ACADEMIC PROGRAM

Sunday, August 28

12:00-17:00 Registration of participants and accompanying persons

 9:00-12:00 Meeting od the ICMH Executive Board

15.00-17.30 Sightseeing Old Town Wrocław (Dress: 1)

19:00-21:00 Reception, Assembly Hall in the Ossolineum (Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich)(Dress: 2)

Monday, August 29 WROCŁAW

10:00-14:00 Registration of participants and accompanying persons

10:00-11:10 Opening Session, „Oratorium Marianum”, main building of the University of Wrocław (Dress: 3)
Welcome Addresses by the political and military leadership, by the Rector of University of Wrocław, by the Rector of General Tadeusz KościuszkoMilitary University of LandForces in Wrocław,by the President of the International Commission of Military History, Prof. Dr. Massimo DE LEONARDIS, by the Vicepresident of the Polish Commission of Military History Prof. Tomasz CIESIELSKI

Keynote Speech: Tomasz GŁOWIŃSKI (Poland-Wrocław), The Border Protection Corps (Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza) – Polish military formation on the eastern border of the Second Polish Republic in the years 1924-1939

11:10-11:30 Coffee/Tea
11:30-12:00
Award ceremony of the Corvisier Prize, edition 2022, „Oratorium Marianum”, main building of the University of Wrocław

Marie-Anne BESNIER-GUEZ (France), Presentation of thesis: Juifs de Tunisie dans les deux guerres mondiales

 12:00-13:30 Working Session I, „Oratorium Marianum”, main building of the University of Wrocław

Chair: Kris QUANTEN (Belgium)

• Ana SOUZA (Brazil), La “Question Nabileque”: stratégie, géopolitique et légitimité des frontières (1905-1940)
• Mohamed Issa BABANA ELALAOUI (Marocco), Intégrité territoriale entre frontières historiques et unité existentielle: l’exemple du Maroc
• Cheikh KALING (Senegal), Intangibilité des frontières et conflits en Afrique

 13:30-14:30 Lunch

 14:30-16:00 Working Session II A, „Oratorium Marianum”, main building of the University of Wrocław

Chair: Allon KLEBANOFF (Israel)

• Francine SAINT-RAMOND (France), Perceptions de la frontière de l’Alsace-Lorraine annexée / Perceptions of the border of annexed Alsace-Lorraine
• Alan S. RASMUSSEN (Denmark), Unbreakable shield? The impact of the romanticized myth of Dannewerk on the conduct of the 2nd Schleswig War of 1864
• Dominique ANDREY (Switzerland), Renforcement du terrain pour la défense de la Suisse / Reinforcement of the terrain for the defence of Switzerland

 Working Session II B, Auditorium in building of the Department of History, ul. Szewska 49

Chair: Anselm VAN DER PEET (Netherlands)

• George Daniel UNGUREANU (Romania), Romanian political-strategic view on southern Dobruja (1913-1940): between outpost and bargaining chip
• Oreste FOPPIANI (Italy), The 10th Flotilla MAS and the Safeguard of Italy’s Eastern Border: Fascists or Patriots?
• Winfried HEINEMANN (Germany), The German Resistance During the Second World War and Poland

 16:00-16:20 Coffee/Tea

 16:20-17:50

Working Session III A, „Oratorium Marianum”, main building of the University of Wrocław

Chair: Benny MICHELSOHN (Israel)

Lasse LAAKSONEN (Finland), The mythical Mannerheim Line in the Winter War

Pasi TUUNAINEN (Finland), The Salpa Line and the defense of the new Finnish eastern border 1940-1944

Zvezdan MARKOVIĆ(Slovenia), Military fortification of the Western Yugoslav (Slovenian) border between the two world wars – Rupnik’s line

 Working Session III B Auditorium in building of the Department of History, ul. Szewska 49

Chair: Tomasz GŁOWIŃSKI (Poland)

