CONCEPTION

The European construction under way can only be comprehended in its full diversity when the commonly held values of Europe are set in their proper historical context. This conference aims to charter the notion of a transnational commonwealth in Europe during the past millennium. It will explore the manner in which local, regional, national and international loyalties and identities were established and either led to conflicts or to broader interdependence and integration. Key terms will be the universalism of the past (empire, Christendom, humanist values), the communities which have shaped the cultural and political diversity of the present (religion, ethnicity), and the different definitions of citizenship which make any political construction such a complicated enterprise. The conference sets an agenda which crosses the multitude of sub-disciplines in history, enables real and meaningful interdisciplinary work and broad comparisons, and encourages further research. The organization of the conference will aim at crossing period boundaries and enabling debate and discussion between several generations of scholars.
 
The structure of the conference reflects these aims:

(I) Two plenary lectures (John Breuilly, Birmingham; Maurizio Viroli, Princeton) will address central issues from diverse perspectives.

(II) In workshop sessions, senior scholars will chair the discussion of papers presented by their younger peers, organized according to three themes:

Theme 1: Symbolic geography, regional space and identities
Workshop 1/a: Dichotomies revisited: the north-south and west-east axis of Europe
Workshop 1/b: The liminal space of Europe and identity in borderland societies
Workshop 1/c: Local, national and supra-national identities
 
 Theme 2: Identity and the polity: state and empire
 Workshop 2/a: From patriotism to nationalism
Workshop 2/b: State-building and multi-ethnic societies
Workshop 2/c: Europe: empires and communities

Theme 3: Multiple sources of identities
Workshop 3/a: Religion, gender and culture
Workshop 3/b: History, memory, self-image and the image of the other
Workshop 3/c: Language, literacy and education
Workshop 3/d: Status and ethnicity

(III) In six round-tables, united in Theme 4: European identities through the ages, the chairs of the workshop sessions and the plenary speakers will be asked to respond to pre-circulated papers on chronologically and methodologically broad topics. Papers and responses will be followed by general discussion.
 DRAFT AGENDA

Friday, 27 April, afternoon

1.45-3.15
Welcome address
Plenary lecture: Maurizio Viroli (Princeton), Patriotism and nationalism
(Auditorium)

3.15-3.30
coffee (foyer in front of Auditorium)

3.30-5.20 parallel sessions

Workshop 1/c/1: Local, national and supra-national identities (chair: Zdzislaw Mach, Cracow), Gellner Room, to be continued at 5.30
1. Epurescu Pascovici, Ionut (Bucharest/Oxford), Crusader status and identity in twelfth and thirteenth century Europe
2. Kwan, Jonathan (Oxford), Reconciling ideas of the Gesamtreich, Staatsvolk and Deutschösterreichische identity: the Austro-German Liberal reaction to the Ausgleich of 1867)
3. Henne, Thomas (Frankfurt), The Commercial Supreme Court of the German Reich 1869-1879: strategies for creating loyalty and identity by overcoming regional structures
4. Duchenne, Geneviéve (Louvain), Analyse de l’idée européenne en Belgique dans les années 20 et 30

 
 Workshop 2/a: From patriotism to nationalism (chair: Maurizio Viroli, Princeton), Popper Room
1. Varga, Benedek (Budapest), The body, republic and body politic in Tudor political thought (tentative)
2. Trencsényi, Balázs (CEU Budapest/Hungary), The political languages of nationhood in Hungary in the early-modern period
3. Krzywiec, Grzegorz (Warsaw), Polish nationalism and right radicalism: Jan Jelenski as a politician of a „new key”
4. Loizides, Neophytos (Toronto), Re-framing modern Greek nationalism (Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos and Greece’s Byzantine legacy)
 

Workshop 3/d: Status and ethnicity (chair: Tom Ericsson, Umeå), Senate Room
1. Dysa, Kateryna (CEU Budapest/Ukraine) From Sarmatians to Kazars: Shift of accents in estate/ethnic identity in the Ukrainian lands in the early eighteenth century
2. Sinnreich, Helene (Brandeis), A history of the Jews of Europe: from ghetto to ghetto?
3. Turda, Marius (CEU Budapest/Romania), “The Magyars: A ruling race”. Contesting racial superiority in Austria-Hungary
4. Casu, Igor (Chisinau), The Question of ethnic identities in Soviet Moldova

