Friday// May 11th/ 2012 (Central European University, Budapest, Nádor u.9, Monument Building, room 201)
13:00 Welcome and Introduction
13:15 - 15:15 Panel I: East Central Europe in the 20th Century: Comparative, Transnational, Entangled?
Commentator: László Kontler (Budapest)
Joachim von Puttkamer (Jena): East Central Europe in the 20th Century in Comparative Perspective
Holly Case (Ithaca/ Jena): Transnational Approaches to East Central Europe in the 20th Century
Balázs Trencsényi (Budapest): The Challenge of Studying the Political Thought of East Central Europe: Between European Embeddedness and National Autarchy
Maciej Górny (Warsaw/Jena): Writing Comparative Histories of Historiography
15:15 Coffee Break
15:30 - 18:00 Panel II: Spatial Configurations. The Regional Problématique in Various National Imaginaries
Commentator: Diana Mishkova (Sofia)
Michal Kopeček (Prague): On Czech Regional Conceptualizations
Błażej Brzostek (Warsaw): On Polish Regional Conceptualizations
Gábor Egry (Budapest): On Hungarian Regional Conceptualizations
16:30 - 16:45 Coffee Break
Paul Gradvohl (Nancy): On French Regional Conceptualizations of East Central Europe
Andrea Feldman (Zagreb): On Regional Conceptualization in the Post-Yugoslav Space
18:00 - 19:00 Buffet Dinner and Reception
19:00 Book Launches
Saturday// May 12th/ 2012 (Central European University, Budapest, Nádor u.11, Tóth István György room)
10:00-12:15 Panel III: Between Conflict and Resolution. Dealing with Competitive National Interpretations
Commentator: Włodzimierz Borodziej (Warsaw/ Jena)
Hannes Grandits (Berlin): On Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian relations
René Küpper (Munich): On Czech-German relations
Ovidiu Pecican (Cluj): On Hungarian-Romanian relations
Tibor Frank (Budapest): Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts in Modern East Central Europe
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch Break
13:15 - 16:00 Panel IV: The Dual Dictatorial Legacy of the 20th Century: Current Uses and the Challenge of Historicization
Commentator: Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg)
Dietmar Müller (Leipzig, Jena): Current Discussions on the Dual Legacy of the 20th Century
Bogdan Iacob (Bucharest): New Trends in the Study of Communism
Péter Apor (Budapest): Studying the Memory of Communism
14:15 - 14:30 Coffee Break
Constantin Iordachi (Budapest): New Trends in the Study of Fascism
Margit Feischmidt (Budapest): Studying Contemporary Right-Wing Extremism
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:45 Panel V: From Margins to the Center? The Integration of Non-National Phenomena and Non-Mainstream Historical Actors
Commentator: John Neubauer (Amsterdam)
Maria Falina (Budapest): On the Historical Study of Religion
Ines Koeltzsch (Prague)/ Ferenc Laczó (Jena): On Jewish History
Celia Donert (Potsdam): On the History of the Roma People
17:45 - 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 - 18:30 Final Discussion and Closing Remarks