Interdisciplinary Approaches to Discourses, Social Groups
And Agency in Central and Eastern Europe
CEU Graduate Conference in the Humanities and Social Studies
• Central European University •
12th -14th of May 2006
The program of the conference:
Friday, 12th of May
Hanák Room (Nador u. 11, room 201)
14.30-14.40
Welcome
14.40-15.00
Keynote speech
Sorin
Antohi, Head of CEU School of History and Interdisciplinary Historical Studies
and Director of Pasts Inc. Institute of Historical Studies
15.00-15.10
Gábor Klaniczay, Head of the Medieval Studies Department and former
Head of CEU School of History
15.15-17.15
Comparative approaches of the past and/or society: diffusion
and reception of ideas
Chair: Balázs Trencsényi
15.15-15.30 Jonathan Pickle (New School for Social Research) Crucifying Messiahs: Marx’s Relation to Luther as Overcoming Feuerbachean Secularization and Inversion
15.30-15.45 Tsvetelina Santulova (Sofia University “St.Kl.Ohridsky”, Philosophy) Literary Criticism and Theory as an Alternative Form of Publicity Since the Beginning of XX Century
15.45-16.00 Didem Turkoglu (CEU Nati) Sevres Syndrome: Turkish Nationalism and Perception of the Ottoman Legacy
16.00-16.15 Bogdan Cristian Iacob (CEU) The political language of the socialist nation in Romanian communism (1965-1974)
16.15-16.50 Discussions
17.10-19.00 State, church and society
Chair: Nadia Al-Bagdadi
17.10-17.25 Natia Gabrichidze (CEU Meds) The Old Georgian translation of the Homily against iconoclasts by St. Germanos I Patriarch of Constantinople
17.25-17.40 Shannon Holcomb (Catholic University, Washington) The Role of Spectacle in Fourteenth-Century Royal Achievement
17.40-17.55 Cristian-Nicolae Daniel (Central European University) The place of the Hussites in the policies of Alexander the Good of Moldavia in the first half of the fifteenth century
17.55-18.10 Karoly Goda (ELTE and CEU) Luther at the Stake: State, Church and the Political Elite of Sopron in an Age of Transition
18.10-18.25 Marian Zăloagă (UBB Cluj) Between self confessional identity and state policy. Saxons and Habsburgs on the Transylvanian’s Gypsy religious customs (from 17th to first the 19th Century)
18.25-19.00 Discussions
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9.00-10.30 Memory and history: the role of representations
Chair: Balázs Nagy
9.00-9.15: Evelina Razhdavichka (Institute of Balkan Studies, Sofia) Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Society in the Mirror of Balkan Fairs
9.15-9.30: Alina Şerban (National University of Arts, Bucharest) History and representation. The case of historical painting during Dej Regime in Romania
9.30-9.45: Călin Goina (UCLA) Identities, memory and the ethnicization of politics: a case study of the process that led to ethnic clashes in Targu-Mures, Romania, 1990
9.45-10.00: Petra Gumplova (New School for Social Research) Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary: The Constitution Making in Czechoslovakia, 1992
10.00-10.40: Discussions
11.00-12.40 Memory and history: the role of media
Chair: Marsha Siefert
11.00-11.15: Megan Williams (Columbia University) Political Communication and the Boundaries of Early Modern Sovereignty in Central European Diplomatic Praxis, 1526-1540
11.15-11.30: Gabor Karman (Central European University) An early group of intellectuals in state service: “Turkish scribes” of the Transylvanian embassy in 17th century Constantinople
11.30-11.45: Anna Bori Manchin (Brown University) Hungarian Modernity in Popular Narratives of the 1930s: The case of the “national” film industry
11.45-12.00: Jonathan Crossen (Central European University) Prague Spring, Summer, and Fall: International Reaction to the Events of 1968
12.00-12.40 Discussions
13.30-15.00 Memory and history: commemorations
Chair: Judith Rasson
