The conference will take place in Nador Street Nr.9-11, the main buildings of Central European University. The campus is in the city center near the Chain Bridge – one of the main sights in Budapest.
Our program is in now. (PDF)
Thursday, April 21
Before 14.00 Arrival of participants and registration (Monument Building, ground floor)
14.00 – 16.00 Opening remarks by Matthias Riedl, Head of the History Department and Prof. László Kontler (Room 509), followed by
Keynote lecture 1
Dr. Alexander Anievas (Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge) – Resilience and Rupture in the Making of Global Modernity: Re- envisioning the Transition to Capitalism and the ‘Rise of the West’ in Non-Eurocentric Terms
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break (Room 409)
16.30 – 18.00 Parallel sessions
Panel 1 (Room 509)
Endurance and Transformation of Political Categories in Early Modern and Modern Intellectual Thought
Chair: Prof. László Kontler (Central European University)
Anastasiya V. Yuschenko (Tyumen State University) – The Categories of ‘Power’ and ‘Sovereign Power’ in the Journal of the House of Commons during the 1628 Session of the English Parliament
Juha O. Haavisto (European University Institute) – Between England and the Netherlands – William Temple and the Development of Economic Thought, 1660-1688
Maria Iulia Florutau (University College London) – The Lasting Influence of Leibniz in Late 18th Century Thought through the Example of József Fogarasi Pap’s Dissertatio de vi substantiali
Panel 2 (Room 609)
Postwar Ruptures Reconsidered
Chair: Dr. Alexander Anievas (University of Cambridge)
Anita Buhin (European University Institute) – Was 1948 Really a Turning Point in Yugoslav History? The Case Study of the Democratization of Music
Przemysław Pazik (University of Warsaw) – Romanticism or Positivism: The Reemergence of the 19th Century Debates in the Catholic Milieus in Poland in the Immediate Postwar, 1945- 1948
Anna Sugiyama (Central European University) – Adam Schaff’s Philosophical Vicissitude: Reactions to Historical Continuity in Postwar Poland
18.30 Dinner (Room 409)
Friday, April 22
9.00 – 10.30 Parallel sessions
Panel 3 (Room 509)
Reform and Restoration through Political Practices
Chair: Prof. Peter Becker (University of Vienna)
Lauren Lauret (Leiden University) – Meeting Practices of the Dutch States General and the Continuity of the Early Modern World of the Political (1716- 1830)
Dorota Wiśniewska (University of Wrocław) – Fighting Anarchy: Stanisław August Poniatowski’s Attempts to Reform the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1764-1772)
Amerigo Caruso (Saarland University) – Resilient in Adversity: The European Nobility in the Age of Revolution, 1750– 1850
Panel 4 (Room 609)
Resilience of Structures in 20th-CenturyWelfare
Chair: Katalin Stráner (Central European University)
Manuel Neubauer (University of Vienna) – Secured for Centuries: The Longevity of Stipend Foundations in the Habsburg Monarchy
Rachel Hewitt (Glasgow Caledonian University) – Radicals, Retrenchment, and the Challenge to British Welfare
Andreas Enderlin (University of Vienna) – Broken Man in Medical Care: Masculinities in the Specialized Discourse of the Austrian Medical Field 1910–1928
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break (Room 409)
11.00 – 12.30 Parallel sessions
Panel 5 (Room 509)
Revival and Continuity in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
Chair: Prof. Pavel Kolář (European University Institute)
Joanna Rozmus (University of Vienna) – On the Periphery of Poland’s Successful Transformation: A Comparative Study of Everyday Life in Poland’s Former PGR-Villages
Aliide Naylor (European University at Saint Petersburg) – Individual Agents of Change, State Response, and Public Space: Performance Art and Its Impact in Modern-Day Russia
Anna Calori (University of Exeter) – Workers’ Ownership across Transition: A Historical Account from Bosnia- Hercegovina
Panel 6 (Room 609)
Resilience and Reproduction of Imperial Orders
Chair: Professor Philipp Ther (University of Vienna)
Andrew Ilyin (National Research University Higher School of Economics) – Resilience of Imperial Order: Radical Discourse on Change in Russia, 1840- 1880
Mladen Medved (Central European University) – Wallerstein or Trotsky? Approaching the Habsburg Monarchy in the 19th Century
Mikko S. Toivanen (European University Institute) – Colonial Tours: Travel Writing and Legitimacy of Empire in Dutch and British South/Southeast Asia, 1845-1865
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch (Room 409)
13.30 – 15.00 Parallel sessions
Panel 7 (Room 509)
State Building and National Revival in the 19th Century
Chair: Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University)
Ana-Teodora Kurkina (University of Regensburg) – Promoting a State: Addressing Old and New Social Structures in Bulgaria in the Middle of the 19th Century
