Program
Ottawa Cession
Friday, April 5, 2024
uOttawa, Faculty of Social Sciences, 120 University Private, Ottawa, room 7035
Zoom link : http://surl.li/rjvyl
9:00-9:20 Welcome of the participants
9:20-9h30 Roman Krakovsky (uOttawa, Canada), Opening remarks
9:30-10:10 Key speakers : John Connelly (University of Berkeley, USA) and Constantin Iordachi (CEU, Austria)
10:10-11:10 : Panel I. Tensions between Modernity and Tradition
Discussant: to be confirmed
- Marie-Josée Lavallée (University of Montréal, Canada), Educating the Socialist youth to modernize society: the case of the Verband Jugendlicher Arbeiter Österreichs until 1918
- Jelena Gajić (Charles University, Czech Republic), Education and Modernization: the Case of Muslim Girls in Interwar Yugoslavia
- Martin Löhnig (University of Regensburg, Germany), Central Europe in the Interwar Period as a Laboratory for Contemporary Legislation (zoom)
11:10-11:30 Break
11:30-12:50 Panel II. Strategies of Modernization During the Late 19th Century and the Interwar Period
Discussant: Constantin Iordachi (CEU, Austria)
- Alessandro Milani (EPHE, France), A Case Study of Managed Modernization: How the Ruthenians of Galicia Became Ukrainians (1848-1900). Political and Religious Aspects
- Boris Popivanov (St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, Bulgaria), Claims of Authenticity in Modernization: Bulgarian Ideological Debates on ‘National’ and ‘Foreign’
- Attila Pok (Academy of Sciences, Hungary), Masonic Interpretations of Modernization in the Interwar Hungary in an Eastern and Central European Context
- Giuseppe Motta (La Sapienza University, Italy), Making Romania Great. The Ambiguities of Romanian Modernization in the Interwar Period
12:50-14:10 Lunch Break
14:10-15:30 Panel III. Socialist Modernities
Discussant: James Krapfl (McGill, Canada)
- Melvin Bernard (EHESS, France), Self-Management or the Yugoslav Path to Socialist Modernity: The Case of Housing Policy (1974-1990)
- Niya Metodieva (EHESS, France), Controlling Time, Controlling Minds? The Morking Brigades in the People's Republic of Bulgaria: Between Obligation and Social Leverage (1946-1950)
- Roman Krakovsky (University of Ottawa, Canada), ‘The Lord’s Day is now the Worker’s Day!’ Transforming the Seven-Day Cycle in Slovakia During the 1950s
- Tanja Zimmermann (Universität Leipzig, Germany), Miming the West: Western Pop-Culture Icons and Their GDR Doubles (zoom)
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Zoom link : http://surl.li/rjvyq
9:00-9:30 Welcome
9:30-10h40 Panel IV. Challenging Center-Periphery Narrative
Discussant: Thomas Ruckebrush (University of Lille, France)
- Malgorzata Mazurek (Columbia University, USA), The Decolonisation of Knowledge?: The Making of the African University, the Power of the Imperial Legacy, and the Eastern European Influence
- Paulina Dominik (European University Institute, Italy), From Independence Fighters to Agents of Empire? Political Emigrés from Former Poland-Lithuania and the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Modernising Reforms
- Dan-Alexandru Săvoaia (University of Iasi, Romania), Social Reform in the New Europe – A Few Notes on Romania’s Tripartite Delegations in the mid-1920s
- Slobodan Markovich (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Modernisation of South-East Europe, 1800-1941 seen through Cultural Transfer Europe - the Balkans (zoom)
10:40-11:00 Lunch Break
11:00-12:10 Panel V. Dynamics of Western Influence on Modernization of Central and Eastern Europe
Discussant: Malgorzata Mazurek (Columbia University, USA)
- Thomas Ruckebusch (Université de Lille, France), Freedom as a Modernization Tool – The American Neoliberal Offensive on Eastern Europe at the Dawn of the Cold War
- Andreea Deciu Ritivoi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), In Their Own Words: The Political Voice of Cold War Political Refugees in the United States
- Boris Vinogradov (University of Lille, France), Technology Transfers as a Soft Power Stimulating Democratization: the Case of Poland in the 1960s-1980s (zoom)
12:10-12:40 Final Discussion
12h40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Guided Tour of the Canadian Museum of History (Ottawa)
Lille Cession