13.30-13.45: Andrei Cuşco (CEU) Power, Ritual and Local Politics in the Late Russian Empire: The 1912 Celebration of Bessarabia’s Annexation to Russia
13.45-14.00: Tarik Cyril Amar (Princeton) The Local’s Resistance. The retrospective Construction of the Narodna Hvardia Communist Underground for the Soviet city of Lviv, 1944-1962
14.00-14.15: Sofiya Dyak (Graduate School of Social Research (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science) and Lviv University, History Faculty) Inscribing the Second World War in the Post-war Cityscape of Wroclaw after 1945
14.15-14.30: Deanna Wooley (Indiana University) A Genealogy of Apathy and Euphoria: Public Commemoration of the So-Called Revolution of 1989 in the Czech Lands
14.30-15.10 Discussions
15.30-16.45 Space and identity
15.30-15.45: Lukazs Jan Stanek (Technical University Delft, Architecture) Applying Henri Lefebvre’s theory of production of space for urban empirical research in Central Europe: Nowa Huta as a case study
15.45-16.00: Maja Grabkowska (University of Gdansk, Poland, Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanology) (Re)appropriation as a means of stretching time-space: the everyday lives of inner-city households in Gdansk, Poland
16.00-16.15: Michal Stangel (Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, architecture)Representations and interpretations of urban narratives in contemporary urban design
16.15-16.30. Teodora Daneş (Central European University) European integration and the re-conceptualization of the national identity and citizenship in the case of Romania
16.30-17.05 Discussions
17.20-19.00 Entangled histories
Chair: Constantin Iordachi
17.20-17.35: Roxana Cheşchebec (CEU) Emancipating the “Other Half” of the Nation: Feminism and Nationalism in Interwar Romanian Projects for Women’s Emancipation
17.35-17.50: Barbara Wiesinger (University of Salzburg, Faculty of Philosophy) “Death to Fascism, Freedom for Women"? Women's Resistance and Citizenship in Yugoslavia, c. 1940-1950
17.50-18.05: Sanja Petrovic Todosijevic (Institut for Contemporary History, Belgrade) Implementation of the Organization of Collective Life” or Caring for Children of German Nationality Who Were Outside of Their Parents’ Care in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1946-1950)
18.05-18.20: Marija Grujic (CEU Gender Studies) Narrative as an intelectual self-positioning: Production of History of Popular Folk Music in Serbia
18.20-18.35: Anikó Eszter Bartha (CEU) Goodbye, Lenin?: Workers after the workers’ state in East Germany and Hungary
18.25-19.10 Discussions
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9.00-10.30 Technologies of ruling: frameworks of thinking, forms of governamentality
Chair: Constantin Iordachi
9.00-9.15: Felicia Roşu (Georgertown University) The Well-Ordered Commonwealth: War, Justice, and Institutional Change in Sixteenth-Century Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania
9.15-9.30: Teodora Daniela Sechel (Central European University) The Professionalization of Transylvanian Physicians (1770-1830)
9.30-9.45: Iryna Vushko (Yale) Enlightened Absolutism, Imperial Bureaucracy and Provincial Society: Austrian Project to Transform Galicia, 1772-1815
9.45-10.00: Silviu Hariton (Central European University) Nation-building and military conscription in nineteenth century Romania
10.00-10.40 Discussions
11.00-12.40 Entangled histories: identities, sites of memory, social change
Chair: Katalin Szende
11.00-11.15: Mariana Goina (CEU Meds) Power and literati in quasi-oral societies: Moldavia and Walachia in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
11.15-11.30: Robert Kurelic (Central European University) The County of Cilli - Princes without a Principality
11.30-11.45: Brian Hobson (Purdue University) Artifacts of Ottoman Administration in Habsburg Hungary