• Peter CHORVÁT (Slovakia), Protection of State Borders in the Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1939)
• Vlad Cristian GHEORGHIȚĂ (Romania), Romania and Poland: An Alliance for the Defence of the Eastern Borders, 1921-1939
• Erwin A. SCHMIDL (Austria), Border Police or National Defence? Some Thoughts about the Military Provisions of the Paris Peace Treaties, 1919-20

 19:00-22:00 Dinner, Restaurant  „Złoty pies”

Tuesday, August 30 WROCŁAW

9:00-11:30 Meeting of the ICMH Full Board, Auditorium in building of the Department of History, ul. Szewska 49

10:00-11:30 Meetings of Bibliography Committee, Archives Committee and Educational Committee

10:00-11:30

Working Session IV A

Chair: Piet KAMPHUIS (Netherlands), Hotel Plaza, Hall 1

• Patrick NEFORS (Belgium), Defending the Cockpit of Europe: The Southern Netherlands as Barrier (1698-1792)
• Brian LINN (USA), Defending the Borders: The U.S. Army, 1794 to 1917
• Jacek JĘDRYSIAK (Poland), Defence system of the eastern border of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1815 to 1914

 Working Session IV B, Hotel Plaza, Hall 2

Chair: Christian ORTNER (Austria)

• Abílio Pires LOUSADA (Portugal), The Geopolitical Dynamics of Portugal. The Definition of the Borders of the oldest Nation-State in Europe
• Israel BLAJBERG (Brazil), Soldiers, Walls and Cannons: 500 years defending Brazil
• Gonçalo Couceiro FEIO (Portugal), Defending borders in a multi-continental empire: the Portuguese experience

11:30-12:00 Coffee/Tea

12:00-13:30 Working Session V A Hotel Plaza, Hall 1

Chair: Georg FRERKS (Netherlands)

• Davide BORSANI (Italy), Imperial rationales and national constraints in the build-up of the British naval base in Singapore
• Flavio CARBONE (Italy), The Italian Carabinieri Corps in the borders defence. A diachronic perspective
• Sung-hun CHO (South Korea), The North Korean Anticommunists’ Guerrilla Warfare during the Korean War

Working Session V B

Chair: Dumitru PREDA (Romania), Hotel Plaza, Hall 2

• Claudia REICHL-HAM (Austria), Frontier Life – Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Military Service in the Middle Age and Early Modern Times
• Claudio Skora ROSTY(Brazil), Annexation of Acre (1867-1903)
• Dariusz WOŹNICKI and Tomasz CIESIELSKI (Poland), Inflants and Kurlanders on guarding the borders of central European states. The case of the Donhoff family

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:20 Working Session VI A, Hotel Plaza, Hall 1

Chair: Efpraxia PASCHALIDOU (Greece)

• Fred BORCH (USA), Protecting America’s Borders: The Mexican Expedition 1916-1917
• Juho KOTAKALLIO (Finland), From the Trenches of the Western Front to the Northern Front
• Dimitre MINCHEV (Bulgaria) and Willard SNYDER (USA/Bulgaria), The Petrich Incident 1925
• Benny MICHELSOHN (Israel), Border Defence during The War of Attrition (1968-1972)

13:00-14:30 Lunch

Working Session VI B, Hotel Plaza, Hall 2

Chair:Harold E. RAUGH Jr. (USA)

• Manuel CASAS SANTERO (Spain), “El Camino Español” (Spanish Road). More than 1000 Kilometers of variable border
• Søren NØRBY (Denmark), In Search of “Privileged Traders and Sly foxes”. The Danish Navy’s operations in the North Atlantic from c. 1400- c. 1750
• José VALLESPÍN (Spain), Defense of maritime borders. The case of the Spanish Empire in the Atlantic
• Thean POTGIETER (Republic of South Africa, RSA), Defending maritime borders: sub-Sahara Africa in the age of European expansion

16:20-16:40 Coffee/Tea

16:40-18:00

Working Session VII A, Hotel Plaza, Hall 1

Chair: Winfried HEINEMANN (Germany)