 5.30-7.00 parallel sessions

Workshop 1/b: The liminal space of Europe and identity in borderland societies (chair: Drago Roksandic, Zagreb and Budapest), Senate Room
1. Kozubska, Olha (CEU Budapest/Ukraine), Borderlands of culture, borderlands of scholarship: Lviv in the Middle Ages
2. Lienhard, Thomas (Lille), Figures de la violence entre Slaves du nord-ouest et Allemands, des origines au miliues du XIIe siecle
3. Kotchikian, Asbed (Boston/Armenia), Where worlds collide (problems of identity in the countries of the Caucasus)
 

Workshop 1/c/2: Local, national and supra-national identities (chair: Zdzislaw Mach, Cracow), Gellner Room
5. Dujardin, Vincent (Louvain) Les sociaux-chrétiens belges et l’identité européenne face a l’ouverture a l’Est et a la guerre froide
6. Kozinska-Witt, Hanna (Leipzig), „Urban” identity? The Polish city-league, 1918-1939
7. Deschamps, Etienne (Louvain), L’Européen: a cultural review at the heart of the debate on European identity (1929-1940)
8. Krissan, Maria (Warsaw), Local and national identity of Polish peasants in the 19th century viewed by Polish historiography after the Second World War
 

Workshop 2/b: State-building and multi-ethnic societies (chair: Mária Kovács, Budapest), Popper Room
1. Ferrero, Ruth (Madrid), The Romanian state-building process after the First World War
2. Majcherkiewicz, Tatiana (London), A thousand years of Upper Silesian ties with Poland. Challenges of reintegration 1922-present
3. Brkljacic, Maja (CEU Budapest/Croatia), Opposing the multi-ethnic narrative in the process of state-building: dissolving Yugoslav and creating Croatian identity

8.00 dinner, restaurant X
 

Saturday, 28 April, morning

8.30-9.30
Round table 1: Between the Mediterranean and Central Europe: the case of Croatia in the Middle Ages (paper by Ivo Goldstein, Zagreb), Auditorium

9.35-10.35
Round table 2: The Enlightenment commonwealth of Europe (paper by Hans-Erich Bödeker, Göttingen), Auditorium

10.35-10.55
coffee (foyer in front of Auditorium)

10.55-11.55
Round table 3: Liberalism, nationalism and narratives of identity (paper by Glenda Sluga, Sidney/Florence), Auditorium

12.00-1.00
Round table 4: Population displacements and the politics of nationality  (paper by Peter Gatrell, Manchester), Auditorium

1.00-1.45
lunch, 10th floor?
 

Saturday, 28 April, afternoon

1.45-3.00
Plenary lecture: John Breuilly (Birmingham) The rise of the nation state, Auditorium

3.10-4.10
Round table 5: Empires and borderlands (paper by Alfred J. Rieber, Budapest), Auditorium

4.10-4.30
coffee (foyer in front of Auditorium)

4.30-6.00 parallel sessions

Workshop 1/a: Dichotomies revisited: the north-south and west-east axis of Europe (chair: Sorin Antohi, Bucharest and Budapest), Senate Room
1. Vörös, Kati (Budapest), Eastern Jews and Western Jews: the mental map of Central Europe revisited
2. Sammartino, Annemarie (Michigan/Berlin), The Russian past and the Soviet future: German responses to the Russian Revolution, 1918-1922
3. Freise, Matthias (Leipzig), Czeslaw Milosz and the European orientation towards the south (Rome) and the west (Paris)
4. Petrescu, Dragos (CEU Budapest/Romania), Refolution vs. revolution: the collapse of Communism and the divide between Central and (South-)Eastern Europe
 

Workshop 3/a/1: Religion, gender and culture (chair: Pauline Stafford, Liverpool), Gellner Room, to be continued at 6.10
1. Sileikyte, Ruta (CEU Budapest/Lithuania), Pro patria mori: Hagiographical representation of the death of King Oswald
2. Bálint, Emese (Cluj), Public punishments, social background and identity in sixteenth-century Kolozsvár/Cluj
3. Berezhnaya, Lilya (CEU Budapest/Russia), Eschatology and identity. Icons of the Last Judgement in the 16-17th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
 

