Day One: Thursday, 10 December
Registration: 08:30 a.m.
Welcome: 09:00 a.m.
Morning Session PANEL ONE
Empires and States: Public Campaigns, New Claims, and Political Legacies
09:15-10:00
Michael Dean (California): The Imperial Internationalism of Small States: Czechoslovakia and the League of Nations, 1918-1938
10:00-10:45
Zoltan Peterecz (Eger, HU): Hungary and the League of Nations: A Forced Marriage
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:00
Reinhard Blänkner (Frankfurt Oder): Peaceful Change? The Austrian Memoranda-Group at the League of Nations’ General Study Conference on Peaceful Change, Paris, June 28 – July 3, 1937
12:00-14:00 Lunch break
Afternoon Session PANEL TWO
Minorities and Nationalities between Empire and Internationalization
14:00-14:45
Stefan Dyroff (Bern): The Minority Protection System of the League of Nations and the Legacy of the Habsburg Empire
14:45-15:30
Nathan Markus (St. Petersberg): The League of Nations and National Minorities: The Case of South Tyrol
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:45
Börries Kuzmany (Vienna): National-Personal Autonomy. A Habsburg Concept Transferred to Interwar Minority Protection Organizations
16:45-17:30
Jana Osterkamp (Munich): Promoting Jews as a Nationality: The Perspective of Viennese Chief Rabbi Chajes
19:30
Evening: Keynote Lecture
Glenda Sluga (Sydney): 'Global Austria' and the League of Nations: Reframing the history of empire and internationalism
Day Two: Friday, 11 December
Morning Session PANEL THREE
National Delegates and International Work: Refashioning the League
09:00-09:45
Jíra Janáč (Prague): Making Czechoslovakia a European Crossroad: Czechoslovak Experts in the Advisory and Technical Committee on Communications and Transit of the League of Nations
09:45-10:30
Madeleine Dungy (Cambridge, US): Defending the Rights of Austrian “Foreigners” in the League Economic Committee
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:45
Katja Naumann (Leipzig): Empowering the League of Nations: Polish, Hungarian and Czechoslovakian Officers and Experts
11:45-12:30
Madeleine Herren (Basel): International Civil Servants
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
Afternoon Session PANEL FOUR
Epistemic Communities and Networks of Experts: Refashioning the Region
14:00-14:45
Sara Silverstein (New Haven): Healthcare and Humanism: Imperial Legacies in the League’s Social Programs
14:45-15:30: David Petruccelli (Vienna)
Fighting the Scourge of International Crime: Illiberal Internationalism and the League of Nations
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:45
Michael Burri (Philadelphia): Clemens von Pirquet and Children as Object of International Concern at the League of Nations
16:45-17:30
Johannes Feichtinger (Wien): Expectations, Visions, and Frustrations: Alfons Dopsch and the League Intellectual Cooperation Program
Day Three: Saturday, 12 December
Morning Session PANEL FIVE
Economic Reconstruction and Legacies of International Governance
09:30-10:15
Patricia Clavin and Mary Cox (Oxford): A Global Node, a Global Order: Austria and the invention of ‘Positive Security’
10:15-11:00
Jürgen Nautz (Warburg): “… insoweit es möglich und sobald es möglich ist...” Agency and Perception of economic experts - the Schüller case
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15
Antonie Doležalová (Prague): Financing the New Czechoslovakia
12:15-14:30 Lunch break
14:30
Final Debate
General Comments and Moderation by Natasha Wheatley and Peter Becker