Wednesday – 25/04/2012
17:00-19:00
Opening of the conference, Aula Magna West University of Timişoara
Welcoming Addresses:
Prof. Dr. Marilen PIRTEA (Rector of the West University of Timişoara)
Introductory Remarks:
Prof. Dr. Victor NEUMANN (West University of Timisoara): Reinhart Koselleck and the Timişoara’s School of Conceptual History
Introductory Lecture:
Prof. Dr. Marcel CORNIS-POPE (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA): Theoretical and Methodological Challenges in Writing Intercultural Literary History: Reflections on Two Recent International Projects
Thursday – 26/04/2012
Hotel Timişoara, str. Mărăşeşti Nr. 1-3, Timişoara, Romania (Conference Hall)
10:00-11:00 - KEYNOTE SPEECH & DEBATE
Prof. Dr. Hans-Erich BÖDEKER (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Göttingen): The Circulation of Concepts: Reasons, Modes, Consequences
11:15-12:45 - 1ST PANEL
Prof. Dr. Javier FERNÁNDEZ-SEBASTIÁN (University of the Basque Country, Bilbao): Conceptual Change in an Age of Revolutions. Entering a New Regime of Conceptuality
Dr. Zoltán Gábor SZÜCS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest):
Two ’Sattelzeiten’ of the Hungarian Political Thought
Prof. Dr. Magnus ILMJÄRV (Tallinn University): Collective Memory in the Post-Soviet Estonia
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Melvin RICHTER (New York City University)
13:00-14:30 - Lunch
14:30-15:15 - KEYNOTE SPEECH & DEBATE
Prof. Dr. Armin HEINEN (University of Aachen): The Historicity of Time. Path-Dependence of Time Concepts in Western Europe and Romania
15:15 - 16:15 - 2nd PANEL
Dr. Mihaela VLĂSCEANU (West University of Timişoara): The Concepts of Time and Space Reflected by the Baroque Art from Banat
Assistant Prof. Dr. Vera DUBINA (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow): Lost in Translation: History of Concept in Russia and on Russian History
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Ovidiu PECICAN (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj)
16:15-16:30 - Coffee break
16:30-17:30 - 3rd PANEL
Dr. Felicia WALDMAN (University of Bucharest): Conceptualizing the Holocaust in Romanian and Other East and Central European Public Policies
Dr. Mihai CHIOVEANU (University of Bucharest): Into the Danger Zone. The Tapestry and Sophistry of Cleansing Nation Statism in Interwar Romania.
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Gerhard-Dieter SEEWANN (University of Pécs)
17:30-19:00 - 4th PANEL
Prof. Dr. Grozdanka GOJKOV (Belgrade University): European Identity and Cross-Cultural Sensitivity
Prof. Dr. Miodrag MATICKI (Institute of History and Literary Theory in Belgrade, Serbia): The Idea of Illyrism in a Literary-historical Context
Prof. Dr. Gerhard-Dieter SEEWANN (University of Pécs): Problems of Minority Historiography
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Marcel CORNIS-POPE (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond)
19:00 - Dinner
Friday – 27/04/2012
Hotel Timişoara, str. Mărăşeşti Nr 1-3, Timişoara, Romania (Conference Hall)
10.00-10.45 – KEYNOTE SPEECH & DEBATE
Prof. Dr. Victor NEUMANN: Multi- and Interculturality – Key Concepts Defining East-Central Europe. The Cases of Banat and Transylvania as Border Regions
10:45-11:00 - Coffee break
11:00-12:30 - 5th PANEL
Prof. Dr. Galina ZVEREVA (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow): “Civilization” as a Tool of Shaping the Nation State: a Comparative Analysis of Public Discourse Practices in Russia and Ukraine in the 2000s
Prof. Sorin ANTOHI (Bucharest): The Concept of Nation in Central and Eastern Europe from National Palingenesis to Ethnic Ontology (1840s-1940s)
Dr. Andrei CUSCO (State University of Moldova, Chişinău): The ‘Language of the Nation’ in Early 20th-Century Bessarabia: Defining an Elusive Concept in a Contested Borderland
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Martin BURKE (New York City University)
13:00-14.30 - Lunch
14:30-15:30 - 6th PANEL
Prof. Dr. Constantin IORDACHI (Central European University, Budapest): The Political Language of Citizenship in Post-Ottoman Balkans
Prof. Dr. Dietmar MÜLLER (Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena): Citizenship in Southeastern Europe. Orientalism and Ethnonationalism vs. the Political Nation
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Melvin RICHTER (New York City University)
15:30-15:45 - Coffee break
15:45-16:45 - 6th PANEL
Assistant Prof. Dr. Aurelian CRĂIUŢU (Indiana University, Bloomington): Moderation and Liberalism: a Historical Perspective
Prof. Dr. Michael METZELTIN (University of Vienna): Thoughts on the Formation of the Concept <Constitution>
Valeska BOPP-FILIMONOV (University of Aachen): Semantics of the Socialist Past in Romania and the GDR. Different Approaches in Dialogue
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Martin Burke (New York City University)
16:45-17:30 - CONCLUSIONS
Prof. Dr. Melvin RICHTER (New York City University)
19:00 - Cocktail Dinner