11.45-12.00: Eva Deak (Central European University) Clothes for an early modern princely household: the account book of Prince Gabriel Bethlen
12.00-12.15: Silvana Rachieru (University of Bucharest) TBA “Long life to our sultan!”: Sultan’s people in independent romania (1878-1915)
12.15-12.50 Discussions
Chair: Balázs Trencsényi
15.15-15.30 Jonathan Pickle (New School for Social Research) Crucifying Messiahs: Marx’s Relation to Luther as Overcoming Feuerbachean Secularization and Inversion
15.30-15.45 Tsvetelina Santulova (Sofia University “St.Kl.Ohridsky”, Philosophy) Literary Criticism and Theory as an Alternative Form of Publicity Since the Beginning of XX Century
15.45-16.00 Didem Turkoglu (CEU Nati) Sevres Syndrome: Turkish Nationalism and Perception of the Ottoman Legacy
16.00-16.15 Bogdan Cristian Iacob (CEU) The political language of the socialist nation in Romanian communism (1965-1974)
16.15-16.50 Discussions
17.10-19.00 State, church and society
Chair: Nadia Al-Bagdadi
17.10-17.25 Natia Gabrichidze (CEU Meds) The Old Georgian translation of the Homily against iconoclasts by St. Germanos I Patriarch of Constantinople
17.25-17.40 Shannon Holcomb (Catholic University, Washington) The Role of Spectacle in Fourteenth-Century Royal Achievement
17.40-17.55 Cristian-Nicolae Daniel (Central European University) The place of the Hussites in the policies of Alexander the Good of Moldavia in the first half of the fifteenth century
17.55-18.10 Karoly Goda (ELTE and CEU) Luther at the Stake: State, Church and the Political Elite of Sopron in an Age of Transition
18.10-18.25 Marian Zăloagă (UBB Cluj) Between self confessional identity and state policy. Saxons and Habsburgs on the Transylvanian’s Gypsy religious customs (from 17th to first the 19th Century)
18.25-19.00 Discussions
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Saturday, 13th of May
TIGY room (Nador u. 11, courtyard, room 006)
TIGY room (Nador u. 11, courtyard, room 006)
9.00-10.30 Memory and history: the role of representations
Chair: Balázs Nagy
9.00-9.15: Evelina Razhdavichka (Institute of Balkan Studies, Sofia) Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Society in the Mirror of Balkan Fairs
9.15-9.30: Alina Şerban (National University of Arts, Bucharest) History and representation. The case of historical painting during Dej Regime in Romania
9.30-9.45: Călin Goina (UCLA) Identities, memory and the ethnicization of politics: a case study of the process that led to ethnic clashes in Targu-Mures, Romania, 1990
9.45-10.00: Petra Gumplova (New School for Social Research) Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary: The Constitution Making in Czechoslovakia, 1992
10.00-10.40: Discussions
11.00-12.40 Memory and history: the role of media
Chair: Marsha Siefert
11.00-11.15: Megan Williams (Columbia University) Political Communication and the Boundaries of Early Modern Sovereignty in Central European Diplomatic Praxis, 1526-1540
11.15-11.30: Gabor Karman (Central European University) An early group of intellectuals in state service: “Turkish scribes” of the Transylvanian embassy in 17th century Constantinople
11.30-11.45: Anna Bori Manchin (Brown University) Hungarian Modernity in Popular Narratives of the 1930s: The case of the “national” film industry
11.45-12.00: Jonathan Crossen (Central European University) Prague Spring, Summer, and Fall: International Reaction to the Events of 1968
12.00-12.40 Discussions
13.30-15.00 Memory and history: commemorations
Chair: Judith Rasson
13.30-13.45: Andrei Cuşco (CEU) Power, Ritual and Local Politics in the Late Russian Empire: The 1912 Celebration of Bessarabia’s Annexation to Russia
13.45-14.00: Tarik Cyril Amar (Princeton) The Local’s Resistance. The retrospective Construction of the Narodna Hvardia Communist Underground for the Soviet city of Lviv, 1944-1962
