Conference:
Connecting Catholics in a Divided World: The Vatican and the Local Roman and Greek Catholic Church in Eastern Europe as an Intermediary in the Cold War (1945–1978)
Collegium Carolinum Munich, 3rd and 4th May 2024
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Marion Dotter (Collegium Carolinum, Munich)
Julian Sandhagen (GHI Rome)
Viktoriia Serhiienko (GHI Warsaw)
Friday, 3rd May
9:00 Introduction
The Catholic Church in Contact with other Confessions
Discussant: Nadezhda Beliakova (Bielefeld)
9:10-9:30 Natalia Shlikhta (Kyiv)
Ukrainian Greek Catholics’ View of the Russian Orthodox in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
9:30-9:50 Anna Bisikalo (Cambridge, USA)
Negotiating Sacred Space: Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox Relations in Poland, 1956-1978.
9:50-10:10 Milosav Đoković (Belgrade)
The Holy See and the Patriarchate of Constantinople after World War II (1946-1958)
10:10-11:10 Discussion
11:10-11:40 Coffee break
Diaspora Groups and their Political Activities
Discussant: Martin Zückert (München)
11:40-12:00 Katrin Boeckh (Regensburg)
Catholics on the move and in deportation. Fragments of papal Ostpolitik before the Cold War
12:00-12:20 Beáta Katrebová Blehová (Bratislava)
The Slovak (Catholic) diaspora and the persecuted Catholic Church in Slovakia – The strategies of Anti-Communism during the late Pontificate of Pius XII
12:20-12:40 Arūnas Streikus (Vilnius)
The true voice of the Church of Silence? Lithuanian exile Catholics as intermediaries between the Vatican and the Catholic Church in Soviet Lithuania during the first decades of the Cold War
12:40-13:40 Discussion
13:40-14:40 Lunch break
Political Efforts of the Roman Catholic Church from “above” and from “below”
Discussant: Johannes Gleixner (Munich)
14:40-15:00 Przemysław Pazik (Warsaw)
Squaring the triangle. Loyalty to the pope and national ecclesiastical policy of the Polish Church leaders 1948-1956
15:20-15:40 Petar Dragišić (Belgrade)
Yugoslavia and the Catholic Church 1945-1978: Between Conflict and Reconciliation
15:40-16:30 Discussion
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:30 Keynote:
Piotr Kosicki (Maryland)
A Coalition of Progressives: Political Catholicism at the Intersection of Latin American & European Political Agency, From Anti-Stalinism to Christian Democracy in the 1950s and ’60s
19:00 Dinner
Saturday, 4th May
Anticommunist Activities of Catholic Representatives
Discussant: Gašpar Mithans (Koper)
9:30-9:50 Marina Bantiou (Thessaly)
The Reception of the Catholic Church’s Decree Against Communism in 1949 in the European and US Press in the Early Cold War
9:50-10:10 Michaela Lenčéšová (Prague)
Ľudák diaspora in a Divided World (1945–1970)
10:10-10:40 Coffee break
10:40-11:00 Helena Toth (Bamberg)
“That you put off […] the old man […] and that you put on the new man”: The struggle for symbolic resources in post-war Hungary
11:00-11:20 Kristian Geßner (Gießen)
The Bacon Priest and the East. Werenfried van Straaten and his Aid Project for Eastern Europe
11:20-12:20 Discussion
Final Discussion
Conference Report:
Julian Sandhagen: The Global Pontificate of Pius XII. Catholicism in a Divided World. In: Bohemia Bd. 62 Nr. 2 (2022), 332-334.
Anzeige von The Global Pontificate of Pius XII. Catholicism in a Divided World (bohemia-online.de)
20/05/2023 Podcast “Wissen entgrenzen” of the Max Weber Foundation:
26/07/2022 Article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
“Lavierend zwischen Diktatoren”
05/04/2022 Article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
07/01/2022 Article on Vatican News:
“Vatikan: Als Pius XII. ein Global Player im Kalten Krieg war“
07/01/2022 Article on katholisch.de:
“Welche Rolle spielte Papst Pius XII. im Kalten Krieg? – katholisch.de“
05/01/2022 Article on DomRadio.de:
“Zentrale Rolle in der internationalen Politik“
13/07/2021 Article in Le Monde:
04/07/2021 Article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
“Vatikan: Was sagen die neuen Akten über Papst Pius XII.? (faz.net)“
17/06/2021 Article in the Jüdische Allgemeine:
““Papst der Deutschen”? “Papst der Juden”? | Jüdische Allgemeine (juedische-allgemeine.de)“