Franz Sz. Horváth
SACRIFICE AND REGENERATION
The Legacy of the Great War in Interwar Eastern Europe
University of Southampton
13-15 September 2007
Programme
Thursday 13 September
13.00: Registration
14.00: Welcome: Mark Cornwall (Southampton)
14.10: Keynote lecture: John Horne (Dublin): Cultural Legacies of the Great War: Historiography and New Approaches
15.00 Panel 1: Violence and the Politics of Defeat
Chair: Martyn Rady (London)
Tom Lorman (Cincinnati): Military Service and Political Affiliations in Post-War Hungary, 1920-1927
Robert Gerwarth (Oxford): Post-Imperial Reckoning: Paramilitary Violence in Austria and the Borderlands, 1918-23
Nikolai Vukov (Sofia) : Bulgarian Post-War Memory and Violence in Defeat
16.30 Break (tea/coffee)
17.00: Panel 2: Commemoration of the Sacrifice
Chair: Keith Jeffery (Belfast)
Nancy Wingfield (North Illinois): National Commemorations of the Battle of Zborov in a Multinational State
Catherine Edgecombe (Southampton): With God, For Kaiser and Fatherland: The Interpretation of Wartime Sacrifice in the Post-War Austrian Republic.
Silviu Hariton (Budapest): War Commemoration in Inter-war Romania: Cultural Politics and Social Context
19.00: Dinner (Avenue campus)
Friday 14 September
9.00: Panel 3: Regions under Former Occupation
Chair: TBA
Petra Svoljšak (Ljubljana): The Slovenes and the Memory of the Wartime Italian Occupation
Christoph Mick (Warwick): The Dead and the Living: War Veterans and Memorial Culture in East Galicia
Jovana Kniževic (Stanford): War, Occupation, and Liberation: Women's Sacrifice and the First World War in Yugoslavia
10.30: Break (tea/coffee)
11.00: Panel 4: Gender and Heroism
Chair: Dan Healey (Swansea)
Maureen Healy (Oregon State): Women, Men and the Language of Sacrifice in Post-War Austria
Anders Ahlbäck (Helsinki): War Heroes as War Teachers: the “Jaeger” Officers, Conscript Soldiers and Military Masculinities in Finland
Karen Petrone (Kentucky): The Paradoxes of Heroic Masculinity in Soviet Memory of the Great War
13.00: Lunch (Avenue campus)
14.15: Panel 5: Geographical Variants of Remembering
Chair: Neil Gregor (Southampton)
Maria Bucur (Indiana): Death and Mourning in a New Key: Contests over Remembering the Dead in Inter-War Romania
Eva Fisli (Paris/ Budapest): Hungarian Remembrance of the Great War in Mohács
Vesna Drapac (Adelaide): Memory, Power and Nation in Interwar Yugoslavia: the View from Abroad
15.45: Break (tea/coffee)
16.15: Panel 6: Divided Memories
Chair: Mark Cornwall (Southampton)
Laurence Cole (East Anglia): Divided War, Divided Memories: The Legacy of the Great War in the Austrian-Italian Successor Regions
Franz Horvath (Southampton): The Divided War Memory of the Transylvanian Hungarians
Melissa Bokovoy (New Mexico): Whose Hero? (Re)Defining War Dead in the Interwar Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes
19.30: Conference Dinner (Blue Room, Staff Social Centre, Highfield campus)
Saturday 15 September
9.00: Panel 7: Veterans
Chair: John Horne (Dublin)
Katya Kocourek (London): Czechoslovak Legionaries between Left and Right
Paul Newman (Southampton): Second Class Soldiers? Croatian War Veterans and their Impact on Society in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes 1918-1929
Julia Eichenberg (Tubingen): The Problem of the Polish Veteran: Ex-Servicemen and the Second Polish Republic
10.30: Break (tea/coffee)
11.00: Panel 8: Youth, Regeneration and Remobilization
Chair: Maureen Healy (Oregon State)
Mark Cornwall (Southampton): Youth and Nationalist Sacrifice in the Post-War Sudetenland
Martin Zückert (Munich): Double Inheritance: War Memory and Military Tradition in the Czechoslovak Army
Valentin Sandulescu (Budapest): Separating the Men from the Boys: Youth, Regeneration and the Shaping of the Legionary Movement in Romania
12.30: Keynote lecture: Jay Winter (Yale): Concluding Remarks