14.00-14.15: Sofiya Dyak (Graduate School of Social Research (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science) and Lviv University, History Faculty) Inscribing the Second World War in the Post-war Cityscape of Wroclaw after 1945
14.15-14.30: Deanna Wooley (Indiana University) A Genealogy of Apathy and Euphoria: Public Commemoration of the So-Called Revolution of 1989 in the Czech Lands
14.30-15.10 Discussions
15.30-16.45 Space and identity
15.30-15.45: Lukazs Jan Stanek (Technical University Delft, Architecture) Applying Henri Lefebvre’s theory of production of space for urban empirical research in Central Europe: Nowa Huta as a case study
15.45-16.00: Maja Grabkowska (University of Gdansk, Poland, Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanology) (Re)appropriation as a means of stretching time-space: the everyday lives of inner-city households in Gdansk, Poland
16.00-16.15: Michal Stangel (Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, architecture)Representations and interpretations of urban narratives in contemporary urban design
16.15-16.30. Teodora Daneş (Central European University) European integration and the re-conceptualization of the national identity and citizenship in the case of Romania
16.30-17.05 Discussions
17.20-19.00 Entangled histories
Chair: Constantin Iordachi
17.20-17.35: Roxana Cheşchebec (CEU) Emancipating the “Other Half” of the Nation: Feminism and Nationalism in Interwar Romanian Projects for Women’s Emancipation
17.35-17.50: Barbara Wiesinger (University of Salzburg, Faculty of Philosophy) “Death to Fascism, Freedom for Women"? Women's Resistance and Citizenship in Yugoslavia, c. 1940-1950
17.50-18.05: Sanja Petrovic Todosijevic (Institut for Contemporary History, Belgrade) Implementation of the Organization of Collective Life” or Caring for Children of German Nationality Who Were Outside of Their Parents’ Care in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1946-1950)
18.05-18.20: Marija Grujic (CEU Gender Studies) Narrative as an intelectual self-positioning: Production of History of Popular Folk Music in Serbia
18.20-18.35: Anikó Eszter Bartha (CEU) Goodbye, Lenin?: Workers after the workers’ state in East Germany and Hungary
18.25-19.10 Discussions
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Sunday, 14th of May
(TIGY room (Nador u. 11, courtyard, room 006)
(TIGY room (Nador u. 11, courtyard, room 006)
9.00-10.30 Technologies of ruling: frameworks of thinking, forms of governamentality
Chair: Constantin Iordachi
9.00-9.15: Felicia Roşu (Georgertown University) The Well-Ordered Commonwealth: War, Justice, and Institutional Change in Sixteenth-Century Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania
9.15-9.30: Teodora Daniela Sechel (Central European University) The Professionalization of Transylvanian Physicians (1770-1830)
9.30-9.45: Iryna Vushko (Yale) Enlightened Absolutism, Imperial Bureaucracy and Provincial Society: Austrian Project to Transform Galicia, 1772-1815
9.45-10.00: Silviu Hariton (Central European University) Nation-building and military conscription in nineteenth century Romania
10.00-10.40 Discussions
11.00-12.40 Entangled histories: identities, sites of memory, social change
Chair: Katalin Szende
11.00-11.15: Mariana Goina (CEU Meds) Power and literati in quasi-oral societies: Moldavia and Walachia in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
11.15-11.30: Robert Kurelic (Central European University) The County of Cilli - Princes without a Principality
11.30-11.45: Brian Hobson (Purdue University) Artifacts of Ottoman Administration in Habsburg Hungary
11.45-12.00: Eva Deak (Central European University) Clothes for an early modern princely household: the account book of Prince Gabriel Bethlen
12.00-12.15: Silvana Rachieru (University of Bucharest) TBA “Long life to our sultan!”: Sultan’s people in independent romania (1878-1915)
12.15-12.50 Discussions