Thursday, June 18
Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF)
18.00 Registration
18.30 Opening
Prof. Uwe Walter, Dean, Universität Bielefeld
Prof. Rolf Petri, Coordinator, European Doctorate, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
19.00 Keynote Speech
Comparative History: Potential and Limits
Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, European University Institute
20.30 Dinner
Friday, June 19
Universität Bielefeld
9.00 SESSION I, Panels A-B-C
Panel A - Empires and Power in Ancient History
Chair: Dr. Tanja Itgenshorst, Universität Bielefeld
Sophy Downes, University College London – University of Athens
The Politics of Space in Athens and Persia
Juan Pablo Lewis, University of Edinburgh – Universität Bielefeld
The Fetishism of Roman Law and its Secret, or how not to Use the Law as a Source to Understand the History of Slavery
Carmen Eguiluz Méndez, Universidad de Cantabria – Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Sedes Regiae in Italy and Spain: Ostrogothic Ravenna and Visigothic Toledo. Two Models of “Imperial Capital”
Panel B - Social Dynamics and Political Practices in Pre-Modern Europe
Chair: Prof. Franz-Josef Arlinghaus, Universität Bielefeld
Diane Chamboduc, Université Paris IV Sorbonne – Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Popular Groups of Lucca in the 14th and 15th Centuries, the Use of Credit
Martin Goffriller, University of Exeter – Universidad Pablo de Olavide Sevilla
The Castral Territory of the Balearic Islands: The Evolution of Control in the Western Mediterranean
Raphael Barat, Université Lyon 2 – University College London
The Good Election, the Bad Election. A Comparative Study about Electoral Corruption: The Republic of Geneva and the Borough of Coventry c.1680-c.1720
Panel C - Conceptions and Semantics of Historical Time
Chair: Prof. Willibald Steinmetz, Universität Bielefeld
Theo Jung, Universität Bielefeld – Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Refinement or Effeminacy? Gender as a Category of Cultural Reflection in the 18th Century
Franz Leander Fillafer, Universität Wien – University College London
Escaping the Enlightenment: The Persistence and Historicisation of the Enlightenment in the Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
Dagmara Kraus, Université de Genève – Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
On Cioran’s Will to History
11.00 Coffee
11.30 SESSION II, Panels D-E
Panel D - Political Culture and Fascism
Chair: Prof. Dirk Jan Wolffram, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Alberto Martínez Sánchez, Universidad Pablo de Olavide Sevilla – Universität Bielefeld
The Destruction of Democracy: The Franchist Repression in Seville (Spain) and the Collaboration of Ordinary People (1939-1942)
Annarita Gori, Università degli Studi di Siena – Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
Commemorations as a Civil Liturgy. A New Portuguese Historiographic Tendency: The Case of the “Festa da Patria”
Panel E - Science as a Medium of Social and Political Interpretation
Chair: Dr. Sophie Coeuré, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris
Katalin Straner, Central European University – University College London
Darwin in Translation: Reception, Interpretation and Reappraisal in 19th Century Hungary
Anna Janowiak, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – Södertörns högskola
The “Russian Idea” and the “Russian Syndrome”. Polish – Russian Encounters in Historiography
13.00 Lunch
14.00 SESSION III, Panels F-G-H
Panel F - Exchange and Enclosure from Ancient to Early Modern Europe
Chair: Dr. Simona Slanicka, Universität Bielefeld
Erik van Dongen, University College London – Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
The Concept of the “Near East”: A Reconsideration
Olga Malinovskaya, University of Oxford – Universidad Pablo de Olavide Sevilla
From Medieval Spain to Medieval England: Cultural Transmission within Intellectual, Popular and Literary Spheres
Fabrice Micallef, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne – Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
The Utility of Italian Sources for Understanding International Political Crises in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Some Perspectives (1580-1610)
Panel G - Transnational Aspects of Nationalism in 19th Century Europe
