Preliminary Schedule (see the website for updates)
Day I (Monday) – 18.7.2022
13h00-14h00
Welcome Coffee and Check in
14h00-14h45
1. Dr. Justyna Schulz (Poznań): Empires and Imperial Traditions – Yesterday and Tomorrow.
14h45-15h30
2. Prof. Dr. Thomas Zimmermann (Ankara): “I reinforced the realms of my father and grandfather” – conjuring lost Hittite imperial glory in post-Hittite perilous times.
15h30-16h15
3. Dr. Germain Payen (Lille): The Aspurgian Dynasty in Bosporan History: Mithradatism, Thracian identity, Graeco-Scythian past and Sarmatian influence.
16h45-17h30
4. Prof. Dr. Altay Coşkun (Waterloo ON): Empire Allegories in the Book of Daniel.
17h30-18h15
5. Rabbi Dr. Ben Scolnic (Hamden CT): Porphyry, Antiochus/Antichrist and the Silence of Rabbi Eliezer: Neoplatonic, Early Christian and Jewish Responses to Daniel’s Vision of the Succession of Empires.
Day II (Tuesday)– 19.7.2022
9h-9h45
6. Loic Borgies MA (Namur): The Augustan “Renovatio” and the Ideology of the Early Han Empire - a Comparison.
9h45-10h30
7. Augustine Dickinson MA (Hamburg): Holy Men and the Holy Ark: The Church, the State, and the Legitimization of the Solomonic Dynasty of Ethiopia.
11h-11h45
8. Stone Chen BA (Waterloo ON): Imperial Concepts of China: from Confucius to Mao.
11h45-12h30
9. Dr. Grzegorz Lewicki (independent / Gdańsk): The Jagiellonian and Ottoman Empires.
14h00-14h45
10. Prof. Dr. Henrieke Stahl (Trier): Imperial Conflicts and Historical Traumas in Eastern European Poetry
14h45-15h30
11. Prof. Grzegorz Kucharczyk (Gorzów / Warszawa): How to Build an Empire? The Mitteleuropa-Plan of Friedrich Naumann.
15h30-16h15
12. Prof. Dr. Jörg Baberowski (Berlin): The Revival of Russian Imperialism from Stalin to Putin
Short Guided Tour through the “Instytut Zachodni”
18h15-19h00 (at the “Zamek” / “Kaiserschloss”)
13. Prof. Dr. David Engels (Poznań / Bruxelles): Poznań’s “Kaiserschloss”: The Strange Fate of Imperial Self-Legitimation in the 20th Century.
Day III (Wednesday) – 20.7.2022
9h00-9h45
14. Prof. Dr. Misia Doms (Mannheim / Pädagogische Hochschule Niederösterreich): Ashes without Phoenix. The End of the Habsburg Empire in the Works by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and Joseph Roth. (remote)
9h45-10h30
15. Prof. Zdzisław Krasnodębski (Bremen): Imperial Theories in the Context of Polish-German Relations during the 19th and 20th Century (to be confirmed)
11h00-11h45
16. Prof. Dr. Magdalena Bainczyk (Kraków): Fall and Rise of the European Union. Disputes over the legal character of the EU.
11h45-12h30
17. Prof. Dr. Gerd Morgenthaler (Siegen): The European Union – yet another European Empire or an Institution “sui generis”?
12h30-12h45
18. Altay Coskun / David Engels / Gerd Morgenthaler: Closing Remarks
Visit of Poznan after lunch