Nikola Pavlović (University of Belgrade) – Political Parties: A New Era in the Political Life of Serbia
Dejan Lukić (Central European University) – Resilience of Culture during the Revival of Culture: Epistemic Borders in the Early Years of the Society of Serbian Letters
Panel 8 (Room 609)
Medieval and Early Modern Religion between Institutional Resistance and Cultural Revival
Chair: Prof. Randi Deguilhem (The National Center for Scientific Research, TELEMME-MMSH/AMU, Aix-en- Provence)
Bojana Jovanović (University of Belgrade) – Survival of Christian Orthodox religious organizations in the Ottoman Empire: the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć from 16th to 18th Centuries
Károly Goda (University of Vienna) – Resilience and Revival of the Eucharistic Idea: The Cult of Corpus Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Vienna
Martin Pjecha (Central European University) – Resilience and Innovation in Medieval Apocalyptic Heterodoxies
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break (Room 409)
15.30 – 17.00 Parallel sessions
Panel 9 (Room 509)
Challenging the Endurance of State Socialist Hegemonies
Chair: Prof. Corinna Unger (European University Institute)
Agata Zysiak (University of Łódz) – Barbarians at the Gates – Postwar University for Working Classes in Poland and Intransigence of Institutions
Adela Hîncu (Central European University) – Sociology against Marxism-Leninism? The 1960s Romanian Debates on the Canon of Social Sciences in Socialism
Saša Vejzagić (European University Institute) – Omitted Internal Struggle? The Emergence of ‘Technocrats’ and Their Subsistence in the Yugoslav Political and Ideological Context (1965– 1991)
Panel 10 (Room 609)
Paradoxes of Rupture and Revolutionary Change
Chair: Prof. Nadia Al-Bagdadi (Central European University)
Maryna Batsman (European University Institute) – Tempering the Soviet Jew: Negotiations between the Local Jewish Elites and the Soviet Power in Interwar Ukraine
Dmitry Asinovskiy (European University at Saint Petersburg) – ‘A Different Kind of Revolution’: The Soviet Perception of the Islamic Revolution in Iran
17.00 – 17.30 Coffee break (Room 409)
17.30 – 19.00 Keynote lecture 2
introduced by Prof. Nadia al-Bagdadi for the Center for Religious Studies and Nikola Pantić (Room 509)
Prof. Randi Deguilhem (The National Center for Scientific Research, TELEMME- MMSH/AMU, Aix-en-Provence) – Structural Continuity, Structural Change: Adaptability of the Institution of Waqf Foundations from Early Modern to the Present
19.00 Center for Religious Studies reception and dinner (Room 409)
Saturday, April 23
9.00 – 10.30 Parallel sessions
Panel 11 (Room 509)
The Structural (Resistance to the) Transformation of the Public Sphere
Chair: Prof. Matthias Riedl (Central European University)
Wiktor Marzec (Central European University) – Structural Latency of the Public Sphere and Historical Semantics of the Political
Pol Dalmau Palet (European University Institute) – Traditional Elites in Times of Transition: Resilience and Adaptability in Europe’s New Age of Mass Politics
Panel 12 (Room 609)
Literary and Artistic Representations
of Resilience and Change
Chair: Yulia Karpova (Central European University)
Shweta Raghu (Netherlands Institute for Art History) – The Whole World on a Plate: Liberating the Dutch Table during the Early Modern Period
Stefan Trajković Filipović (Justus Liebig University Giessen) – Obscure but Resilient: Modern Reception of St. Vladimir of Dioclea
Krzysztof Usakiewicz (University of Warsaw) – One Resilient Story: How Different Variants of the Alexander Romance Reflected Social Changes through Centuries (17th-20th) in the Balkans?
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break (Room 409)
11.00 – 12.00 Parallel sessions
Panel 13 (Room 509)
The Endurance of Socialisms Past?
Chair: Gábor Szegedi (Central European University)
Dominik Stegmayer (University of Vienna) – Resilient Habitus, Changing Social Fields and the Devaluation of Capital? – Pierre Bourdieu and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Jovana Vukčević (ZEIT) – Consuming Contested Heritage of the Balkans: Nostalgia, Political Negotiation, and Disneyfication of the Socialist Memorial Sites
Panel 14 (Room 609)
Guises of Postwar Restoration
Chair: Ferenc Laczó (Maastricht University)
Pauli Aro (University of Vienna) – Continuity and Resilience of Right- Wing, National Socialist Ideology in the Writings of Ernst Frank
Steven McClellan (University of Toronto) – ‘To continue tradition,’ ‘in the name of economic science’, and for a ‘radically changed world’: The Verein für Sozialpolitik during Its Fall and Rebirth, 1933-1952
12.15 – 13.30: Round table discussion – ‘10 Years of GRACEH’ (Room 409)
Emese Bálint (European University Institute), Gábor Kármán (Hungarian Academy
of Sciences), László Kontler (Central European University), Ferenc Laczó (Maastricht University)
Closing of the conference
GRACEH2016: The 10th Graduate Conference in European History 