Thursday// June 13th// 2013
(Conference Venue: Zenetudományi Intézet // Institute for Musicology Táncsics Mihály utca 7, 1014 Budapest)
17:00
Book Launch
Anders E.B. Blomquist, Constantin Iordachi and Balázs Trencsényi (eds.), Comparisons and Entanglements: Hungary and Romania beyond National Narratives
18:00
Welcome address
Joachim v. Puttkamer and Attila Pók
Keynote lecture
Marci Shore (Yale University) Living in Truth: a Philosophical History of a Catastrophic Time
Chair: Włodzimierz Borodziej
Reception
Friday// June 14th// 2013
(Conference Venue: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia // Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Széchenyi István tér 9, 1051 Budapest)
9:15//Panel I// Liberal Professions, Illiberal Politics? Professionals in the Age of Catastrophe
Chair: Joachim v. Puttkamer
Stefan Troebst// Lemkin and Lauterpacht in Lemberg and London: Post-Holocaust Careers of East European International Lawyers
Katrin Steffen// Technical and Medical Experts as Public Intellectuals and Their Visions of Modernity
Dan Cirjan// Models of Economic Modernity among Romanian Intellectuals (1933-1945)
Katherine Lebow// The Utopia of Research: The “Polish Method” and Transatlantic Sociology from the Great Depression to the Cold War
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30// Panel II// Renegotiating National Traditions. Central and Eastern European Intellectuals in the Axis Empire
Chair: Holly Case
Maria Falina// Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration of the Serbian Orthodox Church during the Second World War
Gábor Egry// Humble Servants and Proud Leaders: the Idea of “Serving the People” and the Search for the Authentic Community among Minority Hungarians
Stanislava Kolková// Socio-political Strategies and Attitudes of Slovakian Elites during the Second World War
13:00 Lunch break
14:30// Panel III// Between Overlapping Agendas and Unpredictable Outcomes. Intellectuals and Communist Movements
Chair: Sándor Horváth
Adam Hudek// Expelled from Utopia. Slovak Communist Intellectuals between the Years 1945-1955
Bogdan Iacob// National Rebirth, Intellectuals, and the Rise of the Communist Regime in Romania
Ana Luleva// A Loyalty Purge in the Universities and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1944-1953). Creating the “People’s Intelligentsia” and “Socialist Science” in Postwar Bulgaria
Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič// Experts in the Service of the National Cause: Slovenian Historians and Geographers and the Foreign Policy of Communist Yugoslavia (1944 - 1947)
16:15 Coffee Break
16:45// Panel IV// Catastrophe and Engagement. On Jewish Intellectual Trajectories
Chair: Ferenc Laczó
Clara Roye//r A Liberal Utopia Against All Odds. The Survivor Writers of Haladás, 1945-1948
Tamás Scheibner// In the Spell of Arcadia: A Central European Life
Andrea Feldman// Vera Stein Erlich: A Life among Strangers and Shadows
Ilse Lazaroms// “The Smell of Humans”. Central European Writers and the Jewish Literary Imagination in the Wake of Destruction
Saturday// June 15th// 2013
(Conference Venue: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia // Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Széchenyi István tér 9, 1051 Budapest)
9:00// Panel V// Modernities, Utopias, Totalitarianisms. Central and Eastern European Perspectives
Chair: Diana Mishkova
John Neubauer// Newts, Khazars, Hins, and Behins. East Central European Dystopias in the 1930s
Róbert Takács// The Changing Soviet Utopia in Hungary in the Light of de-Stalinization
Péter Apor// The Political Aesthetics of Work: Postwar Visions of Economic and Social Reconstructions in East Central Europe
Michal Kopeček// Early Conceptualizations of Totalitarianism in East Central Europe
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Final Discussion
Chair: Balázs Trencsényi