Chair: Prof. Stuart Woolf, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Grégoire Bron, Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes – Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
Voluntary Military Service and Political Engagement during the Liberal Period: The Italian Volunteers in the Iberian Peninsula in the 1830s
Charalampos Kissanis, University College London – University of Athens
Greek-Polish Relations in the Romantic Period, 1821-1831
Vera Sykora, Universiteit van Amsterdam – University of Athens
National Identity and the Representation of the Past in Nineteenth Century Greek Historiography
Panel H - Memory and Identity Politics in Contemporary Europe
Chair: Dr. Bettina Brandt, Universität Bielefeld
Marta Grzechnik, European University Institute – Södertörns högskola
The Concept of the Baltic Sea Region in Swedish 20th Century Historiography
Erik Sjöberg, Umeå Universitet – University of Athens
Battlefields of Memory. Identity and Uses of History in Greek Debate 1991-1995
Davorin Trpeski, Sts Cyril and Methodius University Skopje – Slovak Academy of Sciences
The Creation of Cultural Policy in the Process of Cultural Heritage Protection in Macedonia in the Post-Socialist Period
16.00 Coffee
16.30 SESSION IV, Panels I-J
Panel I - The Nation Form: Culture, Politics, and Conflicts
Chair: Dr. Oliver Müller, Universität Bielefeld
Vasilis Molos, New York University – University of Athens
Nationness, Diaspora and Memory: An Examination of the Conceptual Possibilities Engendered by the Orlov Revolt
Bálint Varga, Eötvös Loránd University – Slovak Academy of Sciences
Inter-Ethnic Symbolic Conflicts in Hungary: The Case of the Hungarian Millennial Columns of Devín and Nitra
Panel J - Migrations after the Second World War
Chair: Prof. Elisabeth Elgán, Södertörns högskola
Paraskevi Kapoli, University of Athens – Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Internal Migration to Athens (1949-1967) : The Greek Paradigm in relation to the European Experience
Nadine Golly, Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen – Södertörns högskola
Narrations and Documentations - The Emigration and Adoption of Afro-German Children to Scandinavia after World War II
20.00 Dinner
Saturday, June 20
Universität Bielefeld
9.00 SESSION V, Panels K-L-M
Panel K - Institutions and Social Experiences
Chair: Dr. Gabriela Kiliánová, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Felix von Reiswitz, University College London – Universidad Pablo de Olavide Sevilla
‘Globulized’ Networks: The Homeopathic Hospital from a Spanish Perspective.
Jeanette Prochnow, Universität Bielefeld – Slovak Academy of Sciences
Narratives and Memory of the Construction of the COMECON Pipeline
Soňa Lutherová, Slovak Academy of Sciences – Södertörns högskola
The Meaning of Property in the Process of Home-Creating
Panel L - Images: Social Space and Interpretations
Chair: Dr. Ângela Barreto Xavier, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
Farès Moussa, University of Edinburgh – Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Reading between the Lines: Hermetic Logic and the ‘Orientalist’ Palimpsest
Barbara Kaminska, University of Warsaw – Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Visual Art Theory in Mid-Sixteenth Century Antwerp. The Case of Frans Floris and Lucas de Heere.
Elisabetta Girotto, Università degli Studi della Tuscia – Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
Between Living and Dreaming. The Social History of Families in the 1950s Seen through the Lens of Audiovisual Documents
Panel M - The Communicative Shape of the Political
Chair: Prof. Manuel Herrero Sánchez, Universidad Pablo de Olavide Sevilla
Florin Leonte, Central European University – University of Athens
Social Elites, State, and Society in Late Byzantium (1354-1425)
Bas de Jong, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen – University College London
A Denial of Politics? The British Labour Party and Political Broadcasting
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Keynote Speech
Conquering the Empire of Poseidon: Mobility, Maritime Expansion and Cultural Transfers in the Ancient Mediterranean, 8th-5th Century BC
Prof. Raimund Schulz, Universität Bielefeld
13.00 Lunch
14.00 General Board Meeting
20.00 Dinner