DATA ............................................................ 33 Ukraine Studies ....................................... 14 Scientific institution INTERNET.................................................. 34 Polish Studies (Polonistik) University of Bremen, Integrated European Studies.... 15 Journal description Transodra ................................................ 15 Journal description Welttrends ............................................... 17 Journal description Inter Finitimos.......................................... 17 EDITORIAL Journal description ernst+gladiola netzwerk für interkulturelle Dear Readers, kommunikation ........................................ 18 Journal description From May 2005 till May 2006 the German- OST-WEST. Europäische Perspektiven.. 19 Polish Year, a project of the German and Polish Research projects..................................... 19 governments aiming to consolidate und deepen Recent publications.................................. 21 the bilateral relations, will make a framework for Online-publications .................................. 21 numerous initiatives in the field of culture, art, POLAND civil society and science. The idea of the Ger- Scientific institution man-Polish year dates back to November 2003 Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of when Polish-German intergovernmental consul- Sciences (PAN), Berlin Office.................. 21 tations ended in the signature of an agreement Scientific institution concerning the project, which was developed Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law and earlier by the Polish minister of culture and the Administration, Polish-German Center for German government’s commissioner for culture Banking Law............................................ 22 and media. During the German-Polish Year Scientific institution hundreds of projects will reflect various com- Collegium Polonicum............................... 22 mitments and foreground the intellectual di- Scientific institution mension of the relations between both coun- German-Polish Documentation and Media tries. Centre...................................................... 23 Scientific institution On this occasion in the current issue of our Warsaw University, Faculty of Modern newsletter, we would like to present both Polish Language, Institute of German Studies... 24 and German institutions as well as journals, Scientific institution recent publications and interesting internet sites Adam Mickiewicz University, Collegium which focus either on the neighbouring country Europaeum.............................................. 25 or on the German-Polish relations and coopera- Scientific institution tion. As an introduction into the topic of the is- Wroclaw University, Willy Brandt Center. 25 sue we are glad to present two contributions Scientific institution reflecting on the German-Polish relations by Germany and Northern Europe Institute . 26 Klaus Ziemer, the director of the German His- Scientific institution torical Institute in Warsaw, and on German- Center for International Relations ........... 27 Polish research cooperation at the Social Sci- NEWSLETTER Social Science in Eastern Europe, December 2005 3 ence Research Centre Berlin (WZB) by Georg ONTRIBUTION Thurn. C In this context, it seems to us important to point Poland and Germany: What Past, out to hitherto existing Polish-German higher What Future?1 education cooperation in the field of broadly understood social sciences. We would like to By Klaus Ziemer draw your attention to the extent of the co- operations in several selected disciplines. The On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the data stem from the database of the German Warsaw Uprising, Germany’s Chancellor Rectors´ Conference on the international co- Gerhard Schröder delivered a memorable operations of German higher education institu- speech in Warsaw. Ten years after the Presi- tions: dent of the Federal Republic of Germany, Ro- http://www.hochschulkompass.de/kompass/xml/index_ man Herzog, asked Poles to forgive Germans koop.htm the harms done by Germans to Poles during In most cases, these co-operations are based World War II, the symbolic meaning of the prob- on agreements between the higher education lem has narrowed down for Chancellor institutions and universities which were con- Schröder. Although his description of the War- cluded in the 1990s: saw Uprising as “a Polish pride and a German shame” was considered correct by the general Economics 164 public in Poland, the actual expectations of the Social Sciences 58 Polish public opinion focused on what Ger- Legal Sciences 54 many’s Chancellor would say about controver- Pedagogics 42 sial issues of the property lost in the aftermath Political Science 27 of World War II, which were discussed emo- Cultural Studies 19 tionally several months earlier. Schröder’s as- Psychology: 17 sertion that the government of the Federal Re- Area Studies 7 public of Germany would not support the claims (Retrieved in Dec. 2005) for compensation filed by German citizens with Polish or international courts, was viewed in On the 25th of July 2005 in Frakfurt (Oder), the Poland as a step in the right direction. However, German-Polish scientific cooperation was it was not regarded as a settlement of the dis- strengthened by allocation of 55 million euros pute concerning the potential return of proper- and by signing of the joint declaration of both ties, situated in the areas that belonged to the countries. German Reich before the war, to their previous owners. In response to the announcements We wish you merry Christmas and a successful made by Preußische Treuhand (Prussian New Year 2006. Claims Society, an organization that is virtually unknown in Germany and probably has as few Your editorial team as 100 members), that the German expellees would file claims for compensation for the pri- vate property Germans lost following World War II, resolutions calling for recalculating the war damages and losses caused by Germans were passed in some large Polish cities, including Warsaw. On 12 September 2004 the Sejm (Par- liament) passed almost unanimously, with one abstention, a resolution urging the Polish gov- ernment to start negotiations with the German government regarding war reparations. The seemingly carefree atmosphere in Polish- German relations from the 1990s was thus fi- nally destroyed. What was left of the repeatedly stressed Polish-German community of inter- ests? What are Polish-German