November 16-18, 2000
 

Hosted by the Duquesne University Department of History
and Co-Sponsored by the Institute for German-American Relations
with support from Austin College

NOVEMBER 16, 2000

Thursday, 8:45-9:45 a.m. - Informal Reception with Coffee and Sweet Rolls

Thursday: 9:45 a.m.--Opening of the Conference:

        Welcome:    Dr. Steven Béla Várdy, McAnulty Distinguished Professor & Director, History Forum

        Comments:      Dr. Marianne Bouvier, Executive Director, Institute of German American Relations [IGAR]

        Comments:   Dr. Hunt Tooley, Austin College, Co-Organizer of the Conference
 

Thursday: 10:00-12:00 a.m.

1. Ethnic Cleansing in Theory and Practice

Moderator:  Ralph Raico, State College of New York at Buffalo

a.  Nándor F. Dreisziger, Royal Military College of Canada
"Incidents of Mass Deportations in British North America and Canada from the 18th through the 20th Century"

b. Hunt Tooley, Austin College
"World War I and the Emergence of Modern Population Politics  in  Europe"

c.  Robert Hayden, University of Pittsburgh
"Recent Ethnic Cleansing in Comparative Perspective"

d.  Robert Whealey, Ohio University:
"Critique of the concept of 'ethnic cleansing':  The case of  Yugoslavia"

e.  Alfred de Zayas: Senior Human Rights Officer, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
"Ethnic Cleansing in the Light of International Law:  1945 and  Today"
 

Thursday, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

2.  Ethnic Cleansing in the Eastern Mediterranean and Balkans in the Wake of World War I

Moderator:  Anthony X. Sutherland, Editor-in-Chief,  Jednota, Middletown, PA

a.  Ben Lieberman, Fitchburg State College
"Ethnic Cleansing in the Greek-Turkish Conflicts from the Balkan  Wars through the Treaty of Lausanne:  Identifying and Defining  Ethnic Cleansing"

 b.  Eleni Eleftheriou, Vanderbilt University
 "Consequences of Population Transfers: The 1923 Case of Greece  and Turkey"

c. Victor Roudometof, Washington and Lee University
"Population Exchange, Cultural Policies, and other Minority  Issues in Interwar Balkans"

d. Cathie Carmichael, Middlesex University, United Kingdom:
"Islam and the Ideology of Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans"
 

Thursday, 3:45-5:45 p.m.

3.  Ethnic Cleansing in East Central Europe in the Period of World War II

Moderator:  Agnes Huszár Várdy, Robert Morris College

a.  Nicolae Harsányi, Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Deportation of Ethnic Germans from Romania to the Soviet Union"

b.  Alexander Prusin, University of Toronto, Canada
"Ethnic Cleansing of Poles by Ukrainian Nationalists in Western  Ukraine during World War II"

c.  Tamás Stark, Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
"Ethnic Cleansing and Collective Punishment: Soviet Policy  Towards the Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees in
East-Central Europe"

d.  Brian Williams, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
"Deportation and Ethnic Cleansing of the Crimean Tatars"

e.  Raymond Lohne, University of Illinois at Chicago
"The Experience of Ethnic Cleansing:  The Case of the Danube Swabians of Yugoslavia"
 

Thursday, 7:00: Formal Dinner for all participants and Duquesne University graduate students

Thursday, 8:00: Address by Lt.-Gen. Michael Hayden, Director, National Security Agency

"The Balkans and Ethnic Cleansing:  Some Personal Observations"

            Welcome by Dr. Michael P. Weber, Provost and Academic Vice-President, Duquesne University

NOVEMBER 17, 2000

Friday,  9:30-12:00 a.m.

4. Expelling the Germans from East Central Europe:  1945 and After

Moderator:   Alfred Obernberger, Georgetown University

a.  Richard Blanke, University of Maine
"Masurians and Other Autochthons in the Planning and Execution  of the Expulsions of Germans"

b.  Tomasz Kamusella, University of Opole, Poland
"Ethnic Cleansing in Upper Silesia 1945"

c.  Eagle Glassheim, Princeton University
"The Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, 1945-46"

d.  János Angi, Kossuth University of Debrecen, Hungary
"Expulsion of the Germans from Hungary after World War II"

e.  John Schindler, U.S. Department of Defense
"Yugoslavia's First Ethnic Cleansing:  The Expulsion of the  Danubian Germans, 1944-1946"
 

Friday, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

5.  The Western Allies and the Expulsions of Germans from East Central Europe

Moderator:  Paul Boytinck, Bucknell University

a.  Alfred de Zayas, Senior Human Rights Officer, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
"Anglo-American Responsibility and the Decisions at  Teheran/Yalta/Potsdam Concerning the Expulsion of the Germans"

b.  Richard D. Wiggers, Georgetown University
"International Humanitarian Law and the Feeding of German  Civilians After World War II"

c.  Andreas Wesserle, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
"Ethnic Cleansing of the Germans in Slovakia, 1945-1950"

d.  Charles Barber, Northeastern Illinois University
"Senator William Langer on the Subject of Ethnic Cleansing 1944- 1949"

e.  Christopher Kopper, University of Minnesota
"The London Czech Government and the Origins of the Expulsion of the Sudentenlanders"
 

Friday, 3:45-5:45 p.m.