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Zoom link : http://surl.li/rjvzb
9:00-9:30 Welcome of the Participants
9:30-10:10 Key Speaker : Thomas Serrier (Université de Lille, to be confirmed)
10:10-11:20 Panel I. The Modernization in Austria-Hungary and at the End of the 19th Century and its Challenges
Discussant: to be confirmed
- Stephanie Truskowski (University of Notre Dame, USA), These Forces are the Engines that Will Drive the Nineteenth Century: Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian's Travelogues as a Reflection on Habsburg Modernization
- Claire Morelon (University of Manchester, UK), Forms of Resistance to the Democratization Process in Austria-Hungary from 1890 to 1914
- Szilveszter Csernus-Lukács (University of Marburg, Germany / University of Szeged, Hungary), The Spatial Limits of Legal Modernization Within One State? The Challenges of Structural Political Reforms of the Late Habsburg Semi-Periphery
- Robert Andrzejczyk (Józef Piłsudski Museum, Poland), The Bank as a Catalyst for Modernization. Case Study of Société Générale de Belgique Activities in Interwar Poland
11:20-11:40 Break
11:40-12:40 Panel II. The Peasant Question
Discutant: to be confirmed
- Arina Fedorova (European University Institute, Italy), Capitalist "Modernization" of Peasants’ Lives in the Russian Empire: Failures and Successes of the Peasant’s Land Bank (1882-1917)
- Tatiana Borisova (European University at St-Petersburg, Russia), Modernization via Moral Consciousness?: Introduction of Jury Trial In Russia
- Luminita Gatejel (Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, Germany), Turning Wetlands into “Productive” Land? Modernization and Rural Development in Interwar Romania
12:40-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:10 Panel III. Borderlands of the Periphery ?
Discutant: Raul Cârstocea (Maynooth University, Ireland)
- Stanislav Holubec (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), Borderlands questioning the centre and periphery? The Case of the Silesian-Czech Giant Mountains, 16th-19th Century
- Aleksandra Tobiasz (Institute of Civilisation and Culture, Slovenia), Trieste and Gdańsk as two Central European Laboratories for Modernization
- Maksim Demin (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany), Ambiguity of Modernization: Higher Education Policy in the Russian Empire between Integration and Discrimination
- Aleksandar Zlatanov (Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria), The Ottoman Balkans in the 19th Century: Peripheralization or Modernization?
15:10-15h30 Break
15h30-16:30 Panel IV. Chronopolitics of Modernization in Central and Eastern Europe
Discussant: to be confirmed
- Raul Cârstocea (Maynooth University, Ireland), A Quest for Synchronicity: The Chronopolitics of Global Fascist Revolution in a Balkan Periphery
- Andrei Sorescu (New Europe College, Bucharest / University College London, United Kingdom), The Politics of Peripheral Timeliness: Fin-de-siècle Central and Eastern European Antisemitism in a Transnational and Global Context
- Vita Zalar (Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia), International Chronopolitics of Anti Roma Racism: The “Gypsy Question” in Imperial and Postimperial Central and Eastern Europe
Friday, May 31, 2024
Zoom link : http://surl.li/rjvzj
9:00-9:30 Welcome
9:30-10:40 Panel V. The Modernization and Other Peripheries of the West (round table, in French)
Discutant: Roman Krakovsky (University of Ottawa)
- Gilles Bataillon (CESPRA, France)
- Matthieu Rey (IFPO, France)
- Pierre-François Souyri (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Panel VI. The Modernization and Other Peripheries of the West (case studies)
Discussant: to be confirmed
- Dominique Vidal (Université de Paris, France), What type of democracy is post-Bolsonaro Brazil ?
- Micheline Lessard (University of Ottawa, Canada) : Title to be confirmed
12:00-12:30 Final Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00 Guided tour of the Villa Cavrois (Roubaix)
This conference is jointly sponsored by the Chair in Slovak History and Culture of the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Chaire d’excellence de l’Université de Lille, France.