Workshop 3/c/1: Language, literacy and education (chair: István György Tóth, Budapest), Popper Room, to be continued at 6.10
1. Loskoutova, Marina (St. Petersburg), Studying motherland: geography and local studies at school in Russia from the early nineteenth century to the War and Revolution
2. Maxwell, Alexander (Madison), Taxonomies of Slavic identity 1800-2000,
3. Paraianu, Razvan (CEU Budapest/Romania), The historian in 2000. History teaching, ethnic prejudice and cultural politics in Romania

6.10-7.00 parallel sessions

Workshop 3/a/2: Religion, gender and culture (continued), Gellner Room
4. Crook, Tom (Manchester), Public health, private participation: the ’healthy’ citizen in nineteenth-century Britain
5. McCook, Brian (Berkeley), Divided hearts: the struggle between national identity and confessional loyalty among Polish Catholics in the Ruhr, 1904-1914
6. Iordachi, Constantin (CEU Budapest/Romania), „The charisma of the archangel”: religion and identity in the ideology of the legion of Archangel Michael in interwar Romania
 

Workshop 3/c/2: Language, literacy and education (continued), Popper Room
4. Kamusella, Tomasz (Opole), Nation building and the linguistic situation in Upper Silesia
5. Paulus, Stefan (Augsburg), Americanization of Europe after 1945? The case of the German universities

8.00 dinner, restaurant Y
 

Sunday, 29 April, morning

8.30-10.20 parellel sessions
Workshop 2/c/1: Europe: empires and communities (chair: Wolfgang Weber, Augsburg ), Gellner Room, to be continued at 10.40
1. Marin, Serban (Bucharest), The Venetian community: from civitas to imperium
2. Goloubeva, Maria (Riga), Virgins, amazons and mothers: Female images of the Empire, 1648-1700
3. Hippler, Thomas (Florence), La „paix perpetuelle” et l’Europe dans de discours des Lumieres
4. Máthé, László (Budapest), Boy scouts on the frontiers. A cvase study of British imperial identity (Northern Nigeria, 1900-1920)
 

Workshop 3/b/1: History, memory, self-image and the image of the other (chair: Carolyn Steedman, Warwick), Popper Room
1. Chtchoukina, Olga (St. Petersburg), Self-identity and the image of the other in 16th century Russian diplomats’ reports
2. Machácek, David (CEU Budapest/Czech Republic), Memoirs, diaries and letters of soldiers in the military frontier in Hungary in the 16th-17th centuries
3. Kovács, Zoltán (Miskolc) Continental policy and British identity in the eighteenth century (tentative)
4. Górny, Maciej (Warsaw), The Czech national awakening and identity: perspectives in Stalinist historiography

10.20-10.40
coffee (in front of Gellner Room)

10.40-12.10 parallel sessions

Workshop 2/c/2: Europe: empires and communities (continued), Gellner Room
5. Rawe, Kai (Bochum), A struggle for self-identification: monuments and national identity in imperial Germany, 1871-1918
6. Deloge, Pascal (Louvain), Petites nations et empire. L’exemple de la Belgique 1830-1950
7. Wilson, Jerome (Louvain), Unions et desunions monétaires européennes: 1914-1979
8. Tousignant, Nathalie (Louvain), La dynamique de l’integration. Le cas de la problématique de l’identité européenne et „L’Europe des citoyens”
 

Workshop 3/b/2: History, memory, self-image and the image of the other (continued), Popper Room
5. Lungerhausen, Matthew (Minnesota), 1000 years: Millennium Hungary and the photographic image
6. Petrescu, Cristina (CEU Budapest/Romania), Romanian exceptionalism revisited: the political culture of anti-reformism (1956-1996)

12.20-1.20
Round table 6: Teaching European culture and identity (paper by Christina Chimisso, Clive Elmsley and Mark Pittaway, Open University), Auditorium

1.30 lunch, restaurant Z