• Matitiahu MAYZEL (Israel), The Syrian border of Israel: 1948, 1967, 1973
• Andreas KARYOS (Cyprus), Defending the Republic of Cyprus: the “Aphrodite Plan” of 1965
• Dani ASHER (Israel), Israel defending its northern border 1916-2006

Working Session VII B, Hotel Plaza, Hall 2

Chair: Miloslav ČAPLOVIČ (Slovakia)

• Jan HOFFENAAR and Kees SCHULTEN (Netherlands), Armed neutrality. The defence of the Netherlands in May 1940
• Manuel STĂNESCU (Romania), War at the Borders. German-Romanian defensive battles against the Red Army, April-May 1944
• Tomoyuki HANADA (Japan), The Japanese Army’s Border Defense against the Soviet Union and the Nomonhan Incident during the Interbellum

19.00-21.00: Dinner, Restaurant Hotel Plaza

Wednesday, August 31

08:30-18:30 All Day Trip: Kłodzko, Brzeg (Dress: 1)

Thursday, September 1 OPOLE

Seesion on Medieval History and Early Modern History*

10:00-11:40 Opening and VIII Session, „Sala Orła Białego”, Marshal’s Office of the Opole Voievodship (Dress: 2)

Welcome Addresses by the political and military leadership, by the Rector of University of Opole, by the President of the International Commission of Military History, Prof. Dr. Massimo DE LEONARDIS

• Marcin BÖHM (Poland), Koźle as a border town of the Opole region during the reign of Bolesław III (1086-1138)
• Allon KLEBANOFF (Israel), The Lines of Torres Vedras. An extraordinary feat of Military Engineering

11.40-12.00 Coffee/Tea

11.40-14.00

Working Session IX A, „Sala Orła Białego”

Chair: Mariusz SAWICKI (Poland, Opole)

Manuel Garcia CABEZAS (Spain), Alaska, la dernière frontière de l´empire Espagnol

• Sandrine PICAUD-MONNERAT (France), Eté 1744 : le roi de France défend sa frontière est face aux pandours de l’Autriche
• Derck ENGELBERTS (Switzerland), Problèmes opératifs et logistiques en terrain alpin: la France face à la 2e coalition en Suisse en 1798 ou la défense d’une frontière avancée à l’extrémité d’un pays voisin et allié
• Mor NDAO (Senegal), De la souveraineté territoriale indigène en Sénégambie : la défense des frontières face aux puissances coloniales (portugaise, anglaise et française) du XVe au XIX e siècles: le cas du Fouta Toro

Working Session IX B

University of Opole, University Council Chamber – Young Scholars panel I

Chair: Marcin BÖHM (Poland)

• Adam WOŁOSZYN (Poland), Securing the Polish border on the Dniester, Jahorlyk and Kodyma rivers during the Russo-Austrian-Turkish War of 1787-1792
• Danny CHAHBOUNI (Germany), Between NATO Strategy and contingency planning: The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment  “Blackhorse” in (Western) Germany
• Ross PHILLIPS (USA), Fighting to Leave: The Marine Corps’s Defense of South Vietnam, 1969-1971
• Joanna OJDANA (Poland), Close to Memory – research on the cooperation of regional cultural institutions with combatants and veterans. Outline of the issues of research carried out under the scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (scientific communication)
• Arleta CIUPIŃSKA (Poland), Website szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl as a source of materials for the history of defense wars, based on selected examples of defending Polish borders (scientific communication)

Working Session IX C

State Archives in Opole (Archiwum Państwowe w Opolu)

Chair: Mirosław LENART (Poland), Flavio CARBONE (Italy)

• Marcin PIETRZAK (Poland), The meaning of war in symbolic terms – sacrifice and transformation
• Mirosław LENART (Poland), The Idea of Border as a Hermeneutic Key to Thinking of Polish History
• Marco CIAMPINI (Italy), Roman Limes in the imperial era: a material and psychological border, paradigm of the future organized borders and their defence
• Enrico MAGNANI (Italy), UN peacekeeping missions and unexpected duties: border defense; the cases of Cyprus and between Sudan and South Sudan

