Thursday (1 Dec 2022)
Panel I
Classical Receptions
and translatio imperii
17:00 opening
17:15 Christine Tauber
(München)
Kaiser im eigenen Schloss: François' Ier Translatio Imperii nach Fontainebleau
18:15 Rhiannon Garth Jones (Aarhus)
Early ’Abbāsid use of Graeco-Roman traditions to project imperial authority and power
19:00 Evening Reception
Friday (2 dec 2022)
8:30 Entrance
9:00 Peter Makhlouf
(Princeton)
Die Eroberung Alexandrias: ein Leitmotiv der Weimarer Republik
9:45 Julian Zimmermann (Regensburg)
“da caput a cauda mundi.” Zur Reziprozität metropolitaner Identität und (post-)imperialer Logik im mittelalterlichen Rom
10:30 Coffee Break
Friday (2 Dec 2022)
Panel II
Distant imperial pasts
11:00 Rolf Strootman
(Utrecht)
Imperial leapfrogging: How empires anchor their rule in the past
12:00 Aleksandr Osipian
(FU Berlin)
Political justification of territorial expansion from Catherine II to Putin: inventing Novorossiya in imperial and in post-imperial context
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Rogier van der Heijden
(Freiburg)
Constructing imperial pasts: Inventions and innovations of (post-imperial) traditions in the urban fabric of Lydian Sardis in the Roman period
14:45 Elena Fellner
(Freiburg)
Memories of Empire – Imaginaries of Pasts and Futures in Iranian Anti-Regime Online Spaces
15:30 Coffee Break
Friday (2 dec 2022)
Panel III
Breaches and Continuities in (Post-)imperial narratives
16:00 Deborah Holmes
(Salzburg)
Empire Days. Imperial Celebrations in the late British and Austro-Hungarian Empire
17:00 Christina Wu (Paris)
Curating Indigeneity: Imperial Pasts and the Shaping of Communal Identities in the Malay Archipelago (19th – 20th Centuries)
Saturday (3 dec 2022)
9:30 Oliver Pejic (Florence)
Contesting the Habsburg Empire in Everyday Life: The Habsburg Legacy as a Source of Everyday Conflict in Interwar Yugoslav Society
10:15 Sebastian Fahner (Freiburg)
Socialist perspectives on history in Spain and the Habsburg Monarchy, 1890-1914. A study of internationalist commemorations in a context of national strife and imperial crisis
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Fatma Eda Celik (Paris)
Islamization as an Imperial and Post-Imperial Feature
12:15 Final Discussion