6.  Ethnic Cleansing of the Hungarian Populations since World War II

Moderator:  Michael J. Kopanic, Jr., Indiana University of Pennsylvania

a. Edward Chászár, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"Ethnic Cleansing in Slovakia:  The Plight of the Hungarian Minority"

b. Robert Barta, Kossuth University of Debrecen,Hungary
"Hungarian-Slovak Population Exchange and Forced Resettlement in  1947"

c. László Hámos, Hungarian Human Rights Foundation, Budapest & Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary
"Ethnic Cleansing in Romania: The Plight of the Hungarian Minority under the Ceausescu  Regime"

d.  Andrew Ludányi, Ohio Northern University:
"The Fate of Hungarians in Voivodina"

Comments:  Tibor Glant, University of Debrecen, Hungary, and George Washington University
                    János Mazsu, University of Debrecen, Hungary, and University of Indiana, Bloomington
 

Friday, 7:00 p.m. : Formal Dinner for all participants

Friday, 8:00 p.m.: Address by Dr. Géza Jeszenszky, Ambassador of Hungary to the United States

 "From Eastern Switzerland to Ethnic Cleansing"

Welcome by Dr. Constance Ramirez, Dean, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts

NOVEMBER 18, 2000

Saturday, 9:30-12:00 a.m.

7. Ethnic Cleansing Across the Balkans in the Twentieth Century

Moderator:  R. William Weisberger, Butler County College

a. Nicholas C. Pano, Western Illinois University
"The Kosovo Question in Historical Perspective, 1912-1998"

b. Peter Mentzel, Utah State University
"Crosses, Crescents, and Lilies: Identity and Conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina"

c. Zeljan Suster, University of New Haven
"Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia: The Serbian Case"

d. Dennis P. Hupchick, Wilkes University
"Bulgarian 'Turks': A Muslim Minority in a Christian  Nation-State"

e. Constantine G. Hatzidimitrou, St. John's University, Jamaica,  New York
"The Expulsion of the Greeks and the Destruction of Smyrna in  1922"
 

Saturday, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

8.  Aftershocks of the Expulsion of Germans

Moderator:  Martin Menke, Rivier College

a.  Frank Buscher, Christian Brothers University
"A House Divided: the Catholic Church and the Tensions between  Refugees/Expellees and Western Germans in the Postwar Era"

b.  Gregor Thum, Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
"Cleansed Memory: New Polish Wroclaw and the Expulsion of the  Germans after World War II"

c.  Emil Nagengast, Juniata College
"Ethnic Cleansing, the German Expellees, and European Values"

d.   Elizabeth Morrow Clark, West Texas A&M University
"The Free City? Shifting identities and ethnic cleansing in  and out of Danzig/Gdansk, 1939-1948"

e. Scott Brunstetter, Old Dominion University
"Escaping the Past: The Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans as a  Leitmotif in German-Czech Relations"
 

Saturday, 3:45-5:45 p.m.

9.  Aspects of Ethnic Cleansing

Moderator:  Richard Mulcahy, University of Pittsburgh at Titusville

a. John P. Cerone, Human Rights Officer, OSCE, United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
"Genocide in Recent International Jurisprudence, with Particular  Reference to Kosovo"

b. Gabriel Pelláthy, Saint Vincent College
"The Need to Clarify the Status of Victims of Mass Expulsion in  International Law"

c. Thomas Szendrey, Gannon University
"Perspectives on Ethnic Cleansing: Cultural Autonomy as an Alternative to Ethnic Cleansing"

d. Stefan Wolff, Department of European Studies, University of Bath
"Forced Population Transfers: Ethnic Cleansing as the Road to  New (In-) Stability?"

e. Paul Forage, Florida Atlantic University
"Military Intervention and Prevention of Ethnic Cleansing"
 

Saturday, 7:00-8:00 p.m.

10.  Internment and Expulsion: Survivors

Moderator:  Marianne Bouvier, Institute for German-American Relations

a.  Erich Helfert,  Author of Valley of theShadow  and Management consultant and educator, California.
"Surviving the Expulsion from the Sudetenland as a Child:  Memoirs"

b.  Martha Kent, Clinical Neuropsychologist in hospital-based patient care, Phoenix, Arizona
"Exceptional Bonds: Revenge and Reconciliation in Potulice, Poland, 1945 and 1998"

c.  Karl Hausner, Manufacturer and dairy farmer, Wisconsin
"Surviving Internment and Expulsion"

Moderators will make no formal comments, but will simply facilitate discussions at their sessions. Hence, they should have have the papers in advance.  Your moderator should contact you to let you know how far in advance you should send the paper.

All papers (maximum 20 pages) will be prepared with the intent of being published in a book form. Presentations, however, can only last for a maximum of 15 minutes (5-6 pages) so as to leave time for the exchange of ideas.

Thursday, November 16, 2000

8:00 p.m.--Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, Director, National Security Agency:
            "The Balkans and Ethnic Cleansing: Some Personal Observations"

        Welcome by Dr. Michael P. Weber., Provost, Duquesne University
                (Preceded by a common dinner on Thursday evening, 6:30 p.m.)

Friday, November 17, 2000

8:00 p.m.--Dr. Géza Jeszenszky, Ambassador of Hungary to the United States:
            "From 'Eastern Switzerland' to Ethnic Cleansing."

        Welcome by Dr. Michael P. Weber, Provost, Duquesne University
            (Preceded by a second dinner on Friday evening, 7:00 p.m.)