14:00-15:00  Lunch

15:00-17:00 Sightseeing Opole

18:00-21:00 Dinner – Castle in Moszna

*Public task „Multicultural heritage of the Opole region – exchange of experiences within the international cooperation network of military historians” is co-financed by the Self-Government of Opolskie Voivodeships”/ Zadanie „Poznajemy wielokulturowe dziedzictwo Opolszczyzny – wymiana doświadczeń w ramach międzynarodowej sieci współpracy historyków wojskowości” współfinansowane ze środków Samorządu Województwa Opolskiego.

Friday, September 2 WROCŁAW

9:30-11:00 Working Session X A, „Oratorium Marianum”, main building of the University of Wrocław

Chair: Hans PAWLISCH (USA)

• Robyn RODRIGUEZ (USA), Penetrating the Iron Curtain:  U.S. Graves Registration in Soviet Occupied Germany, 1945-1955
• Petteri JOUKO (Finland), Fragile Border? – Role of the Border Guard in the Finnish Defence Planning during the Early Cold War
• Brian DONLON (USA), “Survive, Move and Fight”: The Marine Corps and NATO Cold Weather Exercises in Norway, 1976-1986

11:00-11:20 Coffee/Tea

11:20-13:00 Working Session XI A – Young scholars panel II, „Oratorium Marianum”, main building of the University of Wrocław

Chair: Tamara CUBITO (Switzerland)

• Cyril BLANCHARD (France), Défense des frontières et stratégies alternatives
• Martin REESE (Germany), Overcoming the Inner-German border. The Bundeswehr’s and NATO’s conception of warfare for the Central Region after Germany reunification
• Filip ADAMSKI (Poland),Participation of cadets in initiatives popularizing history organized by the Scientific Circle of War History (scientific communication)
• Łukasz PRZYBYCIEŃ (Poland),General Tadeusz Kościuszko Military University of Land Forces, its history, traditions, heritage (scientific communication)

Working Session XI B, Auditorium in building of the Department of History, ul. Szewska 49

Chair: Dominique JUILLAND (Switzerland)

• José Blanco NÚÑEZ (Spain), The Filipinos border between the Cross and the Crescent, and with Portugal and Holland…, in the Far East
• Jean-Marc HOCHSTRASSER (Switzerland), The offensive defence of the Swiss border during Napoleon’s 100-day return in 1815
• Gianluca PASTORI (Italy), Holding the line. Defending Italy’s north-eastern frontier during the Cold War

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:30-16:30 General Assembly of the ICMH, „Oratorium Marianum”, main building of the University of Wrocław (Dress: 3)

19:00-22:00 Farewell Dinner, Restaurant Hotel Plaza (Dress: 2)

CULTURAL PROGRAM-ACCOPANYING PERSONS

Monday, August 29

11.30-13.30 Visist to the Museum of University of Wrocław

13.30-14.30 Lunch

15.00-18.00  Sacred Wrocław – visiting temples of several confessions

Tuesdey, August 30

9.00-17.00 Museums of Wrocław and the surrounding area

Wednsdey, August 31

08:30-18:30 All Day Trip: Kłodzko, Brzeg

Thursday, September 1

11.00-14.00 Sighseeting Old Town in Opole – visit the Opole Silesia Museum and to the Museum of University of Opole

14.00-15.00 Lunch

15:00-17:00 Sightseeing Opole

18:00-21:00 Dinner – Castle in Moszna

Friday, September 2

10.00-11.30 Church Saint Elisabeth, hoir and musical organ

12.00-14.00 visit to the National Museum in Wrocław

Lunch

Dress 1 Casual

Dress 2 Business casual

Dress 3 Lounge suit, for military personnel: Service dress