Florian Greiner, Stiftung Reichspräsident-Friedrich-Ebert-Gedenkstätte Heidelberg
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
13:30–14:00h Registration and Coffee
14:00–14:30h Opening Message: Roberto Marchionatti (Turin), Federico Trocini (Turin) and Matthew D’Auria (Norwich)
Introduction: Florian Greiner (Heidelberg): Ideas of Europe and Liberalism, 1848–2022: Past and Present of a Firm and Fragile Relationship
14:45–16:00h Panel 1: 1848 – European Ideas in a Liberal Revolution
Fernanda Gallo (Cambridge): Free Italy in a Free Europe: Ideas of Europe in Italian 1848 Revolutions
Carine Renoux (Paris): Francisque Bouvet: Republican and Promoter of Europe, 1848–1849
Bernd Braun (Heidelberg): Ernst Elsenhans (1815–1849): Lost Ideas about Social-Liberal State Building and an International State System in the Revolution of 1848/49
Chair: Matthew D’Auria (Norwich)
16:30–18:30h Panel 2: Freedom, Europe, and Liberalism in Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Literature, and Politics
Anna di Bello (Naples): Between literature and politics: Victor Hugo’ s ideas of freedom and Europe
Arthur Ghins (Yale): How Liberalism Became European: The French Case
Alexander Zevin (New York): Inventing Liberal Socialism: John Stuart Mill’s “European Ideas” after 1848
Oded Steinberg (Jerusalem): ‘Racial Time’: Liberalism, Race and Historical Time in the Late Victorian Era
Giuseppe Grieco (Turin): Visions of Europe and the Principle of Nationality: Recasting International Order after 1848
Chair: Federico Trocini (Turin)
18:45–19:45h Keynote
Helena Rosenblatt (New York): Reflections on the Notion of liberty, 1848–1945
20:30h Social Dinner
Thursday, 30 June 2022
09:15–11:00h Panel 3: The Quest for Peace and Freedom – Ideas of a Liberal Europe from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War and its Aftermath
Alessandro Dividus (Pisa): L. T. Hobhouse’s idea of a European Federation
Ulrich Tiedau (London): The First Congress for European Federation, Rome 1909
Spartaco Pupo (Cosenza): Free Government, Free Trade, and Europe: The Scottish Enlightenment Heritage in the European Liberalism of the Early Twentieth Century
Georgios Giannakopoulos (Athens / London): Fighting for Freedom against German Militarism: Greece, Southeastern Europe and the emergence of a “New Europe” during WWI
Chair: Jan Vermeiren (Norwich)
11:30–13:15h Panel 4: Europe from the Margins? Thinking Liberal Europe in the Periphery
Erkjad Kajo (Pavia / Athens): Notions of Europe and Freedom in the Albanian National Movements Discourse (1878–1914)
Domagoj Tomas (Osijek): Geopolitical visions of Central Europe in the views of Croatian intellectuals in the first half of the 20th century
Zinovia Lialiouti (Athens) / Iason Zarikos (Athens): Images of Germany and Neglected Visions of Europe in First World War Greece
Carl Antonius Lemke Duque (Pamplona): Europe as the teleology of law cultures: Ortega, Hegel and the resurrection of the West
Chair: Cathie Carmichael (Norwich)
14:45–16:30h Panel 5: The Struggle against Antiliberalism I: Conceptualizing Liberal Europe in the Interbellum
Margarete Tiessen (Chemnitz): No Freedom Without Unity: Germany’s Inter-War Liberal Left and the Vision of a Grand European Synthesis
Federico Trocini (Turin): Walther Rathenau between Capitalism, Socialist planning, Popular Democracy and Europeanism
Patricia Chiantera-Stutte (Bari): Imperialism and liberty: the British Liberal Internationalism and the geopolitical projects for the consolidation of a world order during the two World Wars
Vesa Vares (Turku): Finland, Czechoslovakia, and the New European Order after the First World War: A Comparison of Presidents K.J. Ståhlberg and Tomáš Masaryk
Chair: Florian Greiner (Heidelberg)
17:00–18:00h Keynote
Glenda Sluga (Sydney / Florence): Rethinking liberal Europe? What shall we do with the women?
Friday, 1 July 2022
09:00–10:45h Panel 6: The Struggle against Antiliberalism II: Interpreting Liberal Europe in the Interbellum
Paola Cattani (Rome): T. Mann, P. Valéry, J. Ortega y Gasset and democratic liberalism: from criticism to defence
Cristina Blanco Sío-Lopez (Venice): Salvador de Madariaga and the ‘Solidarity of Being’: Echoes of an imagined ‘free movement of persons’ from interwar Europe
Aleksandra Tobiasz (Florence): Europe between Asian past and Latin American future? Retrospective and utopian ideas of Europe in writings of Sándor Márai and Stefan Zweig
Matthew D’Auria (Norwich): European history and the Unfolding of Freedom? Some thoughts on Benedetto Croce and Federico Chabod’s ideas of Europe
Chair: Fernanda Gallo (Cambridge)
11:00–11:50h Panel 7: Building a New Europe – The Difficult Rebirth of Liberal Europeanism in and after the Second World War
Marcello Gisondi (Lugano): The Common Man’s Front: a liberal-populist vision of the United States of Europe (1943–1948)
Andrea Pinazzi (Rome): Luigi Einaudi and European unity: between federalism and functionalism
Chair: Georgios Giannakopoulos (Athens / London)
12:00–13:00h Final Round Table and Concluding Remarks
Chair: Cathie Carmichael (Norwich)